Tiramisu

Who doesn't love tiramisu? :) It's been a few years I haven't done it, but last week I decided to do it at home and it was finished in only 1 day. :)

Ingredients:
savoiardi biscuits (400-500 gr)
coffee (1 l)
mascarpone cheese (600 gr)
eggs (6)
sugar (6 tablespoons)
cocoa (a few spoons)

Mix the white par of the egg until it becomes thick. In another bowl mix the yellow part of the eggs, add the sugar and mascarpone cheese. Mix until it's creamy, then add the yellow part of the eggs that you've mixed before. Take the biscuits and put them in the coffee for a few seconds, then put them in the baking pan. Put some cream on the top and then add the biscuits with coffee again. After that put some cream again. When you've finished the biscuits cover everything with cream and put some cocoa powder on the top. Leave for at least 3 hours in the fridge before serving (it is better if you leave in the fridge for 6 or 7 hours).

Sorbetto with black cherries and strawberries

You will need an ice cream machine for this recipe.

Ingredients:
black cherries and strawberries (500 gr)
sugar (300 gr)
water (250 ml)
oranges (2)
lemon (1)
black cherry syrup (half cup)

Melt the sugar in the water on high heat. Wait until it boils and mix for a few minutes, then put it away from heat and cool it. Blend the fruits, add the sugar syrup, the juice from oranges and lemon and the black cherry syrup. Mix everything and then put the mixture in the ice cream machine. Leave it in the ice cream machine for 10 or 15 minutes, then put everything in the freezer for 10 minutes. Mix again and serve.

Lepinja with sesame seeds

Ingredients:
white flour (450 gr - type 400)
whole weat flour (300 gr - type 1100)
baking powder (1 sachet)
dry yeast (1 sachet)
salt (2 teaspoons)
sugar (1 teaspoon)
natural yoghurt (150 gr)
warm milk (150 ml)
warm water (150 ml)
oil (4-5 spoons)
eggs (2)

butter (1-2 spoons)
sesame seeds
salt (in big grains)

Mix the flour, the baking powder, yeast. Add salt, sugar, yoghurt, milk, water, oil and the eggs. Mix everything well and cover it with a cloth and leave it in a warm place. Wait until it rises. Then take the dough, cut it in three pieces and do an oval bread 2 cm high. Put them on an oven pan and spread some melter butter on the top and then add the salt and the sesame seeds. Cover them with a cloth and leave them to rise. Put them in an oven for about 25 minutes (200 degrees warm).

Rocket soup with parmesan cheese

I found this really nice recipe in a book I have bought a few years ago in Ljubljana: Juhe (Kuhinja izbranih okusov). I have tried it (and modified the recipe just a bit, as usually) and it was very nice.


Ingredients:
potato (1 big)
rocket (250 gr)
onion (1 small)
garlic (1 piece)
olive oil (1 spoon)
water (0,5 l)
knorr cube
cream ( 0,2 l)
salt
pepper
parmesan cheese (40 gr)


Cook the potato for about 25 minutes, then drain the water, peel the potato and cut it in small cubes. Clean the rocket and leave some leafs on the side for decoration. Cut the rest of the rocket in small pieces. Peel the onion and garlic and chop in small pieces. Fry them in a pan with a spoon of olive oil. Just before it becomes brown, add the water and the knorr cube, leave it on low heat until the cube melts. Add the cream and mix. Then add the potato cubes and the chopped rocket. Pass the soup through the strainer. Add salt and pepper. Put the soup in a plate, add some rocket leafs on the top and some grated parmesan cheese (it doesn't have to be really thin) and serve.

Lepinja with olives

Lepinja is a typical bread from the Balkans. I wanted to bake it for a long time and finally I did it. I found the recipe in the book Vse o peki.

Ingredients:
 flour - type 500 (250 gr)
 fresh yeast (1/2)
 honey (1 small spoon)
 lukewarm water (125 ml)
 salt (1 small spoon)
 olives (50 gr)
 oil (6 spoons)


Put the flour in a bowl and do a whole in the middle. Put the yeast there, but crush it first. Then add some water to the honey and add it to the yeast (but be careful, the water shouldn't be too hot!). Mix with the fork and leave it for 10 minutes.
Add salt, olives, oil and the rest of the water. Then mix all the ingredients until it becomes a dough. Put some flour on the top and cover it with a cotton cloth. Leave it in a hot place until it rises. After that take the dough and do 2 oval-shaped lepinjas (25x15 cm). Put them on an oven pan and cover it with a cloth until it rises again. Before putting in the oven do some little holes with your fingers and in the recipe it says you should put a few drops of olive oil (I forgot to do it, but it was good anyway). Bake in the oven. (It should be 20 minutes on high heat, preheated.)

Lasagna with asparagus

Ingredients:

for the thin pankakes:

eggs (2)

flour (3 cups)

milk (1/2 l)

salt

oil (for frying)

for the lasagna:

besciamella sauce

onion (1)

asparagus (500 gr)

carrot (1)

olive oil

chilli powder

salt 

parmesan cheese

First of all you have to fry the thin pankakes. Mix the eggs and the flour, then add the salt and the milk until you have a creamy mixture. It shouldn't be too thick. If you need you can add more milk. Then fry the pankakes in a pan. Put some oil (really a little bit) in the pan and then add a dipper of the mixture and make sure that the mixture goes all over the surface of the pan. Do them really thin and don't fry them too long, because you don't need them crispy but soft. Here is a picture of the pankakes: 

 

Then prepare the vegetable mix. Put some oil in a pan, add the chopped onion and fry for a while until it changes colour, but add the other chopped vegetables (asparagus and carrots) before the onion is brown. Add the salt and just a little bit of chilli powder, mix and cook for 15-20 minutes. 

In the meanwhile you can prepare the besciamella sauce. 

Take a baking pan and first put some vegetables at the bottom. Add some besciamella sauce and on the top put the pankakes. Add the vegetables and the besciamella sauce again and cover with the pankakes. Continue to do the layers until you finish the besciamella sauce and the vegetables. Put some pankakes on the top and add some parmesan cheese (if you want it more creamy you can make more besciamella sauce). Bake in the oven until the top becomes crispy and brown (it should take about 30-40 minutes).

Here is the picture of the lasagna, fresh from the oven. It probably doesn't look nothing special, but even my brother liked it! :)

Besciamella sauce

And finally I did besciamella sauce, I haven't just asked my mother to do it. Hihihi :D
I found a great recipe on the giallo zafferano web page and I tried it, but next time I'm gonna try a low fat version.

Sorry, the picture this time isn't that good, it was kinf of difficult to make a good picture while cooking. :)

Ingredients:
butter (50 gr)
white flour (50 gr)
milk (0,5 l)
salt
nutmeg





Heat the butter in a pan until it becomes liquid. Take the pan away from the heat and add the flour, mix well and put again on the heat adding the milk and mixing at the same time. Add the salt and the nutmeg. Mix until it become creamy as you want.
I contiuned to cook and I used it in a dish, I'm gonna post the whole recipe next time.