Short-pastry baskets with mixed berries

Short-pastry baskets with mixed berries

Ingredients for 8 baskets:
Short crust pastry
100 g corn flour (fumetto type in Italy)
80 g rice flour
75 g almonds flour
115 g margarine
1 egg
1 tablespoon lactose free milk
lemon juice

Cream
200 g lactose free mascarpone cheese (I buy it in an organic shop)
5 tablespoons unsweetened natural yogurt
50 g icing fruit sugar (it means fruit sugar blended in the blender up icing)
1 teaspoon vanilla powder
some drops rum extract
350 g blackberries, blueberries and strawberries

Preparation:
I sift the flours and the icing fruit sugar in a bowl and I stir almonds flour also.
I combine the margarine with my fingers up the dough is nubby.
Then I add the egg and the milk and I stir all with a cake slice.
So I knead it by hand up softening.
I wrap it with plastic wrap and I let it stand in the frige for 30 minutes.
Then I roll the dough and I cut with round cookies -cutters some circles of pastry.
I put them on a silicone  muffins moulds.
I cover the baskets with aluminum foil so to let not burn in the bottom and I bake for 15 minutes at 180°.
After that, they are making a little bit golden, so I remove the foil and I finish cooking for other five minutes.
Meanwhile the baskets are cooling down out of the oven, I start preparing the cream.
I whisk the mascarpone cheese with yogurt and the fruit sugar for 10 minutes up becoming a cream.
I add the rum extract and the vanilla powder and I stir well.

I fill the short- pastry baskets with this cream and I garnish with fruit, washed and dried well and last a sprinkle of icing fruit sugar.
They are so nice ...even home-made.

The flavour of rum in the cream make these baskets so tasty and delicious.That's amazing.

Khorashan wheat bow pasta with zucchini,turmeric powder and prawns

Khorashan wheat bow pasta with zucchini,turmeric powder and prawns

At last some beautiful days is coming.
I change totally mood if the sky is blue and the sun lights up everything on which it places.
That's just me, a little bit meteoropathic.
Food colours, are also therapeutic.
This pasta that I'm finishing preparing for lunch, should tempt anyone.
Not only because tastes good but because colours are great and brighten your meal up.

Ingredients:
1 round zucchini
1 spring onion
2 teaspoons turmeric powder
10 prawns
10 cherry tomatoes
4 tablespoons natural unsweetened yogurt
3-4 basil leaves
50 g grated parmesan cheese
salt as needed
extra virgin olive oil as needed

Preparation:
I chop the spring onion and I brown it in the oil , then I grate a zucchini and I let them flavour together for a couple of minutes.
Then I put prawns, a pinch of salt and 2 teaspoons of turmeric powder and I stir all well.
I add half glass of water and I cook over a low flame for 15 minutes.
Apart I parboil the cherry tomatoes for about five minutes and then I add them to the sauce.
I cook the bow pasta in salted boiling water.
During 10 minutes of pasta cooking I mix yogurt with parmesan cheese and chopped basil.
Two minutes before finishing the pasta cooking, I add yogurt cream to the sauce out of flame and I stir well.
I drain the pasta and I pour in the pan with the sauce , mixing softly.

Creamy, coloured and tasty this pasta...is right for this springy Saturday lunch time.

Apple delicacies

Do not give up even if your try doesn't work.
Even if you follow the recipe carefully, but it doesn't work.
For a moment  (maybe also two or three) we get angry but we haven't to lose heart.

In my kitchen, there is always a Plan B.
Most of the time it works ( I don't know why but I don't care. It works, no questions).
And better of what I scheduled and studied with attention to the smallest detail but it has no more of working.

These apples cakes are the umpteenth ...well done plan B.

Ingredients for 6 cakes:

150 g spelt flour

50 g corn starch

100 g cold sparkling water

1 egg

100 g vegetable whipping cream

50 g fruit sugar

100 g cubed apples

2 tablespoons cinnamon powder

a pinch of salt

spelt flour to sprinkle

lemon juice

margarine as needed

Preparation:

I pour in a bowl the flour, the corn starch and the fruit sugar, a tablespoon of cinnamon, a pinch of salt and I mix well.
I make a hole in the middle and I put an egg inside.
I beat it with a fork and I add the cream and later the sparkling water.
Little by little with a whisk and making round moving I mix powders around.
It must result a creamy batter , not liquid.
I cut an apple in cubes, soaking it with lemon juice.
I roll the cubes in the spelt flour and I sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon powder.
I oil with margarine and then covered with flour the moulders.
I pour some tablespoons of the dough in the bottom and I put some apples cubes, finishing with the same dough.
I bake these very tasty mini-sweet-cakes in pre-heated oven at 180° (low temperature) for 20 minutes.
 Thanks to sparkling water, they grow up as volume and the soft apple heart ...are an amazing surprise.

Mini-cakes with parmesan cheese and oregano

I come back  to plum cake but this time I try to make it savoury.

If an experiment works , why do not doing again in new versions, new matches?

One of the things that I miss more is bread...these mini-cakes comfort a lot and remind the softness of the guts meanwhile parmesan cheese adds more flavour.
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Ingredients:

150 g spelt flour

50 g potato starch

3 eggs

70 ml corn oil

252 g unsweetened natural yogurt

a pinch of salt

a pinch of fruit sugar

100 g grated parmesan cheese

1 tablespoon oregano


Preparation:

I proceed as for a sweet plum cake, I beat the eggs as much as double with a pinch of fruit sugar.

Then with a cake slice, I mix slowly from down to up, the remaining ingredients.

I start with yogurt and oil, then the flour and the starch, salt, parmesan cheese and oregano.

The secret is stirring slowly and mixing a tablespoon at a time.

I know that requires more time than usual, but the result refund us of  labor and time-wasting.

I bake at 180° for 25-30 minutes around in mini-moulders for cakes.

The smell coming out the oven will swarm your house, your ladders... soon you 'll have to be ready to receive your neighbours!