Pesto sauce

Ingredients: (gives to a small bottle of 275 ml)

100 g of almond or pine nuts

1 clove garlic
1 small sauce of basil leaves
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
+/- 85 ml of extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper (mixture of 4 peppers) freshly ground q.s.



Preparation:

Toast the almond in a small frying pan and let cool.
In a chopper / food processor, chop the almond and garlic clove (do not over-chop).
Add the remaining ingredients and chop everything.
Grind the seasoning and add more olive oil, if necessary.

folhado de alheira

Ingredientes:

1 cebola roxa

1 dente de alho

2 alheiras (usei duas ,mas uma será suficiente)

folhas de espinafres (um bom punhado)

2 maçãs em cubos

sal fino e mistura de pimentas q.b

1 placa de massa folhada rectangular

1 ovo batido caseiro

Preparação:

Retirar a massa folhada da embalagem e seguir as instruções.

Numa frigideira ao lume colocar um pouco de azeite e deitar a cebola picada.

Adicionar o alho picado.

Deixar cozinhar um pouco.

Entretanto, retirar a pele às alheiras e parti-las em pedaços.

Adicionar à frigideira e misturar tudo, esmagando  a alheira com ajuda de uma colher de pau.

Temperar com pouco sal e com pimenta.

Juntar a maçã e incorporar tudo.

Cortar grosseiramente as folhas de espinafres, um fio de azeite e adicionar ao preparado, mexendo mais um pouco.

Deixar a mistura arrefecer (para não empapar a massa).

Abrir a massa folhada e deitar o preparado ao centro fazendo um rectângulo.

Fechar a massa sobre o recheio, voltar ao contrário e fechar as pontas, dobrando-as para dentro e usar os dentes de um garfo para selar.

Fazer cortes na superfície da massa e pincelar co um ovo batido.

Vai ao forno a 220 ºC por 15 min para ficar bem dourado e de seguida, reduzir a temperatura para os 180 ºC, deixando ficar mais 15-20 min.

Ingredients:

1 purple onion
1 clove garlic
2 alheiras (I used two, but one is also good )
Leaves of spinach (a good handful)
2 diced apples
Fine salt and pepper mixture 
1 plate of rectangular puff pastry
1 homemade beaten egg


Preparation:

Remove the puff pastry from the package and follow the instructions.
In a frying pan on the heat add a little oil and pour the chopped onion.
Add chopped garlic.
Let it cook a little.
However, remove the skin from the leaves and tear them apart.
Add to the skillet and mix everything, crushing the alheira with the help of a wooden spoon.
Season with little salt and pepper.
Add the apple and incorporate everything.
Cut roughly the leaves of spinach, a strand of olive oil and add to the preparation, stirring a little more.
Allow the mixture to cool (do not soak the dough).
Open the puff pastry and pour the preparation to the center making a rectangle.
Close the dough over the filling, turn it over and close the ends, folding them in and using the teeth of a fork to seal.
Make cuts on the surface of the dough and brush with a beaten egg.
It goes to the oven at 220 ºC for 15 min to be well gilded and then to reduce the temperature to 180 ºC, leaving to stay another 15-20 min.

Chicken and veggies

Ingredients Needed

• 600 gms sliced chicken breasts
• 1 tbsp. cooking oil
• 1 tbsp. red curry paste
• 400 ml coconut milk
• 100 ml water 
• 1 tbsp. palm sugar or other 
• 1 tbsp. fish sauce
• 120 gms broccoli, cauliflower the veggies ,( I like to put green beans.)
• 20 gms kaffir lime leaves
• 40 gms sliced big red chilli
• 100 gms sweet basil

1. In a sauce pan, heat oil, add red curry paste and cook for two minutes until aroma.
2. Add the coconut milk, palm sugar, fish sauce and allow it to simmer. Add chicken.
3. Add veggies of you choice  ,Cook for around five minutes.
4. Add the kaffir lime leaves, sliced red chilli and sweet basil.
5. Remove it from flame and serve it hot with jasmine rice.
6. Decorate with some lime slices , you can also add some caju nuts .

Easy apple cake

This is a delicious and very easy recipe for the best apple cake , just try it !

What you need,

1 cup + 1/4 cup
1 cup sugar 
130 gr butter
2 eggs
3 apples
1 tsp bp

how to make ,

Mix manually or with a mixer , the butter and sugar until creamy, add the eggs , finaly add the flour and bp mix all very well , put on a cake form arrange the very fine sliced apples on top pressing a bit , and put the rest of the sugar on top , so it will make it crispy, you can also add some cinnamon, put on a preheated oven about 180 degrees
for about 50 minutes, is delicious  served with some cream anglaise.  Enjoy it!

pineapple cake

What you need 

200g butter 250g of sugar 6 eggs 225g of flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 4 tablespoons pineapple syrup 1 can of pineapple in syrup Sugar q.s. (For caramel) or in bottle Note: if you make fresh pineapples reserve the juice of it. Start by turning on the oven at 180º. Drain the pineapple and reserve the syrup. Beat the egg whites and set aside. Beat the butter with the sugar until you get a cream. Add the egg yolks and mix well. Sift the flour and add the baking powder. Wrap this mixture in the dough, alternating with the beaten egg whites and the syrup of the pineapple that has reserved.Prepare the caramel by boiling about 250g of sugar (the amount is variable) until caramelized. Finally, sweep the shape with the caramel and line it with the pineapple slices. Pour batter into baking pan and bake, preheated, for 50 minutes. Enjoy it ! Start by turning on the oven at 180º. Drain the pineapple and reserve the syrup. Beat the egg whites and set aside. Beat the butter with the sugar until

Yummy lebanese desert

This is a delicious desert made with bread slices and ricota cheese 

How to make video will be posted later !