by SandeeA | 21 May 2013 | Breads, Main courses, Meat recipes, Savory recipes
Beef Wellington is a preparation of beef tenderloin coated with pâté (often pâté de foie gras) and duxelles, which is then wrapped in puff pastry and baked. The origin of the name is not clear, although it is commonly accepted that Beef Wellington is named after...
by SandeeA | 10 May 2013 | Cakes and cookies, Recipes for kids, Sweet recipes
{Chocolate bar cake}Prep time: 30 min Cooking time:25 min Serves: 6-8 Ingredients Sponge cake: 3 eggs room temperature, medium size75 sugar (1/3 cup)40 ml vegetable oil (1/5 cup)75 g flour (2/3 cup)1 tsp baking powder Whipped cream: 125 ml whipping cream, very cold...
by SandeeA | 4 May 2013 | Desserts, Sweet recipes
I am doing a cooking course at a culinary school, and one of our first activities was to create different desserts which involved grilling fruit. Fruit is perfect for the grill because it is so easy to prepare and the heat of the grill whether, induction, electric,...
by SandeeA | 23 April 2013 | Appetizers, Easter recipes, Fish recipes, Recipes for kids, Savory recipes, Starters, Vegetable recipes
The name for this potato salad in Spain is “ensaladilla rusa”, or Russian Salad. It seems that the original version of the salad was invented in the 1860s by Lucien Olivier, the chef of the Hermitage, one of Moscow’s most celebrated restaurants. The...
by SandeeA | 11 April 2013 | Cakes and cookies, Desserts, Recipes for kids, Sweet recipes
According to the Bible, after Noah’s flood, God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of His promise that He would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17):”I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between...
