Entries by Elena and Alfredo

The Custard Recipe




This cream can be used for making éclairs, profiteroles, cakes from puff pastry, smearing cake layers. It is good for different fruit and berry desserts. Besides, you can just eat it with cookies. Different from English cream because here are used to thicken the flour or starch. Ingredients for Custard Milk: 500 ml. Sugar: 150 […]







How to Make Steamed Spicy Mackerel




Steamed dishes are the most salubrious, although there are people who have misgivings about their taste. Well, we cooked some fish in the recently purchased double boiler and found there was nothing wrong with the taste! Mackerel flavorful with spice and herbs came off juicy and delicious. Meals cooked in the double boiler don’t lose […]







The Beetroot Soup (Borscht) with Pork Ribs Recipe




A rich, bright and nice-smelling beetroot soup (Russian or Ucrainian Borscht) is a favorite with many people, and it is only natural – beetroot soup is a robust and harmonious dish which has everything we need to feel good. A plateful of hot thick beetroot soup is something that is impossible to resist, especially if […]







Vegetables and Fruits Make a Good Antidepressant Medication




Vegetables and fruits can make your outlook more positive. Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health published a study which concludes that people who use a lot of fresh vegetables, greens and fruits are more optimistic about their future. The research embraced about 1,000 people of various age and both sexes. It emerged that […]







Making Ukrainian Donuts Pampushky




Ukrainian donuts, originally called Pampushky, belong to traditional Ukrainian bakery. They are small flavorful buns usually served warm with beet-root soup Borscht. The dough used is yeast-fermented, made on milk or on water. We cooked pampushki from whole-wheat flour on water. Ingredients for Ukrainian Donuts Pampushky Flour: 500 gr. Water or milk: 250 ml. Fresh […]







How to Make Fried Pork Steak




Pork fillet is usually on the dry side, it contains little fat. But if you prepare steaks from pork fillet in this way you will get tender and juicy pieces of excellent meat. Ingredients for Fried Pork Steak For 2 portions 2 slices of pork tenderloin, 1.5-2 cm thick Balsamic vinegar 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce […]







The Recipe for Potato with Garlic Baked in a Swedish Way




Made by this recipe potato comes out crispy outside and tender inside. It goes well as garnish to meat or fish, or as a separate dish with pickles, for example. Ingredients for baked potatoes in Swedish Way 6-8 Potatoes 6-8 Garlic cloves, thinly sliced. Freshly ground black pepper. Olive oil: 4-5 tbsp Sea Salt: to […]







Cheese with Mold Is Wholesome for the Heart




The French are eating cheese incessantly, including noble molded cheeses. It can be the reason for their being the healthiest of the nations in what concerns cardiovascular diseases. They intake 30% more animal fats than the Americans, but few of them suffer from excessive weight or heart dysfunctions like the Americans do. Scientists have been […]







How to Make Marinated Fried Eel




Conger eel is a veritable gourmet food. If you cook it by this recipe, you will enjoy a delicious dish immensely. Besides its incomparable taste, eel is a good source of Omega 3 fat acids. It is a fat fish, containing up to 30% high-quality fats. It is undoubtedly wholesome and expensive, but it’s worth […]







The Tiramisu with Dulce de Leche Recipe




This is a light version of Tiramisu, sans eggs and a great amount of fat. We replaced the fat Mascarpone with light cream cheese and non-fat Ricotta. But if you are not slimming down, take Mascarpone. What does the trick in this recipe is the Dulce de Leche condensed milk that lends it its marvelous […]







The Recipe for Artichokes Stuffed with Tuna And Olives




The bottom part of artichokes is used in this recipe, the part that is regarded as the tastiest and tenderest. The bottoms are concave, the very thing for stuffing. Tuna and olives went quite well. The dish makes a fine snack or entre. Ingredients for Artichokes Stuffed with Tuna Artichoke bottoms: 1 kg. 1 Can […]







How to Make Baked Sea Bass with Herbs and Vegetables




This fish goes by several names – spigola, European seabass, branzino, it belongs to the family Morondiae. Its marvelous white meat is very much appreciated by gourmets. Ingredients for Baked Bass with Vegetables 1 Sea Bass (Spigola): about 1 kg. 2-3 Potatoes 1-2 Carrots 2-3 Tomatoes 1-2 Red onions 2-3 tbsp White wine 4-5 tbsp […]







Water in Bottles Can be Dangerous




Scientists from Glasgow University compared the quality of bottled water and common tap water. It emerged that bottled water – even from the best known advertised companies – turned out to be harmful (on the content of bacteria) because, unlike tap water, it is almost universally not disinfected. The authors of the study urge everybody […]







The Rolls with Pita Bread, Salmon and Beetroot Recipe




You can make delicious rolls from thin flat cakes pita bread, smoked salmon and boiled beetroot. They are easy to make, the main consideration is cut everything very fine. We liked this combination of ingredients. Ingredients for Rolls with Salmon and Beetroot Pair Pita bread. Smoked salmon thinly sliced​​: about 150-200 gr. Two boiled beets. […]







Do We Need Citrus Fruits in Winter?




Karl-Heinz Wagner, an Austrian dieting expert ( nutritionist) and a famous lecturer, who lectures about nutrition in many countries Europe, America and Australia, holds that it’s not very wholesome to eat citrus fruits – oranges, tangerines, in winter. He says they bring down the body’s temperature (according to ancient Chinese medicine) and thus weaken the immune […]