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Pasta and beans

Today I begin the post with a dish that everybody usually cook ,I believe in a different way depending on the region.

My version is a mediterranean one, it was the pasta that my grandmother done, obviously with tomato sauce <3 <3.

If you do not know what to cook … :

Pasta and beans
 
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Pasta e fagioli, a first nutrient that acts as a single dish
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Ricetta: Primo piatto
Cucina: Italiana
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 320 g of pasta
  • 120 g of dried beans
  • tomato sauce
  • basil q.s.
  • salt
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 shallot
  • 1 carrot
Preparazione
  1. Soak the beans half day.
  2. Wash, drain well and boil them in salted water about an hour and a half with a piece of carrot, a tablespoon of sauce and a bay leaf.
  3. Cook the sauce with shallots, garlic, basil and chopped carrot.
  4. Whisk a handful of beans.
  5. Cook pasta.
  6. The last five minutes of cooking add beans.
  7. Drain and serve with the sauce.

 

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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Octopus salad with crispy potatoes

Hello everybody! The Carnival is over! Now for a little bit just fried .. Today I propose the octopus salad, a simple but favolous recipe that I love to eat on every occasions. For changing a little bit instead of putting boiled potatoes I preferes to make them crispy, a detail that even if a small part it makes the  difference …

Octopus salad with crispy potatoes
 
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Octopus salad with crispy potatoes, an alternative to the classic recipe
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 1 medium-size octopus
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 potatoes
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • a glass of white wine
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • olives
  • some cherry tomatoes
Preparazione
  1. Take the octopus, rinse under cold water, clean it (in the head, on the back where the little hole and the two eyes)
  2. Take a large pot, fill it with cold water, add the carrot celery potato, a drop of wine and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
  3. Bring to a boil and cook for an hour and a half.
  4. Allow to cool octopus in its cooking water. Drain, peel it and make it into cubes.
  5. Put it in a bowl along with the tomatoes and olives. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and sprinkle with parsley.
  6. Meanwhile, cut a potato into small cubes and roast it with a little 'oil.
  7. Serve the octopus salad with small dice of potato crisp


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Fashion cupcake with yogurt and chocolate

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First of all, in this post I do my warmest Christmas wishes to the web world, as this blog will take a little break.

I wish you my best wishes for a HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you and your families.

Going back to yesterday, I wanted to do  some delicious yogurt and chocolate cupcakes that the daughter of my friends graciously helped decorate.

She is a very imaginative child and decorated them in a fashionway!

Yogurt and chocolate cupcakes fashion
 
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Yogurt and chocolate cupcakes fashion, fashionable and sweet
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: American
Serves: 7
Ingredienti
  • 100 g of flour type 00
  • 1 egg
  • 100 g of dark chocolate
  • 1 knob of butter
  • 50 g of sugar
  • 40 ml of oil
  • 1 cup of yogurt to coffee
  • 1 cup of coffee
  • a knob of butter
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • For the frosting
  • 250 g of fresh cream
  • 250 g ricotta
  • 70 g of icing sugar
  • food coloring if desired
Preparazione
  1. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler with a knob of butter.
  2. Mix the flour with the sugar and a teaspoon of baking powder
  3. Emulsify the egg in a bowl with the oil, add the melted chocolate to cool and previously made ​​yogurt.
  4. Add the flour and a cup of coffee.
  5. Mix well and pour into molds.
  6. Preheat oven to 180 ° C and cook for 18 minutes.
  7. Prepare the frosting.
  8. Fit good cold cream from the refrigerator.
  9. Combine the icing sugar to ricotta and mix well until you obtain a smooth cream.
  10. Combine the cream sauce by mixing the dye with from top to bottom so as not to disassemble the cream.Let them refrigerator
  11. Place fronsting in a piping bag and decorate cupcakes before serving.

 

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