Entries by Elena and Alfredo

The Oven-Baked Salmon with Potatoes Recipe




This recipe for salmon baked in the oven with potatoes, tomatoes and onion, is quite simple, and the dish comes out very tasty and impressive. If you have no salmon in hand, you can take trout or any other fat fish with few bones. Ingredients for Oven-Baked Salmon with Potatoes 2 lb salmon fillet 4-5 […]







The Recipe for Chocolate Truffles with Raisin in Coconut Shavings




Try tasty chocolate truffles with raisin soaked in rum. The flavorful coating of coconut shavings makes an exquisite addition to their taste. These home-made sweets are easy to make, but they are a really great delight! Here’s the treat that will do fine for a romantic supper. Ingredients for Chocolate Truffles with Raisin 0.55 lb […]







How to Make Puff Yeast Paste and Bake Croissants




Soft and flavorful croissants can be found on the breakfast table in every French house. They are a traditional and symbolic part of French cuisine. They are made from puff yeast paste which takes time. Don’t think of using margarine, take only natural butter, because you will be making them for yourself. At factories, croissants […]







The Recipe for Sicilian Orange Salad with Onion




They make a salad from oranges with onion in Sicily which may seem a fairly quaint recipe at first, but as soon as you try it you will see how harmonious its taste is. This orange salad can go as a separate dish as well as a light vitamin-rich garnish to grilled meat or fried […]







How to Make Pea Soup with Smoked Brisket




Soups made from dry pea come out especially rich. Their other common ingredient is smoked meat which makes for an exquisite taste. Pea soups are justly considered to be among the tastiest and the most wholesome soups. Ingredients for Pea Soup with Smoked Brisket a glass of dry peas 2 potatoes onion carrot 0.4 lb […]







The Recipe for Leek Stuffed with Meat




This dish is off-center and easy to make. There’s no way not to like this sort of cannelloni made from leek and filled with fragrant stuffing. Capers add greatly to the taste of the stuffing. Note that the recipe is perfectly alterable, use any products you have a liking for. Ingredients for Leek Stuffed with […]







Pink Risotto with Red Chicory, Treviso way




This risotto is prepared with red chicory – radicchio, which is known as winter flowers. This kind of leaf salad looks really gorgeous. When it’s fresh it has a slightly bitter taste. But once it’s been thermally treated, red chicory undergoes a rapid change – the bitterness disappears, leaving a marvelous aftertaste. They make an […]







Vegetable Marrows or Zucchini Are Healthy




Those who want to slim down would do well to consider vegetable marrows – it is a perfect low-calorie food. A portion of vegetable marrows has 38 calories. Vegetable marrows are rich in fiber – cellulose and pectins that help cleanse the body. Combining with bile acids, fibers facilitate the digestion of fats, and thus […]







Warm Crete Salad with Kidney Beans, Fennel and Feta




This recipe has been around from ancient times. It can be regarded as an appetizer or a salad. The dish is simple and nutritious, with a strong and exquisite flavor of fried fennel. You can also add some olives. The Crete cuisine is rightfully considered to be one of the healthiest and tastiest in the […]







How to Make Rolls with Ham and Avocado Cream




Here’s an appetizer that will fit a romantic dinner on St. Valentine’s Day – especially when you make it to look like roses. The taste will be overwhelming if you get good dry-cured ham like Spanish jamón,  Italian proiscuitto or speck. Avocado Cream is delicious, it can be is simply spreading on bread or buckwheat pancakes. […]







The Recipe for Crescent Rolls with Plum Jam and Nuts




Treat your nearest and dearest (and yourself!) to nice crescent rolls for tea. We have been baking them for years and are invariably pleased with the result. At times we replace sour cream with thick yoghurt– Greek yogurt, 10% fat, the rolls don’t get no worse for the alteration. The dough is always soft because […]







The Rabbit with Piquant Sauce Recipe




Rabbit meat in racy sauce with rosemary and basil is the way they customarily cook rabbit in Naples. What makes the recipe special is the absence of onion and garlic that are invariably used in meat dishes. Nevertheless the dish boasts a rich taste. Ingredients for Rabbit with Piquant Sauce 2 lb rabbit meat 0.4 […]







The Recipe for Bigoli Pasta with Radicchio and Salmon




Late autumn and winter is the season for red leaf chicory which is known as radicchio in Italy. It is a beautiful plant that brings to mind resplendent exotic flowers. Its leaves contain intibin, a substance that is salubrious for gestation and vessels. It makes the radicchio leaves taste slightly bitter, but a thermal treatment […]







The Chimichurri Sauce from Argentina




The Chimichurri sauce is a favorite with everybody who likes barbeque. It is for more than several hundred years that this sauce is used with grilled meat. There is nobody in Argentina and Uruguay who wouldn’t go crazy over this flavorful and piquant dressing. As one of legends has it, the sauce got its funny […]







Try Oat Pancakes with Tangerine Confit and Berries




This recipe will allow you to make pancakes that will be liked by everybody, even those who don’t normally eat oat, for they come out tasty and soft. Oatmeal is wholesome, it should be eaten as often as possible, in any fashion. Tangerine confit brings in a noble flavor that makes the pancakes especially delectable. Ingredients […]