#16 Do not waste the good things

I received for Christmas a beautiful gift... the centrifugal machine, that can provide me of the best vitaminic fruit juices of the world!

Yes, but what about all the edible waste?

I am creating new recipes for that!

I introduce you my new "Fruit chapati"!

Serves 8 chapati

Chapati flour 240 g + 20 g (or 2 parts of wheat flour and 1 white flour)
180 ml water
 1/2 teaspoon salt
cinnamon powder
apple and pear (the scraps of the centrifugal machine)

Preparation

Place in a bowl the flour, melt the salt in and then pour in the flour a little at a time. With the help of a spoon or your fingers, mix the flour with water; and add the rest of apple and pear, adding some cinnamon powder. Then continue to work the dough on a pastry for 10 minutes, until dough is firm and smooth, then form a ball, put it in a bowl, cover and let rest for 20 minutes. After the interval of rest do take the dough a long shape.

Immediately after divide the dough into 8 pieces to which you will later take the form of palliine, each weighing about 50 grams; with the help of a rolling pin roll now the balls into thin disks of the measure of 15 centimeters in diameter. While roll out the dough put a little 'of the flour on a work surface to prevent the dough from sticking.

Heat the pan for crepes, or a frying pan and, when it is hot, cook the pasta disks one at a time. When you see that it begins to form bubbles, or after a few minutes, turn the disc of dough and cook the other side. Remove at this point the chapati from heat and place in a sheet of aluminum foil-lined paper; close, in order to keep warm and soft chapatis and continue in this way for all the disks of dough.

The kitchen lesson today is...
...always use the scraps in the kitchen, they can turn into a surprising new recipe version! and in love?
Keep and use every moment to get higher your Love for yourself and other.

Don't forget to share!

#15 Missing

It is long time I've returned back Italy, so now I miss things of U.K.
It is always like that. You stay here, and you think about what you have lost.
Especially because Italy and U.K. are so different places for certain aspects.
One of these is Breakfast. In Italy it is often made by an expresso coffe or cappuccino with a cornetto.
In UK the typical breakfast is... Porridge.

Ok I admit, I am Italian but I miss porridge. Healthy, creamy, sweet porridge.

So I made it, at home.

3 spoons of otmeal
1 cup of water
Half cup of milk
half banana
5 almonds
Agave scirop


Water in the pan. When boiling, put otmeal and stir. When almost ready, pour milk and stir for 1 minute more. Turn off the stove. Put slices of banana and almonds in pieces, then stir.
Serve all the porridge in a large cup and put some Agave syrup on the top.

Enjoy!

Breakfast with porridge and English Style Tea, photographic book.

Love lesson:
When you often think about something you miss, just try to have it closer...

I know, sometimes, with people we can't do that. But we can at least repair our love memories.

Have a nice day!

#14 Long term project

Today I want to show you how to use in our kitchen the season vegetable to..... make winter and spring soup! Yes, this is a long term project! It's the fabulous story of homemade vegetable stock cubes!!!

Ingredients 

4 onions (200 g ) 

4 celery stalks (300 g) 

4 garlic

4 carrots (300 g) 

1 cup of olive oil

 Instructions 

Clean and wash the vegetables, then dry them. Divide the carrots into slices, the onions into wedges, diced celery and garlic in half. Arrange everything in a food processor with blade, add the oil and operate the engine until it result as a cream. Pour it into the bottom of about 45 small plastic cups (Coffee cups).

Cover with foil. Arrange all cups so covered in a container with edges, then put the container in the freezer (of course must remain standing). The next day carve a small cut with scissors from the kitchen edge of each plastic cup and take all nuts. Place them in a airtight container and place them in the freezer compartment. Add one of these nuts in any sauce, roast, soup to enjoy the smell and taste of a healthy food.

Love lesson:

It is with things you have right now you can start thinking and project the future. Starting from the present moment is always the best way to be ready in life. You will remember that in the winter!

#13 Believe

I am slighlty sad in writing again here.

So many things are changed, and for long time I've stopped cooking...I've lost my love...

Anyway...

I have been travelling in the last weeks, and one day in a kitchen in North Italy I had a wonderful meal.

It was lentil dal.

It made me cooking when was back. I added basil more, as a mediterranean plate.

Recipe:

½ pound brown lentils (about 1 1/8 cups), washed and picked over
1 small onion, cut in half
2 garlic cloves, cut in half
 4 cups water (more if necessary)
2 tablespoons canola or peanut oil
2 cardamom seeds
½ teaspoon chili powder
½ teaspoon turmeric
1 to 2 teaspoons curry powder, to taste
 Salt
Chopped tomatoes

Combine the lentils and water in a medium soup pot or heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes, add salt to taste in the last 5 minutes. Heat the oil in a large, heavy nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic, and all the spices and stir as they sizzle for about 30 seconds, until very fragrant. Add the beans with their liquid and cook, stirring and mashing with the back of a wooden spoon, until the mixture thickens. Add salt or black pepper to taste, once the mixture has reduced to the desired consistency, add also some chopped tomatoes. Take off the cardamom seeds and the garlic, and add one fresh basil leaf. That's it!

...what is the lesson?
Don't know, not sure...

Just believe....believe that it is possible re-start everything.

ah...      the dal was delicious.