Are you hungry? The answer is guacamole, a perfect dish for a quick snack or a colourful hors- d’oeuvre. Maybe the colour isn’t so inviting, but the taste is excellent. Here’s what I used and how I prepared it: – half an avocado, – tomato pulp (I used a couples of teaspoons of tomatoes sauce I’ve done before), – garlic powder (or half mashed and cut to pieces garlic), – olive oil, – half lemon juice, – salt, – black pepper, – chilli powder. I cut the avocado in half, paying attention to the seed, and I crushed a half with a fork in a bowl. I added olive oil,…
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How to: Bloody Mary! (the tomato sauce for pasta)
Hey, are you ready for a very hot recipe?Today I’ll show you the Bloody Mary, well… a tomatoes sauce version.I really like it and I hope you can try it soon because it isn’t hard to do at all.The ingredients for 4 people are:-a 500gr. tomatoes can-vodka 1/4 liter-1 small chilli pepper-125 ml fresh cream-a big onion (half)-1 garlic clove-salt and olive oil How to…Chop finely the onion and the garlic clove separately. Pour the oil in a saucepan and when it is hot enough, throw the chopped onion, let it cook and then add the chopped garlic.Let all fry and pour the tomatoes, vodka and the chilli pepper cut…
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How to & Tips: Peplo, a reenactment Greek dress or an easy party costume
If you don’t know how to get dressed for a costume party, you can use a plain bedsheet and become a classical Greek woman or a glowy goddess with your own DIY peplos (here with a makeup look by yours truly). I found this do-it-yourself idea while leafing an old monthly magazine dedicated to the ancient Greek world (a Focus History special issue). Despite the title of this insert (“The chiton in 4 moves”), this DIY dress looks like a peplos like those worn by Greek women up to 500 b.C., with a flap of fabric on the upper part of the body that was called “apoptygma“. Your bedsheet, about one-third, should…
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Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
Have you ever seen that “The Cosby Show” episode when Claire participates in a pumpkin exhibition and, returned home, Cliff takes the pumpkin to the garden to “kill” it?A couple of days ago we “killed” a pumpkin, an enormous pumpkin!With the pumpkin you can do a myriad of things: desserts, soups, dumplings (gnocchi), Halloween lanterns …Waiting to cook it, we have frozen it and we had lots of seeds to use.I’ve read on the net that pumpkin seeds have many good properties (antioxidant and antiparasitic) and active ingredients (selenium, vitamin E and F), so I decided to toast them and eat them.The biggest problem was finding the exact cooking method,…
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How to: fixing a broken nail (Come fare per riparare un’unghia rotta)
Let’s talk about one thing I really hate: broken nails. When it happens you must file all the other fingernails at the same length and this is so annoying. If you accidentally broke one nail you can easily fix it with a super quick DIY tutorial I’ve found on youtube and I used: the tea bag method! All you need is: – an empty tea bag, – scissors, – a fortifying nail treatment (top coat or a clear nail polish). This video made up by Imogen will show you how to apply tea bag stripes to your broken nails. I had a very deep crack on my index nail and…
