Pumpkin soup

Today an american recipe, very popular in this dates, pumpkin soup, shared by Kristen!
 Let's cook this recipe and have a great dinner!


Ingredientes:

I forgot the parsley, ups!!!

• 1.5 onion chopped
• 2 Tbsp butter
• 3 Tbs oil
• 2-3 cups pumpkin diced
• 7 oz diced tomatoes
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1.5 qts chicken broth
• 2.3 cups rice
• 1Tbsp parsley
• freshly grated parmesan cheese

Elaboration:


-Saute onions in oil and butter. Saute pumpkin 10 minutes.
-Add tomatoes, cook 10 minutes
-Add salt and pepper.
-Add chicken broth and cook 30 minutes.
-Sprinkle rice on top of boiling soup. Simmer 10 minutes.
-Add chopped parsley. Serve and sprinkle freshly grated parmesan cheese

I have to say, DELICIOUS!!!!

Salmorejo

This is a delicious summer recipie in Spain that people like a lot, it's a summer recipie because is a meal that you serve chill and because in summer there are good  red tomatoes and the price is much better since it's the season for tomatoes.You also can prepare during the rest of the year. I hope you enjoy this tasty recipie.

Ingredients:

- 1pound of very red juicy tomatoes
- 100gr of hard bread ( the italian or french bread are the most similar to the spanish bread, just wait two or three days to make it hard)
- 100ml of olive oil
- 1 glove of garlic, if you like more spicy add more, but take out the center part of the glove because anybody would like to have this taste in their mouth the whole day)
- Salt
- Red vinegar
- 1 boiled egg

Elaboration:

-If you have a tomatoe peeler you should use it to peel the skin of the tomatoes, if not you can boiled the tomatoes in hot water for 20 seconds and put them in cold water right after boiling them, in this way to peel the skin of the tomatoes will be much easier. Try to take out the seeds as well.
-Put them in a big bowl with the hard bread ( you should cut the bread in small pieces)
- Leave for at least 30 minutes
- Add a little of water ( maybe we need more later, but add first just half cup)
- Add the garlic
- Use the food processor to blend all
- Add the salt and the red vinegar depending how you like the flavor.
- If the soup is so thick you could add more water, but this dish has to be a little thick!
-Add some drops of olive oil on the top.
-VERY IMPORTANT, I know you all are going to be excited to eat it, but wait. it has to be cold. Put it your frigde and when you will go to serve it in cups add some pieces of a chopped boiled egg. It would be great add some chopped Jamon Serrano as well, or if you can't find it, add prosciutto ( in that case try to dry the prosciutto a little bit keeping it outside of your fridge in the air for some hours. But don't worry if you don't add the jamon serrano or the prosciutto, I promise the taste will be great as well.

I´ll promise a picture soon!

"Nutella Pie"

Today we cook with my Aunt Chari. She is from La Mancha, a beautiful place of Spain where Don Xijote's adventures took place. She has been encouraged in the first place with a easy dessert, she will share plenty of other recipies with us eventually. I've just remembered eating with my family the lamb stew that she used to cook in the field, makes me go back in time, or that spanish ratatouille, the porridge, and many other dishes from La Mancha... Also I have to say that my Aunt Chari captivate my husband's stomach and heart with one of her cooking when he meet her for first time. 
We hope you like it.

Ingredients:


 Frozen puff pastry
 Nutela. 



Preparation:

Thaw the puff pastry. Open her and expand, we will add Nutela in the center. Close side to side. Prick it. Put sugar on top and we cook in the oven (350F). Take it out when the pie will be brown. Leave the pie at room temperature until it will be cool.

Banana Bread

Hi everyone!

After a long hiatus, now that I have a minute and I will not say it very loud , I will share with you a recipe that I love, banana bread!it's delicious and very easy to prepare, I hope you like it.

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 / 2 cup melted butter

2 eggs

4 tablespoons of cream or whole milk

3 ripe bananas smashed
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 and 1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder
Optional white chocolate Trips

Preparation:

-Preheat oven to 175C

-Mix the butter and sugar

-Add eggs and mix well

-Add the cream and bananas, using the blender.

-In another bowl mix the flour, baking powder and baking soda and mix to smooth. Add to the mix and then stumbled white chocolate if desired.

Let's get a knife!!

"In blank fish soup", "in white fish soup" or the spaniard name "En Blanco"

Hi there!

Today I would like to share a very easy recipie, her name in spanish is "En Blanco", it´s about a fish soup and usually we eat this soup in many occasions but one it´s when we have a stomach pain or a gastroenteritis, because this recipie is so light. Today I ate it at night, I like to have something warm in my stomach with this cold winter of Boston.

Ingredients:

-1 medium size onion.
-1 tomate.
-1 potatoe.
-2 gloves of garlic.
-1/2 white fish, I used today pollack, but you can try hake or the one that you like.
-olive oil.
-salt.
-parsley.
-lemon juice.
-6 cups of water.

Elaboration:

-Peel the potatoe and cut it in thick slices.
-Peel the onion and cut it in slices.
-Peel the gloves of garlic.
-Cut the tomate in small pieces.
-In a pot add the water, the potatoe, the onion, the gloves of garlic, a hint of salt and a splash of olive oil, let them boil for 30 minutes.
-Add the fish cut in some medium pieces, no very small because the fish could shred. Let it boil for 15 minutes more.
-Now it´s time to serve it in a bowl adding a hint of salt, a splash of lemon juice and a little bit of parsley.

I hope you like it, enjoy.....

"Spaniard meat balls in almond sauce or albóndigas en salsa de almendras"

Hi everyone! My sister sent me this recipie because she knows it is one of my favorite recipies that I love to eat when a was a girl, this recipie drove me to those old days. I hope you enjoy the recipie. I would like to add the spaniard name to the recipie as well, in this case you can learn some spanish and when you go to a spanish restaurant you should know what you like, hehe!!

Ingredients:
- 400 gr ground meat, half of pork and half of veal. It's possible to do the meat balls with chicken as well.
- Fresh parsley or 1/2 tbsp of dry pasley
- Ground pepper
- Some whole peppercorn
- 4 gloves of garlic
- ½ small onion
- 1 slice of bread ( italian bread or french bread would be the most similar to the spaniard bread)
- 1 glass of white wine
- 1 glass of water
- Flour
- Bread crumbs ( plain)
- 1 Egg
- 1 Glass of whole milk
- Olive Oil
- Safron or something similar to give some color to the sauce
- A full fist of almonds
- One basil leave.
-Salt

Elaboration:

- In a bowl add to the meat some salt and some ground pepper.
- Chop the onion, the gloves of garlic and the parsley very small. Add all to the meat.
- Add one beaten egg, the glass of milk and the bread crumbs.
- Knead the meat with the rest of ingredients until you get a homogeneus dough. Add more bread crumbs if need it to make the dough consistency.
- Make a medium size meat balls with the dough.
- Coat the meet balls with flour.
-In a fried pan with olive oil sauté the meat balls. It´s not neccesary that the meat balls are well done because the meat balls will be cook slowly later.
-When we´ll finish to fry the meat balls, we´ll kept them in a plate with kitchen paper to dry the oil.
- In other fried pan fry the gloves of garlic without the skin. When they will be golden brown keep them in a plate.In the same oil fry the almonds carefully because if they get burnt the sauce will be bitter, and keep them with the garlic. In the same oil fry the slice of bread.
-Put together the slice of bread, the gloves of garlic and the almonds in a bowl. Add the glass of wine, the glass of water and the safron and beat with the hand blander until the dough will be thin.
- Finally put the meat balls in a saucepan and add the sauce that we made before. Add the leave of basil and some whole peppercorns and simmer over medium low heat during 15 minutes. Be careful that the sauce won´t get too thick.
Ready to take delight!!

Ensaladilla Rusa ( spaniard name) or Russian Salad

Welcome everybody!!
I would like to share an easy recipe from my country, the ensaladilla Rusa or Russian salad, that we use to eat like a snack or tapa in some bars with a cold beer or sangria or whatever you like. Although  the name of this recipe is Russian Salad, it is a Spanish salad.  I don't know why we call it this way.  Perhaps some day I will try to find the information about the origin of the name of this recipe, but for now... let's get to the recipe, ok!!! I would like to dedicate this recipe to my friend Kristen and her mother who loves my recipe!!

Ingredients:

-3 medium potatoes
-1 or 2 carrots.
-1/2 can of green peas or frozen peas.  If you use frozen, boil them and keep some for decoration.,
-2 eggs.
-1 can of tuna fish (I prefer the brand chicken of the sea, green can)
-15 green olives oil
-salt
-6 shrimps ( optional)
-roasted red peppers
-mayonnaise

Preparation:

-Boil the potatoes and when they are cooked, peel them.
-Peel the carrots and boil them. When they are cooked, cut in small pieces. Keep some for decoration
-Boil the eggs and cut into small pieces, reserving one of the yolks for decoration.
-Boil the shrimps or just buy them already cooked.
-Cut the roasted red peppers like fingers, reserving some for decoration
-Cut the olives in slices. Reserve some for decoration.
-Take a medium boll. Mash the potatoes with a fork and mix with four or five Tbsp of mayonnaise and salt, depending on your taste. Add the olives, shrimp, boiled eggs, roasted red pepper, tuna fish, and carrots.  Mix everything, adding the green peas last (they break very easily, so we add them in the last moment).
-Put a layer of mayonnaise on top of the mixture.  Top it with the decoration ingredients.  Let your imagination fly and make a great design!
I hope you like it !!! I really like to eat it with a little bread... Delicious!!!