Entries by Elena and Alfredo

How to Cook Champignons Stuffed with Chicken Liver and Vegetables




Here is our new champignon recipe of our own. We bought large mushrooms and decided to stuff them with chicken liver, various vegetables, and fresh oregano and cook them in dry white wine. All the ingredients create an amazing rich taste.







Recipe for Pumpkin Fluffy Pancakes with Cheese




You can cook lots of dishes with pumpkin. Among them are flavorful pumpkin puffy pancakes. These pancakes have a nice, appetizing, deep-yellow color and delicate fabulous flavor with overtone of light and marvelous basil odor. Garlic is also in the right place here and all the ingredients go well with







Simmered Mantis Shrimp in Red Wine Sauce




Mantis shrimp – scientific name is “Squilla mantis” – belongs to crustacean class. They inhibit the Mediterranean Sea along Italian coast line and the Adriatic Sea. Mantis shrimps feed on small fish which they hunt for at night time. Catching season falls on late autumn and early spring. During this period of time, the flesh […]







Lamb Meat with Sweet Pepper Recipe




Lamb meat perfectly teams up with veggies – sweet pepper, tomatoes, onion, and garlic. Sweet pepper gives the meat a nice and sweetish smack and very delicate aroma. This dish is low in calories yet it is nourishing and provides us with all essential nutrients we need to feel good.







Recipe of Tiramisu Cake with Cottage Cheese Cream




Tiramisu is a dessert that is believed to have originated in Veneto region, Italy. This dessert is so mouth-watering, but is high in calories too. So diet-conscious people have to stay away from it. That’s why we cut back on calories in our recipe replacing fatty mascarpone cream with lighter cottage-cheese cream.







Vegetarian Pie Recipe




Those who prefer light vegetarian diet but also want to indulge themselves in something really tasty are going to enjoy this recipe. All the ingredients in this recipe team up perfectly to create a pleasant and well-balanced taste that exceeds all expectations. This pie is amazingly soft with juicy filling that just melts in your […]







Health Benefits of Olives




Olives are fruits of the olive tree. The tree is believed to have originated in South Caucuses and afterwards it began to be cultivated in the Mediterranean region. Olives are now being grown at tremendous commercial scale in Italy, Spain and Greece. Olives are produced in other Mediterranean countries, too, but their share is minor. […]







How to Cook Lavash Rolls Filled with Broccoli and Pastrami




Lavash is flatbread of Armenian origin. This bread is very thin and elastic. You can wrap just about anything into this bread – meat, veggies, mushrooms, fish – and the rolls are always going to be tasty. In this recipe we stuffed lavash with broccoli and low-fat smoked brisket of beef called pastrami. The result […]







Recipe for Oyster Mushrooms with Sweet Pepper and Fusilli




Try this recipe of our own invention featuring oyster mushrooms, fusilli pasta and sweet pepper. Fusilli is spiral-shaped pasta made with whole wheat flour. And whole wheat flour products are known to improve metabolism. Oyster mushrooms have a light, soft flesh with incredibly mushroom







Vitamin Rich Dried Fruits Mixture




Dried fruits have been long known for their positive health effects. The fact is they retain their health benefits over long periods of time and provide us with a wide range of vitamins and minerals, fiber, pectines and organic acids. Dried fruits contain little moisture, so they are like natural concentrates of healthy







How to Cook Dry-cured Cod with Olives and Capers




Baccala in Italian cuisine is a dry-cured cod. Codfish inhibits northern seas, but Italians took fancy to it. They traditionally import baccala from the northern countries. Dry-cured cod has always played an important role in Italian cuisine for two reasons. First, this is







Gnoccetti with Mussels and Vegetables Recipe




Try our new recipe combining the gifts of the sea and the gifts of the land. Dry white wine and salty mussel water add their own notes to the fabulous and exclusive taste of the dish. Soft potato gnoccetti are well-soaked in the appetizing sauce. The flesh of mussels drives libido and provides proteins, vitamins, […]







Trout Salad with Olives Recipe




Red trout salad with sheep feta cheese, olives, and quail eggs tastes nice and delicate. All the ingredients in this recipe of our own supplement each other harmoniously. This salad is nutritionally well-balanced. Surely, you are going to enjoy this fabulously tasty dish. Our salad will







Stuffed Pork Fillet




Pork fillet is the most tender meat. Try our amazingly tasty, soft and flavorful pork fillet recipe. This is one of the saltimbocca versions. We also used basil and saffron with its splendid smell that gets stronger while frying. We stuffed each fillet piece with cheese and uncooked smoked sausage which gave an







Runner Beans with Leek




Runner bean is very good option for those who are watching their weight or dieting because it is considered a dietary and low-calorie food. Runner bean is rich in fiber, folic acid and many other vitamins. Due to its unique complex of vitamins and minerals, runner bean is very healthy for our skin and makes […]