[recipe] All-purpose Cooked Mushrooms

With this preparation method, the aroma and taste of mushrooms become more intense.

Moreover, you can also get a great mushroom broth. 

ALL-PURPOSE COOKED MUSHROOMS 

Total time: 40 - 60 minutes

[Recipe] Super easy!! Aji-Tamago - marinated eggs in teriyaki sauce

Are you able to make boiled eggs?

Do you have a little patience?

Then you'll be able to cook well the Aji-Tamago (味 玉 子).

BOILED EGG MARINATED IN TERIYAKI SAUCE

- AJI- TAMAGO -

Total time 

At least 4 hours and a half

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Rest time: at least 4 hours

[Recipe] All-Pupose Teriyaki Sauce

This sweet-savory sauce is very versatile and extremely easy to prepare.

It goes well everywhere; with meat, with vegetables, with fish and even with desserts!!

ALL-PURPOSE TARIYAKI SAUCE

Total time: 5 minutes

Ingredients for about 250 ml of sauce

Crispy Garlic Chips of Ryan Goodwin

The garlic chips that I "meal-prepped" yesterday is a recipe of Ryan Goodwin from Cookpad:

"Crispy Garlic Chips"

 https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/660368-crispy-garlic-chips

The particular point of this recipe, and that works fine, is milk.

As Ryan says in his recipe, this step where you use the milk is kinda pain, but it is essential. And I agree with him. It softens the taste of the garlic, otherwise the chips will be too bitter and biting to eat.

For reminder for who are not used to the Fahrenheit degree like me, the oil temperature 300 ° F equals approximately 150 ° C, therefore it's a low-temperature fry.

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Meal-prep

When I have time I prepare food in large quantities and then I stock them and use them little by little again in the following days.
This action is called in Japanese Tsukuri-oki (作 り 置 き), and in English Meal-prep (to tell the truth, I heard about this word only very recently).

The meal-prep I did today are these:

In the picture:

Lee Goh's "Sweet Potato Vegan Quinoa Salad"

Given that there is still another bit 'of sweet potatoes in hand, I did a search for a recipe in Cookpad (https://cookpad.com/).

I found this salad's recipe particularly inspiring.

"Sweet Potato Vegan Quinoa Salad" 

original recipe by Lee Goh 

https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/337287-sweet-potato-quinoa-vegan-salad

How to freeze and reheat pancakes [In search of a perfect recipe]

The other day I cooked pancakes and I have eaten there a couple of them. Those I advanced I have put them in the freezer.

From what I understand, when you freeze pancakes you have to be careful of:

• to cool them a bit on a wooden board or on a grid (because the surface of them may not become wet)
• to wrap them still warm one by one with cling wrap (to keep their softness)
• to place them in the freezer immediately
• when they are frozen keep them together in an airtight bag (because they do not become dry and do not take the smell of other foods in the freezer) and put them back in the freezer

Pancake with butter and cinnamon sugar + cappuccino

[Recipe] Potato gnocchi with rucola sauce

With the Rucola Sauce of yesterday, you can prepare a simple first course dish in less than 10 minutes.

POTATO GNOCCHI WITH RUCOLA SAUCE

Ingredients for one serving

[Recipe] Rucola sauce

This bright green sauce goes well everywhere: with pasta, with salad, with meat, with fish, with bruschetta ... etc. etc.

RUCOLA SAUCE

Ingredients

[recipe] Tortellini in white wine broth - quick recipe

It's cold today, too. 

I was thinking to tortellini asciutti with some sauce but at the last minute I changed my mind. With broth.

White wine gives a deep touch even to a broth made with stock cube or powder like in this recipe.

(If you have some homemade broth it's just fine. I congratulate you 👍  The soup will be even more tasty.)

TORTELLINI IN WHITE WINE BROTH

Ingredients for 2-3 servings

Another cold day

The snowfall of the other day lasted only for one night but the snow does not want to leave after five days ⛄

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It is a bit that I'm trying to find the right ingredients and the right way to cook a pancake that I like. It should be fluffy and not too sweet. Another thing I want is that you can keep it in the freezer.

Today's pancake

 (with bitter orange marmalade) 

The ingredients were:

[5 minutes preparation recipe] Minestrone soup for lethargy

When it's cold the last thing you want is to get out of the blanket. And if you have to stay in the kitchen and cut various and so many ingredients into small pieces? No way! ...but that boring chore is just what you need if you want a good bowl of minestrone soup that warms up the heart. And the cooking way? With a traditional method it takes at least a minimum of one hour of slow cooking ... I'm hungry now!

The temptation to go for the instant food is strong. No, I will not stoop so low .... at least for today.

Here is a solution that guarantees a maximum result with minimum effort.

The time you have to stay up to prepare everything is just 5 minutes, then 2-3 minutes of patience for the whole thing comes to a boil... At this point, you are free again to go back to your warm and confort lair. After half an hour a nice plate of steaming soup with rich ingredients that melt in your mouth is ready..

MINESTRONE SOUP WITH FENNEL AND LENTILS

Ingredients for 6 servings

Brrrrr...

Someone took courage to walk on snow 😺

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Lazy-easy cooking-hacks

I love to eat good food.

However, since I am a sloth I can not (and do not want) put too much energy into the cooking .... but I like to eat good things ... but since I am a sloth ..... (you get back on departure)

Well, so, here are some "Lazy-easy cooking-hacks" I have learned over the years to eat with maximum taste and with minimal effort:

[Recipe] Potato and sweet potato salad

With this recipe, sweet potatoes add a touch of sweetness to the usual potato salad with mayonnaise.

It can be served either hot or cold.

Who likes spicy taste of onion, I advise you not to cook them, but slice them, soak them in cold salted water, squeeze them and add them when you add mustard and mayonnaise at the step 9. (I prefer to cook them because raw onions give me a headache).

POTATO AND SWEET POTATO SALAD

Ingredients

Morinaga Silken Tofu : review

After many years of research, expectations, false hopes and repeated disappointments I finally met a product worthy of being called "TOFU" (豆腐) from the Japanese point of view.

It's of MORINAGA (http://www.morinu.com)
Though I see different products in their official website, at the Carrefour sushi-corner where I usually go there was only Silken Tofu Firm.

Minestrone for freezing day

Here in Italy there is a wave of frost.
Everywhere the temperature fell below zero °c even where it usually has mild weather like Rome.

On days like these you gladly appreciate a plate of steaming minestrone soup.

Creamy minestrone with rice

Feast of Families

Yesterday we were at the Feast of the Families of our community.
We spent a pleasant time together, with simple but good food 😊

Sedanini with tomato sauce

Chicken breast fried with bread crumbs

with rosemary potatoes and beans 

(There was also some fresh salad) 

Sumi-e painting

I like this painting app for Android.
It's light, easy to use and paintings you draw are very cute 😍
I drawn my profile avatar...
...

Can you guess what is it?

It's a SLOTH😀

Sumi-e Painting for Android

Family lunch

I cooked "Bacalà alla vicentina" for the first time. It took three days with "my original" slow cook method 😵
The fish was tender but it would have been better if I had put a bit more salt and anchovies.
The next time I'll try to cook with some hot water in the outer pan so the temperature will not be higher than 100°C.

- Bacalà alla vicentina
- Toasted polenta
- Mixed mushroom with onion (Very tasty! I must remember the recipe)

Also the wine was good 👍👍

Wish a New Year...

... full of serene joy for all :)

Italiano