Entries by Elena and Alfredo

Happy New 2009 Year!




Dear visitors, we sincerely congratulate you on New Year! We wish you to be happy, lucky and loved, and, of course, feeling good all the time. Feel good at your New Year party, too, with all the delicious dishes on your New Year’s table. We tried to do our best to delight you and your […]







How to Make Avocado and Shrimp Appetizer




Apart from salads, avocado is very good to use in sauces and appetizers. This fruit has stiff buttery flesh so you don’t need any oily dressing. Although avocado is classified as a fruit as it grows on a tree, it is more like a vegetable because it’s not sweet at all. Avocado dishes are considered […]







Recipe for Olive, Capers and Almond Paste




Capers and olives are very healthy and highly nutritive foods. Paired, they create just incompatible taste. This paste featuring black and green olives, almond and cashew nuts tastes rich and nice. It will add a new fresh note and enrich your menu. The taste of this paste is very pleasant.







How to Make Puff Pastry Bowl Cookies Stuffed with Red Caviar




Many people would like to know how to serve red caviar to make a difference. Typical caviar burgers seem too much mundane looking. So we decided to bake small bowl-shaped cookies from puff pastry and fill them with red caviar. The result was beyond expectations, it was delicious.







Fruit Dessert “Watermelon Shell Surprise”




This fruit dessert will delight you with its bright colors, juiciness and delicate taste. It is served in a watermelon shell. If you get small watermelons, you can serve such watermelon shells filled with fruits to each guest separately. This dessert is great to finish any meal with. Fruit desserts are hailed as the healthiest […]







Recipe for Avocado Salad with Tiger Shrimp




Huge tiger shrimp is delicious gift of the sea. They go great with tender buttery avocado taste. This salad recipe also features tiny cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and the Sardinian sheep’s milk cheese Pecorino Sardo which all add to the wonderful overall taste composition. The dressing of lemon juice, shredded parsley, salt and olive oil adds […]







Recipe for Italian Sausages by Alfredo




Everybody loves sausages, but it can be hard to pick up fresh and high quality sausages at grocery stores. They often have spices and chemicals in them which can be unhealthy or appeal not to everyone’s taste. Homemade sausages are absolutely healthy and you can use whatever spices you like. What’s more, you can ensure […]







How to Cook Rabbit in Creamy Sauce




Rabbit meat stewed in creamy sauce is the perfect nourishing dish that will appeal to appetites of all ages. Saffron nicely emphasizes soft and delicate taste of the meat and nutmeg add a fabulous overall flavor. Rabbit meat is especially healthy for those with cardiovascular disorders or liver problems as well as for people who […]







Recipe for Meatballs with Mozzarella




This is Meatballs or Zrazy is a meat dish originated in Poland and Ukraine. It is traditionally made from ground meat with some filling. For filling, they usually use potatoes or mushrooms. In our own recipe we used Mozzarella balls, soft Italian cheese. Meatballs came out delicious as if stuffed with cream as cheese melts […]







Honey Cake Recipe




We bake this cake for every party and all our guests are always so delighted with it that the cake disappears right away. The secret behind the dough for this cake is that it is steamed. That’s why the cake is so ropey and has a fabulous caramel smack in it. When baking, crusts become […]







How to Make Salad with Chicken Liver, Cheese and Olives




Dietary chicken liver is just delicious in various salads. In our salad recipe, chicken liver goes perfectly well with two sorts of cheese – regular soft cheese and Italian Mozzarella and two sorts of olives – black and green. The recipe also features boiled carrot which health benefits, as new studies showed, are increased several […]







Recipe for Ossobuco with Peas




Ossobuco is an Italian dish made with thick slices of veal shank, preferably cut from the middle part of the shank. Muscular bone-in meat contains marrow. Ingredients used in this recipe are a good source of healthy substances. In our recipe, we make Ossobuco with shanks of older veal (12-18 month old) that have more […]







How to Glaze Tangerines in Chocolate




This low-calorie dessert is so yummy and will make anyone feel good. You can glaze any fruit you want. We used sweet tangerines here and added some cranberries and lemon to avoid too sugary taste. Pine nuts with their pine flavor and tender taste go perfectly well with this dessert.







How to Make Turkey and Champignon Salad for Christmas




We decided to post a new recipe of our own here. It comes with boiled turkey meat and homemade pickled champignons. The recipe also features boiled carrot, Savoy cabbage and our homemade olive mayo. Savoy cabbage is the queen of cabbages. It has crinkled leaves packed into flower-like crumbly head. Savoy cabbage provides twice as […]







How to Get the Best out of Carrot




You’ve surely heard and read a lot about the health benefits of fruits and vegetables. But some people believe that swallowing vitamin supplements is easier solution. This is not true. For one thing, many disagreements have arisen on beta-carotene among scientists. Researchers found that chemically extracted beta-carotene which is consumed as vitamin supplement provides, at