tuna and cottage cheese cream

cream of tuna and cottage cheese

Hello everybody!! Today I ‘m going straight to the point, tuna and cottage cheese cream.

This recipe came from when we got married and we started to invite friends and people at dinner.

Let’s say that it is our appetizer opening with a nice Prosecco that has accompanied most of our dinners. Who prepares it?? Only him, my husband that loves appetizer!

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cream of tuna and cottage cheese, an appetizer that accompanies the appetizer simple and quick to prepare
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 1 pkg. canned tuna 80 g.
  • 180 g. fresh cottage cheese
  • olive oil
Preparazione
  1. In a bowl, place the tuna, cottage cheese and a little olive oil.
  2. Mix everything with a spoon until you get a creamy texture and rustic.
  3. If too dry, softened with the addition of oil.
  4. Put the cream in a bowl of tuna that you like and serve in the center of the table with bread or breadsticks.

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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:

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:

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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Salmon pink pepper

Salmon pink pepper

Finally it was the weekend! What a busy week it was! Thank goodness that’s over. Today I propose a simple recipe, quick but tasty! Salmon pink pepper:

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Salmon pink pepper, recipe simple, practical and tasty
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 2
Ingredienti
  • 2 salmon steak
  • pink pepper as necessary
  • salt
  • oil
  • a little bit of lemon juice
  • 1 garlic
  • parsley
  • mezzo bicchiere di acqua
Preparazione
  1. Season with salt and sprinkle with pink pepper salmon
  2. Sauté the garlic in a little oil, very little to no get the oil temperature otherwise the water will spray
  3. Squeeze lemon wedge in half a glass of water and put it into the pan.
  4. Arrange the salmon on the side of the grains.
  5. Sprinkle with parsley and cook with the lid on for 15 - 20 minutes posters will roast the salmon well and absorb some of the liquid.

Salmon pink pepper

Three chocolate cake

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Hello, I started this post to propose it for Mom’s birthday. I make again the three chocolate cake with the right technique that is with transparency instead of baking paper.

Here it is even more elegant and refined for the second time, for sixty-five mom !

This time I did things as they should and I bought the transparency with which I then lined the pan and garnish it came perfect. This time I wanted to decorate it with chocolate plastic roses , of which I will post soon the recipe. I must say that every time is exciting and fresh every time this hits !

A big name like that of Ernst Knam and her wonderful cake that they could not conquer me . In the just- passed edition of ” Bake off Italy ,” as I saw that wonderful cake I fell in love!

This cake was made by the famous Montersino , comparing the two recipes I decided to make the base of Montersino , while the mousse Knam .

It ‘s my favorite , I could not resist it when I saw the edition of Bake off sweets.

Three chocolate cake:

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Three chocolate cake Ernest Knam, exquisite, delicate and creamy. To force is known, is very good
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
For the base:
  • 3 eggs
  • 95 g of sugar
  • 30 g of cocoa powder
For the dark chocolate mousse
  • 250 g of dark chocolate
  • 2 g of gelatin sheets
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 20 ml of milk
  • 250 ml of fresh cream
For the milk chocolate mousse
  • Same as above 3 g gelatin sheets
For the white chocolate mousse
  • As above but 4 g gelatin sheets
Preparazione
  1. First, line a regular pan and preheat the oven to 190 ° C
  2. Prepare the base
  3. Beat the egg whites with the sugar and then add the egg yolks .
  4. Add the cocoa and whip together until the mixture is smooth
  5. Bake at 190 ° C for 10 minutes
  6. Then remove from oven and let cool.
  7. Take a mold for a cake or mousse and make the base with this form
  8. Place the base on the bottom.
  9. Line the mold with acetate .
  10. Begin to prepare the chocolate mousse .
  11. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler , in the meantime, soak the gelatin in cold water and dissolve in 20ml of milk, warm milk ( heat it up a little and then immediately turn off the heat , careful not boil the milk otherwise ruin the gelatin )
  12. Whip the cream .
  13. Allow to cool and add to the melted chocolate all over the yolk and gelatin , then the whipped cream. Mix well with a whisk and pour the mixture over the base. Place in freezer for 30 minutes.
  14. Prepare the milk chocolate mousse :
  15. The same method of dark chocolate , the only thing is that the gelatin becomes 3 g . Pull out the mold from the freezer and pour the second moves. Put in the freezer for 30 minutes
  16. Now prepare the white chocolate mousse :
  17. Same procedure as the other two chocolates , but the jelly is 4 g .
  18. Remove the mold from the freezer and pour the mousse last . Put in the freezer for half an hour .
  19. After this time remove the cake from the freezer and put it in the fridge.
  20. Before you draw it I left a few hours in the fridge. Then I leave you to pick any decorations.

Notes: The acetate is not the real pastry, but just go into stationery, with a few cents you buy a couple of sheets and with a little ingenuity you cover the springform pan and you’ve done.

Still happy birthday mom!!!!

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Pork loin with cream

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Hello guys! Today’s recipe is not new but it has already done and put on the site Donnaecasa when the blog was not yet born.

Therefore I propose again the blog version:

Pork loin with cream
 
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Pork loin with cream , creamy and really enjoy to children
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 3
Ingredienti
  • 300 g of Pork loin
  • 250 ml of fresh cream
  • enough flour
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 shallot
  • marjoram and sage to taste
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • white wine to taste
Preparazione
  1. Finely chop the shallot and fry with a little oil in a frying pan.
  2. Combine the pork loin previously floured, herbs and deglaze with white wine
  3. Continue cooking, adding the cream. If the cream ends and it'is not quite finished cooking add a little milk.
  4. Bake for about 45 minutes
  5. Serve with a sprinkling of pepper.

 

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Canederli with spinach

Canederli with spinach

Hello! how are you? …

Today I propose a succulent receipe of Trentino: Canederli with spinach .

Today’s version is spinach, but don’ let these screens because soon there will be bacon, the most classic.

The canederli are dumplings of bread, if you can call it typical of the Trentino alto Adige, which are cooked in the broth and then can be served with the soup itself, or with melted cheese, as in this case, or rather with melted butter, my favorites.

Both versions of the recipe was given to me by a friend who cooks them often and that a long long time ago kindly invited us to eat  with her, and she “kindly” gave us the recipe:

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Canederli with spinach, a typical dish of the region Trentino alto Adige topped with cream cheese
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • a couple of generous handfuls of spinach
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • salt to taste
  • 100 g of bread
  • milk as needed
  • 1 egg
  • 30 g of grated cheese
  • 4-5 tablespoons of flour + flour q.b. to pass the meatballs
  • beef broth as needed
Preparazione
  1. Blanch the spinach in salted water, drain and sauté about 7 minutes with a clove of garlic.
  2. Finally chop finely (or put in the blender)
  3. Soak the bread in warm milk and whip.
  4. Combine the bread, spinach, fomaggio, egg and flour.
  5. Let the mixture rest in the refrigerator for an hour.
  6. Shape into balls and roll in flour.
  7. Boil the broth previously prepared and the entire lower the flame.
  8. Cook the dumplings and keep the fire very low, so as to prevent it spacchino in cooking.
  9. When they float they are ready.
  10. Drain with a slotted spoon and place in serving dish.
  11. Season to taste, or with melted cheese or with melted butter and sage.
  12. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve.

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Pumpkin dumplings with spelled flour

Pumpkin dumplings with spelled flour

As the dumplings here every Thursday! You make the dumplings on Thursday? I can not always but as soon as I can … here’s a recipe in one piece! we loved it …

Pumpkin dumplings with spelled flour, sausage sauce and broccoli.

Voilà:

Pumpkin dumplings with spelled flour
 
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Pumpkin dumplings with spelled flour and suace of pork sausage and broccoli, a dish colorful and tasty
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 200 g spelled flour
  • 50 g semolina flour + enough for the pastry
  • half a teaspoon of salt
  • 120 g pumpkin, cut into cubes
  • 20 ml of oil
  • enough water
For the sauce
  • Half a broccoli romanesco
  • 150 g of pork sausage
  • a pinch of nutmeg
  • 1 sprig of rosemary
  • white wine to taste
  • pepper to taste
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
Preparazione
  1. Cook the pumpkin , cut into cubes and steam for about 30 minutes after which crush it with a fork.
  2. Enjoy the use spelled flour and semolina in a fountain mixed with salt
  3. At the center combine the egg , oil , pumpkin mashed with a fork, begin to knead and add slowly a little water to form a homogeneous meal .
  4. Flour the work surface well and form of sausages , cut cubes and make the dumplings .
  5. Meanwhile, grease a non-stick pan and chop the pork sausage, seasoning it with a sprig of rosemary , a pinch of nutmeg and a splash of white wine.
  6. Bake for about twenty minutes.
  7. Meanwhile, grilling pork sausage, bring water to a boil , add salt and cook for about 15 minutes the tops of broccoli .
  8. At this point add the dumplings , when they come to the surface, about 5 minutes, drain and put in the sauce of sausage, skip the whole thing for a second if necessary to combine a little of the cooking water .
  9. Serve with a sprinkling of pepper.

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Tart with homemade orange marmalade

Tart with homemade orange marmalade

This recipe is fantastic because the particularity is the chocolate chips in the dough of the pastry! Then there is chocolate and jam, all purchase points because it’s my jam (see post here).

Today they are sloppily .. we go straight to  reciepe, tart with homemade orange marmalade:

Tart with homemade orange marmalade
 
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Tart with homemade orange marmalade, chocolate chip shortbread in
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
For the pastry:
  • 300 g of flour type 00
  • 125 g of butter into small pieces
  • 100 g of sugar
  • 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
  • 40 g of chocolate drops
filling
Preparazione
  1. Place the flour in the center put the sugar, butter, diced, egg and egg yolk.
  2. Begin to knead and also add chocolate chips to form the dough, do not knead too.
  3. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about half an hour.
  4. Then roll out the dough and put it a mold cake pan with ⅔.
  5. Spread the inside with jam and then with the remaining dough make cords to garnish surface.
  6. Bake at 180 ° C for about 30 minutes.

The doses given are for a tart mold 24 cm, as you can see from the photo, I used a loaf pan therefore ‘doses are about half’.

You can also use different kinds of jam with this crust, or rather jams of red fruits that combine more ‘with chocolate, depending on your taste … for example we would be well jam raspberries, or strawberries.

Do not forget to compliment my husband.

Oh yes, this time he formed the plate with the photo of the sweet hubby … bravo!

Now I greet you and wish you a good evening!

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Ham and cheese timbale of rice

Ham and cheese timbale of rice

Today’s recipe is a recipe of recycling, I had advanced some rise and I thought of doing so, Ham and cheese timbale of rice:

Ham and cheese timbale of rice
 
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Ham and cheese timbale of rice, culinary specialty baked of advanced rice
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Ricetta: First Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 200 g of rice or advanced rice
  • 250 g of mozzarella
  • 150 of asiago cheese or fontina
  • 1 h of ham
  • grated cheese
  • Bread crumbs as required
Preparazione
  1. Take a baking dish, butter it and lay the rice (if you do not have some risotto advanced, boil some rice rather than leaving it to the tooth)
  2. Cover with mozzarella and asiago cheese, then a layer of ham and sprinkle the cheese
  3. Make another layer of rice, one cheese and one of ham.
  4. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bread crumbs, a tad bit of oil on the surface and bake 20 minutes at 180 ° C.
  5. Just that nice crust will form on the surface, churning.

 

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Spelled flatbread with mozzarella

Spelled flatbread with mozzarella

Day has passed, how did you spend the weekend? We’ve brought the child to the petting zoo , we had a blast and the little girl is finally rising about the Dear pony ! She really wanted to go up as well on the horses ! hahaha … Sometimes we want these days ! .

Talking about food , sometimes we have dinner on the small table , just like the previous time where I made  delicious flatbread with herbs . (See here)

The other night , I prepared for the occasion panmozzarella by Luca Montersino, seen on the web, a recipe that has amazing mozzarella dough. By adapting the recipe to my personal taste , I thought we would give some tasty flatbread pan mozzarella .

I made ​​some small changes to the original recipe that did not spoil the result , I didn’t put the dough in the fridge and I made double rise.

Here you are the flatbread pan mozzarella spelled with sesame seeds and poppy :

Spelled flatbread with mozzarella
 
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spelled flatbread with mozzarella with sesame seeds and poppy, fragrant and light to eat them all
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Ricetta: Appetiser
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 300 g spelled flour
  • semolina enough for the pastry
  • 120 ml of milk
  • 6 g of yeast (about one third of the cube)
  • 30 g of butter
  • 1 mozzarella 125 g
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • extra virgin olive oil to taste
  • sesame seeds and poppy seeds for garnish
  • coarse salt to taste to the surface
Preparazione
  1. Combine the flour, salt and sugar and place in a fountain.
  2. Dissolve the yeast in a little warm milk and put it in the center of the fountain.
  3. Combine mozzarella in the center previously crushed and pulped to loose remaining water.
  4. Also add butter into small pieces and brought to room temperature.
  5. Combine the remaining milk and mix. Form a homogeneous mixture, flouring from time to time with semolina.
  6. Let rise in warm place for 3-4 hours.
  7. After that wet your hands and flatten the dough with oil.
  8. With a glass forming disks that are arranged in a row on the baking sheet.
  9. Let them rise again for another hour.
  10. Then again with wet hands for oil, mash them lightly with your fingertips making small little holes, sprinkle with sesame and poppy seeds and bake at 200 ° C for 215 minutes approximately.

This dose will be about 10-15, depending on the size that you want to give.

I was thinking  to freeze some, however it was not possible!

Their  fragrance is amazing! ciaoooo

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