What’s better than going home and be surrounded by the scent of freshly baked warm cookies, or relaxing and releasing stress by kneading? Here’s my solution: spicy gingerbread biscuits. Out of season? No, when I keep them simple and rustic without coloured icing and traditional Christmas shapes. It’s a recipe I truly love and I keep “reworking” to suit my tastes and the difficulty of finding the molasses which makes the dough more malleable. The ingredients for about 40 biscuits are:420 gr. 0 flour100 gr. sugar120 gr. soft butter160 ml. local honey1 large egg or 3 medium eggs3/4 teaspoon of baking soda1/4 teaspoon salt2 teaspoons ground ginger *1 teaspoon ground cinnamon *1/4…
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How to Prepare a Healthy Fuchsia Beetroot Salad
It’s colourful, easy to prepare and super healthy: it’s the beetroot salad! I often add beetroot to my diet because it has many good properties. It helps digestion, lowers cholesterol, it’s rich in minerals (magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and calcium) and it’s good in case of anaemia thanks to its iron and anthocyanins content. Maybe beets aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but they can be quite tasty and easy to serve with this fuchsia beetroot salad. Ingredients you need for this beetroot salad This “fuchsia salad” is ready in just 5 minutes and only needs: half red or a “delicate” onion a pack of pre-steamed beetroots 1 tablespoon…
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How to: Guacamole!
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…