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Flams are very typical of our gastronomy, and now they are completely extended thorohghly. Despite the original flavour was the plain vainilla, nowadays they have become one of the most versatil desserts all around, as they can have both sweet or salty ingredients. Today's is a typical homemade rum flam, an easy recipe which may be the perfect healthy dessert. </div>
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<b>(serving 5-6 regular flams)</b></div>
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Combine sugar with water in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the sugar is completely melted, it's going to take a golden brown color. Remove from heat. </div>
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- 450ml milk</div>
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- 75ml rum</div>
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Preheat the oven to 190º. In a large saucepan, combine milk with vanilla over medium heat. Meanwhile, pour the caramel on the bottom of the jars. Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a bowl and add the rum until completely combined. </div>
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When milk and vanilla starts boiling, remove from heat and add the eggs, sugar and rom combination. Strain the mixture while adding to the jars of glasses used.<br />
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Place jars into a baking dish and add water until halfaway side of them. Bake for 30 minutes, remove from the baking dish and let it cool completely. Better to refrigerate overnight.<br />
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<br />Cintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03537476036636999249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514177110624592714.post-88043644299227823882013-11-19T08:52:00.001+00:002013-11-19T08:53:16.174+00:00White soup (Cabbage, leek and potato soup)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Soups have gained place into my life and my meals as the years pass. I have increased its consumption quite considerably and, above all, I have varied its ingredients and discovered they are perfect to warm cold days and nights.</div>
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With the low temperatures we are already having, I don't feel like eating salads any more, in their place, I need to take warm meals, as the appartment use to be freezing.... Once or twice a week, we cook a large pot of soups for our dinners, butternut squash, cabbage, leeks, it depends on the season, but they are all delicious and smoothy. </div>
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- One leek</div>
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- Two medium potatoes</div>
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Peel and chop all the ingredients. Place them in a large pot and cover all the ingredients with water (just cover, not more!). Add a drizzle of olive oil and salt and heat until it boils. Let it simmer for 20 minutes. Blend it and season if necessary. You can add some salted almonds and rosemary on top. </div>
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Cintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03537476036636999249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514177110624592714.post-65903796292450772122013-11-19T07:53:00.000+00:002013-11-19T07:56:01.784+00:00Rosemary, sundried tomatoe focaccia.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The smell of bread, olive oil from my town and tomatoes... These ingredients are the very gastronomical triumvirat of, at least, my mediterranean. If you have ever been to Catalonia, you may have tasted "pa amb tomàquet" which is no more that bread with rubbed tomatoe, sometimes garlic, and seasoned with generous drizzle of olive oil and salt. It is one of our best dishes, and maybe the most well known all over the wolrd. The secret of such a simple dish is to use high quality ingredients, specially with the olive oil. </div>
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Here in Ireland I have all the ingredients for making it, mainly because I brought my town's olive oil here with me, but there are lots of other mediterranean products which are not so popular. This focaccia is the perfect dish when I start feeling melancholic it provides a very mediterranean smell all over our small appartment when it is being baked. </div>
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Simply, this focaccia is one of the most beautiful plates I have ever cooked. It was really, really delicious and tasty, and I enjoy it so much. Moreover, it is quite easy, so no excuses!<br />
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Focaccia is a typical italian bread, which used to be topped with herbs and other ingredients. Lately, it has been made as a sweet bread, with raisinis, chocolate or others. It is similiar to pizza, because of it is quite thin bread with a fluffy interior. You can also see formaggio focaccia in the blog, which is Cheese focaccia, here <a href="http://www.trossetsdecuina.cat/2012/08/agost-barcelona-proposta-20-focaccia.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Focaccia de formatge</a>, you can use the google translator to translate this. </div>
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This is another Irish classic, discovered these last weeks. Guinness stout, is not only an irish souvenir, but also a crucial ingredient of its gastronomy. Guinness is widely extendend thoroghlly irish life, it has its own places in all pubs, in all stores and in all kitchen and fridge all over the country. Its darkness and depth in flavour bcome the perfect ingredient for sauces, breads.... and cakes!<br />
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The stout gives the cake a fluffy texture with a dark, almost black, colour, which is perfect for the cream cheese of the top. The original recipe is from Nigella Lawson, but I have made some changes, realated mainly to the amount of butter and sugar. In spite of these revisions, the cake still has the sponge texture of the original recipe. </div>
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- 125g butter<br />
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- 2 tsp cocoa powder<br />
- 275g plain flour<br />
- pinch of salt<br />
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As you can see from the recently posted recipes, I am immersed in autumn and its seasonal ingredients, and the fact is that I am really discovering new recipes which go strightaway to my must-be-cooked list. This bulgur recipe with butternut squash is an exemple. Don't know if you have ever tried Bulgur, in my case, this is the second time I use it and I am completely in love with it. Have you ever smelt the multicereal babie's porridge? It smells as delicious as Bulgur, and I am quite sure there is bulgur in its recipe. </div>
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Place the butternut squash on the baking sheet side up and roast for 30 minutes or until it is fork- tender. Meanwhile, cut the vegetables and sauté them with olive oil until onions start being tranlucent. When the butternut is tender, add the butternut squash fleet and the bulgur wheat to the onions and carrots, stir until well mixed and pour the water. Let it simmer for ten minutes, or until the bulgur wheat is done. Season with salt and pepper and add some leaves of rosemary. <br />
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Panellets are a traditional sweet from the Catalan countries. They are typically eaten during these days of october, specially the 31st of october and the day after, when we celebrate the "castanyada", which would be the equivalent of All Saints night or Halloween, Magosto or the celtic (also celebrated here in Ireland) samhain. It seems they were made to be eaten for the All Saints night, when everybody joined to pray for their died relatives and friends. It used to be a cold night, so they prepared high calorie meals to fight against the low temperatures.<br />
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Panellets, as well as chestnuts and sweet potatoes, were the main protagonists of the day. Nowadays, Halloween has also arrived to Catalan countries, and it is a cultural fight to avoid the disappearance of the typical "castanyada". If you visit Barcelona these days, you will find some women selling roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes on the corners of the main streets. It is a wonderful time there, despite the high temperatures they are having, because the smell of the burning wood fills the streets of the city. And yes, I loved autumn in Barcelona.</div>
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Panellets are small pieces of marzipan, savoured with different ingredients, such as chocolate, coffee, cinnamon, lemon or the most traditionals, made with almonds and pine nuts. It is a quite simple recipe. I would really like to encourage you to try them.</div>
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Serving 20 pieces of panellets.</div>
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- 200g almound flour</div>
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In a large bowl, mix together the almond flour with the sugar. Once combined, add the egg white and stir with a fork, until mixed. Place on the working surface and start kneading for five minutes, until it is soft and an heterogenic dough. Some recipes ask to reserve this dough for a few hours in the fridge; if you don't have enough time you can do it, but it is not necessary here.</div>
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Once we have the base, prepare the ingredients. In this case, we'll need a tablespoon of chocolate powder, lemon zest, cinnamon and chopped almonds. Cut the dough in four pieces, one for each of the flavours we want to use.</div>
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- lemon zest.</div>
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Add the lemon zest to the marzipan base and knead until well combined. Roll the dough into a tub and cut into small pieces. Place into the baking tray and bake for 8 minutes at 200º.</div>
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Make small balls with your hands. Place the yolk of the egg we've used before and dip the small marzipan balls into it before placing into the almond bowl. Make sure they are totally covered with chopped almond. Bake for 10 minutes at 200º, or until the almond is lightly brown.</div>
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Autumn has arrived, at least in Ireland, not in Catalonia, though, as it seems for the weather. But autumn is here for us, with the rainy days (less than expected, though) and still quite soft temperatures. And above all, its seasonal products which can be found everywhere, next to Halloween costumes. </div>
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However, what I love most of the autumn season are the smells, the burning wood smell and the baked sweet potatoes one, at home. I loved that burning wood smell when I was in my town, when the cold weather arrived and the day was becoming shorter. I thought I wouldn't be able to feel that feeling again, but it seems it is a quite common smell here in Ireland, too! </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It's been already four weeks since we landed in Ireland. Now, after having found an appartment for us I feel like returning to the kitchen, to the oven and to the blog. After leaving the country with just two bags, I now find myself without any of the kitchen gadgets I used to have in Barcelona, without my camara tripod and other valuous stuff... But things are going to get better with some time and pacience, so I decided to go on with everyhing I have now. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">One of the things of having a new kitchen is to discover how it works, specially the oven... so these days I'm trying to bake as much as I can to familiarize myself with it. The first recipe coming out of the oven was this irish soda bread. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">During my first days here, in the hostel we were staying, it was quite common to find this bread between the options of the included breakfast. As soon as I taste it, I realize it was not a plain bread, but a kind of cake, as it had sugar in it. The bread I made was sugar free, but you can also add some sugar, butter or some raisins, as well. </span></div>
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- 220g white flour<br />
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I am already returned from my holidays in Galicia, after leaving my old flat and my old kitchen for a new shared flat in front of the Sagarada Família and a new kitchen with almost no kitchen gadgets. When packing my things to move I decided to bring all my kitchen stuff to my town and now I haven't almost any of them in the new flat, so I have been avoiding my return to the blog and the kitchen for a while.<br />
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We are already at the middle of the summer here in Barcelona, and it is starting being unbearable because of the high temperatures we have. With this situation, and due to not feeling like going out of the flat, I decided to use the ice cream maker I had in the closet. I bought it two months ago, before moving and before holidays, and I used it with a vanilla ice cream recipe, as well as with a delicious and refreshing lemon sorbet, which I couldn't take any photos.<br />
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This stracciatella flavour ice cream is a good way to fight against this hot days! I totally recommend to have an ice cream maker if you would like to make home made ice creams; it is quite cheap and the ice creams are delicious and very soft if you use inverted sugar syrup or honey.<br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">This is going to be an exhausting month. But, at last, some changes are approaching here, starting with the fact that we are leaving this flat. It has always been difficult for me to leave houses, to move, and above all, to close mental drawers despite of being excited because we are finally moving on. I have left flats with great people and memories lived there, I have left flats leaving big friendships and relationships behind, and now, I leave this flat, in the center of Barcelona, in the middle of the Eixampe, just a pair of streets from Casa Batlló and la Pedrera, just five minutes from Plaça Catalunya. This centenary flat with typical and beautiful hydralic floor which has been my place during all these months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"> It is said that we should often do something for the first time; this month I am going to be lots of things for the last time. But moving, despite of being exhausting, can also bring some other great consecuences, such as farewell dinners. This recipe is the one I used for the first of these dinners.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">It is an easy recipe, as always. The honey and lemon juice give the plate a mediterranean character and a wonderful smell in the kitchen. You only have to turn on the oven, in one hour, you'll be enjoying this plate. </span></div>
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<br />Cintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03537476036636999249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514177110624592714.post-17022566791756062752013-05-29T14:55:00.000+01:002013-10-23T14:55:36.539+01:00New York cheesecake<br />
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When I was in New York, I remember myself trying to find a good place to enjoy and try, for the first time, a piece of New York cheesecake. In fact, I remember myself looking for a bakery while coming back from the Metropolitan Museum, and before deciding to enjoy a Hot frozen chocolate from Serendipity, instead. I would continue looking for some more days, until, one evening in Grand Central Station, waiting for the train to Pelham. I really love that place, it is an amazing station and felt like home to me, but what surprised me more was the mini market it has inside. </div>
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As you'll probably know if you have read my posts about New York, I always bought some fruits to dinner and two Magnolia Bakery cupcakes as a dessert for me and Jessica, but, one day I decided to buy myself a good piece of New York cheesecake in the market, so I got out of the Grand Central Station, went to the stairs of the Public Library, sat down there and enjoyed my cake. It was a cold december evening and the Bryant Park was full of Christmas shops and ice-skaters, and that cheesecake, despite of being too heavy for me, was full of flavour and vanilla smell. You can feel I miss New York city, can't you?</div>
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Place the cream cheese and the sugar in a bowl. With an electric mixer, start combining both ingredients until smooth, but not too much. It is important not to overbeat the butter because we don't need too much air inside. Add the eggs, one at a time, the greek yogurt and the lemon zest. Beat until combined, but remember, not more.<br />
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In addition, we have started running (again), and the truth is that after making some exercise, you feel like eating some healthy, fresh and tasty plates. This bruschetta has all these qualities and, furthermore, it has this broad bean pesto. </div>
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The broad beans pesto, also called <i>marò sauce, </i>is a typical italian sauce, despite of not being so known as the original pesto sauce. Accompanied with the pesto, this bruschetta made with fresh tomatoe and gouda cheese on a bread loaf is a delicious and healthy dinner. </div>
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are lots of carob trees in my town and its area. Its fruit is a black pod,
normally elongated and its picking is in autumn, after the almonds and before
the olives, but it can take longer than January. It is told that its pods were eaten
during starving Spanish civil post war, and I am afraid that long after it,
too. Later, it was also used to make chocolate or low quality ice-creams. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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flour has started being consumed and sold again, but not as a poor quality
ingredient, but as the perfect substitute for cocoa powder and chocolate in
some recipes. It tastes totally like chocolate, it has a strong chocolate flavor,
but with just a 2% fat in front of the 23% fat of the pure cocoa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to cover. A healthier and tasteful alternative to cocoa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to go to your kitchen right now and start making jam with any seasonal fruit
you have in your fridge: it's easy and cheap; it's healthy as you control the
amount of sugar and other components it will bring; you’ll be totally grateful
when in autumn you will be able to taste your amazing spring fruits jam and
above all, it tastes wonderfully natural. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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homemade jam. Surely, I am going to can some more before the season is over
because I am using it not only for breakfast, but also for desserts and ice
creams, so I am going to run out soon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ha san old fridge specifically for preserves. Now, I strongly believe in the
importance of doing these preservations and to take profit of seasonal
ingredients we have. In addition, it allows me to control the additives or
conservatives I eat in my life, as you can really use high quality ingredients
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safety of the food. One of these steps is to boil the jars during fifteen
minutes to sterilize them and let it cool before adding the jam. The second is
to assure all the jars are hermetically seal, and I use a simple method for
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brown sugar and the lemon juice. Turn on heat and bring it to boil while stirring
often. Let it simmer for thirty to forty minutes until desired consistency.
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disc of waxed paper before sealing the jars. Now, we are going to seal the jars
hermetically and it’s really simple: when the jars are sealed and the jam is
still hot, turn them over and let it cool and rest overnight before turning
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George is a very special day here in Catalonia. In fact, I would add,
this is the most special day for lots of people, including me. Saint
George is our Valentine's day, but the tradition is not only to give
a present to our lovers, but to give books and roses as presents.
Only books and roses, so this is an amazing day for writers, as well
as for flowers sellers. As you can imagine, the streets fill with
roses and books shops and everybody walks around while choosing the
right book and the most precious rose for their partner. This is a
really colorful, beautiful day for everybody. But aside of being a
great day, I always have the feeling of being the start of something,
the start of spring or warm days, and I always remember it as an
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most typical products is this Saint George bread, which was created 25 years ago
by Eduard Crespo, a baker from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:place></st1:city>.
This bread shows the catalan flag, made with a typical sausage meat called
"sobrassada" from <st1:place w:st="on">Balearic Islands</st1:place>
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difficult if someone is used to making bread but it can be a little confusing
because of the assembly process. I will try to explain you, but due to this
reason, it is better if you have a look at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-NBCeO7Ms">this video</a>, in which you’ll be able
to see the creator of this bread while making it. As I said before, the bread
has three different doughs (cheese, “sobrassada” and nuts) which have to be
made separately, because they haven’t the same moistness so we won’t need the
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while stirring with a fork or a spoon. When the dough is quite solid, start
turning the mixture with your fingers. The, transfer the dough to a clean
working surface a bit of flour and knead for ten minutes. The dough has to be
soft and not sticky. Return the dough to the bowl covered with a towel and let
it rest for half an hour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with the fingers until quite combined. Add water while stirring with a spoon
and then knead the dough in the surface until soft and not sticky. Let it rest
for another half an hour while you prepare the other dough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doubled in size. In this case, with the working surface lightly floured and
with the rolling pin, start rolling out the dough to rectangle of 1 centimeter
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sobrassada dough in four fringes, like in the video. You will have four
sobrassada and cheese fringes and another cheese one. We have to put them one
above the other, starting and finishing with a cheese fringe. These will be the
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There are certain ingredients which tend to be forgotten. Certain foods which not only we never cook, but also we hardly know what to do with them. Parsnip, radish, red cabbage and beets, among others, are on my list. I never buy them, but sometimes they appear in my fridge (as part of the organic food basket) and then I have to look for the best manner to cook them. This week has been radish and beets turn. The firsts are still there; the beets have been converted to an original and delicious recipe, which enlarges my official list of recipes from now on, not because of the recipe, but also because it has turned to be a very healthy food. </div>
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I am not sure if I have ever told you I am absolutely obsessed with hummus. I love it. I eat hummus every week and more than once. Thousands of different recipes and combinations, and a unique way of eating legumes. The colour of beets makes it really beautiful and appetizing, and it gives an extra point of creaminess. A perfect recipe as an appetizer with toast or pita bread.<br />
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<b>Beet hummus</b><br />
<b>- </b>2 beets<br />
- 1/2 onion, chopped.<br />
- 7oz chickpeas cooked.<br />
- 1 tbsp tahini<br />
- olive oil<br />
- lemon juice<br />
- salt<br />
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was my birthday, I turned 27. Despite some stomach problems I decided to make
my birthday cake although it wasn't a red velvet cake, as I initially had been
thinking, but a basic vanilla cake with rose decoration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to have turned 27, nor think about what I'll do or won't do, what I want or
don't want... I don't want to, but I don’t lye if I say that during the last
few weeks, even months, these questions have been occupying my whole time and
energy. What I want here, now, is just to be positive and keep going on,
trusting in myself and in people around me and to celebrate these 27 years,
accepting them as best as possible. And this cake really helps me... of course
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cake is a vanilla rose cake filled with cream cheese and strawberry jam. I used
an old recipe for the basic cake which I don't know from it came from. The
truth is that after making some different recipes for these kinds of cakes, I
have decided I'll always use my "genoise" recipe, which is butter
free. I haven't found any other better than that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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rose decoration you can find lots of tutorials on the net, but I have to say
it's a really easy technique. I recommend you to practice with some roses
before starting with the cake.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 2 cup (250g) flour<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 1 cup (225g) sugar<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 2/3 cup butter at room temperature. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 4 eggs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 2/4 cup milk<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 1tsp baking powder<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 2 tsp vanilla extract<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Preheat the oven to 180º. In a medium bowl, sift
together the flour, the salt and the baking powder. In another bowl, separate
the egg yolks and the whites and whip these egg whites on high speed until
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a large bowl, beat the butter for two minutes, add
sugar and keep beating until the mixture becomes creamy and pale yellow. Add
the egg yolks, one by one, until it is perfectly combined. It is the time to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter
mixture and beat until combined; alternate the flour with the milk until all
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Finally, add the whipped egg whites and fold carefully
until the mixture is smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake at
180º for about 45 minutes. Let it cool for 10 minutes before unmolding. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Cintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03537476036636999249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514177110624592714.post-41044062043413222712013-03-04T15:11:00.000+00:002013-10-23T15:12:09.282+01:00 Wishing for spring: Mixed berry coulis<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">Berries season is going to be here soon and, actually, you can already find them in some markets although they are not too sweet nor too cheap. When I opened the freezer last weekend I realized I still had some frozen mixed berries so I decided to use them before enjoying the fresh ones, as well as to complete the spring feeling this sunny and warm weekend brought to us. Moreover, I found some forgotten crepes from the <a href="http://www.trossetsdecuina.cat/2013/02/pastis-de-filloas-crepe-cake-with.html">crepes cake</a> I made some weeks ago, so it was the perfect match for a Sunday dessert: crêpes with berry coulis. I'm not sure about calling it coulis, as I decided not to strain it and enjoy it in a more rustic way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">It is a very easy and famous recipe that can be used with ice cream, fruits and other desserts as well as with meat. When I tasted it I automatically thought of vanilla ice cream with berry coulis, so this will be one of the recipes for next summer. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">You can make it sweeter by increasing the amount of sugar in the recipe, but I prefer to preserve the berry sour taste instead. You can find the crêpes recipe in the <a href="http://www.trossetsdecuina.cat/2013/02/pastis-de-filloas-crepe-cake-with.html">crêpes cake recipe</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">- 250g mixed berries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Cintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03537476036636999249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514177110624592714.post-30087976249792967622013-03-01T15:13:00.000+00:002013-10-23T15:14:32.060+01:00Cauliflower and leek soup<br />
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other day I heard a woman who said she knew if she had been eating well by the
state of the fridge at the end of the week: if empty, it had been a healthy
week; if it was full, it meant too precooked food or eating out. I totally identify
with that. I feel comfortable when I open the fridge and find nothing there; in
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with not enough time to cook, I have to deal with some ingredients and try to
find the better recipe to use them. And sometimes, I find it. This recipe is
the perfect example. This soup has a smooth texture and delicate flavour, very
wintery, a warm solution for these rainy days. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">I often repeat making bread at home is one of the most wonderful, rewarding things you can do. Preparing all the ingredients, kneading softly with your hands, discovering how the dough is taking consistency, keep looking how it grows impatiently and then, the wonderful smell coming from you oven. It is really a complete and therapeutic experience for any Saturday. However, the biggest pleasure comes when you taste them while being warm. And really, it is neither expensive nor exhausting, promise. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">The only thing you have to have is time and patience and they are, or should be, cheap ingredients, so there is no excuse to avoid making your own bread. These burger buns are one of the best recipes to start with, as they have no added difficulties if you follow the process and the result is amazing: you will not only have very soft and fluffy buns but also healthy ones made with olive oil instead of butter. Try it, you'll feel so proud of yourself once you've baked it…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">In a medium blow, whisk together the flour, salt and sugar. Add the egg and the half of the milk. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the other half of the warm milk with the yeast and stir until it has combined. Add the olive oil and put into the flour. Stir with a fork until it’s lightly combined and then transfer the dough to your working surface, lightly floured. Knead the dough for 10 minutes. Return the dough in the bowl, covered with film and let it to prove for about one hour. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Cintahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03537476036636999249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514177110624592714.post-54401969387725031582013-02-08T18:26:00.000+00:002013-10-24T18:28:25.840+01:00Berry mascarpone cupcakes<br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">It has been a while since I last made cupcakes, the last were the beer and lemon cupcakes from last summer, a very fresh recipe perfect for the Barcelona hot summers. These days, I find myself feeling like being spring yet, and I can't wait to have those long, sunny and warm days from april or may. I love spring, as well as winter, but I don't know why this winter feels too long to me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">I used all the time last weekend gave me to stay in the kitchen as much as I could. I woke up early in the morning, as I am used to during week days, took a peacefully coffee at the cozy corner coffee shop, and I came into the kitchen: cupcakes, burger buns and bread for all week. I had already taken photos when it was an appropriate hour to go out and enjoy fresh air, so I really exploited time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Today's recipe is not only the result of having frozen berries and mascarpone near the expiring date in the fridge and of my aim to use everything I buy before having to throw it away, but also to try a low-butter cupcakes recipe, as the batter is made with sunflower oil (and not too much) and the frosting is made of mascarpone. They were totally delicious and I really feel I have found the perfect basic recipe for cupcakes batter as it results very soft and fluffy. They certainly help to endure these last days of winter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 2 eggs</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 120g flour</span><br />
<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 40ml sunflower oil</span><br />
<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 1 tablespoon baking powder</span><br />
<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 50ml milk</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 200g mascarpone</span><br />
<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 30g de mantega</span><br />
<span style="color: #a64d79;">- 2 tablespoons berries puree</span><br />
<span style="color: #a64d79;"> - 60g caster sugar</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">In another bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder and start adding it slowly to the wet ingredients bowl. Whisk together until well combined. Divide the batter among the cupcake molds and bake them for twenty minutes or until they are golden brown. Let them cool completely before frosting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">For the frosting, cream together the mascarpone with the room-temperature butter, add the powder sugar until there are no lumps. Add the berries puree and combine until it's a smooth cream. You can refrigerate until cupcakes are completely cool, or if you think it is too runny. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">I don’t know the reason for not having a free time to cook or write here during this week. Maybe it’s because I am a bit exhausted mentally and I don’t find a moment for it. Maybe it’s because I don’t like the photos of this recipe, made in a hurry and without natural light. The fact is days have gone by without writing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">I discovered this bundt cake mold in the kitchen cabinet. This may happen when you are sharing a flat... I didn’t know we had it, if I had known that I would have used it before, but when I saw it, I couldn’t resist. This was the perfect office breakfast for a Monday morning. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">In addition, I had some ecologic grapefruit and some poppy seeds from the citrus cake, so this was an invented recipe which did not disappoint.. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;">- 8g baking powder</span></div>
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positive outcomes to taken decisions, but a decision is always correct. Decisions
are, or at least should, the result of have taken some time analyzing what you
feel, what you want and which your action alternatives are; the result of being
engaged with yourself and of having made the determination of advancing, or even going back, taken in a specific
context, not exchangeable to another one. Decision is a very conscientious and
subjective process you make in a precise moment. Therefore, decision is a
strong act from a consistent process, so it can never be considered as an
incorrect. The act of decide is always correct and can never be undervalued. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Instead, maybe what has brought you to a disadvantageous situation is not a conscientious decision, but a non-decision. Non-decision is dangerous. Non-decision made us forget our will and let us go to social context or manners' will, being not who we are but who we should be. Non-decision is when you abandon yourself to luck, when you do nothing to redefine the way, when you wait for an imaginary reward without your effort, which doesn't always arrive. The act of non-decision is always, always wrong and despite of being comfortable, you always realize about how wrong you are, and it is also always too late to solve it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Sometimes you feel you are in the limit of the decision, and that if it takes longer, you’ll be able to consider it a non-decision and it will be too late. Maybe you believe it is better not to think about it and let it flow: it is a non-decision. </span><span style="color: #741b47;">During this weekend I have felt like that, we have felt like that, in the limit of non-decision. The kitchen is my thinking place, so this galette, and something more, were the results of a morning in the kitchen, while I was thinking how to avoid non-decision taking, while I was totally immerse in decision process. This galette is not a wrong decision, isn’t it?</span></div>
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cut the pumpkin into small squares. In a baking dish, put the pumpkin pieces
and spray tops with a little bit of oil and a salt and bake for twenty or
twenty-five minutes, or until the pumpkin is soft. Let it cool. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tablespoons of brown sugar and a generous dash of Modena vinegar. Add the
rosemary and let it cook while vinegar reduces. Finally, add the half of the
goat cheese so it starts to melt, the other half will add before baking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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three or four centimeters of edge. Try to close the galette while folding and
sprinkle the goat cheese on top. Bake for twenty minutes or until the dough
crisp and lightly brown. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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or crêpes as you may know it, is a Galician typical dessert which is made,
traditionally, during carnival festivity. It is one of the most versioned desserts
existing nowadays, as they are known as pancakes in the anglo-saxon countries,
crêpes in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and they even have relationship with oriental phylo dough which is uses for
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place them in frozen bags and defrost for an hour before serving) so they are
the perfect lazy Sunday breakfast. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">The recipe for these crepes is from Pam (<a href="http://www.unodedos.com/recetario-de-cocina/filloas-filloas-de-leche-filloas-blancas/">Uno de dos</a>), the owner of a beautiful
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crepe. Continue layering and top with some jam and custard. You can cut the
crepes with a cookie cutter so it will be a smaller cake for two, as the one
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cuina is already two years old. I thought it was today, but it was on Monday,
so today, Trossets de cuina is a little more than two years old. Anyway, it has
been two years, 734 days, 34.000 visits and 117 followers, lots of met people (some
of them almost friends) uncountable cooking moments and lots, lots of
satisfaction. Because Trossets de cuina is not only a food blog, no, it’s
something more than this…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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cuina is a white piece of paper which was started to balance the lack of
challenges caused by my professional situation. It was the remedy that helped
me to focus; to meet me again with lost aims and aspirations buried in some
place among the last nine years; to remember what I want and mostly, what I don’t;
to comprehend that I am 70% from my origin and 30% from circumstances I am living;
to notice that I cannot live without feeling passion for whatever fills my day and
to push me to make it real. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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some more touchable things: to buy my first DSLR camera, a too cheap tripod and
some light reflecting paper; to occupy a closet only with plates, cloths and
other; to reuse old dishes and cooking gadgets; to buy unnecessarily new ones;
to collect cooking books and the last one; to enroll impulsively, in a food writing course. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this blog has made for me, but also and mainly, it’s been done by all of you
who are in front of it right now, because my biggest fulfillment would be to make
you feel like cooking the cookies I’m talking about, to make some buttercream
or just to prepare borages leaves with honey. My most sincere gratitude.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />- 175g de self-rising flour</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 1 tsp baking powder</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 150g butter</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 150g caster sugar</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 3 eggs</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- lemon and orange juice</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 50g poppy seeds.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a64d79;">Preheat the oven at 180º. Beat the butter with the
sugar; add the eggs, each at a time, trying to combine them properly before
adding the other. Mix gently until well combined and incorporate lemon and
orange juice. In another bowl, add the flour, baking powder and poppy seeds and
mix it. Combine both gradually while beating until perfectly combined. Take a
cake pan and grease it with butter before pouring the batter. Bake for 20-25
minutes or until tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Let it
cool while preparing the frosting.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Filling and
frosting</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 250g mascarpone<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 250ml chilled
whipping cream<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- 50g caster sugar<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- Lemon and orange
juice<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- Lemon, lime or grapefruit zest<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;">Whip the cream with sugar until
well formed peaks. Beat mascarpone and add it to whipped cream. Incorporate
juices and zest and combine until soft batter. It’s not a very sweet frosting,
so, you can add more sugar if desired.</span></div>
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<b>Candied lime and lemon</b></div>
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-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>100ml water</div>
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-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>72g caster sugar</div>
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-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thin slices of lemon and lime</div>
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Bring water and sugar to boil in a skillet until sugar is dissolved. Add lime and lemon slices arranging them in one layer and simmer until translucent. I cooked them during twenty minutes. </div>
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