My dear friend had her birthday last monday, and in her honor I cooked a special dish last night. The recipe includes an Andean cereal, Quinoa, and a taste of ginger and lemon, which gives it an oriental touch.
Quinoa happens to be a “recovered” species and has won a sustainability prize (or something like that… [...]
Posts Tagged ‘recipes’
15 May
Happy Birthday, Chiari!
11 Nov
Fresh salad recipe
This is one of my favorite salads.
It is really a matter of free-styling according to your likes/preferences, so I’ll just give you the ingredients and seasoning, and you can customize the proportions.
Ingredients:
- Lettuce
- Celery (chopped in slices)
- Avocado
- Green olives
- Champignon mushrooms
- Green apple
- Roquefort cheese
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Seasoning:
olive oil and lemon
23 Sep
Trip to Mendoza: Day 3 (part 2)
Back in Mendoza, we walked from the station to the city centre and stopped at a shop to buy some cous-cous, then hit the supermarket and bought the rest of the ingredients to make a dish that Cristian always praises, together with a chocotorta for dessert (recipe at the end of the post!).
Pipi, Dechi and [...]
15 Aug
Sweet rocks
Oh, wait… did you think I was using “rocks” as the 3rd person simple present tense? Something like, “sweet stuff is great! it rocks!”?
Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you… I meant “rocks” as a noun.
So before you imagine yourself swallowing chocolate covered pebbles or (even worse!) trying to bite a sugar frosted stone, let me [...]
13 Aug
Sweet fingers
There are few moments in which I actually enjoy getting my hands dirty. I am usually a neurotic hand-washer, and I can barely stand feeling my hands sticky or greasy…
But these moments… they make me happy:
- Getting my hands covered in melted chocolate or dulce de leche (milk caramel) when making truffles
- Getting my hands/feet [...]
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