Evento Photoblog

I´m really excited. I´m the winner of September Evento Photoblog with this picture: Yogurt Trifle with Gelatin and peaches

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Berries crumble

This is my second contribution to Whole Kitchen. The sweet proposal in september is the british dessert crumble.

Crumble is a dessert very easy and quickly to do. We can make it with a lot of different fruits. I made a berries crumble but it´s very good with apple, peach, rhubarb or plum.

Ingredients:

75g of Butter

175g of All purpose flour.

A pinch of salt

50g of Sugar

400g of berries

4 or 5 Spoon of brown sugar.

Preheat the oven 350ºF/180ºC . Put the berries in a ovenproof dish, add the brown sugar and mix them.

Put the flour and the sugar in a large bowl and mix well. Taking a few cubes of butter at a time rub into the flour until it forms mainly sized crumbs.

Sprinkle the crumble mixture on top of the berries.

Bake in the oven until the crumble is browned and the fruit mixture bubbling, about 40 or 45 minutes.

Serve with cream, ice cream or custard.

Pizza Margherita

I´ve just joined to Whole kitchen. The savory proposal in september is an italian cuisine classic, pizza.

Pizza Margherita has this name to Queen Margherita, wife of Umberto I. She loved the combination of mozzarella, tomato and basil (white,red and green). Italian flag colors.

Ingredients for 4 medium pizzas:

Pizza dough:

500g of strong white flour

350g of fresh water

10g of yeast

10g of salt

Pizza toppings:

4 ripe tomatoes in slices

2 mozzarella cheeses

Some basil leaves

Some good olive oil

First we have to make the dough. Dissolve the yeast in the water, add the flour and finaly the salt. Knead until it´s robust and flexible. Put the dough in a warm place and wait until it rise. It must double its size. It takes about 1 hour.

Preheat the oven 450º F(330ºC). Divide the dough in 4. Form balls of dough. Take one ball of dough and flatten it with your hands on a slightly floured work surface. Starting at the center and working outwards, use your fingertips to press the dough to 1/2-inch thick. Turn and stretch the dough until it will not stretch further. Let the dough relax 5 minutes and then continue to stretch it until it reaches the desired diameter.

Place the tomatoes, the cheese and the basil on the dough. Sprinkle with the olive oil.

Bake pizza one at a time until the crust is browned and the cheese is golden, about 10-15 minutes.

Chickpeas salad (Ensalada de garbanzos)

Legumes are very common in spanish traditional food. We use to eat beans, lentils and chickpeas in stew or soup. But when it´s hot it doesn´t feel like eating hot dishes. There´s a summer way to eat legumes . You can prepare a legumes salad. It´s very easy to make and also very quickly. All you need is:

Ingredients

A glass jar of cooked chickpeas *
1/2 Red onion
1 Can of good spanish black olives
Good spanish olive oil
Salt
Pimenton (smoked spanish paprika)

* If you can´t get a glass jar of cooked chickpeas, soak the chickpeas in fresh water all the night, then cook them until they are tender. Wait until they cool down so they´re ready to use in the salad.
Just mix the chickpeas, the onion and the olives. Sprinkle with the olive oil and season it with salt and "pimentón". If you want you can add a tomato, some corn... Whatever you want.