Monday, March 7, 2011

Testing For Illegal Bats

Roberta said it! ... Guests to Mattia Poggi! tonight, 20:30, Channel 416 on SKY TV on ALICE!





















A couple of weeks ago I was invited to cook in the kitchen of sympathetic Matthew Poggi, Editor ALICE TV, for recording of an episode of the "Matt said it! ... and that one day and 'turned into" Roberta said that "!
The recipe presented is that of Meatloaf stuffed crust bacon ... already on my blog
The episode will go 'on air tonight, March 8, 2011 at 20.30 on Sky, channel 416





















and then repeated the following days:
March 9, 2011 15:30
March 10, 2011 9:30
March 11, 2011 3:30 (for night owls!)

Enjoy! (For those who obviously will not be able 'to see me I'll put' early recording of the episode on the blog :-))
what else to say ...
the experience of being able to cook in a kitchen of a television studio ... it is undoubtedly thrilling and very exciting!
From a simple blog and then moved behind the camera to offer their own recipe here ... well ... in short ... is a nice personal satisfaction! Of course ... I'm not sure of the Clerici or parody of the case ... but in my little experience ... this gave me so much! Like a little dream come true ... in short, a wonderful memory from remember! ALICE TV
staff that welcomed me in Rome was very kind and hospitable and Matthew Poggi put me immediately at ease. Matt is just like you see on TV ... nice, spontaneous, genuine! Besides being wonderfully nice (let me say)! I've always liked Matt for his cooking simple, immediate, and as I say, "feasible". Her recipes are creative, understandable and easy to realize just how ... just like me!

And now ... still a nice picture ... I remember Matt's autograph with a dedication to e. .. a warm greeting to all my readers!



Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Hard Cervix Pregnancy

Bignoli cream







And 'officially opened the carnival period ... that made masks, confetti and streamers .. . but mostly because of the mess in the kitchen and all those sweets and pleasantly greasy fried carnival that there are grants with less guilt by ... Carnival comes only once a year! (Same excuse used for Christmas ... Easter ... etc. eccettera! Eh eh eh).
This time, besides the usual "Chatter" (frappe, rags, lies ... if you prefer), we also prepared the Bignoli (piamontese typical cake) stuffed with cream. The mixture of
Bignoli is the same as cream puffs, which is then fried and stuffed with any type of cream ... custard, chocolate cream ... vanilla pudding (* ) ... well ... anything you like!
The recipe I found in the February issue of Modern Kitchen that I report below ...
The procedure is simple but not so fast because first you need to prepare the mix ... then fry ... then prepare the pastry cream ... and then clean the whole kitchen :-)
but once a year you can do ... come on in the kitchen! The only one eye ...
Bignola leads to another!

Serves 4-6 people:




















  • 150 g
  • flour 25 g sugar (in my opinion the amount of sugar should be doubled! 25 gr am definitely few ... the next time it will definitely increase the dose!)
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 dl water 1 dl milk 40 g butter
  • zest of half a lemon (lemon untreated)
  • 1 pinch of baking soda 1 pinch of salt
  • oil for frying (I use peanut oil, the best vegetable oil for frying olive oil ... after that obviously takes good high temperature and the taste is neutral)
  • icing sugar to taste for garnish
for cream:
heat 5 cups milk half with vanilla bean
beat 5 egg yolks in a bowl with 125 grams of sugar and 50 grams of flour
stir in the hot milk (remove the first pod)
transfer the mixture into a saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring for 10 minutes or until a thick cream

to prevent the cream to form a surface film annoying, just removed from the heat cover with a disk of buttered parchment paper and let cool completely


(*) nb I had little time I folded with a filling "flash" using the vanilla pudding ... let an occasional trick with some variation not just from top pastry! Whatever the outcome ... was really good!


Procedure:


  1. together in a saucepan the milk, water, butter, lemon zest, sugar, baking soda and salt and bring it to boil (1 photos )
  2. remove the pan from the heat, remove the lemon peel, add the flour all at once (2 photos ), and stir vigorously
  3. again put the saucepan on the stove and cook the mixture until you are away from the sides (3 photos )
  4. Transfer to a bowl and let cool
  5. incorporated dough eggs, one at a time (4 photos ), and knead until it becomes smooth and fry, withdrawing a little at a time with two spoons in hot oil (5 photos )
  6. drain the cream puffs on a paper towel and allow to cool ( 6 photos)
  7. prepare the custard, as mentioned above, and let cool (I used the simple vanilla pudding)
  8. drilled slightly cream puffs with the tip of a knife and insert the cream using a pastry bag, or syringe, with a small plain nozzle
  9. now sprinkle with plenty of cream puffs with icing sugar and serve

















and Carnival all good now ... even from my "puppy"!