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Cantucci

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:24:41 +0100

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Wash and dry the clemtines. Abrade the peel and press out the fruits. Chop the hazel nuts and roast them without fat or oil in a pan.
Mix the flour, salt, baking soda, vanille sugar and sugar in a bowl.
Add the eggs, the peel of the…

Courgette Frittata

Mon, 11 May 2009 16:37:10 +0100

So... I bought a new Italian cookbook. The name is "Italian - One step at a time". There are other books in this stlye. Like "Baking", "Classics" and "Asian". So... I have all these books - but at home in Switzerland and not here in Rome.…

Fresh-Fruity-Muesli

Sat, 09 May 2009 13:06:16 +0100

So ya.. plans for today? Had a *yummi* breakfast (first time I ate Watermelon this year – I can’t get enough!), learned some Italian, fighted with the new italian laundry machine we have here .. will go to “Feltrinelli International” (bookstore) at Repubblica in about an hour or so… Oh…

Vegetables with Prawns

Fri, 08 May 2009 18:07:23 +0100

On Wednesday evening did I cook spontaneously a very easy, healthy and light dinner. Rice would fit perfect to serve with it – but I wasn’t that hungry. Here we go….

Heat olive oil in a pan. Roast gently the onion and garlic.
Add the mushrooms, zucchinis and slake with…

Vegetable Lasagne

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:33:02 +0100

Ready for a new Daring Bakers Challenge Recipe? So the original recipe of this lasagne is with meat. But as I'm a vegetarian did I just changed the ingredients to some delicious, freshly vegetables. Check out my blog to learn more about Daring Bakers and to see all photos of…

Chocolate Berry Brownies

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:44:57 +0100

It's a very spontaneous recipe. I've been in our supermarket and they have always some small recipe cards. So I just took this one and baked it. So that's also why I used some chocolate-cake mixture not made by myself. Recipe is for about 20 pieces.

Boil water, sirup…

Bruschetta

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:05:48 +0100

Hmm... Bruschetta... When I've been in Rome, Italy we ate sooo many Bruschettas! I have to admit that we had the best Bruschettas not in a typical italian restaurant, but in the Hard Rock Cafe in Rome. It tasted just sooooooooo good!

So... after a few months... finally I make…

Wafer Cookies

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:22:35 +0100

I like small things. Just a good snack between and soo delicious... you can make the filling with the taste you like. Use mint, orange, chocolate or whatever you prefer!

Beat the butter until smooth and fluffy.
Sift together the icing sugar and the cocoa powder over…

Little Whole-Grain Breads

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:06:50 +0100

Very easy to make - and I just LOVE wholemeat bread. So good thing to start in the afternoon with it and enjoy in the evening. You can use as much nuts and sultanas as you like and want. It also doesn't matter which sort of nuts your using.

Chocolate Hearts

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:41:45 +0100

Melt the chocolate and smooth it to a baking sheet.
Let it cool a bit - not too long.
Use Christmas forms and outpace some chocolate forms. (You have to be aware that the chocolate isn't too fluid.) Outpace and enjoy. ;)

Spaghetti with Zucchini and Tomatoes

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:23:55 +0100

So.. the original recipe is by Donna Hay. I'm not a big Pasta fan - but my family loves it. I wanted to have some vegetables.. - here we go - very easy to cook and delicious!

Cook the Spaghettis as usually.
Heat up the oil in a pan.
Fry the…

The Baked Brownie

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:46:21 +0100

These brownies are unbeliviable delicious! Have the recipe from the bake book "BAKED - New Frontiers in Baking" by Matt Lewis and Renator Poliafito.

Preheat the oven to 350°C degrees F. Butter the sides and bottom of a 9-by-13-inch glass or light-colored metal baking pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk…

Banana-Cinnamon-Bread

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:38:06 +0100

Alright.. an other recipe of Donna Hay

Preheat ofen to 180°C.
Beat butter and sugar in a mixer. Add the egg and go on with beating.
Add flour, baking powder, hazelnuts, butter milk and cinnamon and mix to a dough.
Grease 6 little cake forms and give some dough in every…

Almond-Berry-Friands

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:17:24 +0100

Alright.. new book, new recipes, new delicious things to try! This recipe is adapted by Donna Hay! Very simple to make and delicious as all her recipes!

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Melt the butter in a little pan until it get's a little bit brown. Set aside.
Mix the…

Brunsli - Christmas Cookies

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:34:17 +0100

Another always-favourite christmas cookie recipe

Mix the sugar, salt, almonds, cinnamon, cacao powder and flour in a bowl.
Add the egg whites.
Melt the dark chocolate in a pan and add the kirsch at the end.
Add the chocolate/kirsch mixture to the other ingredients and mix it until it's a dough.

Caramel Cupcakes & a lovely Caramel Frosting

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:21:42 +0100

Alright.. here we go.. a new Daring Bakers Challenge! Caramel (Cup-)cake with a Caramelized Butter Frosting! So here's the recipe of Shuna Fish Lydon. Try, have fun and enjoy!

Caramel Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 350F
Butter one tall (2 – 2.5 inch deep) 9-inch cake…

Vanilla Cupcakes & a Vanillalicious Frosting

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:06:10 +0100

Cupcakes
1. Prepare 2 muffin pans with 24 papers.
2. Preheat your oven to 175°C.
3. Mix the butter and sugar with your mixer till it looks very creamy.
4. Add the eggs one after the other.
5. Add the flour and milk additionally.
6. Fill into the muffin papers…

American Cheesecake

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:01:02 +0100

Don't need to say much about it... just heavenly delicious and unbeliviable easy to make! *yummi*

1. Butter a 26-cm springform.
2. Mix the biscits, sugar, cinnamon and butter together and make a ground in the springform.
3. Mix the creme fraiche, Philadelphia, sugar and vanille sugar with your…

Chocolate Raspberry Cocos Balls

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:51:57 +0100

So... here's a new recipe... actually is it pure improvisation... just mixed some ingredinets.. and turned out pretty well.. (lucky girl). ;-) Made this for my lovely employee Gabriela! She has her last day of work tomorrow and i already miss her. i said that she could wish some dessert…

Danish Braid

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:27:37 +0100

So the challenge of the Daring Bakers page for June is Danish Braid. First i thought.. damn... looks very difficult. Never done something like this before... and the whole recipe in english.. *wooops*. But ya.. i thought go on and try it! Posting date is today. i started…