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Tuesday, 23 September 2008

  • Spaghetti and Meatballs

    Ingredients:

          * 3 tablespoons olive oil
          * 3 / 4 cup chopped onion
          * 1 / 2 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs
          * 2 eggs, lightly beaten
          * 3 (6 ounce) cans tomato
          * 1 cup water
          * 1 / 2 cup sugar
          * 4 cloves garlic, minced
          * 2 (16 ounce) cans of crushed tomatoes
          * 1 / 4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
          * 1 / 4 cup fresh oregano, chopped, divided
          * 1 dried bay leaf
          * Salt and pepper to taste
          * 1 pound ground round
          * 1 / 2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
          * 1 (16 ounce) package uncooked spaghetti

    Preparation:

    Heat olive oil in large saucepan over medium heat and cook the onion until slightly brown. Combine 2 cloves garlic, and cook for 1 minute. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, water, sugar, 1 / 2 oregano, bay leaf and. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer while preparing meatballs. In a bowl, mix ground round, bread crumbs, remaining oregano, remaining garlic, parsley, eggs and cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Roll into 1 inch balls and deposit them in the sauce. Bake 40 minutes in the sauce, or until the internal temperature of meatballs reaches a minimum of 160 degrees F (72 degrees C). Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil and stir in the spaghetti. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, until al dente, and drain. Serve meatballs and sauce over cooked spaghetti.

Thursday, 29 November 2007

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    Italian salsa verde

    This classic "green sauce" (not related to the Salsa tomatillo Mexican of the same name) can be used as a dip for raw vegetables, grilled shrimp or grilled bread Flad or gelöffelt fish, chicken or lamb.

    Ingredients
    4 (3 1 / 2 X 3 1/2-inch) sandwich slices of white bread, crusts removed
    2 cs white wine vinegar
    4 cups (packed) fresh Italian parsley techniques (about 2 large packages)
    1 1 / 2 cups olive oil
    15 pickles * (barely 1 / 2 cups)
    5 anchovy fillets
    1 / 4 cup capers permeable
    Fine sea salt

    * Tiny, Sole-packaged Pickles french, but also in some supermarkets and in specialty food stores.

     
    Preparation

    Slices of bread place in the central basin. Pour vinegar and leave for the bread soft, about 15 minutes.

    Transfer to bread mixture processor, add next 5 ingredients and process until almost smooth. Transfer Salsa and medium Schüssel. Season sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Can DO AHEAD date 1 day. Cover and in the refrigerator. Do at room temperature 1 hour; rewhisk before use.

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

  • Italian risotto

    Ingredients:
    trout 150g smoked
    rice of the risotto 450g
    pea 300g
    sprinkle 200g green
    2 onions
    2 vinegar artichokes
    cognac 200ml
    3 soup spoons of olive oil
    Salt and black pepper
    butter 30g
    white wine 100ml
    lemon of 1/2
    actions of the vegetable 2l
    Chive

    Receipt:
    To cut artichokes in quarters, to remove the reel and to slightly cut out it in sections.
    To soak in lemon and juice a bowl with water.
    To peel asparagus, to cut out the stems and to put in sections the ends at a side.
    To peel and cut in sections onions.
    Pea of Shell, if by using fresh peas.
    To cut trout in small pieces, then bruiner with the cognac.
    To sweat vegetables during 5 minutes out of olive oil, in a pan of risotto or a large pan.
    To add rice, to stir up with a spoon out of wooden.
    To make cook during 20 minutes, be added running little by little.
    To add butter, the chive and the ends of asparagus.
    To leave the cook for 5 minutes more still, then to add fish.
    To make cook for 5 final minutes and be useful hot with cold meats.

Thursday, 16 August 2007

  • Best italian pasta carbonara



    What we need
    1 olive  spoon of oil
    garlic of 2 cloves, peeled, crushed and crossed
    5 slices of bacon, crosses in bands
    dry white wine of cup of 1/2
    2 eggs
    cheese grated 2/3 per cup
    Parmesan grated 1/4 per cup
    Fresh parsley
    Fresh pastes to serve 4
    Milled black pepper


    What to do?

    To heat oil in a frying pan, above one at average temperature.
    To add garlic and bacon, then the cook during 3 minutes above one at low temperature.
    Bruiner with wine and the cook for 2 or 3 minutes more still.
    To remove heat and to put at a side.
    To beat eggs in a basin, then to season, add cheese, to stir up well.
    To pour the hot and filtered pastes finished and to stir up highly.
    To add pepper.
    To add garlic and bacon, then sprinkle with the Parmesan and parsley.

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