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A different way to eat a steak

Xan Ramos Gómez sends us his recipe of "Lomo saltado", you need:
2 pounds of thin steak.
1 tsp of red wine.
2 tsp of minced garlic.
4 tomatoes cut into strips salt and pepper.
2 med onions, cut into strips,
chopped coriander.
1 tbs of vinegar.
5 med potatoes cut into thin strips and oil.

Cut the steak into thin strips and marinate in wine for an hour.
Sautee hte garlic in oil and add the steak. Continue frying until the steak is cooked. Drain some of the juice and save. Add the chopped tomato, salt and pepper to the pan. Cook for a few minutes. Add the onion, coriander and vinegar. Cook for a few minutes more and then add the juice of the meat.
Delicious! Thanks, Xan.
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Carolina's great omelette

INGREDIENTS: 

1 Kg of potatoes, 4 eggs, 1/2 l of cooking oil, Salt, 1 onion. 

UTENSILS:  

Frying-pan, Dish, Bowl, Knife. 

WAY OF COOKING

1-Peel the potatoes, wash them and cut, then put the potatoes in the frying-pan with cooking oil and onion, and warm. Then add some salt.

2-Beat the eggs in a bowl and mix with the potatoes.

3-Put the eggs and the potatoes with a little cooking oil in a frying-pan and turn it with a dish.

4-Serve warn or cold.                                             

Enjoy your meal!   
Thanks for this traditional Spanish omelette, the most famous and well known Spanish dish.
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Ana's cake

Look Ana's fabulous cake right out of the oven.

ingredients:

150 gram of sugar

150 gram of flour

4 eggs

100 gram of butter

1 teaspoom of baking powder.

preparation:

Put the eggs in a bowl with the sugar and beat them. Later, melt butter and add the eggs, the yeast and the melt butter. Grease the baking mould with butter. Put the mixing in the baking mould and put the cake in the oven for 22 minutes at 180ºC. Them let it get cold and serve.Good appetite!
Many thanks, Ana.
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Pumpkin creme

Alex has cooked a great creme for us, here you have the recipe:

You need  2 carrots, 1 potato, 1 pumpkin and 2 leeks.
First put one litre of water on the fire.Peel the carrots and cut them. Add them to the pot.Peel the potato, cut it and add to the pot when the water is boiling. Cut the leeks and the pumpkin and put in the pot too.When the ingredients are cooked, take off the water and add two cheese portions and mix. It is better to serve the creme warm. 

Thanks Alex, that's a delicious and easy to cook recipe.
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A chocolate mousse from Sara

Ingredients:

· 200 g of chocolate in pieces

· 1/2 cup water

· 2 tablespoons butter

· 3 egg yolks

· 2 tablespoons castor sugar

· 1-1/2 heavy cream

Way of cooking:

1- In a microwave or double boiler, heat the chocolate, ¼ cup water and butter until the chocolate and butter are melted.

2- In a small saucepan whisk the egg yolks, sugar and remaining water. Cook and stir in the oven at a low heat until the mixture reaches 70 ºC, about 1 to 2 minutes.

3- Remove from the oven whisk in the chocolate mixture. Set the saucepan in ice and stir until cooled, about 5 to 10 minutes.

4- Add whipped cream. Put in dessert dishes.

5- Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.

6- Serves to 8 or 6 people.

Enjoy your dessert!
Great mousse, Sara, thanks a lot!

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Yummy doughnuts from Irene

Irene hasn't sent us a picture so this one comes from photos8

Irene has sent this recipe of yummy doughnuts for a party. Thanks a lot!

Ingredients:

1 egg, 6 tablespoons of oil, 4 tablespoons of milk, 6 tablespoons of sugar, 3 tablespoons of anise, 2 tablespoons of baking powder.

Utensils:

1 bowl, 1 mixer, 1 pan.

Method:

1st. Beat the egg in a bowl.

2nd. Add the oil, the milk, the sugar, the anise and the baking powder. And mix all well.

3rd. Add the flour slowly.

4h. Leave to rise for twenty minutes.

5th. Make the doughnuts.

6th And fry in boiling oil.

Now you can eat them, they are great!

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Sara and Tatiana's chocolate cake

 

Sara and Tatiana love chocolate and want to share this cake with us. It looks really tasty, don't you agree?

Here you have the recipe:

INGREDIENTS

-2 eggs,150g of sugar, 150g of butter, 300g of flour, 1 glass of milk, 100g of cocoa, 1 bit of yeast, a pinch of salt.

 STEPS

1- Heat the oven.

2- Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl, starting with the flour, eggs and butter.

3-Grease a cake mould with a little butter and pour the mixture.

4-Then, put in the oven to bake for 30 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.

5- (optional). Once cold, it can be cut horizontally and spread with melted chocolate.

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Almond cake for dessert

 

Aitana's almond cake 

This is Aitana's post, and she has sent us a delicious recipe of her favourite dessert, the picture looks delicious. Would you like to try it? just do as she explains:

To do an almond cake you need the next ingredients:

- 250 gr. of almonds

- 250 gr. of sugar glass

- 6 eggs

- a little stripped lemon peel

- a little cinnamon in powder

- a little butter for buttering the mould

Utensils you need:

- 2 bowls

- a whisk

- a mould (for the oven)

WAY OF COOKING:

First you must beat the yolks, the sugar, the cinnamon and the stripped lemon peel until it remains frothy. When it's ready, add the grind almonds.  In another bowl beat the whites of the eggs stiffly beaten, and add to the other mix quickly in order that they don't go down. Once the mould is buttered with the butter, put the mixture on, and put it into the oven for around 40 minutes, more or less, to 200ºC. When it's done, take it from the oven and when it's cold put some sugar glass above, now you can serve it. 

I hope you like.

Thanks, Aitana.

Apple crumble for dessert

Back to school after our Easter break, let's enjoy our British favourite treat and learn how to cook apple crumble:

Taste Sensations: How To Make Apple Crumble

Easy isn't it? and click here if you want to try some doughnuts.

You can't have your cake and eat it too

Food is present in many sayings and idioms. Something very easy is "easy as a pie" or " a piece of cake". When we love very much somebody we say "she (or he) is the apple of my eye". If the situation is serious and delicate we say "that's a hot potato" and "the best thing since slice bread" is said of a very nice person.
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Karina and Rebeca have a recipe to share with all of us. You can see how it looks and then how to cook it.

Ingredients
(Taking as a glass of yogurt)
- three glasses of flour
- two glasses of sugar
- natural yogurt or cream
- three eggs
- lemon peel

How to do it
Step 1: In a deep container add the yolks and sugar and mix until you get it spongy.
Step 2: Add the yogurt or cream, a little oil and the lemon peel. Whisk again and add the flour as rain, using a metal strainer.
Step 3: Stir well to obtain a fine cream and without lumps. pour it in a tray or dish and sprinkle over some sugar.
Step 4: the cake has to be in the oven at 170 º until golden.

note: it is important not to open the oven until it is completely cooked.
suggestion: eat it with cheese, it is delicious.

Thanks Rebeca and Karina! This cake looks delicious!

Doughnuts

Watch and learn how to cook the traditional American doughnut.