It’s colourful, easy to do and super healthy: it’s the beetroot salad! I often add beetroot with pleasure 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 for anemia thanks to iron and anthocyanins. This “fuchsia salad” is ready in just five minutes and needs: – half red or a “delicate” onion, – a pack of pre steamed beetroots, – extra virgin olive oil (1 tablespoon), – salt (a pinch). I usually cut the harder part of each beetroot off and I use that juice contained in the package to add more flavor to…
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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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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: colourful summer salads (Tempo d’insalate)
Ciao ragazze!!! Questo è un pò che ho mostrato nel mia pagina Luuux e, visto la calura di questi giorni, ho pensato bene di riproporvela.Fa caldo fuori e dentro casa e non mi va di cucinare adesso… è il momento delle insalate! Questa è completa, è così colorata da mettere allegria solo a guradarla ed è molto saporita!Per questa insalata ho usato:– 10 foglie di lattuga a foglia lunga,– 6 pomodorini ciliegina,– 1 piccola scatoletta di tonno (all’olio d’oliva o al naturale, secondo i vostri gusti),– 1 piccola scatola di mais precotto al vapore,– 1 cucchiaio di olio extra vergine d’oliva,– mezza cipolla rossa,– sale,– succo di limone ed erba…