The recipe: Pork filet mignon with mustard and gingerbread cake by Edda Onorato
“If there were no workers, there wouldn’t be any captains”.
Pedro Calderón de la Barce, L’Alcade de Zalamea
Tag: olive oil
Sweet Potatoes with Parmesan
If you love sweet potatoes then you should definitely make this recipe! It’s easy and really good! You just need to coat the potatoes sliced as fries with a little bit of olive oil and some parmesan cheese and then cook them in the oven! Really good and so easy to make! Why aren’t you making them yet?
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Light Lasagna
These light lasagna have a secret ingredient that gives them a very special character to the point that it does not matter that these lasagna do not have béchamel sauce :-) This secret ingredient is called allspice and it’s so good that you will not eat normal lasagna no more ;-)
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The recipe: Cake with almond paste and honey by Alter Gusto
Cake with almond paste and honey to create moments of infinite delicacy!
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Simple tomato sauce
This simple tomato sauce is made with tomato puree and has a secret ingredient which is oregano! It’s rather delicate and really good and can be used as a sauce with pasta or as a base sauce for pizza :-) Give a try and you will see!
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Tarts with cherry tomatoes and tapenade with black olives
This tart with cherry tomatoes and homemade tapenade is really gorgeous! Tomatoes couple very well with the tapenade which is a sort of puree with black olives and their taste is like no other Make the time to make homemade puff pastry because this version is quick and has nothing to do with commercial puff pastry! Mark my words!
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Gaspacho with red pepper
This gaspacho comes from a recipe of the Great French Chef Alain Ducasse and it’s special because the red peppers first are cooked in the oven and then they are added with the other ingredients (tomatoes, cucumber, onion, garlic, basil) into the mix that stays in the refrigerator overnight! At the end, we add a little bit of Xérès vinegar for even more flavor! It’s really very good!
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Shrimps à la créole
These shrimps à la creole are very special because they couple well tomato puree and lime (juice and zest)! Seeing these two ingredients together we might think they will not match, but this is not true, they go very well together! Besides onions, garlic and red peppers that give some extra taste there is also thyme, bay leaf and some chili that bring even more flavor! On top we grate a little bit of nutmeg and thus we create a wonderful sauce that goes very well with pasta or rice! You need to try it to see for yourself!
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Veal with lemon confit
This veal with lemon confit has a multitude of ingredients (onions, garlic, carrots, honey, wine, orange juice and zest, thyme, bay leaf and of course lemon confit) that create a symphony of flavors! It’s really good and quick to make! Don’t miss the opportunity to taste it :-)
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Eggplants « Imam Bayildi »
These eggplants are a Greek traditional dish but here we have its light version! The eggplants at the end are candied and their filling has also candied onions cooked in a tomato sauce! Veggies become candied thanks to the long cooking in the oven! It’s really good and light because they don’t have much olive oil! Give it a try and you will adopt the recipe without a question!
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