I throw the apple at you, and if you are willing to love me, take it and share your girlhood with me; but if your thoughts are what I pray they are not, even then take it, and consider how short-lived is beauty.— Plato, Epigram VII Apples.What can we say about them?Apples appear in many religious…
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Semolina Slices With Cottage Cheese
Semolina is the name given to coarsely milled durum wheat mainly used in making couscous, pasta, and sweet puddings. The term semolina is also used to designate coarse millings of other varieties of wheat, and sometimes other grains (such as rice or maize) as well.So, now that we have clarified what semolina is, let’s go…
Tuscan-style Chicken Fillet
Tuscany.One of the most photogenic landscapes in the world. The land of delicious food and pleasant wines.Lines of cypress trees on the horizon, lonely trees, blooming poppy fields. Vineyards, sunflower fields.Medici family, Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Galileo Galilei and more and more.The medieval towns are perched on top of the hills.Florence, San Giminiano,…
Stewed Red Cabbage
Stewed red cabbage is a classic (holiday) side dish for roast poultry or pork. Because it is St. Martin and because festive dishes are eaten, roast duck or goose. And also anything else meaty. And we try a new wine.The red cabbage (purple-leaved varieties of Brassica oleracea Capitata Group) is a kind of cabbage, also…
Salted Chestnut Puree
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce.The unrelated horse chestnuts (genus Aesculus) are not true chestnuts, but are named for producing nuts of similar appearance that…
How to Mash Potatoes and Why
Mashed potato or mashed potatoes (American and Canadian English), colloquially known as mash (British English), is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt and pepper. It is generally served as a side dish to meat or vegetables. Roughly mashed potatoes are sometimes called smashed potatoes. Dehydrated instant…
Sneak Peak into the French Cuisine
So that it won’t just be my grandmother’s Austro-Hungarian cuisine, let’s try French cuisine this time.Do you know why the French eat snails? – Because they don’t like fast food.The French, and some others, swear that French cuisine is the best in the world. Maybe yes or maybe not. To the average non-French person, for…