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"L'occhio del padrone ingrassa il cavallo." (The eye of the owner makes the horse fat. A business thrives under the eye of its owner.) Welcome to another recipe edition from Adriana's Italian Bakery!
This week's Italian recipes:
-Crab Soup
-Baked Endive with Nutmeg
-Chocolate Souffle
If dishes were wishes, then I wish you many. Enjoy this week's recipes!
Arrivederci e a presto!
Yours Truly,
Adriana Ciccarello
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Recipe: Crab Soup |
Crab Soup
Zuppa di Granchi
Ingredients:
1 onion
1 fresh thyme sprig
1 clove
2 and 1/4 lbs (1 kg) live crabs
2 tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped
3 and 1/2 fl oz (100 ml) dry white wine
1 egg yolk
1/2 tablespoon cornflour
Pinch of saffron threads
Salt and pepper
Thick bread slices, toasted, to serve
Directions:
Cook the onion in boiling water for about 20 minutes until soft, then drain.
Bring 2 pints (1.2 liters) lightly salted water to the boil, add the thyme and clove and plunge in the crabs.
Cover and cook for 5 minutes, then drain, reserving the cooking liquid.
Stand each crab on one edge, then prise the shell apart with your thumbs.
Break off the legs and claws, crack them open and pick out the meat.
Pull off and discard the gills from the sides of the body, split open the body and prise out the meat.
Chop the crab meat and the boiled onion and combine them with the tomatoes.
Add the mixture to the reserved cooking liquid, pour in the wine and cook over a medium heat for about 15 minutes.
Beat the egg yolk with the cornflour in a bowl, then stir into the soup.
Season with salt and pepper and stir in the saffron just before ladling into a soup tureen.
Serve the soup very hot with toast. Serves 4.
That's it!
Recipe: Baked Endive with Nutmeg |
Baked Endive with Nutmeg
Indivia Belga in Teglia Alla Noce Moscata
Ingredients:
Butter, for greasing
1 and 3/4 lbs (800 grams) endive, trimmed
3 oz (80 grams) breadcrumbs
Generous pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
Salt
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) Gas Mark 4.
Grease an ovenproof dish with butter.
Place the endive in a steamer and steam for about 10 minutes.
Remove from the heat, cut each head in half and place in the prepared dish.
Season with salt and sprinkle with the breadcrumbs and nutmeg.
Bake for 15 minutes until golden. Serves 4.
That's it!
Recipe: Chocolate Souffle |
Chocolate Souffle
Souffle Al Cioccolato
Ingredients:
1/2 oz (15 grams) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
Vanilla sugar, for dusting
3 oz (80 grams) plain chocolate, broken into pieces
1/2 pint (300 ml) milk
1 and 1/4 oz (35 grams) plain flour
2 oz (50 grams) caster or superfine sugar
3 egg yolks
1 egg white
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) Gas Mark 6.
Grease a souffle dish with butter and dust with vanilla sugar.
Put the chocolate and 6 fl oz (175 ml) of the milk in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water and stir constantly until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
Put the flour in another saucepan, pour in the remaining milk and mix well.
Stir in the sugar and chocolate mixture, bring to the boil and cook, stirring constantly, for 2-3 minutes.
Remove from the heat and leave to cool slightly, then stir in the butter, then the egg yolks one at a time.
Stiffly whisk the egg white in a grease-free bowl and gently fold it into the mixture.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared dish so that it is two-thirds full and bake for about 30 minutes until risen and set.
Serve immediately. Serves 6.
That's it!
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Only In Italy! |
"Only In Italy" is a daily news column that translates & reports on funny but true news items from legitimate Italian news resources in Italy. Each story is slapped with our wild, often ironic, and sometimes rather opinionated comments. And now, for your reading pleasure:
Robbers Caught in Bank Raid Wearing Silvio Berlusconi Masks
Rome - February 11, 2009 - Two Sicilian bank robbers have been caught breaking into a bank in Turin wearing carnival masks representing the features of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his close business and political associate Marcello Dell'Utri.
Possibly inspired by the Hollywood movie Point Break, in which a group of surfers robbed banks wearing masks of former presidents of the United States, the men were armed with imitation handguns.
They were overpowered by Carabinieri military police as they attempted to flee a branch of Unicredit Bank with Euros 70,000 (90,000 USD) in a backpack after an employee who had witnessed the robbery from a lavatory raised the alarm.
Newspapers on Wednesday published photographs of the arrests taken by a man whose apartment overlooks the bank. The robbers were identified as brothers Michele and Matteo Manganaro, aged 45 and 46, from Catania. A third accomplice reportedly escaped.
The choice of masks could be mildly embarrassing for Mr Berlusconi, who has been accused over the years of bribery, false accounting and collusion with the Mafia, but has never been convicted. His friend Mr Dell'Utri however, who hails from Sicily, has convictions for false accounting, tax evasion and complicity with Cosa Nostra.
Berlusconi: "I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone."
Berlusconi: "I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many pricks around who would vote against their own best interests."
Berlusconi: "Italy is now a great country to invest in...today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries...superb girls."
Berlusconi: "Eighty-five per cent of the Italian press is left-wing and among the judges it is even worse... There is a cancer in Italy that we have to treat: the politicization of the magistracy."
Berlusconi: "I believed and still believe that citizen Berlusconi should be praised for having prevented the state's wealth from being looted... I was expecting a Gold Medal for Civil Worthiness for ensuring the state earned 2,000 billion [Italian lire]."
Berlusconi: "If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest."
Thief: "...so I deserve this money!"
Thief: "...so don't be a prick and press the alarm button! It's in your own best interest."
Thief: "...I'm going to invest this cash in superb girls who are ex Communists!"
Thief: "...Hurry up! The cancer is spreading. I need this cash for chemotherapy!"
Thief: "...where was my praise?! My gold medal? Where?! Cazzo! I'm taking this before it gets looted by the state!
Thief: "...I'm taking care of everyone's interest and my own. There will be no conflict, so open the safe!"
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