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salted codfish fritters

Today is very hot today!! is it normal??

However, the cod hooray hooray! I was a little reluctant to cook for its characteristic of being a little salty but then, after a day immersed in water, the salt has lost everything. its flavor wrapped in batter is very unique.

Follow me, salted codfish fritters:

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salted codfish fritters, according exquisite seafood and delicious
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 500 g of salt cod
  • 1 egg
  • milk as needed
  • enough flour
  • olive oil for frying
Preparazione
  1. Keep soaking the cod often changing the water for 24 hours.
  2. Then remove the skin and cut into chunks.
  3. Prepare a thick batter with egg, flour and milk.
  4. Bring the oil temperature
  5. Dip the pieces of cod in batter and then fried.
  6. Brown them on both sides and then place them on paper towels.

This weather makes me feel like a sea! and you?

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Panna cotta with beetroot

Here is again  beets! I don’t use it  yet for the reason that I set for myself but for an experiment I’d say well done. Let’s say if you want to do something different, venture a little ‘for Easter dessert, as long as your guests will not disdain the beet, here’s a dessert recipe that we liked especially combined with the ice cream because it takes a little ‘flavor of the vegetable which still exists, even if well-calibrated with cream and sugar.

Voila, Panna cotta with beetroot:

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Panna cotta with beetroot, a really sweet alternative made ​​from a vegetable
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 6
Ingredienti
  • 250 ml of fresh cream
  • 150g beetroot
  • 8 g of gelatin (I used sheets of gelatin)
  • Approximately 100 ml of milk
  • 110 dl of icing sugar
Preparazione
  1. Soak for ten minutes the sheets of gelatin in cold water.
  2. Cut the beetroot into small pieces and blend it with 250 ml of cream
  3. Combine 100 ml of milk about pretty much until you get to a level of 500 ml of liquid.
  4. Put everything in a saucepan and heat, but do not boil.
  5. Remove from heat, add the gelatin and dissolve, stirring vigorously.
  6. When it is done, put into molds suitable
  7. Keep in refrigerator at least 4 hours.
  8. Serve with vanilla ice cream!

Doses given are for 6 small ramekins, or if you want to put  in the glasses as they are 4, in practice the amount of servings depends a bit ‘on the size of the molds.
Good Sunday to everybody!

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Beetroot Risotto with Taleggio cheese fondue

Beetroot Risotto with Taleggio cheese fondue

And after so much pasta here risotto. To be honest I love Pasta, only pasta but I also like risotto.

This was born out of an experiment, I bought the beets for a recipe that I have in mind but I have not done yet , I usually do not like this vegetable, but I like the color from the food.

Meanwhile here risotto, it ‘s very delicate and sweet flavor of the beetroot is damped by taleggio. Voila the recipe, beetroot risotto with taleggio fondue:

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Beetroot Risotto with Taleggio cheese fondue, the sweet taste of sugar beet lightened by the intense flavor of taleggio
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 320 g Carnaroli rice
  • 200 g beetroot
  • 1 shallot
  • Oil as required
  • vegetable broth as needed
  • half a glass of white wine
  • 30 g of grated Parmesan cheese
For the taleggio cheese fondue:
  • 250 g taleggio
  • milk as needed
Preparazione
  1. Dice the beetroot.
  2. Brown with a little of the shallot oil, and add the beet.
  3. Cook for 10 minutes with a little 'of broth and then blend with a kitchen blender (though not' shake well and there is' some diced okay).
  4. At this point, add the rice and toast it and deglaze with white wine.
  5. Reaching the end of cooking add the broth from time to time.
  6. minutes before the end of cooking rice, dice the cheese and melt it in a saucepan with a little milk.
  7. Turn off the rice, stir in the Parmesan cheese and a bit of fondue.
  8. Leaving aside some to pour over.

 

 

According to me like even the children!

 

Good evening to all!

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Basket cheese crust

Basket cheese crust

Hello everybody! Here is a  simply preparation that  has a big effect: Here is the  the basket cheese crust :

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Basket cheese crust, an easy way to decorate and enrich and spectacular dishes
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • grated cheese to taste
Preparazione
  1. Warm a non-stick pan and cover the bottom with a thin layer of grated cheese.
  2. Melt the cheese until just barely see him flushed and combined. (Be careful not to burn it and if you see little holes, do nothing will be the special and you can not avoid them)
  3. Remove the pan from the heat and, before it cools completely, unplug the hard cheese from the bottom of the pan, being careful not to burn yourself, and that remains whole. (You can help with a kitchen spatula).
  4. Lay the disc of cheese over a cup upside down, trying to make it stick to the sides without breaking it so that, once cooled completely, take the irregular shape of a drum.

Turn it upside down and fill in  what you prefere.

Have fun.
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Pasta with eggplant

Pasta with eggplant

Here is a typical summer receipe. Very good and interesting that like also ti children : Pasta with eggplant. Here the receipe:

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Pasta with eggplant, pasta topped with a creamy vegetable pulp and a little spicy
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 320 g of pasta
  • 1 large eggplant
  • 300 g of tomato puree
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 shallot
  • salt to taste
  • oregano to taste
  • basil to taste
  • shavings of ricotta salata
  • extra virgin olive oil
Preparazione
  1. Fry with a little oil the garlic and shallots.
  2. Join half eggplant cut into small cubes and cook for 5 minutes
  3. Add tomatp sauce, salt, basil and oregano
  4. Bake until the shrinkage of the sauce (about an hour), stretching with a little water.
  5. Slice the other half of the eggplant and cook in a separate pan with a little oil until it blush.
  6. Cook pasta and toss in the eggplant sauce by adding a little of the cooking water if necessary.
  7. Serve pasta combining eggplant and grated salty ricotta cheese

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Canederli with speck

Canederli with speck

Hola people! I told you in a previous post where I proposed the dumplings with spinach that I’d even those with bacon, my favorite! Well here they are today already tycoons and cool fresh for lunch.
These are my favorites! Since it is still slightly chilly there are. Here’s the recipe, canederli with speck, a typical dish of the Italian regional Trentino Alto Adige. They are big bread dumplings:

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Canederli with speck, a tipical italian regional dish from Trentino alto Adige
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 200 g of stale bread
  • 50 g of speck (a particular smoked ham)
  • 50 g of lard
  • 2-3 tablespoons of flour
  • milk to taste.
  • salt to taste
  • 1 egg
  • 30 g of grated Parmesan cheese
For the dressing:
  • melted butter
  • a few sage leaves
  • beef broth
Preparazione
  1. Soak the bread in the milk for about an hour.
  2. Cut the speck finely and brown it in a frying pan
  3. Wring out the soaked bread and transfer to a bowl
  4. Add the egg, Parmesan cheese, bacon and lard made ​​into small pieces.
  5. Knead and add flour.
  6. The mixture must be homogeneous.
  7. Shape into balls and roll in flour (about 8 - 2 for person)
  8. Cook in plenty of broth to simmer for about 10 minutes. (They are ready when they float)
  9. Remove them and serve with melted butter and sage.

Good sunday!

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Sole orange and almonds

Sole orange and almonds

Sole orange and almonds, today a recipe different from the usual, but with a delicate flavor.

Usually I like to prepare the fish in a simple way, I don’t like particular things because I believe that  fish does not need too much, but in doing so inspired me then here it is:

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Sole orange and almonds, fish flavored with citrus juice
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 4 large fillets of plaice
  • juice of half an orange
  • salt to taste
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
  • enough flour
  • 30 g of finely ground almonds
Preparazione
  1. Flour and salt fillets
  2. Place them in a baking dish greased with oil
  3. Place in baking dish clove of garlic, crushed
  4. Bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile, squeeze the juice of half an orange and finely chop the almonds.
  6. Remove the fish from the oven, sprinkle the top with almonds and drizzle with orange juice, put in oven and bake 5 minutes and then serve.

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Cream of leek soup with red skin potatoes

Cream of leek soup with red skin potatoes

Hello! It ‘s the weekend, hopefully it will be sunny because the temperatures here are some pans, in fact in the evening we will still want to eat a warm velvety like today.

I had never made creamed leeks and I found it very good especially with the addition of red skin potatoes that have a nice pasty flesh,: Cream of leek soup with red skin potatoes .

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Cream of leek soup with red skin potatoes, a vegetable cream that pampers you and prepares you for the night
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 1 shallot
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 leeks
  • 5-6 small red-skin potatoes
  • 30 ml milk
  • enough water
  • salt to taste
  • grated cheese
Preparazione
  1. Sauté shallots with a little olive oil finely chopped
  2. Combine the sliced ​​leek and previously stripped of leaves.
  3. Add 2 potatoes cut into chunks.
  4. Add milk and water to cover everything.
  5. Add salt to taste
  6. Bake for about twenty minutes and whisk well.
  7. In a separate pan lightly fry the remaining potatoes cut into small cubes.
  8. Serve the soup with the diced potato, a little olive oil and grated cheese.

 

Good week-end to everybody! Bye Bye!

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Risotto with amarone valpolicella

Risotto with Amarone Valpolicella

Hello! This is a receipe for dinner with our friends on Saturday night, I made this amazing risotto with an exceptional wine: Amarone, a bottle of wine given by our dear friends at Christmas! Here is the recipe, it will make a great impression, Risotto with Amarone Valpolicella!

P.S. My husband died while I put this  wine in risotto!

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Risotto with Amarone Valpolicella, risotto flavored with fine wine from the Valpolicella area of hilly foothills of the Alps Veronesi
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 320 g di vialone nano rice
  • 1 onion
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • enough beef broth
  • 350 ml of Amarone Valpolicella
  • 60 g montasio
  • 20 g of butter
  • grated cheese
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. Fry with a little oil the onion, add the rice and toast,
  2. Add the wine and stir well making it absorb,
  3. Continue cooking the rice, adding broth.
  4. When cooked, stir to fire off with previously grated cheese and butter.
  5. Serve with some toasted cheese

 

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Apple Pie with red fruits

Apple Pie with red fruits

Here I am again! The time it leaves us a bit of rain and I turn the oven to console me! To tell the truth it’s a bit I wanted to do one of my cakes, that is, those I prefer, which are of this kind, cakes pies type short.

The apple pie, typical American cake par excellence, it is excellent both as a breakfast or as a sweet treat after dinner.

I decided to make a remake ti the brisè, I add sweet red fruits. We liked it a lot! Here is the recipe, apple pie with red berries:

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Apple Pie with red fruits, typical American Pie revisited with a touch of color.
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: American
Ingredienti
For the pasta brisa
  • 300 g of flour type 00
  • 120 g of butter
  • 150 ml of cold water
  • 50 g of sugar cane
  • 100 g of red fruits
  • milk for brushing the surface
For the filling
  • 600 g apples
  • 1 knob of butter
  • rum to taste
  • 20 g of sugar
  • cinnamon to taste
Preparazione
  1. Peel the apples and cut into chunks.
  2. Brown them for a quarter of an hour with a knob of butter, sugar and cinnamon, blending with a dash of rum.
  3. Meanwhile, prepare the shortcrust pastry:
  4. Place the flour, add sugar and cold butter in the middle and begin to knead adding cold water and red fruits.
  5. Form a homogeneous mixture and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
  6. At this point, spread half of the mixture into a baking pan lined with parchment paper.
  7. Combine the stuffing and close with the same dough.
  8. Drill cuttings to the surface with milk.
  9. Dusting of sugar and inform at 200 ° C for the first twenty minutes, then lower to 180 ° C for another 20-25 minutes

Now I greet you! kisses Kisses

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Beef tenderloin with green pepper and topinambur chips

Beef tenderloin with green pepper

Hola people! Spring is coming!

Talking about  FOOD, do you remember that I mentioned the wonderful dinner we did Saturday night with our dear friends?! Here is the second that we ate: a fantastic Beef tenderloin with green pepper, a refined receipe quick to prepare.

I did moving away slightly from the original recipe, I omitted the mustard and I blended with the red wine, the Valpolicella revision instead brandy. The result was excellent!

To do something different I thought I’d use as a side dish of potatoTopinambur.

Here is the recipe, Beef tenderloin with green pepper and topinambur chips:

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Filetto di manzo al pepe verde e topinambur patatine fritte, un piatto raffinato veloce da preparare
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 4 Beef tenderloin
  • pepper green beans
  • salt to taste
  • 200 ml of fresh cream
  • 1 knob of butter
  • Valpolicella red wine (or brandy)
For the tipinambur chips:
  • 2 medium-sized topinambur
  • enough flour
  • olive oil
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. Take a bit of green peppercorns and put them on each slice of tenderloin.
  2. In a pan melt a knob of butter, and cook the tenderloin two minutes for side. Keep them from the heat.
  3. Meanwhile, in a skillet, add the wine, cream and other grains, salt and let restrict the sauce.
  4. At this point take the tenderloin and let them cook for 2-3 minutes in the sauce, season with salt and serve.
Now prepare the topinambur crisps:
  1. Peel the topinambur, cut into thin slices, wash the slices under cold water and dry them.
  2. In a bowl, flour them well.
  3. Heat oil in a pan and fry the chips until golden.
  4. Drain on paper towels. Finally add salt to taste.
  5. Serve next to the Beef tenderloin

Good evening to averybody!

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Hamburger Barley

Hamburger Barley

Hello to everybody! how did you spend the weekend! We spent our Saturday with our dear friends in a nice dinner and good wine, so many recipes to post. Get ready …

Here is a suitable place for a lunch or dinner different from the usual steak or pasta. An hamburger barley.

You can do it with other grains, then it is lightweight and does well because it has all the meat proteins, it acts as a substitute and not the egg. Here is the recipe hamburger barley:

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Hamburger Barley, according to the basis of a cereal full of vitamins, salts and proteins. Great meat substitute
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 120 g pearl barley
  • 1 small carrot
  • a few bay leaves
  • parsley
  • 50 g parmesan cheese
  • 4-5 tablespoons of flour + enough flour for burgers
  • salt to taste
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
Preparazione
  1. Boil in salted water about thirty minutes the barley with carrot, bay leaves and a drizzle of oil (on the package and 'wrote that there is no' need to soak)
  2. Drain and let cool.
  3. Put everything in a blender eliminating the bay leaf.
  4. Then add the Parmesan cheese and mix well.
  5. Combine the flour to the mixture and form burgers.
  6. Dip them in flour and cook 2-3 minutes on each side-in a pan with hot oil
  7. When they are flushed well, remove from heat and drain on paper towels.

Bye bye to Everybody and have a great week!

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