Chocolate Softies

Hi. I finally found a time that I can write this. Here's how to make chocolate softies:

250 g of dark chocolate --1 1/2 chocolate bars

250 g butter

75 g flour
125 g sugar
8 eggs

1. Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
2. Melt the chocolate.
3. In a separate bowl, crack in the eggs and add the sugar. Then beat it all together.
4. Pour the melted chocolate into the butter.
5. Mix it well.
6. Then add the egg mixture to the chocolate mixture.
7. Butter little baking molds.
8. Pour the chocolate mixture into the molds.
9. Bake for 10 minutes.

Then take it out and enjoy. The heart of the cake should be soft, liquidy and goey, but the outside is cooked. You and your family should all scream "chocolate softies taste delicious with whipped cream!"

PS. I will put up photos later.

Modena-Home of Balsamic Vingear!

Hello. I went to Modena, Italy this year and it was great! Modena is where they have been making balsamic vinegar for generations.

Now, in Modena there is a special tradition. When people get married, they take with them 5 barrels of vinegar from the family attic. The barrels age with them through the years. Then when they have kids and the kids get married, the kids take 5 barrels with them, using some of the aged family vinegar to start new barrels. They add young vinegar to it and then they let it age with them. And so on and so forth.

We visited a balsamic vinegar farm. The lady showed us all these barrels which contained aged vinegar. Normally balsamic vinegar is aged for 12 or 25 years. The difference is that the longer it ages, the sweeter it tastes. Also the type of wood of the barrels like cherry wood or oak would make the vinegar taste different because the smell of the wood seeps into the vinegar. We can easily tell which vinegar has been aged a long time and which has been only aged a few months. The one that is aged for a few months taste liquidy. The one aged for years tastes more syrupy and tastes better! Much better!

Rumbling for Apple Crumble

Hello! Today we are making apple crumble. Here are the ingredients:

300 grams of flour

175 grams of brown sugar

200 grams of butter

5 apples

pinch of cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

2. Peel the apples and cut out the middle core and seeds. Cut all the apples into medium cubes.

3. Place all cubes into a cake mold.

4. In a separate bowl, pour the flour and brown sugar.

5. Cut the butter into really small cubes.

6. Put your hands into the bowl. Rub the ingredients back and forth with your hands or spoon. Rub the mixture together, but don't mix. It is a crumble and has to remain "crumbly".

7. Make sure all the klumpy parts are like sand.

8. Pour this batter into the cake mold over the apples.

9. Then place in the oven and wait for 20 minutes.

10. Take out and enjoy! You and your family can yell "my tummy's rumbling for a crumble!"

Chocolate Mousse Vamoose!

Hi. Have you ever made chocolate mousse? If you follow this recipe, you will have!

Here are the ingredients:

6 eggs

1 orange

1 tablet of dark chocolate

1. Separate the egg yolks from the whites.

2. Mix egg whites until fluffy and stiff with electric mixer. Put aside.

3. Now we mix the yolks with a fork. Put aside.

4. In a bowl, grate the orange to have orange zest.

5. In a casserole, cook chocolate and orange zest at low heat until chocolate melts.

7. Cut the orange in half. Squeeze one half into juice. Add juice to chocolate.

8. Pour egg yolks into chocolate. Stir until we don't see yellow.

9. Then slowly add a little bit of egg whites.

10. Fold gently and keep adding egg whites until done.

11. Then either you can put in individual little molds or one big cake mold. (I recommend little molds. They're cute.)

12. Then put your molds or mold in the fridge for 2 hours.

13. Then take out and eat. Enjoy! You and your family can now yell "we have to finish the mouse before it goes vamoose!"

Pretty Palace for Pastries !

Hi ! I know you must had heard of pastries, but had you heard of salty ones ?

You don't have to answer that, because now you've heard it from me !

Here are the ingredients :

3 large onions .

10 cl of balsamic vinegar

1 small spoon full of pepper

caramel ( We shall make homemade caramel !)

1 sheet of puff pastry

Ingredients for caramel : Water in a coffee cup

butter

1 big spoon

powdered sugar

1.First we will get a pan and preheat.(low heat .)

2.Then put 2 big spoon full of sugar .

3.Then pour a little water .

4. Stir with another big spoon .

5.Add more sugar and water.

6.Keep stirring until it's golden .

7.Now put the butter in and stir. Put aside.

CARAMEL DONE !

Now for the rest of the filling:

1. Peel and cut the onions. Put onions in a bowl .

2. Pour 10 cl of balsamic vinegar in the bowl with the onions .

3. Add a little spoon of pepper.

4. Mix it together.

5. Pour the onions, balsamic vinegar and pepper in the pan with the caramel .

6. Put the heat pretty high .

7.Stir for 10 minutes.Put aside.

8.Cut the sheet of puff pastry in rectangles.

9. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

10. With a medium spoon, take your mixture and put a little bit in each rectangle.

11.Fold up the ends and pinch together into little pouches.

12. Put in the oven.

13. Wait for 20 minutes until golden.

14. Then remove from the oven and serve warm.

15. Before you eat, don't forget to scream "pretty palace for pastries!"

Terrific Truffle Eggs

Hey, this time, I made scrambled eggs with truffle oil, onions and garlic. It was delicious! I know that it's not a fancy dish, but it's good !! It's simple, I love it !

Here are the ingredients:

Eggs (If you are 1 person,use 3 eggs .) (Or if you are 2 ,use 6.

Double the number each time there's another person .)OK here we go:

1 onion

1 garlic

olive oil

truffle oil

1.First shave and cut the onion.Put it aside.

2.then you do the same to the garlic.

3.this time you put both onion and garlic in pan and saute them until they're Brown. Not black

4.then put that aside.

5.crack your eggs and with a fork, whip them for 3 minutes .

6.Now put onion,garlic and whipped eggs all in the same pan with medium hot oil .

7. Then slowly add the truffle oil .Put as much as you like .

8. mix your mixture until your eggs are how you want 'em .(I like 'em kind of runny .)

then put it in a bowl or plate with bread or rice or something else . I like it with rice and soy sauce .And before you start to dig in, you family&friends should all yell: "Eggs are for easter but I'm not waiting that long !!!!!" ENJOY !!!!!!

Mouthwatering Meringues

This time I tried meringues. Meringues are these sweet, high-protein munchies. At first I thought that meringues were made of whipped cream and you put in the oven. But it's not that.
Here's the recipe:

250 g sugar
4 egg whites
vanilla extract (you can also put cocoa & any extract that you want)

1. After you take out your eggs from the fridge, wait 15 minutes.
2. Then separate the whites from the yolks.
3. Beat with electric beater until foamy.
4. Keep on beating but this time slowly add the 250 g sugar and vanilla extract.
5. Then beat one more time.
6. Take paper. Roll and tape into funnel. Tape it really well.
7. Cut off the end. Put 2 or 3 big spoonfuls of your foamy mixture into the funnel.
8. Take baking paper and put it on the kitchen table.
9. With your funnel, squeeze slowly and make little "plumps" of your mixture.
10. Make as many "plumps" as you can with all of your mixture.
11. If the funnel doesn't work, use hands, fingers or spoons.
12. Preheat oven to 120 degrees Celsius. No more, no less.
13. Put sheets with meringues in oven.
14. Then wait for up to 1 hour.
15. Take it out of the oven. Then slowly detach all your meringues.
16. Serve on plate. Then enjoy! Don't forget---you, family, and friends-- to scream "meringues are mouthwatering!"

Samosas Supreme

Hello again. This time, instead of cake, we will have samosas. Oh, you don't know about samosas? Samosas are these little delicious triangles filled with yummy mixtures inside. The outside is crunchy. You can hear yourself crunch from a mile away!

I will share with you my secret ingredients:
filo pastry sheets
1 cup of green peas
1 large onion
2-3 potatoes
dash of salt
dash of pepper
1 teapoon of tumeric
1 teaspoon of powdered ginger
1 teaspoon garam masala

Here's what to do to make these crunchy creations:
1. Peel potaotes, cut them in cubes & boil for 15 minutes until tender. Put aside.
2. Cut the onions in small cubes.
3. Mix tumeric, ginger, garam masala, salt & pepper in a bowl.
4. Then put onions, peas, potatoes, 2 teaspoons of your spice mixture in a pan with butter.
5. Cook over medium heat until your onions are golden.
6. This is the hard part. Cut filo pastry circle sheet in half so it's a semi-circle. Then fold in the rounded part so it looks like rectangle.
7. Put a spoonful of filling on the filo. Fold over into a triangle shape. Keep repeating this until the end of the sheet. Then slowly tuck the end into the pocket.
8. Repeat #7 with all your samosas until you run out of the scrumptious mixture.
9. Then heat olive oil in a pan over medium heat and fry the samosas until crisp and golden.
10. Then serve with delight! And oh don't forget! Before you eat, you & your family should all scream "samosas are supreme!"

PS. You can invent other filling mixtures like meat, spinach, anything you want...but always keep the same spices. Enjoy! I did!

Yum Yums for Yogurt Cake!

Hello! Welcome to my food blog! For my first recipe, I would like to share with you one of my recipes for yogurt cake. Here, try it, it's delicious!

1 cup of unflavored yogurt (If you are in Europe, one small yogurt container will do. Keep your yogurt container to use as a measuring cup.)

1 cup of white sugar (use yogurt container)
1 cup of oilve oil (use yogurt container)
1 tablespoon of baking powder
3 cups of flour (use yogurt container)
a lot of cinnamon
as much vanilla extract as you like (not whole bottle though!)
1 cup of fruit (You can choose any fruit to add to the cake. I like to cut up little cubes of apples.)

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Mix all the ingredients in a big bowl. Pour into a baking dish. Put in oven. After 20 minutes, check if ready by slipping a knife into the cake. If no batter sticks to the knife, then it's done! Oh before you eat, you and your family should all scream "YUM YUM FOR YOGURT CAKE!"