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).

2010

***********Feliz Ano 2010 para todos!****************

Espero que este, seja um excelente ano para cada um de vocês!
Que os dias sejam repletos de grandes surpresas e sorrisos.

Vivam cada dia de forma simples e feliz.

Mantendo o espírito do blog, deixo o apelo para que comam melhor e optem gostar mais dos animais fora da panela.
Afinal, existe um mundo de coisas que podemos comer sem matar aqueles que mais parecidos são connosco e que melhor compreendemos: os animais.
O coelhinho Dj também fica muito mais feliz assim.



Digam não ao desperdício. O meu pensamento é que não se combate a fome comendo tudo o que está no prato mas sim, colocando no prato apenas aquilo que é necessário para nós.
Tracem bons objectivos e tente-nos seguir =)
Red hot chilly kisses.




******** Happy New Year to all of you! ***********

I hope that this year will be an excellent year for each of you!
I wish that your days will be full of great surprises and a lot of smiles.

Live each day in a simple and happy way =)

Keeping the spirit of the blog, I leave this call: eat better and choose to leave the animals out of the saucepan.
After all, there is a world of things that we can eat without killing those who are more like us and that we better understand: the animals.
Dj, the bunny is also much more happy.

And say no to waste. My thought is that we do not fight hunger by eating everything on our plate, but by placing the dish with just the necessary that we needed.
Plot good goals and try to follow them.
Red hot chilly kisses.

Chef Carlota

Este é um e-mail de agradecimento ao meu querido amigo Zé, que me fez uma super surpresa este Natal: ofereceu-me o meu primeiro chapéu alto e chic com avental de uma verdadeira chef!
Obrigada Zé! ***


Fotos by Catarina

Recipe nº7: Rui's recipe

1) Tofu Stroganoff
Ingredients:
- Tofu;
- Cream;
- Tomato sauce;
- Garlic;
- Olive oil;
- Salt;

Method of preparation:
In a pan, cook the olive oil with garlic. Then add the tofu slices into cubes. When they get blond, add the cream and a little tomato sauce. Cook for 3 minutes.

2) White rice with onion
In a pan with olive oil, place the chopped onion and saute. Add the rice. Cook for 7 minutes and cover.

3) Cooked vegetables
Ingredients:
- Broccoli;
- 2 carrots;
- Cauliflower;
- 1 Corgett;
- Olive oil;
- 2 cloves garlic;
- Sal;
- 1 or two cups of water;
- Half cup of white wine.

Method of preparation:
Chop the vegetables. Saute the olive oil and garlic.Add the chopped vegetables and the
salt.Place one or two cups of hot water, always below the vegetables, and half cup of white wine. Turn of the fire when the carrot get cooked. Add more olive oil to your own taste.


4) Apple slices fried in butter sugar and ginger.
Ingredients:
- 2 Apples;
- Sugar (in your taste);
- Ginger powder or grated root;
- Butter.

Method of preparation:
Cut the apples in thin slices.
In a pan, put a nut of butter and let it melt over, with low heat. Place the apples and sprinkle with sugar and ginger. Leave to cook for several minutes until the apples become softer.

Recipe nº6: Pasta Gourmet

Ingredients:
-Fusilli tricolore;
-feta cheese;
-olives;
-2 sausages;
-6 nuts;
-1 carrot.

Method of preparation:
In a pan with boiling water, place the carrot sliced and the fusilli. Cook for 7 minutes. Then drain and let it cool down.
In a frying pan with olive oil, let the sausages fry for 3 minutes.
In a container, add the feta cheese cut into cubes,the nuts, olives and sliced sausages.
Place the fusilli with carrots and add the mixture of the container.

Recipe nº5: Bôla

Ingredients
1) For the dough (massa):
*The cups are always of tea.
-2 Cups of milk;
-1/2 cup of olive oil;
-3 Eggs;
-1 Cup of cornstarch (maizena);
-1 And 1/2 cup of wheat flour;
-1 teaspoon of salt.

2) For the filling:
-1 small head of broccoli;
-parsley or coriander;
-3 tomatoes;
-1/2 cup of olives;
-5 tablespoons of olive oil;
-3 onions;
-oregano.

Method of preparation:
To prepare the dough, mix all ingredients and beat until the dough is smooth and uniform. Let it rest for a while.
For the filling: in a pan, place the olive oil, onion, tomato and parsley and oregano all cut into small pieces until they form a sauce. Add the washed and cut broccoli until tender. Season with a little salt.
Grease a pan with butter and flour and spread the sauce. Place the filling and the olives on top.
Bake on low heat to medium for + - 30min. When you stick a fork and it will not leave some dough, you're done!

Recipe nº4: Sausage and carrot rice-» Inventions of my mother that I have to recreate

Sausage and carrot rice-»
Inventions of my mother that I have to recreate ...

Ingredients:
-Vegetarian sausages;
-Cabbage;
-Rice;
-Carrot;
-Onion;
-Salt.

Method of preparation:
In a pan, put a little of olive oil, thin sliced onion and diced carrots. Leave browning and put the rice rinsed and drained. Then add hot water (for 1 cup of rice, add 2 cups of water). Boil for 7 minutes and cover.
For the sausages, let them fry a little over 3 minutes or if you prefer you can bake them in hot water. Let the cabbage cook for 5 minutes also.
Wrap the cabbage in the sausage using a toothpick to help.
Bake for 15 minutes in the oven. You can put grated cheese on top if you like.