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!!

Baked hake with red shrimps

Ingredientes:

• Hake
• 2 Red shrimp
• 1/2 red bell pepper
• 1/2 green pepper
• 1 onion
• 1 tomato
• 2 clove garlic
• 200 ml white wine
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Black pepper

Preparación:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
2. Slide the onion and the peppers into thin strips.
3. Chop the galic and cut the tomato in half.
4. Place the onion on an oiled baking sheet and then sit the hake with the skin down.
5. Cover it with the peppers and the tomato.
6. Sprinkle with the garlic.
7. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with oil.
8. Bake it for 20-30 minutes.
9. Pour the white wine on the fish, then return to the oven for 10 minutes more.
10. Meanwhile, heat oil in a large pan over medium heat.
11. Add the red shrimps and cook them until they are pink and opaque. Stirring frequently.
12. And serve.

Y a disfrutar!!

Baked apples

Ingredients:

• 6 reinette apples
• 100g sugar
• 150g raisins
• 100g of butter
• 125ml water

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 180 ° C.
2. Wash the apples and scoop out their cores from top of the apples.
3. Give a horizontal cut in the center and around the apple with a sharp knife, without elaborating, only the skin. This is necessary before grilling to prevent bursting and spoil the presentation.
4. Mix raisins with sugar.
5. Grease a baking dish with a little butter and place the apples.
6. Fill in the gaps of hearts with the mixture of raisins to overflowing.
7. Add in 125ml water in a bowl on the baking dish.
8. Sprinkle apples with the remaining butter in small portions.
9. Introduce them in the oven for 40-55 minutes, depending on the size of apples.
10. Serve hot or slightly warm.

And enjoy!!

Tiramisu... Improved!

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs
• 500g mascarpone cheese
• 100g sugar
• 1 cup Cacaolat
• Cocoa powder
• 200g ladyfinger cookies

Directions:

1. Separate the whites from the yolks, and reserve the whites in the fridge.
2. Soak the ladyfingers into cacaolat and arrange half of them in bottom of a dish.
3. Whisk the yolks, the cheese and the sugar until smooth.
4. Beat the egg whites until snow.
5. Slowly whisk the yolk mixture into the egg whites snow.
6. Spread half of this last mixture over the ladyfingers, another soaked ladyfingers layer and another mixture layer.
7. Sprinkle a lot with the cocoa powder in the top.
8. Cover and refrigerate around 5 hours.

And enjoy!!

Pastry cream in the microwave

Ingredients:

• 500ml milk
• 2 egg yolks
• 3 tbspoon cinnamon
• 50g cornstarch

Directions:

1. Add the milk, the egg yolks, cinnamon and cornstarch in a microwave safe bowl.
2. Stir well until no lumps.
3. Cook it on maximum power microwave, stirring every 30 seconds. If not, it will burn.

And it's done!