Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Polvorones KINGS AND MY MEMORIES




The holidays were an incredible time in my family.

Each year, we met the cousins, uncles ... reaching nearly 40 or more on many occasions. The truth is that the house where I grew up was vastly larger.
But when that time came up came to seem small, yet they were the best days of the year.

The house was filled with people, friends, family, afternoon tea with a good cake, maybe a port in the evening, items dominoes and card ... talks and jokes, of hours in the heat of the fireplace and music evenings.


The nights seemed to run out, after dinner we stayed playing with my uncles and cousins \u200b\u200buntil my grandmother was a curfew and sent us to bed.


With little desire to sleep and be more willing to stay drinking that glass of anisette small ... we went to bed without complaining.


Eve dinners, New Year and Epiphany, were special.

is often accompanied by fine wines, champagnes and French Burgundies, turkey stuffed with dried fruit with Cumberland sauce accompaniment.
A applesauce, if necessary, the sweet almond cream-pudding and the English plan was put dessert and was served on round tray with a splash of brandy and a Mistletoe leaf top that was carried to the table on fire and with the lights off ...

! What show


I think I have rarely seen anything like it and is one of the traditions that keep Christmas and I repeat every year my home and family.

Rematábamos with typical Christmas cakes, almonds, pine nuts and some polvorones homemade flavor lemon were a delight to the palate.

! My polvorones!

It was in Twelfth Night and at the age of 7 years when the express order of the largest sent us to bed, following shortly after completing dinner. They hurry!


should be told in my family, Twelfth Night was special:

My uncles and cousins \u200b\u200bwere dressed in sheets and pans that were placed on the head and torch in hand began to march through the bottom of the garden. (He was big and had a great distance, so we could not see clearly)

First the phone rang: 211 853 (no longer exists, but that was the number) , was one of my uncles calling from a bar in the street, near the farm, posing as a neighbor, reported that we had just seen the Kings entering the farm.

then told us the largest, with signs of surprise and amazement! and took us upstairs to the gallery, large and huge, with a huge window, where we relied children scared to death, nervous, excited ... waiting to see the arrival of the Magi.


After a few minutes, my uncles and cousins \u200b\u200bappeared at the bottom of the farm, with its flaming torches and sheets tied around his neck.
Iban jumping as if they were riding camels and I remember clearly seeing the King Melchior with a layer of Ermine, in dark blue and white collar, decorated with precious stones, was accompanied by pages and camels laden with gifts ...
What makes a child's imagination ... even today, I'd swear I'd seen him really.

After this unforgettable experience, we put to bed or at least trying, sometimes it was almost impossible (our excitement was indescribable.)







But as fate would have that night with these 7 years, I could sleep and after spending some time and to hear noise, I looked out the top floor where we slept (It was a skylight, which was visible from the living room below), incredulous at what he saw the stairs went down a bit and sitting in one of the rungs of the same, I saw my uncles, cousins, grandparents .... They ate everything we had left for the Kings, as was the presents and ate the special polvorones Kings! my polvorones!. I froze, had discovered the truth!
But I did nothing, did not speak or cry, simply turned around and got into bed, knowing that it had completed a stage in my life. Realizing that began to be more adult and less girl.

The next day, I told my mother, who is scared, he told me not to tell anyone and that Reyes finished the night with the memory of Polvorones of the Magi, in the mouths of my family.

Even today I keep the tradition of preparing them for those dates and as my children are past 13 years, we eat with a good glass of Vintage.

Polvorones

INGREDIENTS:

- 125 grs. lard
- 500 grs. roasted flour
- 75 grs. icing sugar
- 1 CHDA. cinnamon
- lemon zest and juice of this

PREPARATION:

We toast flour moving in a pan to avoid burning.
- Melt the butter and incorporate it as the rest of the ingredients.
- Stir well.
- Fill ramekins with the shape of polvorón glass adorning them with sugar.
- Cut wrapping silk sachets.
- mantecados If we do, replace the cinnamon and ground almonds, baking them for a moment.


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Friday, February 11, 2011

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'm Amazed the warm reception I have had, I never thought that he might become interesting my opinions.


And thank you the first thing that comes to mind.

Who would be interested in my memories and their relationship with food?

My husband and my children: unconditional mother, encouraged me to follow step by step, without strain, slowly, like a fine wine saboreásemos, calmly, without haste thinking and maturing every sip we take.

I turn to ask, you really will be interesting to someone's memories of a life and its relationship with Food?

Maybe so, but for now I stand in a position of some uncertainty.

were days of waiting, open the blog with some fear.
Do you have read? I asked on several occasions. Will there be more tickets today? ask me again after a few hours ...
And meanwhile, recalled moments of my childhood that we will gradually discover.
Well, these days, in which I devote myself to think about my life perhaps more than it should, it is true that I agree with more intensity than ever from my childhood.

was born in Vigo, you'd think like everyone else, but it was not so.
As fate would place me in a family where cooking was crucial and the center of family gatherings.
As fate, nourishing me from succulent delicacies, exquisite, unforgettable.

Under the tutelage of my grandmother Elena Salgado and Nevis (my second mother), I was moving through a world of food, celebrations, dinners, cocktails, snacks ... a magical and privileged.

A childhood that would mark the rest of my life: food.

These aromas, textures, emulsions, soufflés ... part of my daily life, were part of my environment, my childhood. Were recorded in the most intimate to me.

In a world that is impossible to live today, I grew up. In a forgotten and obsolete, I formed my character, my true ego, I just walked slowly shaping up to be who I am today.

not always been easy times, I have been very tough stage, difficult, a very austere and even great hardship, but that helped me to mature, to be stronger.

could say that, really, in my life there were 4 stages:

1 - my childhood
2 - my teen
3 - my time at university and economic empowerment
4 - my family, my husband and my 3 children: Alejandra, Javier and Carlos.

all stages, have had their good side and its The downside, as we all happened, but all of them, my childhood was really great, I even dare say "unique."

And here we have one of these days a lot of memories come to mind.

The soufflé Vista-Alegre.

is a dessert that was at my great-grandmother with great love and care. Delicate, perfumed with a good cognac, and gives result in something almost ethereal. Lowers in seconds, is almost air in the mouth, but leaves a deep flavor, long length that lingers for several minutes.

Their preparation is not difficult, rather easy and I always remember the meals in Vista-Alegre (This is called the land of my great-grandmother and then the name of the soufflé) that almost always ended with a delicious sweet. Today with the soufflé.


SOUFFLE VISTA ALEGRE


INGREDIENTS:

- 12 eggs of good size and very fresh.
- 12 tablespoons sugar of fine grain.
- 1 dash of good brandy. The equivalent of 2-3 large tablespoons.

PREPARATION:

- ; Beat egg yolks with sugar until they whiten and bend volume.
- Add the brandy and mix well.
- Add the egg whites until soft peaks form. In 3 batches.
- dump it into a bowl, brush with butter and place in oven at 180 degrees (preheated).
- Remove when golden on top. Depending on the size of the mold will vary the time of the oven. But when you have uploaded the entire surface is golden and will be.
- Serve immediately
- Note : You can sprinkle with some sugar before baking.














The photo I downloaded from the internet, therefore it is not mine.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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5 DAYS OF NEW BLOG: ELENA DE MADARIAGA ZULUETA SCAMPI

Hi

After months of inactivity, i ome a new approach to blog, where you try to talk about recipes, they have to I see something that has occurred, whether or No travel, a dream, a memory, a job ...

took more than a year without writing. For two reasons: on the pro medical problems and to seek a mental break blogger activity.

addition after 3 major surgeries, I was not in the mood to get into the blog, so I put everything aside, but despite still not quite right (it seems I have another operation more) I have ventured back to revive this fascinating activity, continuing the blog, but giving a new focus, among other things, no longer anonymous.

problems of the past and resolved , have encouraged me to take this step also.

So at this point, I introduce myself: I am Elena Zulueta De Madariaga, the Director of the School of Hotel vigo: White Flour, which took almost 17 years as thereof. I studied 5 years of Business, I have a Masters in Management and Business Administration and ended up doing FP kitchen, which is what I really liked and I liked it. I am also a member of Eurotoques, chef de cuisine, m Adre 3 children, happily married (at least until current date), owner of a beautiful dog bobtail and lover of peace, plants and gardening, oil painting and books.

The truth is that many blogs in recipes, until I have one, but look for that alone, I want to do something different, I talk about my experiences related to

kitchen, my travels and dishes more connected you to them, in my childhood, really special and amazing memories and adorning plates. Of the wines that accompanied these menus and served as the table ...

In short, I write about something that evokes a recipe, not a recipe propiam entity that, rather a story where

protagonist is an experience and the result a prescription.

Would you like the idea?

probably not very attractive at first and it is possible that nobody reads, but still continue with the project, I feel like it and it relaxes me.

I forget and decide to be serious as I am, whether some may not like the idea.

do not mean to criticize or judge anyone, not for me to do, then never speak ill of any restaurant or any employee. It can be very harmful, even unwittingly, and it also I have learned.

But back to the start of the topic, I will comment as I did many other things to take this step: Viewing a fashion blog I recommended my daughter Alejandra (study design and fashion) and see RLO thought those pictures, apparently so simple, I remember a few canapés I took in Budapest a few years ago. They were simple, unpretentious ... but they were great, so that even today, after 4 years of memories.

The reason I got the idea I do not know, but mentally I thought about those canapés, appetizers, exquisite, delicate, simple and striking and I realized that were like those pictures, I passed feelings, ideas, bring me memories ...

why not make it happen?

Will you be there to check?

Will anyone follow me? Will I be able to transmit it?

I do not know what time shall we say, now I just want to introduce myself and tell you that I intend to, nothing more.

And besides, I have thousands of projects in my mind.

you help me with this?

I gladly accept, ideas, tips or anything, all support is welcome.

Also I leave the fashion blog link that helped me to take this step:

http://fashionskullsandsafetypins.blogspot.com/2011/02/on-street.html

No has nothing to do with my profession, but

has something that makes you stay on it for a while and read it.

is interesting and appealing. Simple and fun.

I spend the day sharing classes, cooking and teaching cooking, talking to employers to find work losalumnos, making training programs, writing prescriptions, scheduling courses ... but I also Like fashion, photography, plants, oil painting and many more.

! Too many hobbies when you do not have much free time!

If I invite you to go to the School:

www.harinablanca.com

worth one look.

Hope to see you soon and to exchange views.

Here you have an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat may be:

They're bananas sautéed in butter, garnished with borage scalded on a co applesauce and n crunchy chocolate.

is new, different and just like this blog, intended to make a good memory.

Today I give the recipe with more detail, it is too much for a first day, but as these photos are all simple elements and well combined, give us a striking result, different, special and even elegant.

As with clothes, we combined well

give the same result.

I've always said the same sentence:

WELCOME TO MY LITTLE BIG THIS WORLD

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

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SAO PAULO




Photos: Shintori teppanyaki, Liberdade market with a restaurant on the second floor and the chef Ana Luiza Trajano de Brasil A Gosto.

This city never sleeps. At any time and in any neighborhood you find a supermarket, a bookstore, a pharmacy, a gym and even a church open to the public.
There are thousands of restaurants, bars, bars and places to eat delicious snacks like bread de queijo, a brigadier (one kind of chocolate truffle), a goiabada (Similar to crushed guava) or Beijinho (sweet coconut). Guided by the magazine
Go Where Gastronomy "Os melhores de Sao Paulo 2010" and the comments of the critic Josimar Melo restaurant I visited some of the city. Outside the DOM, Alex Atala great restaurant is recognized as Chef of the Year for the second year, I was fortunate to stay at the Tivoli, where the floor 23 is "Vintetres" the Catalan Sergi Arola restaurant (two Michelin stars ) also have a splendid view of the city offers a recreation of classic English tapas like patatas bravas (spicy tomato sauce and mayonnaise), meatballs tuna, cod fritters impeccable and extensive menu of drinks and cocktails.
Brazil has the largest Japanese colony in the world, nearly two million people, of whom 75% live in Sao Paulo. Inevitably, then, that there are hundreds of sushi bar, especially in the picturesque village where the market Liberdade, streets, shops and people are predominantly Eastern. There reigned for several years the restaurant Kinoshita (first place in Japanese cuisine), now moved south to a more exclusive neighborhood (Vila Nova Conceicao). Kinoshita perfect sushi offers fresh fish and a tasting menu that surprises the proposal for a classic yet innovative cuisine with dishes ranging from miso sauce tuna jumped up seafood topped with salmon eggs and perfumed with truffle oil.
another concept is handled Shintori (third place in Japanese cuisine) restaurant that has more than thirty years old and receives more than a hundred guests in turn, a local sympathetic divided into small living quarters as you want to eat sushi, sashimi or teppanyaki.
The Brazilian cuisine is a large A Gosto representative (first place in its category.) At the forefront is the young chef Ana Luiza Trajano offering dishes from different regions of Brazil with a personal touch. An example: the fish served with mashed banana crunchy chestnuts and lime vinaigrette. A wonderful snack.
French immigration also left its mark. I visited the bistro Le Vin (first place), local relatively small, warm, family atmosphere and packed with diners who keeps a bakery on the side and in front of a bakery. A natural oysters as a starter, a lamb in red wine sauce and a creme brulee frankly left me a memorable souvenir. The wine of Argentina, because on previous occasions the Brazilian came too I was not enthusiastic.
As a final point I want to mention that La Mar, Gastón restaurant, not only in the third place in the category "Best fish restaurant and seafood "but the ceviche, tiraditos, causes and tacu tacus are included among the recommendations of the best food guides in the city. In Sao Paulo
eats well and walks better. You must visit the MASP art museum located in the Avenida Paulista has in its permanent collection, including an enviable number of works of the Impressionists (why we are so behind us, oh my God?). Another visit to be missed is the Museum of Modern Art and the Parque do Ibirapuera where is the art biennial. There is a garden designed by Brazilian artist Burle Marx, works of Oscar Niemeyer, and of course a lovely restaurant in the MAM.