Recipe nº22: Wonder Crepes

This recipe provides for about 10 pancakes, depending on the thickness that you want to do.

I'll do the english filling that I learn in my last trip to England.

Other fillings that I also love: butter and honey, strawberry jam, nutela, sugar and cinnamon.

Ingredients
-1 Cup of tea with flour;
-2 Cups of tea with cold milk (preferably of the day);
-2 Tablespoons of water;
-1 Lemon (to shave the bark);
-2 Fresh eggs 0;
-Filling: sugar and lemon juice

Method of preparation
In a large bowl, beat 2 eggs and add the zest of half a lemon. Place 2 tablespoons of water.
Then slowly add the flour and stir well go. When the dough is uniform slowly add the milk. Stir well to mix.
Don't panic if the dough seems to liquid, it's normal! Otherwise they would turned to be pancakes.

In a nonstick frying pan already very hot, place the dough.
(I prefer them to stay thin but it's in your own taste).
Then make the crepes always simmer(lume brando).

The first crepe is always the worst. You can put a little bit of butter in the frying pan if it helps you.

One secret is to not let it cook too much. Once the dough is no longer liquid, turn it and add some sugar and a few drops of lemon juice.
Scroll in 4, leaving another 30 seconds and serve them!


Tips of the steps:

1.When you have something like this you can turn.


2.Already upset, add the sugar to it to go melting.


3.Add some lemon drops.


4.Then turn over and over again so that it is folded in 4. You can sprinkle it with powdered sugar at the end!
Bon Apetit*

Recipe nº19: Cannelloni of spinach and fresh cheese

***********Cannelloni of spinach and fresh cheese*******

Ingredients (2 persons):

-8 Cannelloni
-Small package of Béchamel sauce
-Grated mozzarella cheese
-200g of spinach
- +- 200g of fresh cheese or ricotta
-1 Ripe tomato
-Tomato concentrate
-Spices: nutmeg, fine salt
-Onion
-Olive oil.

Method of preparation:
Wash and cut the spinach. Cook them for 2 minutes. Drain the water and let them cool.
In a container, place the crumbled cheese and add to it the spinach.
Mix both and season with salt, nutmeg and 1 tablespoon of olive oil.

Tomato sauce:
In a frying pan, saute 1 ripe tomato, half onion and add the concentrate and 2 tablespoons of water. Cook for 5 minutes.

Put the cannelloni in hot water to soften.
In a pyrex for baking, sprinkle some olive oil and béchamel sauce to avoid that the cannelloni get sticked.
Garnish the cannelloni with the mixture of cheese and spinach.
Put the tomato sauce on top, then grated cheese and then the béchamel sauce.
Bake + -30 minutes in the oven.
Bon Apetit!

Recipe nº11: Fetucchini with mushrooms and cream

Ingredients:
-Fetucchini;
-Mushrooms;
-Cream;
-3 cloves of garlic;
-Olive oil;
-Broccoli;
-Sal, pepper and nutmeg (noz moscada);
-Fresh tomato.

Method of preparation:
Let the fettuchini bake for 10 minutes in boiling water and drain.
In a frying pan cook the mushrooms with 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 clove of chopped garlic, for about 3 minutes and season with salt and pepper. Add cream and cook for another 5 minutes. Mix with the fettuchini at the end.
In a pan with 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 cloves of chopped garlic, cook the broccoli for about 10 minutes until they are tender.Add some water if necessary. Season with salt and nutmeg. Cut 1 tomato into thin slices to follow with the meal.

Recipe nº10: Peixinhos da Horta (Garden Fish)

Peixinhos da Horta is a traditional Portuguese dish that gave rise to Japanese tempura dish, when was brought to Japan in mid-sixteenth century by Portuguese missionaries.
For me, this is the most tasty way(though less healthy) to eat green beans.

Ingredients:
-Green Beans;
-1 Egg;
-Wheat flour;
-Sal;
-Sunflower oil.


Method of preparation:
Prepare the green beans by cuting the ends and thicker sides. Cook the beans for 2 minutos. Let it cool.
Purée (polme): In a dish, beat the egg and gradually add spoonfuls of flour until the dough is not too thick.
Wrap the beans in the purée and fry in sunflower oil, with low heat in a frying pan until they get "blond".
You can follow them by tomato rice, for example. Bon apetit!

Recipe nº9: Deer Steak with mushrooms and cream

***Bife de Veado com cogumelos e natas***

This recipe is dedicated to my dear friend João Teles, and affectionately called: deer steak.
The first time that Teles crossed with a seitan steak on my plate, he asked the usual question: what a f* is that !!!???
Taking advantage that by that time he didn't know how fudge I can be sometimes, I told him that it was deer. I wrapped the lie so well that he believed and even tasted it, feeling that it was real the poor little animal that was in his mouth. Poor deer that inspired the beautiful and sad story of Bambi, in the mouth of Teles...




So here's the recipe for all of you (especially for Joana):

Ingredients:

-Seitan;
-Mushrooms;
-1 Lemon;
-3 Cloves of garlic;
-Cream;
-Tomato concentrate (optional);
-Salt and pepper;
-2 Bay leaves;
-Olive oil.

Method of preparation:
The Seitan, wheat gluten (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitan) is usually seasoned before cooking to get more taste.
Thus, at least 30 minutes before starting to cook, season the seitan cut into thin steaks with 1 sliced lemon and garlic.
In a frying pan put a layer of olive oil with 2 cloves of minced garlic. Let browning and place the sliced and washed mushrooms. Let it browning and then, add the seitan and the bay leaves. Cook for + -5 minutes and add the tomato paste and cream. Let it cook for a few more minutes and it's ready.
Follow this dish with chips, for example. Bon apetit!

Recipe nº8: Lasanha à Joana

This recipe was taught me by my dear friend Jo. Possibly it is very padded because I didn't have my friend here nor her book to guiding me,it was all done by my poor memory. But at the end it was delicious.
Thank you Joana!

(for 1 person)
Ingredients:
-3 Sheets of lasagna;
-Bechamel sauce;
-Grated mozzarella cheese or 4 cheeses;
-Vegetables: 1/2 aubergine(beringela), 1/2 zucchini(courgette), 1/2 carrot, a hand of peas;
-Mushrooms
-2 Vegetarian Sausages;
-1 leaf of laurel (louro);
-Salt and pepper;
-1 Onion;
-Olive oil.

Method of preparation:

In a pan place a layer of olive oil and chopped onion and let brown. Add the carrots and the aubergine cut into cubes. Stir for 2 minutes. Add half a cup of hot water to the pan. Add the peas,the mushrooms and the sausages too. Season with salt, laurel and pepper.
Leave this on fire until the peas are cooked and add water if necessary.

Lasagna:
Cut the zucchini into thin slices.
In a baking greased, place a layer of bechamel sauce on top and the 1st sheet of lasagna. Place the filling with a few slices of zucchini on top. Add bechamel. Do the same with the 2nd sheet of lasagna. In the 3rd cover with grated cheese and bechamel. Bake until golden brown (25min).

Recipe nº3: Leek à Brás (alho francês à Brás)

This is my favorite dish !!!!!!!!!!!!
Here it goes*

Ingredients:
-Leek;
-Onion;
-Garlic;
-Parsley and pepper;
-Potatoes;
-Olive oil and oil;
-1 Egg.

Method of preparation:
Making the usual stew of olive oil, chopped onion in a saucepan. Then insert the French garlic sliced thin and add a little water. Cook for 10 minutes and season with pepper.
Fry potatoes.
In another pan, make the prepared chopped garlic in olive oil. When the garlic is ready, put a beaten egg followed by the French garlic (make sure that you have drain all the water), and the fries. Stir until the egg is involved to taste!