Saint Blaise cookies

Ingredients:

• 300g flour
• 125g  sugar
• 125g butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 beaten yolk egg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
• 1 teaspoon yeast
• 1 toothpick, or cookie cutter, or Saint Blaise cookie stamp.

Directions:

1.      Start by creaming the butter and sugar together for 5 minutes, until everything is light and fluffy.

2.      Then add the beaten eggs and beat it for a minute longer.

3.      Add the flour, vanilla sugar and yeast, mix well that mixture until the dough is firm and hard.

4.      Roll out dough to desired thickness.

5.      Cut with shaped cutters and write with the toothpick Saint blaise or stamp with the saint image.

6.      Paint with beaten egg and place them in a baking dish.

7.      The oven will be preheat ar 160ºC.

8.      Bake until the cookies are golden brown.

And enjoy!

Spanish potatoe salad

Ingredients:

• 450g potatoes 
• 4 medium carrots
• 2 eggs
• 200g tuna with olive oil
• 500ml mayonnaise
• Salt
• Bread

Directions:

1. Wash the potatoes. Clean and with the peel, boil with cool water.
2. Peel and chop the carrots and add them to the pot.
3. Let boil for 25 minutes. 
4. Add the eggs and a tablespoon of salt. Let boil another 10 minutes.
5. Drain and let cold.
6. Peel the potatoes and the eggs.
7. Chop the potatoes, the carrots and the eggs. Add to a big bowl.
8. Add the tuna and the mayonnaise too. 
9. Mix gentle. Salt to taste.

Serve with a piece of bread.

And enjoy!!

Homemade bread

Ingredients:

• 1kg flour
• 15g fresh baker's yeast
• 20g salt
• 600ml cold water from the fridge

Directions:

1. In a bowl mix the flour, the salt and the water.
3. When it is mixed, pour on the desk, and mix well all the ingredients.
4. Cover with the previous bowl and let rest 10 minutes.
5. Knead (working- bending  and twisting) for few minutes, cover again and let rest another 10 minutes.
6. Add the yeast with a bit of water, mix well (bending and twisting), cover and let rest another 10 minutes.
7. Back to knead a few minutes, cover with wet cotton cloth and let rest 1 hour.
8. Cut into wedges or give the desired shape.
9. Roll each portion to grab surface tension.
10. And cover with the previous wet cloth , and let rest between 3-5hours in a place without temperature changes.

 

     10. Preheat the oven to 230ºC and bake 40-50 minutes.

     11. Let cold for 45 minutes on a oven rack.

I followed this recipe from Xavi Barriga.

And enjoy a piece of real bread!!

Mayonnaise sauce

Ingredients:

• 2 egg yolks
• 1/4 l. de sunflower oil. 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt. 
• 1 teaspoon de vinager o juice of 1/2 lemon. 

Preparación:
By hand: put in a bowl the yolks without the whites. Whisk constantly with a fork until the sauce get flirting. Get some rest and continue adding oil very slowly until all of the oil is incorporated.
Add, always beating, salt and vinegar or lemon juice. The holder can be replaced with a wooden spoon.
Blender: Place the egg yolks, salt and vinegar. Beat half a minute. Add the oil slowly without lifting the blender up. When the mayo is stabilized enough, continue incorporating oil to finish moving the blender up and down until you have consistency.

The secret is to thicken mayo at first when you take about 3 tablespoons of oil. Getting it right now, certainly not set up.
Never pour large amounts of oil.

Sauteed onion pasta

Ingredients:

• 1 onion
• Spaguetti o any pasta (100g per person)
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Water

Directions:

1. Peel and chop the onion.
2. Heat a pan with oil and add the onion.
3. Cook it until soft and golden brown.
4. Mienwhile, heat a pot with water and pinch of salt.
5. When it boils, add the pasta and cooked according to package directions
6. Drain and put in a bowl.
7. Add oil, the sauteed onion and mix well.
8. If you want, sprinkle with grated cheese.

And enjoy!!

Clams à la Marinière

Ingredients:

• Clams
• Garlic
• Parsley
• White wine
• Salt
• 1 onion
• Olive oil

Directions:

1. Put the clams in a big pot with cold salt-water. Let rest 1 hour.
2. Change the water and let rest another hour.
3. Peel and chop the onion.
4. Heat a saucepan with oil and sauté until the onion is tender. 
5. Then, drain and add the clams.
6. Also, add the chooped garlic, chopped parsley and the wine.
7. Mix well and cover for 2 minutes (until the clams open).

And enjoy!!

Apple cake

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 125g sugar
• 20g vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
• 75ml milk
• 85g flour
• 3g dry yeast
• 3 apples
• Sugar with cinnamon to sprakle

Directions:

2. Grease and flour a round mold.
3. Beat the egg, sugar, oil, vanilla and cinnamon until a creamy texture.
4. Mix flour with dry yeast and sift it.
5. Add this mixture and milk to the cream.
6. Stir until a homogeneous mixture.
7. Pour into the mold.
8. Let stand a few minutes (the result will be more fluffy). While the oven is preheated to 180 ° C.
9. Peel apples, cut into half moon, take away the court.
10. Place them on top of the dough around.
11. Sprankle with sugar and cinnamon.
12. Bake 40 minutes, until it's golden brown.

And enjoy!!