Apricot cake

INGREDIENTS

1 puff pastry

1 jar of apricot mermelade

20gr of brown sugar

DIRECTIONS

1. Unroll the puff pastry and place it in a big and circular mold.

2. Spread the apricot mermelade on the puff pastry. 

3. Pre-heat the oven at 200ºC. Place the cake in the oven and let it cook for 15 minutes.

4. Remove the cake from the oven and decorate with brown sugar as you prefer. 

* Tip: You can replace brown sugar for cherries or other fruits.

** Tip 2: Instead of apricot mermelade, you can use your fauvorite mermelade.

Enjoy!!

xxx

Ariadna

Salad of rice

INGREDIENTS

1kg of white rice

50 gr of aspargus

1tin of olives

3 eggs

50gr of carrots

Oil/salt/pepper

DIRECTIONS

1. First of all, cut the aspargus in small pieces. Then place them in a pan with hot oil and fry for 10-15 minutes. When it is cooked, place them in a dish and let it cool.

2. Place the three eggs in a cooker with water and boil them. Remove the shells of the eggs and cut them into small pieces. Place the pieces in another dish.

3. Cut the carrots and fry them in a pan with hot oil for 5-10 minutes.  Place them in another dish when it's cooked.

4. Cut  the olives in half and place them in a dish. 

5. Finally, put water, salt and oil in a cooker. When it boils, add the rice and let it boil for 15-20 minutes. Place the rice in a large bowl.

6. Add all the ingredients into the large bowl and stir it. Add olive oil and serve cold or template.

Enjoy!

xxx

Ariadna

Cake of three chocolates

INGREDIENTS 
For a mold of 24 cm  
1 box of biscuits 
150gr of white chocolate 
150gr of milk chocolate 
150 gr of black chocolate 
750ml of whipping cream 
750ml of milk 
3 boxes of curd 
150gr of sugar
60 gr of butter

DIRECTIONS
1. Crush the biscuits and add the butter melted before you put into the microwave. After you add into the mold, it has to be a little bit big. 

2. If you want to use different types of chocolate, you can melt the black chocolate first. Put into a large bowl 150gr of black chocolate, one box of curd, 250ml of milk, 75gr of sugar and 250 ml of whipping cream. You have to remove until you have a great cream. After you add into the mold, where the biscuits are placed. You will have to wait until you get the correct temperature. 

3. Then, it's the turn of white chocolate. Put into a pot 150gr of white chocolate, one box of curd, 250ml of milk and 250 ml of whipping cream. You do the same as with the other chocolate, you add into the mold when it is a consistent cream. 

4. Finally, it's the turn of the milk chocolate. Put into a pot 150gr of milk chocolate, one box of curd, 250ml of milk, 75gr of sugar and 250 ml of whipping cream.As it is the last step, you can put some decorations as hearts of sugar or small pieces of chocolate. 

Enjoy!

xxx

Jordina 

*Alba, who is my friend, explained me this recipe. Many thanks!!

Omelettes with zucchinni and oats

INGREDIENTS:

3 eggs

200 gr of zucchini

200gr of potatoes

Sunflower oil

250gr of oats

Salt

Pepper

DIRECTIONS:

1. First of all, chop the zucchini and the potatoes really thin. Place the mixure into a large bowl.

2. Then, add the eggs and mix with the zucchini and the potatoes.

3. When it is mixed, add the oats and mix again.

4. Put salt and pepper as much as you prefer.

5. Heat the frying pan with sunflower oil.

6. With the help of two spoons, put the mixure it in the pan. It has to look like small omelettes. 

7. Fry all the mixure in small pieces.

8. Finally, put in a plate some paper towels for dry the oil and leave it cool.

Enjoy!

xxx

Jordina

Spanish dessert: Natillas

INGREDIENTS

2l of milk

2 packets of custard powder

1 packet of chocolate powder

Sugar

Marie biscuits

DIRECTIONS

1. Cover the bottom of a recipient with the Marie biscuits. Like this:

2. Of 1L of milk, pull apart a small bowl, and throw the rest of the liter in a pot, with 5 soup spoons of sugar.

3. Throw the two packets of custard powder in the bowl of milk, and mix it fast to dissolve it. It will be our vanilla.

4. In another pot, throw the other liter of milk, but using a glass. For each glass of milk you throw in the pot, throw 3 soup spoons of chocolate powder and mix it.

5. Heat the pot of milk with sugar at high power, and the pot of chocolate at medium power. Do not stop mixing the chocolate.

When the milk starts to boil, throw the vanilla into the pot, and mix fast. When it gets thicken, throw it into the recipient with the Marie biscuits.

6. When the chocolate gets thicken, throw it into the recipient, and then let it for a half hour in order to get it colder. Then, put in a refrigerator for two or three hours.

This is the final look:

Enjoy it!

xxx

Mario

Homemade cake

INGREDIENTS

A peel of lemon

3 eggs

1 natural yogurt

2 measures* of sugar

½ measures of oil

1 packet of yeast

3 measures of flour

Tip: *You can use a yogurt container as a measure

DIRECTIONS

1. Put all the ingredients in a bowl. I recommend you to follow the same order as the list of the ingredients, and mix with a blender every ingredient that you put in the bowl. For example: put the eggs in the bowl and whisk it, then put the yogurt and mix whit the blender, and do the same with all the ingredients. Doing it, you will get a more soft mix.

2. Put the mix in an appropriate recipient for the oven. I’ll use a square recipient, but you can use whatever recipient you have at home.

 

3. Put in the oven at 180˚C in the below position ,and wait until the mix rises. Then put the oven in the above and below position for a few minutes.

The cake will have this look:

Finally you can serve or add some extras as you want. For example I have covered it with sugar glass, and I have cut the cake in the middle and I added some fruit comfiture. (It looks delicious but it also tastes great!)

And this is the final look of my cake:

Enjoy it!

xxx

Mario

Gazpacho

INGREDIENTS (2 persons)

5 tomatoes

½ cucumber

½ red pepper

½ green pepper

1 garlic clove

3 slices of bread

Oil (as much as you want)

Salt (as much as you want)

Vinegar (as much as you want)

DIRECTIONS

1. Peel the skin of the tomatoes, the cucumber and the garlic clove.

2. Put all the ingredients in a large bowl.

3. Add a spoon of oil, 2 spoons of vinegar and a teaspoon of salt.

4. Mix all the ingredients with a blender.

5. Once you have mixed all the ingredients, taste it and add oil, salt or vinegar (suit yourself).

6. Place in the refrigerator for an hour and serve it cold.

7. Decorate with a piece of cucumber.

Enjoy it!

xxx

Mario

Homemade ice-cream

INGREDIENTS

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

500 ml of soft cream

 Lemon Juice (8 lemons)

DIRECTIONS

1. Place the sweetened condensed milk in a large bowl. 
2. Mix the soft cream with the sweetened condensed milk. Then, stir the ingredients until they are blended in the large bowl.
3. Add the lemon juice. Place the mixure into cups and decorate*
4. Freeze the cups for 3 hours.

*Tip: you can replace lemon juice for coffee, melted chocolate, orange juice, vainilla... there are a lot of possibilities!!

Enjoy! :)

xxxx

Ariadna

Chocolates with biscuits

INGREDIENTS

100 gr of chocolate

20 gr of butter

50 gr of biscuits

5 gr of honey (a teaspoon)

DIRECTIONS

1. Melt the chocolate with the butter in the microwave during 2 minutes. Stir with a spoon to create a uniformed mixure and add the honey.
2. Crush the biscuits into pieces and add them into the chocolate.
3. Put the mixure in a dish recovered with plastic for cooking and cover it. Freeze for two or three hours. 
4. When it is frozen, remove the plastic and cut the chocolates into irregular pieces with the help of a knife. Serve cold.

Enjoy!
xxx

Ariadna

Chicken with cava

 

INGREDIENTS

1 Chicken

1 Onion

200 gr of mushrooms

To prepare the sauce:

100 gr of almonds

100 gr of hazelnuts

1 Garlic

10 gr of parsley

A glass of cava


DIRECTIONS

Clean and cut the chicken into pieces.  

Cook the onion and the mushrooms with low power in a pan. Add the pieces of chicken when the onion is cooked.

To prepare the sauce, first, crush the hazelnuts, almonds, parsley, garlic and oil in a blender. Then, put the mixure in a pan with hot oil. After 5-10 minutes, add the glass of cava.

 

 

When the sauce is prepared, add it in the pan of the chicken and mushrooms. Let it cook for 20 minutes and serve warm.

 

Enjoy!
 xxx

Ariadna