Saturday, November 29, 2014

Lime Cheesecake with Delicious Berry Syrup


It is time for a desert recipe, isn't it? With time you guys will see that I am best at cooking, but not the best at baking, usually who takes this part is my husband, I do make some delicious little things myself, like for example this lime cheesecake with berry syrup. It may sound a little different the ingredients I use on this one, but please trust me, it will taste amazing. It's a promise!

Ingredients

For the cheesecake:

1 1/2 cup (150g) of unsalted butter 
1 cup (200g) of finely ground graham cracker crumbs 
1/2 cup (100g) of oat 
1 tea spoon of vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups (600g) of cream cheese 
1 cup (150g) of sugar 
2 limes (zest and juice)
Zest of one orange
1 1/5 cups (300g) of heavy milk 

For the syrup:

2 cups (400g) of a mix of berries (in my case I used raspberries, blueberries and a little of strawberries)
1/2 cup(100g) of sugar
4 table spoons of good natural raspberry - or another berry you like - jam (go for the ones that are not so sweet, you're already going to add sugar to the syrup so you don't want it to be too sweet)

Monday, November 24, 2014

Ettore's Roast Beef


Today I'm going to post a recipe that I learned from my mom's friend Ettore. Which is awesome for that lazy Sunday with the family. It is ease to make but it does take some time, so remember to reserve a around 3 hours for this roasted beef before you start the rest of the meal (but every minute waiting will be rewarded with this amazing roast beef).

Ingredients:
A big piece of top sirloin cap (half pound or more)
Sea salt
Oats
1 package of onion soup powder
A good amount of ambient temperature salted butter for the sirloin

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Penne alla Carbonara with Zucchini


Alright I think it’s time to have some confortable food on this blog. By confortable I mean, delicious, fast and ease (and ignoring a bit the diet!). Today we are going to enjoy this awesome recipe of zucchini with pasta alla carbonara, this is a good recipe for when you are tired of having pasta with the same old tomato sauce. So lets innovate and work this carbonara! Come with me and you will see how ease and fast it is.

Ingredients:
2 zucchinis chop in little cubes
3 egg yolk
½ cup of heavy cream
2 slices of bacon
1 red chili pepper chopped really small with no seeds
1 garlic glove chopped really small
6 hand full of penne pasta
Parmesan Cheese
Water to boil the pasta
Rosemary
Black pepper
Salt
Olive oil

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Berry Awesome Cake


Today I’m going to post another recipe from Jamie Oliver that is my favorite chef ever (so be aware that more of his recipes will appear here). This is a healthy, light and delicious cake that is really fast to make with some kind of fresh berries.

I really enjoy to have it with a little ice cream, you will see that the blueberry cake + ice cream is the best combination ever.

Get ready to fall in love with this cake!

Ingredients:
Butter and flour to preparer the cake pan
4 eggs
1 ½ of brown sugar
1 cup of melted butter with no salt (make sure to melt it first so isn’t hot when you to use it)
½ cup of olive oil
½ cup of milk
1 tea spoon of vanilla extract
3 ½ cups of whole-wheat flour
2 tea spoon of baking powder
a pinch of salt
zest of 2 lemons
zest de 2 oranges
4 cups of a mix of berries (I used blueberries, raspberries, blackberries)

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Mediterranean Salad in Pita Bread


This is a delicious salad recipe that I learned from the grand master Jamie Oliver, you guys will love it. This is one of my favorites salads and I'm pretty sure you will be able to enjoy it as well. But in this case, because I was hungrier then a salad can take care of, I transformed it into a kind of sandwich with a pita bread (feel free to use a different kind of bread, but try to use one that is hard enough that won’t get soak with the salad dressing).

Check it out how it is ease!

Ingredients:
4 leafs of lettuce (make sure to not have too much lettuce in your salad)
1 big tomato
A handful of cherry tomatoes
1/2 cucumber
1/2 purple onion
½ Red chili pepper with no seed
2 table spoon of cottage cheese
3 black olives with no seed
Basil
Black pepper
Salt
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
One pita bread

Friday, June 20, 2014

Healthy Soy Hamburger

 

Alright guys, today I'm going to post a recipe that I didn't plan. It only happen because when I opened up my fridge today it was missing so many ingredients to make something more elaborate that I needed to cook something real simple and fast

No, I'm not against buying frozen food I just prefer food that I make on my own, but for this time where all I had in the fridge was beer, some tomatoes, cheese and lettuce, I have open my freezer and check out what I have there. In my case I have some soy hamburgers, but you can use regular hamburger if you don't like this, or even a steak if you are lucky enough to have one.

This recipe is awesome for you to kill your interior fat kid that is dying for a hamburger but you don't wanna give up on your diet. So why not take some calories out of the way and make it without the bread. Don't worry you will love it and feel good after eat a hamburger.

Now put your skinny self in the kitchen and let's cook!

Ingredients:
1 Frozen soy hamburger
2 Slices of buffalo mozzarella (or just a regular cheese you may have home)
1 Tomato 
1/2 Red chilli pepper chopped small with no seeds
Some lettuce
Black pepper
Salt
Basil
Olive oil
Parmesan cheese (if you want)


Thursday, June 19, 2014

Sausage Stuffed Zucchini


Today's recipe is one that your grandma would do when you were a little kid but you would make ugly faces to it because kids always expect for something more like french fries and pizza. But now that you are a grown up and is an adventure hunter in the kitchen, you will make this sausage stuffed zucchini and you will LOVE it.

Seriously this is the best zucchini recipe ever (ok the parmigiana zucchini is still in first place but this one gets second place!).

Now let's go to the kitchen and let's make some delicious zucchini!


Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Whole Wheat Banana Cake


Well it's time to actually start posting on this blog. I already have a brazilian blog with all this recipes but now I decided to translate everything for the english version.

So let's start with the ease and healthy Banana Cake, this is a really natural and fit cake that you won't feel any kind of self consciousness by eating it. Actually this is really good to get more portions of fiber on your daily diet. And this is nothing like those cakes with only artificial flavor, this one actually has the bananas inside and you will get surprise how awesome it taste in the middle of this delicious cake.

Let's bake!

Ingredients:
5 medium bananas (or 4 of the big ones)
1 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cup of oat bran
1 1/2 cup of dark brown sugar
3 eggs
1/2 cup of melted butter with no salt
1 teaspoon of baking powder
2 tablespoon of cinnamon 


Monday, February 17, 2014

Tuna Pate





Quick and super ease tuna pate for those moments of lazyness and hundryness that occasionally attack us.

15min to prepare
Ingredients:
3 table spoons of mayonnaise
1 can of chunks of tuna with no liquid
1 tomato
1/2 onion
1 clove of garlic
4 olives
2 table spoons of Parmesan cheese
Black pepper
Oregano
Olive oil

Chop the tomato, garlic, onion and olives in small pieces and put it on a bow. Now that everything is chopped you just need to put in the rest of the ingredients: mayonnaise, tuna, Parmesan, and as much as you like of pepper, oregano and oil.

Just mix it all together and it's done.

You won't need salt on this since the tuna and olive already has a lot on it.

It taste awesome with warm toast and will kill your hungry belly in the middle of the day. Enjoy!