Small flatbread with herbs

Small flat bread with herbs

As I told you in my previous post, yesterday we ate in a way a little bit unusual! is already the second time that we do it with Romina and she gets mad because it’s a novelty.

We eat sitting on the cushions, as do the Indians hahaha, appliance does good for the table, our little table is also very low, so for this kind of thing is very comfortable, a nice candle in the center and  that’s super!

Therefore, along with the magnificent carrot chips violets were also fantastic scones with herbs that have accompanied with mortadella, salami, and a nice glass of red wine! The best of life!

Here is the recipe for little flatbread with herbs:

Small flatbread with herbs
 
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Small flat bread with herbs, an alternative to the usual bread to accompany the meal
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Ricetta: Bread
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 150 g of semolina
  • 150 g flour 00
  • 150 ml of milk
  • 20 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 scant teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • half a packet of dry yeast
  • salt
  • extra virgin olive oil as needed for brushing
  • enough herbs (rosemary, oregano, marjoram, sage)
Preparazione
  1. Combine the two flours and mix with a teaspoon of sugar and salt
  2. Dissolve yeast in warm milk
  3. Place the flour, pour in the center of the milk with the dissolved yeast, begin to knead and add the oil. Form a smooth and homogeneous mixture and let it rise for 3-4 - hours until doubled in volume.
  4. At this point, take the dough and your hands are wet with oil, apply like we do with the pizza.
  5. With the help of glass, cut circles in which we will have on the baking sheet.
  6. Lead to the second rising for at least 1 hour
  7. After that resume and pigiarle obtaining some nice humps.
  8. Chop the herbs, brush the surface with oil, add a few grains of coarse salt and bake at 200 ° C for 15 minutes.

This is the dose for about a dozen small flat bread

Notes: I used a yeast that is new to me but I’m not mad, in fact recommend brewer’s yeast or better p.m.

Since my husband loves me, when I add in the shopping list to buy the baking powder because I finished it, he obviously buy one for pizza, does nothing on the package if there is a mega focacciona almost bigger than the paper! So I have to  use it!

Hello ciaoooo

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Chips of purple carrots

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Hello people!! Today I ‘m talking of food now! Today’s recipe is a winner.

Is the second time I bought  purple carrots, this year I’m looking for a lot of new vegetables that I’ve never cooked before, including these one! I stimulate the imagination! Then we are lovers of vegetables!
Recently, I was convinced that they were a cross between carrot and beet, however, thanks to dear Edvige Memento Solonico that there has always been a lots of superuseful information, I discovered that it’s a vegetable older than our carrots , which have a lot of qualities and a strong antioxidant! So that’s fine! Instead of anti-wrinkle creams … purple carrots!
The first time I bought it I made a puree but I was not impressed, so I have not posted it, this time I had the idea of cooking them as if they were potato chips,! just as we do when we make home fries with potatos and without deep fryer, the way home.

Let’s say that I do twice due at noon, but I have literally burned! oh yes it happens! I think you also Cracco little he burned something in his life! .. ahahahha …
I was too excited I have not given up and tonight I remade, among other things, we also decided to eat in a way a bit unusual, but I’ll tell you in the next episode, in order to avoid extensions.
Step straight to the recipe …
Chips of purple carrots:

Chips of purple carrots
 
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Chips of purple carrots, fried in a tasty and colorful effect
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Ricetta: Side dish
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 8 purple carrots
  • olive oil or for frying enough
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. Cut carrots into julienne, slice the pear 'should not be too fine,
  2. Wash and dry
  3. Meanwhile in a pan bring the oil temperature, put carrots and high heat, cook for about ten minutes, turning them occasionally until they are crispy. Attention to cooking, remove them immediately as they become a little golden otherwise you will burn in an instant.
  4. A nice sprinkling of salt and are ready to be devoured!

Night everyone!

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Vegetable pies baked with rice

Vegetable pies baked with rice

Today’s recipe is a bomb: it’s healthy, light, fast, tasty, great for recycling and the kids eat it willingly at least mine! She always makes the TRIS!!

I did this receipe because I had rice and vegetables advanced, if you don’t have rice, just make it boil a handful. The vegetables are good for any type.

Here are the vegetable patties:

Vegetable pies baked with rice
 
Vegetable pies baked with rice, delicate and croccoso. Really like the children
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Ricetta: second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • a tuft of chicory
  • some little line of cauliflower
  • 1 potato
  • 1 stalk of celery
  • 1 carrot
  • parsley
  • 40 g of grated cheese
  • 20 g breadcrumbs
  • 1 egg
  • parsley to taste
  • a handful of rice
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt to taste
Preparazione
  1. Blanch the vegetables and the rice in salted water
  2. Put all the vegetables in a blender, combine the egg, cheese, breadcrumbs, parsley, salt and whisk well.
  3. Put the mixture in the appropriate cups.
  4. On the surface, cover with the previously cooked and drained rice.
  5. Dust the surface of each cups with breadcrumbs and a drizzle of oil.
  6. Bake 15 minutes in the oven, until the surface is good colors, so that the rice appears nice crispy.

The dose is more or less for 8-10 ramekins, then it depends on the size of your chessels.

Now I greet you …. good evening!

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Rise with Cauliflower

Cauliflower Rice

Ciaooooo! In this period I am very busy, we hope to solve some troubles!Today’s recipe is a delicious but simple rise and I’m sure your kids will be able to eat so the cauliflower:

Here is the recipe for rise with cauliflower:

Rise with Cauliflower
 
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Rise with Cauliflower, for the most delicate palates.
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Ricetta: First course
Cucina: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredienti
  • 320 g Carnaroli rice
  • half cauliflower florets
  • 1 onion
  • 2 anchovies
  • vegetable broth
  • parsley
  • white wine to taste
  • 30 g of grated cheese
  • 20 g of butter
  • extra virgin olive oil
Preparazione
  1. In a saute pan with a little oil and add the onion, anchovies and cauliflower florets previously washed.
  2. Season with salt and sprinkle with a little parsley.
  3. Cook about twenty minutes basting with broth.
  4. At this point, add the rice, toast it and blend it with white wine, then go ahead and cook it for 18 minutes, adding broth from time to time.
  5. At end of cooking stir off the heat with butter and cheese.

However, the air will smell the fragrance of spring, hopefully come soon!

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Potatoes with tomato sauce

Potatoes with tomato sauce

Hello people ! how was the weekend ? Here, in the name of the birthday party !

Today is still a family recipe .

These are potatoes with tomato sauce that my mom often did. They’re a nice dinner saves, she often  made ​​them in the evening . Great paired with cheeses .

It ‘ a simple recipe , simple, but  different  to eat potatoes, potatoes with tomato sauce:

Potatoes with tomato sauce
 
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Potatoes with tomato sauce handed down from mother to daughter
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Ricetta: side dish
Cucina: italian
Ingredienti
  • 800 g of potatoes
  • 100 g of tomato sauce
  • salt q.b.
  • Parsley and marjoram as much as necessity
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • Water as much as necessity
  • pepper to taste
  • 1 small onion
Preparazione
  1. Finely chop the onion and brown it in a pan with a little oil .
  2. Cut the potatoes into chunks and add them to the onion. Brown them a bit with the oil for 2 minutes.
  3. After that, cover with water, add the tomato sauce, parsley, marjoram and salt. Again add a little oil and bake for half an hour until they dry well and form a nice sauce.
  4. Serve with a sprinkling of pepper if you wish.

Good week!

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Chocolates with Pandoro

Did you think I would have left without hearts this evening, the Valentine’s Day??
Noooo … These are delicious chocolates that you eat chic to chic with your partner! Next time I’m going to look for a recipe for aphrodisiac chocolates … ahahahha
Here Chocolates with Pandoro

Chocolates with Pandoro
 
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Chocolates with Pandoro
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 20 g of Pandoro
  • 3 teaspoon of sweet liqueur type Marsala
  • 200 g of dark chocolate or other type you prefere
  • a knob of butter
Preparazione
  1. Melt chocolate in a double boiler
  2. In a bowl chop the Pandoro and sprinkle with Marsala. Let it rest 10 minutes
  3. Bring a mold silicone for chocolate and put a little melted chocolate, arrange some Pandoro and cover again with the chocolate.
  4. All in small doses of course, because the chocolates are little
  5. Put in the refrigerator for about 4 or 5 hours

 

P.S. The Pandoro strikes again. This is the last time, however, … promised … ahaha
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!!!

If you have not Pandoro, and I hope so, you can also use some biscuits. Good night e Godd S. Valentine!!!

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Meat with tomato sauce

Meat with tomato sauce

Hello boys and girls! They start nice days! I hope are also beautiful in itself and should be full of good things!
Today’s recipe is one of many that was my mom.
Here, too, a great comfort food! Meat with tomato sauce, a souce with the taste of pizzaI remember when I came back home from school I was hungry and I was very happy to find it!
Here is the recipe,  :

Meat with tomato sauce
 
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Meat with tomato sauce, meat with original Italian flavor
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Ricetta: Second course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 4 slices of beef or veal to taste
  • 340 g of tomato puree
  • oregano as much as necessary
  • some olive oil
  • sage q.b.
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 onion
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • salt and pepper as much as necessary
Preparazione
  1. In a sauté pan with a little oil brown off the finely chopped onion and garlic , add the tomato puree , salt and sprinkle with oregano.
  2. Cooking the tomato sauce for about 45 minutes, if necessary by adding a bit of water.
  3. At this point, add the olives and meat previously salted and a few leaves of sage.
  4. Cook the slices of meat for 5 minutes turning them. Serve with plenty of bread.

Good sunny day to everybody!

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Friedcakes with chocolate drops

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Here they are again … then for a while ‘ I say enough , too many are bad !

This time I took an old recipe that my husband had put on the official website of donnaecasa.it, arranging it a little: Friedcakes with chocolate drops

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Fried cakes with chocolate drops, a special dessert for carnival
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Ricetta: Dessert
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 300 g of flour type 00
  • 150 ml of milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 100 g of sugar
  • 50 g of butter
  • grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon rum
  • 100 g of chocolate drops
  • oil for frying as much as necessary
  • half a bag of baking powder
Preparazione
  1. Heat the oil and bring it to temperature.
  2. Meanwhile, in a bowl combine the flour, baking powder and sugar, add the eggs, the melted butter, a tablespoon of rum and grated rind of 1 lemon.
  3. Then add the milk and mix until it forms a sticky dough.
  4. Joining finally the chocolate drops
  5. When the oil has come to temperature, take spoonfuls of the mixture and soak them in oil. In a short time will swell.
  6. Turn them when they are beautiful and colorful remove and drain on paper towels.
  7. Dip in granulated sugar while still hot.

Have a good week!

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Use the plastic cup as a measurement in recipes

use plastic cup as a measure in recipes

When you follow a recipe at home and you do not have a meter for liquids, you can use the plastic cup as a measurement in recipes.

The plastic cup standard, the classic white that you put on the table for water is 200 cc.
In terms of liquid, the container contains 200 ml of liquid.
Just follow the recipe and make the proportions.
If, for example, the recipe calls for 100 ml of milk, filled half the glass.

There are also other measures such as cups of 166 cc, 300 cc, 30 cc.

Just remember that cc = ml

Spaghetti with bottarga

spaghetti with bottarga

Hola people! While I’m writing this post finally there is a ray of sunshine!

Today I cooked spaghetti with bottarga I met for the first time thanks to a friend Sardinian who has kindly given me a long time ago, came directly from the original Sardinia!
The bottarga is a food made up of the gonads of the fish, whose eggs are salted and dried by conventional methods.
It’s obtained from the eggs of tuna or mullet.

I embellished with a spectacular Sicilian condiment made with chillies and spices that I was affectionately given to me by my friends, directly from Pantelleria!! So ‘here’s the great spaghetti with bottarga:

Spaghetti with bottarga
 
Spaghetti with bottarga, a dish seasoned with a delicate Italian specialty based of tuna eggs dried and salted dried and salted
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Ricetta: Main
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 320 g of spaghetti
  • 40 g of bottarga
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • cooking water as much as necessary.
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 teaspoon of spices for spaghetti or some pepper
  • parsley as much as necessary.
Preparazione
  1. Bring salted water to a boil
  2. Cook spaghetti cooked until just firm
  3. In a wok brown a drizzle of olive oil a clove of garlic and a little pepper, (to me prepared for the Sicilian spaghetti).
  4. When pasta is ready, drain, place in the wok and sprinkle with grated bottarga. Sprinkle with parsley and sauteeing pasta for few seconds, adding a little cooking water. Serve with grated bottarga here and there '.

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Omelette with turnip tops

Omelet with turnip tops

Ciaooo! How are you getting? Here it’s always raining … uff!

Talking about food, today I cooked a receipe of my mom’s family: The omelette with turnip greens.

My grandmother, in Abruzzo, often made ​​this and It was often cooked by my aunts  now. My grandmother had lots of peaks that grew in the garden. I remember my aunt told me that she always put it in the middle of the sandwich and eat at lunch in the factory, when she still lived in Torino di Sangro, the birthplace of my mother.

A simple omelette, full of flavor and memories:

Omelet with turnip tops
 
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Omelet with turnip tops recipe from family tradition. Handed down from mother Abruzzo
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Ricetta: Second Course
Cucina: Italian
Ingredienti
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 bunch of turnip tops
  • 60 g of grated cheese
  • parsley as much as necessary
  • salt as much as necessary
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 clove of garlic
Preparazione
  1. Wash the tops and remove the outer leaves.
  2. Cut them into pieces.
  3. In a pan fry with a little oil a clove of garlic
  4. Combine the tops, a little salt and cook for a half hour, adding water if necessary.
  5. Beat the eggs with the cheese, parsley and a pinch of salt, pour the mixture over the vegetables and cook for 5 minutes, then flip it over and cook another 5
  6. minutes on the other side.

Well … how my aunt did, I put it  a slice a sandwich in the sandwitch.

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Convert milliliters into grams from ml to g

conversion from grams to milliliters

How to convert milliliters into grams from ml to g? The question that is often faced with a recipe.

To get an accurate conversion from milliliters (ml) in grams (g) should know the density of the liquid that is to be converted.
Each material has its own density, its own specific weight.
We will use as a reference the conversion of the base liquid, water.

To make the conversion is sufficient to replace the abbreviation “ml” in “g” because the relationship is headed.

  • 10 ml = 10 g
  • 100 ml = 100 g
  • 1000 ml = 1000 g

In cooking, you can refer to this conversion only when you are using the liquid density and smoothness as they approach the water as the drinks in general and also for wines, even if they have a specific gravity slightly different.

Do not use this conversion, or at least be careful when you are dealing with spirits, or dense beverages such as chocolate.