We are what we eat

Ecological burger Grab burger

2011-05-23T01:26:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

• 1 onion
• 1 tomato
• 2/3 letiuce leaves
• Burger bread
• 1 slice of emmental cheese
• 1 hambourger

Instructions

1. Slice the onion and the tomato
2. Grill the burger in a pan with a teaspoon of olive oil
3. Add the onion and cook until brown
4. Prepare the bread with the tomato and letuice
5. Add the burger, the onion and the cheese
6. Season with ketchup/ mustard to one’s taste

Cous Cous

2011-05-23T01:15:00.000-07:00

INGREDIENTS:
-water
-1 teaspoon salt
-1kg couscous
-1 chopped red bell pepper
-2 cups Black olives, halved
-1 cup chopped fresh mint
-3 tablespoons bottled olive oil vinaigrette
-2 cups dry raisins
-2 cups pine nuts
-3 cups green peas
- 4-5 chopped tomates
-1 tablespoon of lemon juice

PREPARATION:
Bring the wàter and ¼ teaspoon salt to boil in mèdium saucepan over mèdium heat. Stir in couscous. Remove from heat. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Transfer couscous to bowl; fluff with fork and cool slighty.

Stir chopped bell paper, tomates, olives, and mint into couscous. Stir in olive oil vinagretter. Fold in feta cheese. Season with salt and pepper.

Chocolate brownies

2011-05-23T01:14:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
.50g (2oz) cocoa powder
.200g (7oz) flour
.250g (80oz) soft margarine
.300g (4oz) caster sugar
.4 eggs
.1 teaspoon vanilla essence
.50g (2oz) walnuts chopped

Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 200º
2. Mix cocoa powder with the flour.
3. Cream the margarine with the sugar then beat the eggs and vanilla adding a little flour mixture with each addiction.
4. Fold in the remaining mixture and the nuts.
5. Spread the mixture into a grassed mold.
6. Bake for 20-30 minutes the cake should be slightly under cooked but just firm in the center. Cool before slicing into bars.

Chocolate Coulant

2011-05-23T01:13:00.001-07:00

Chocolate Coulant
Ingredients (For 10 people)
. 250 g dank choclate (Lindt 70%)
. 150 g sugar
.200 g butter
. 6 eggs
. 120 g flour
. 1 pinch of salt
. 2 tsp cocoa powder for dusting
Instructions
Grease ten ramekins with plenty of butter and dust with a little cocoa powder.
Meanwhile melt the butter in a bain-marie (double boiler), and add the chocolate. Stir the mixture until the chocolate dissolves then remove from the heat and set aside.
Beat together the egg yolks (one bye one) and the sugar until thick and creamy then stir in the molten chocolate and beat until creamy and smooth. Quickly add the flour and fold until incorporated.
In another bowl whisk the white and add them carefully to the chocolate mixture (stir together but not beat!!!)
Pour the mixture into the ramekins and place them on a baking tray before placing in an oven prehead to 200ºC. Bake for about 12-13 minutes. Immediately take out of the oven, invert the ramekins on serving plates and allow to sit for 10 seconds before removing. Dust with icing sugar and cocoa and serve white a fruit compote.

Apple cake

2010-11-13T12:24:00.000-08:00

Ingredients

- 3-4 large apples
- 2 tablespoon of sugar for the apples
- 2 cups of flour
- 2 cups of sugar
- 4 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of fine salt
- 1 cup of vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs.

Instructions

- Preheat the oven to 350ºF
- Core and peal the apples
- Chop them into uniform chunks
- Mix them with the 2 tbsp of sugar
In another bowl:
- Mix together: 2 cups of flor, 2 cups of sugar, 4 tsp of baking powder, 1/4 tsp of fine salt, 1 cup of vegetalbe oil and 4 large eggs. Stir together until batter just forms
- Stir in 3 cups of apples.
- Pour batter into a buttered cake pan.
- Bake for 65 minutes or until top is golden brown

Elephant Ears

2010-11-07T02:32:00.000-08:00

Good and simple!!!!

With chocolate

Halloween recipes

2010-10-24T11:53:00.000-07:00

Marsmallow and Porcorn brains

Marsmallow ghosts and ghouls

Spiderweb cake

Trick or treat

hot chocolate mix

2010-03-15T03:10:00.000-07:00

ingedients

115 g. non-fat dry milk powder
25g. powdered non-dairy creamer
70g. instant chocolate drink mix

preparation

in a large bowl, combinedry milk non dairy-creamer,confectiones sugar and instant chocolate drink mix. Mix well put in a large bowl airtight container. Label and store in a cool dry place. Best if used with in 6 months.
To make hot chocolate, add 3 tablespoons mix to 1 cup of hot water, and stir well. Add mini marshmallowa if destired.

CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

2010-03-15T03:09:00.000-07:00

INGREDIENTS

160 G. SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE

75G. UNSALED BITTER

180 ML. BUTTERMILK

100 G. WHITE SUGAR

1 EGG

8 ML.VANILLA EXTRACT

210 G. ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR

5G.BAKING SODA

3 G. SALT

175 G. MINI SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE CHIPS

PREPARATION

PREHEAT THE OVEN TO 205 DEGREES C. LINE 12 MUFFINS CUPS WITH PAPERS.

IN A SMALL SAUCEPAN OVEN LOW HEAT, MELT THE SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE TOGETHER WITH THE BUTTER. LET STAND UNTIL COOLED, ABOUT 10 MINUTES.

LIGHTLY BEAT THE EGG. IN A SMALL BOWL, STIR TOGETHER THE CHOCOLATE BUTTER MIXTURE WITH THE BUTTERMILK, SUGAR,EGG, AND VANILLA, UNTIL BLENDED.

IN A LARGE BOWL,STIR TOGETHER FLOUR, SODA AND SALT. MAKE A HOLE IN THE CENTER OF THE DRY INGREDIENTS, POUR IN THE CHOCOLATE MIXTURE AND STIR IN THE MINI CHOCOLATE CHIPS. SOON THE BATTER INTO THE LINED MUFFIN CUPS.

BAKE AT 205 DEGREES C FOR 20-25 MINUTS OR UNTIL A TOOTHPICK INSERTED IN THE CENTER OF A MUFFIN COMES OUT CLEAN. REMOVE MUFFIN TIN FROME OVEN, AND LET STAND AT LEAST 5 MINUTES, BEFORE REMUVING THE MUFFINS AND LETTING THEM COOL ON A WIRE RACK. SERVE WARM OR COOLED, CAN BE FROZEN AS WELL.

Panna cotta

2010-03-15T03:08:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

-80ml skin milk

-7g unflavored gelatine

-590ml heavy cream

-100g white sugar

-8ml vanilla extract

Preparation:

1- pour milk into a small bolw,and stir in the gelatine powder, set aside.

2- in a saucepans, stir together the heavy cream and sugar and set over medium heat, bring to a full boil watching carefuly , as the cream will quickly rise to the top of the pan pour the gelatine and milk into the cream stirring constantly. Remove from heat, stir in the vanilla and pour into six individual ramekins dishes.

3- Cool the ramekins incovered at room temperature. When cool, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, but preferably, before serving.

Creamiest Chocolate Mousse

2010-03-03T06:36:00.000-08:00

Ingredients

• 295 g bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 10 egg yolks, beaten
• 40 g sugar
• 2 g salt
• 10 egg white
• 445 ml heavy cream
• 20 ml kirschwasser (optional)

Directions

• Place chocolate in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water. Stir occasionally until mostly melted, then remove from heat, and stir until smooth. Set aside to cool slightly.
• In a separate bowl, whip heavy cream to medium stiff peaks, but do not allow it to become grainy. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl, whip egg whites with salt until soft peaks form. Sprinkle in the sugar, and continue whipping to medium stiff peaks. Fold in egg yolks and kirshwasser.
• Fold in the melted chocolate until completely incorporated, then fold in whipped cream until evenly blended. Spoon into dessert cups, and chill until firm, about 1 hour.

Food around the world

2010-01-31T13:57:00.000-08:00

This is the end dear students of 3rt, I´ve enjoyed very much being your "Cooking English Teacher". It has been a great experience for me and you have been fantastic students, I appreciate your involvement and compromise, bringing the ingredients we needed during the credit. I´m sure, sooner or later, you will travel around the world and then you will discover all the good dishes we have made from some parts of the earth.
I don´t know if you have learnt some english..., at least I hope you have learn to respect the different cultures, including the food, even if you don´t like it.
Thank you and be happy!!!
Núria

A world of food
Strange food
Olympics Beijing Food Market
Street food around the world
Exotic food
Cannibalisme
Sea food from Australia
Tacos

Tea biscuits

2010-01-17T14:14:00.000-08:00

Ingredients

- 250 g flour
- 185 g butter
- 100 g sugar
- 2 eggs
- tsp cinnamon
- tsp nutmeg

For the cover
- 100 g melted chocolate
- Tsp butter
- Tbsp water

Preparation
- Preheat the oven to a 190 º C
- Whisk the butter and the sugar until cream.
- Add the eggs, the flour, the cinnamon and the nutmeg.
- Grease the mold
- Make the biscuits with a pastry bag.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Once coked you can coat the biscuits with melted chocolate: Melt the chocolate, the tsp of butter and the tbsp water in a double bath. Spread the mixture into the biscuits and get them cold.

CHINA

2010-01-10T15:10:00.001-08:00

Dora, one of our students has been to China during Christmas holidays, so what about cooking some chinese food next thuesday?? Also it has been longtime without cooking fish or selfish, we can mix China and selfish...

Here some suggestions:

Curry shrimp

Shrimp with cocomut milk

Kung pao shrimps

Halloween recipes

2009-12-18T12:38:00.000-08:00

We did some halloween cooking and Monica has edited a wonderful photo-video. Good job Monica!!!

Thai food

2009-12-13T14:09:00.000-08:00

This week we are dedicated to thai food; colors, flavours and smells...mix together to delight the sense of taste

Thailand wikipedia
Thai food

By the way....do you know where is Thailand?

Thanksgiving around a ping-pong table

2009-11-30T04:28:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving

2009-11-29T08:18:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.

Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends

Thanksgiving dinner

Except for the turkey

How to Cook Turkey: Part 1 - Prep and Roast

All About the Gravy - How to Cook Turkey: Part 2

Thanksgiving history

Thanksgiving Encyclopedia Britannica

SALADS

2009-11-15T10:54:00.001-08:00

Do you think it is a good idea to make some very, very healthy food...like a salad ???

Suggestions:

Waldorf salad
Cucumber shell salad
Red broccoli salad
Tomato feta salad
The best potato salad

Africa

2009-11-08T14:35:00.001-08:00

I think it´s time to take a look to african cuisine...here I show you some easy recipes:

Cookies from Zimbabwe

Ingredients

10 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon lemon zest
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 cup honey
1 egg
1 cup finely grated raw sweet potato
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Lemon Glaze

1 teaspoon butter
1-2 teaspoon lemon juice
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tablespoon water

Directions

Cream together butter and sugar in bowl. Blend in lemon zest, nutmeg, honey and egg. Fold in sweet potato.
In separate bowl. sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Add it to the first mixture and blend well.
Arrange cookie dough by rounded teaspoons on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 7 minutes.
To make glaze, use a wooden spoon to combine all ingredients in glass container until smooth.
Add more water by the drop until glaze is easy to spread on cooled cookies.

Chicken yassa: A typical dish from West Africa

Gambian style

Crêpes

2009-10-29T02:27:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
-4 eggs

-¼ teaspoon salt

-2 cups flour

-2 ¼ milk

-¼ cup (½ stick) melted butter or margarine

Utensils:
A whisk, wooden spoon, fork, electric mixer, or eggbeater, a bowl to mix the crepe batter, plastic spatula, 8 inch non-stick skillet, a tupperware to store leftover batter.

Instructions:

1. Gather your ingredients.
2. Break four eggs into a bowl.
3. Add 1/4 teaspoon of salt to your eggs.
4. Whisk your eggs and salt together until the egg looks uniformly yellow.
5. Measure two cups of flour.
6. Add some of the flour to the egg mixture.
7. Whisk the flour into the eggs. It will be a bit lumpy right now, but that's okay.
8. Whisk some of the milk into the batter. It will get thinner. Keep adding milk and flour alternately until you've added it all.
9. Whisk the batter until it is smooth, like it looks here. It shouldn't take more than a minute or two to whisk it smooth, from the time you started to add the flour.
10. Add the melted butter to the batter, and again whisk it until it's smooth.
11. Cover the batter.
12. Put the batter in the refrigerator.

At this point, your batter is ready to go, and you can begin making the crepes whenever you are ready. I've kept my batter for several days, and it has been fine. After a couple of days, the batter gets a bit darker in color, but the crepes still taste fine.

Cooking the Crepes

1. Select an eight inch non-stick skillet. You don't need a fancy crepe pan.
2. Preheat your pan on medium heat. I use about one-fourth of a cup of batter to make a crepe in this size pan.
3. Pour the batter into the pan.
4. As you pour the batter, twirl the pan around.
5. As you twirl the pan, the batter coats it and makes the crepe.
6. As the crepe cooks, it changes in appearance. You can usually see a lace pattern developing on the underside of the crepe.
7. This is what the crepe looks like when it has set. Notice you can see the spatula through the crepe, and this isn't a particularly thin crepe either. The crepe will also usually slide around when it is ready.
8. Slip the spatula under the crepe. Sometimes you need to poke it a bit. If it helps to pick up the edge of the crepe with your fingers, do it.
9. Flip the crepe over. Look at that nice lace pattern on the crepes. If you're skillful, you can flip the crepe with a quick action of the wrist and no spatula.
10. After the second side has cooked for maybe twenty seconds, slip it out of the pan onto a plate for serving.
11. Not all crepes come out in pretty circles. Usually my first one looks awful and falls apart because I didn't let the pan get hot enough. That's okay, sprinkle some sugar on it...
12. ...and feed it to someone you love.

BREAD

2009-10-29T02:25:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

3/4 cup warm water

1 package active dry yast

1tsp salt

1-1/2 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp vegetable shortening

1/2 cup milk

3 cups all-purpose flour, approximately

Preparation:

1- In large bowl, add the warm water. Slowly stir in dry yeast. Continue to stir until yeast is dissolved

2- Add salt, sugar, shortening, and mild to bowl. Stir.

3- Mix in the first 2 cups of flour.

4- If needed, begin adding more flour, one tablespoon at a time, until the dought chases the spoon around the bowl.

5- You do not need to use up all the flour called for in this recipe, or you may need more flour than called for. The amounts vary depending on many factors, including weather, which is why most bread recipes only give an approximate amount of flour needed.

6- Turn dough out onto floured board and knead, adding small spoonfuls of flour as needed, until the doug is soft and smooth, not sticky to the touch.

7- Put dough in buttered bow., turn dough over so that the top of dough in greased. Cover and let rise in warm spot for 1 hour.

8- Punch down dough. Turn out onto floured board and knead.

9- Preheat oven at 375 degrees F.

10- Form dough into loaf and set in buttered pan. Cover and let rise for obout 30 minutes.

THIN CRUST DOUGH

2009-10-29T02:22:00.000-07:00

THIN CRUST DOUGH

Ingredients Required

1 envelope of dry yeast
1/4 teaspoon of sugar
3/4 cup of lukewarm water
1 3/4 cups of unbleached plain flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Step by Step Procedure

Combine 1 envelope of dry yeast, 1/4 teaspoon of sugar and 3/4 cups of lukewarm water. Mix a little and let sit for 6-8 minutes.
Combine 1 3/4 cups of unbleached plain flour with 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a bowl or food processor.
Pour the water combination into the bowl (or food processor) and mix until ready to knead (around 30 second in a food processor). If using a bowl, mix with a spoon until you have a neat ball.
Prepare a lightly spinkled surface with flour. Turn out dough and knead for around 2-3 minutes. Lightly cover your finger tips with flour if the mixture is a little sticky.
Roll out by hand for a 12'' base.
Place in 12'' lighly oiled oven pan. Press out dough to form a slight lip.
Prepare and apply your sauce and topping or choice.
Cook in a pre-heated over (500F) for 8-12 minutes (times may vary based on different ovens. Fan assited oven will be quicker!).
Remove from oven, slice and share with your favourite friends and/or family members :)

Additional Information

As stated above, fan assisted ovens tend to cook pizza's quicker than traditional ovens.
You can usually reheat your pizza in around 5 minutes. But beware that it's not advisable to reheat pizzas with a meat topping.

Apple pastry

2009-10-24T12:20:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
- 2 sheets puff pastry
- 6 or 7 Apples
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoon butter
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 egg

Apple pastry

2009-10-24T04:36:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

- 2 sheets puff pastry
- 6 or 7 Apples
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoon butter
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 egg

FISH & SEAFOOD

2009-10-10T08:02:00.000-07:00

MILK & BY-PRODUCTS

2009-10-10T07:57:00.001-07:00

English vocabulary for the kitchen

2009-10-10T02:38:00.001-07:00

Some people have a fitted kitchen, where all the kitchen units have been bought together, and they are assembled according to a plan. Other people have a kitchen where the units are free-standing: not necessarily bought together at one time.In a kitchen you are likely to find cupboards (or cabinets), either at floor level, or at eye level. In the eye level cupboards you will probably find dry goods (such as flour, sugar, rice, pasta, spices) and maybe glasses and crockery (plates, bowls etc). In the floor level cupboards you might find pots and pans: saucepans for cooking pasta etc; frying pans for frying food; baking tins and roasting tins for cooking food in the oven; and serving dishes made from glass or china. You could also find other kitchen implements such as a blender (= food processor) and kitchen scales (for measuring and weighing food). Often the top part of a floor level cupboard has a drawer, where various items are kept, such as cutlery (knives, forks and spoons); aluminium foil (metal paper), cling film (thin plastic wrap), freezer bags, and other kitchen items such as a bread knife, tin opener, corkscrew (to open bottles of wine), potato peeler (to take the skin off potatoes), a rolling pin (to roll out pastry) and so on.
On the top of the floor level cupboards you often find a worktop or work surface, where you can prepare food. These surfaces are sometimes made of marble, or hard wood, and they can be easily cleaned. Some people keep a toaster or microwave on the work surfaces, along with things they need frequently, such as oil, salt, or various sauces.
Most kitchens also contain a cooker with an oven and four rings, (although some modern cookers are split level, where the oven is separate from the rings), a fridge-freezer, and perhaps a dishwasher or even a washing machine. You'll probably find a kitchen sink, where you wash the plates and dishes, and larger kitchens also contain a kitchen table and chairs, so you can eat in the same room

Types of breas

2009-10-02T04:03:00.000-07:00

SWEETS

2009-10-02T03:54:00.000-07:00

CRISTIAN QUICENO MORALES 2N

KITCHEN TECHNIQUES II

2009-10-02T03:32:00.000-07:00

Laura Canut Tomàs
Maria Ribera Ruché
2n ESO

MEAT

2009-09-27T14:54:00.001-07:00

Guerau, Xavi, Anna 2n ESO

FRUIT

2009-09-25T04:00:00.001-07:00

NUTS & DRIED FRUITS

2009-09-25T03:51:00.000-07:00

Joel Ripoll

Jonathan Contel

2n ESO

VEGETABLES

2009-09-25T03:42:00.000-07:00

KITCHEN TECHNIQUES I

2009-09-25T03:41:00.000-07:00

PASTA

2009-09-25T03:37:00.000-07:00

KITCHEN TOOLS II

2009-09-25T03:33:00.001-07:00

KITCHEN TOOLS I

2009-09-21T02:39:00.000-07:00

juan & helio company

KITCHEN MEASURAMENTS

2009-09-21T02:13:00.000-07:00

Some links for kitchen convertions

Kitchen measurements
kitchen measurments 2
kitchen measurments 3
kitchen measurments 4
kitchen measurments 5

FOOD PYRAMID

2009-09-21T02:11:00.000-07:00

Water: 8 servings
Rice and pasta: 6 servings
Vrgetable: 3 servings
Fruit: 2 servings
Meat and fish: 2 servings
Milk: 3 servings
Sweets:small amounts

Falafel

2009-02-02T02:21:00.000-08:00

Falafel is very popular in the Middle East as a fast food. Vendors sell it on the street corners in Cairo. As a main dish, it is served as a sandwich, stuffed in pita bread with lettuce, tomatoes, and tahini. As an appetizer, it is served on a salad, or with hummus and tahini. Falafel is a favorite among vegetarians.

In Egypt, McDonald's has their version of a falafel sandwich. Can you guess the name? McFalafel, of course.

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
Ingredients:
• 1 cup dried chickpeas
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 3 tablespoons of fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 teaspoon coriander
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 2 tablespoons flour
• Salt
• Pepper
• Oil for frying
Preparation:
Place dried chickpeas in a bowl, covering with cold water. Allow to soak overnight. Omit this step if using canned beans.

Drain chickpeas, and place in pan with fresh water, and bring to a boil.

Allow to boil for 5 minutes, then let simmer on low for about an hour.

Drain and allow to cool for 15 minutes.

Combine chickpeas, garlic, onion, coriander, cumin, salt and pepper (to taste) in medium bowl. Add flour.

Mash chickpeas, ensuring to mix ingredients together. Mash it with your hands instead of a food processor; it gives it a much better texture. You want the result to be a thick paste.

Form the mixture into small balls, about the size of a ping pong ball. Slightly flatten.

Fry in 2 inches of oil at 350 degrees until golden brown (5-7 minutes).

Serve hot.

Serving Suggestion
Falafel can be served as an appetizer with hummus and tahini, or as a main course. Stuff pita bread with falafel, lettuce, tomatoes, tahini, salt and pepper. As an alternative, falafel can be formed into patties and served like a burger.

Chocolate Brownies

2009-01-26T02:36:00.000-08:00

Indgredients:
50g (2 oz) cocoa powder
200g (7oz) flour
250g (80z) soft margarine
300 g (4oz) caster sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
50 g (2oz) walnuts chopped

Instructions:
-Preheat the oven to 200 ºC
-Mix the cocoa powder with the flour
-Cream the margarine with the sugar, then beat the eggs and vanilla adding a litte flour mixture with each addition.
-Fold in remaining mixture and the nuts.
-Spread the mixture into a grassed mold.
-Bake for 20-30 minutes the cake should be slightly under cooked but just firm in the center. Cool before slicing into bars.

MARIA LUISA CAKE

2009-01-26T02:32:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1 cup margarine 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 ½ cups sugar 1 spoonful vanilla essence
6 eggs 2 spoonful wine
1 ½ cups flour 4 spoonful milk
Preparation:
Beat the margarine and the sugar until form a cream. Add the eggs one by one, beating very well. Add the rest of the ingredients and beat again. Spread the mixture in three greased and floured molds and bake in the preheated oven to 350° during 25 minutes. Join the cakes with fruit marmalade and sprinkle with sugar.

Shumai

2009-01-26T02:30:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
1/2 pound ground pork
1/2 tsp salt
1 small onion
1/2 tbsp grated fresh ginger
2 tbsp potato starch
20 shumai wrappers
1/4 tsp pepper

Directions:
Chop onion well.
Put the finely chopped onion and pork in a bowl.
Add salt and pepper in the bowl and mix well by hands.
Add potato starch and ginger in the meat mixture.
Put a spoonful of the meat in the center of a shumai wrapper.
Fold the four corners of the wrapper up and make a small ball.
Heat a steamer.
Steam shumai dumpling on high heat for 15 minutes.
Serve sumai with soysauce and karashi mustard.
*Makes 4 servings.
Video Shumai

Tarte tatin

2009-01-04T11:29:00.001-08:00

Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: about 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients:

1 1/2 lbs. Firm Apples
2/3 cup Granulated Sugar
3 oz. Butter (room temperature)
Butter for baking dish
A little Lemon Juice
Crust: We have included a wonderful crust recipe, at the end of the tatin instructions. However, if you don't want to make your own pie crust, just use a good pre-made one!

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 180ºC
1. Peel apples and lightly coat with lemon juice, so that they don't brown.
2. Put sugar and 3 tbsp. water in a pot and let caramelize.
How to caramelize? Let sugar melt into water on a very low flame. Once melted, turn up the flame a bit, don't stir, but tilt the pot and move it around from time to time. Once the syrup has a pale honey color, you can stop, it's caramelized. If you want a darker caramel, just be careful that you don't let it burn.
3. Add butter to caramel and stir until it melts. Take off heat and pour caramel into a buttered pie dish.
4. Cut apples into halves. Cut each half into three even pieces. Place apples in pie dish, so that they are squeezed tightly together. You want to do this step as quickly as possible, so that the caramel doesn't harden too much. If you want, you can begin slicing apples while you are making the caramel. Just be careful to check caramel, so that it doesn't burn.
5. Bake for 40 - 45 minutes. During this time you can prepare the crust, then roll it out so that it is a drop larger than your pie dish, and refrigerate it for 30 minutes. Even if you are using a pre-made crust, you still want to spread it out to the right size, and then refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. Take tatin out of oven, and let apples cool off a bit. Once cooled, place crust on top, tuck the edges into the dish, and bake for 30 minutes or until crust has browned.
7. Remove from oven and let cool. Then, place a serving dish on top of the tarte and carefully flip over, so that the apples are facing up.
8. Serve warm, with crème fraîche (or vanilla ice-cream) on the side.
Voilà!

Tip:

You can make your tatin ahead of time, just make sure that you place it on a dish that can go back in the oven, so that you can warm it up right before serving. You can serve it cold, but it does lose some of its charm!

Delicious Crust Recipe

This lovely crust is easy to make and will perfectly accompany all of your tatins! You can also use this recipe for any other tarte or pie that you like to make. It stays fresh in the freezer for 3 months (defrost overnight in fridge), so make larger quantities and save time later on!

Ingredients for 1 Crust:

11/3 cup Flour
2 Eggs
4 oz. Butter (chilled!)
1 tbsp. Granulated Sugar
Pinch of Salt

How to Make Crust:

1. Mix salt, sugar, and flour.
2. Cut chilled butter into small pieces and mix into flour with finger tips. Stop working batter once it looks like "sand".
3. Make a well and pour in eggs. Incorporate into flour using your fingers and a spatula.
4. Once homogenous, form a ball, place on a floured surface and knead for 10 seconds. Reshape into a ball, roll out with a rolling pin, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Voilà!

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Mexican Burritos

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Burritos are made with flour tortillas and originate from Northern Mexica.In Souhtern Mexico,tacos made with corn tortillas are more popular. In fact,the primary difference between burritos and tacos is simply the type of tortilla encases the filling : wheat os corn .

- Warm tortillas.Place filling of choise in bottom third of the tortilla.

- Fold flap over filling,bring edges in.

- Fold over until no flap remains.

- Warm and serve.

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GUACAMOLE

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Ingredients:

3-4 ripe avocados
1-2 minced garlic cloves
1/4 c. lemon juice
2 tbsp. minced chives
1 small tomato – cubed
salt to taste
salsa

Preparation:

- Find the ripest avocados you can – they should be soft when squeezed gently, with dark-green skin. Avoid brown avocados, which are too ripe.
- Cut each avocado in half, working around the large, smooth pit.
- Separate the avocado halves and remove the pit.
- Scoop the avocado flesh out of the skins.
- Use a fork to mash the avocados until smooth-some chunks are OK. Use a food processor for large amounts of avocado if you like, but avoid overprocessing.
- Add minced fresh garlic, lemon juice, chives and cubed tomato. Add salt and salsa to taste, if desired.

Vídeo: How to make guacamole

MUFFINS

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Chocolate Muffins

Ingredients

- 2/3 cup of baking cocoa.

- 2 large eggs.

- 2 cups of flour.

- 1 cup of chocolate chips.

- 1/2 cup of sugar.

- 2 teaspoons of baking soda.

- 1 1/3 cups of milk.

- 1/3 cup of vegetable oil.

- 1 teaspoon of vainilla.

- ½ teaspoon of salt.

Instructions

- Preheat your oven to 40ºF.

- Coat muffins tins with non-stick cooking spray

- In large bowl, combine the cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and vainilla.

- Stir in half a cup of chocolate chips.

- In a separate bowl, combine the eggs and milk

- Add the egg/milk mixtute to the other ingredients until moistened.

- Scoop the butter evenly into the prepared pan.

- Sprinkle with the remaining chocolate chips.

- Bake for about twenty minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

- Cool on a wire rack before removing from the pan.

Video: Making chocolate muffins

TANDOORI CHICKEN BROCHETTES

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Ingredients
(For 12 people)

6 chicken breast.
3 greek yoghurt.
12 tablespoons of tandoori paste Estraperlo.
3 teaspoons of oil.
36 drumsticks.
Salt.

Instructions

Make a cream with yoghurt and tandoori paste.
Cut chicken breast in dices of 3x3 cm and mix it with the yoghurt cream. Keep it in the refrigerator about 1-2 hours.
Grease the oven tray.
Put the drumsticks in the oven at 250ºC 5 minutes each side. You can also do it in the grill.

Video: Tandoori chicken

Hungarian goulash recipe

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INGREDIENTS

· For 12 people

- 4 pounds beef chuck

- 2 teaspoons salt

- 4 onions, white or yellow

- 4 tablespoons of lard or shortening

- 4 bay leaves

- 2 Qt. Water

- 4 tablespoons imported sweet paprika

- 8 peeled and diced potatoes

- ½ teaspoons black pepper

- 2 eggs

- 12 tablespoons of flour

- ¼ teaspoon of salt

INSTRUCTIONS

-Cut beef into 1 inch squares.

-Chop onions and brown in lard, add beef and paprika.

-Let beef simmer in its own juice with salt and paprika for 1 hour on low heat.

-Add bay leaves, water, diced potatoes, black pepper and remaining salt.

-Cover and simmer until potatoes are done and meat tender.

-Add flour to unbeaten egg and salt.

-Let stan for ½ hour for flour to mellow.

-Drop by teaspoonfull into goulash.

-Cover and simmer 5 minutes after clumpings rise to surface.

-Serve hot with dollops of sour cream.

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Minted Mediterranian couscous salad

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Ingredients :

- salt

- 5 cups plain couscous

- 3 cups chopped red pepper

- 1 or 2 cups black olives, halved

- 1 cup chopped fresh mint

- 5 tablespoons bottled olive oil vinaigrette

- 5 cups crumbled feta cheese

- 3 cups dry raisins

- 2 cups pinen nuts

- 2 cups green peas

- 2 tablespoon of lemon juice

Preparation :

Bring water and 1 teaspoon salt to boil in medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in couscous. Remove from heat. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Transfer couscous to bowl; fluff with fork and cool slighty.

Stir chopped bell pepper, olives, nuts, raisins, green peas, feta cheese and mint into couscous. Stir in olive oil vinagrette. Season with salt and pepper.

Morocan couscous

YOGURT CAKE

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Ingredients

- 1 cup of oil (margarine of butter)

- 3 cups white sugar

- 3 eggs

- 3 cups all-purpose flour

- 1/2 tablespoon baking soda

- 1 yogurt.

Directions

- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Grease a baking pan. Sift together the flour and baking soda. Set aside.

- In a large bowl, cream together the oil and sugar until light and fluffy.

- Whisk the white and beat the yolk into them. Then stir in the yogurt and the mixture oil-sugar. Alternately beat in the flour mixture, mixing just until incoporated.

- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

SUSHI ROLLS

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TUNA SUSHI ROLLS (tekka-maki)

Ingredients

4 cups sushi rice
4 sheets of nori (dried seaweed)
4 ounces raw tuna sashimi

Preparation

Cut the tuna into thin and long sticks. Put a nori sheet on top of a bamboo mat (makisu). Spread the sushi rice on top of the nori sheet. Place the tuna sticks lengthwise on the rice. Roll up the bamboo mat, pressing forward to shape the sushi into a cylinder. Press the bamboo mat firmly and remove it from the sushi. Cut the rolled sushi into bite-sized pieces.

CALIFORNIAN ROLLS

Ingredients

4 cups sushi rice
4 sheets of nori (dried seaweed)
1 avocado
3/4 cup crab meat
2 tbsp mayonnaise
1/2 tsp salt

Preparation

Peel an avocado and cut it into strips or mash it. Put imitation crab in a bowl and mix with salt and mayonnaise. Cover a bamboo mat with plastic wrap. Put a sheet of dried seaweed on top of the mat. Spread sushi rice on top of the seaweed and press firmly. Sprinkle sesame seeds over the sushi rice. Turn the sushi layer over so that the seaweed is on top. Place avocado and crab lengthwise on the seaweed. Roll the bamboo mat forward, pressing the ingredients inside the cylinder-shaped sushi. Press firmly the bamboo mat with hands, then remove the rolled sushi. Cut the sushi roll into bite-size pieces.

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Add it to the first mixture and blend well.

Arrange cookie dough by rounded teaspoons on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 7 minutes.

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