So that the board does not slide on the table

How to improve the taste of tomato sauce
If the tomato sauce is too acidic, sugar will help soften its taste. But in this case, the number of calories in the dish will increase significantly. If this is important to you, replace sugar with baking soda. Only half a teaspoon is enough for the excess acid to go away.

Take care of your nerves
Cooking will take place in a more relaxed atmosphere if you prepare all the ingredients necessary for the dish in advance. Believe me, this is much better than in a hurry to peel the garlic, which was supposed to be in the pan five minutes ago.

Dry meat
Before cooking meat or poultry in a pan, they must be thoroughly dried – for example, using a paper towel. Excess moisture prevents the formation of an appetizing crust, and the meat is more likely to be stewed than fried.

Give the meat a break
After removing the meat from the fire, do not rush to cut it into pieces. The steak needs to “rest”, otherwise all the juices will leak onto the cutting board, and the dish will turn out dry. Usually 5-7 minutes is enough.

Sauté nuts and spices
It may seem strange to you, but professional chefs always fry nuts and spices in a dry frying pan before adding to the dish. This is necessary in order to stretch the essential oils and enhance the taste and aroma of the product.

Cut desserts with a warm knife
Hold the knife in hot water for one minute, then wipe it dry quickly and start slicing the cheesecake or any other “sticky” dessert. The pieces are guaranteed to be neat.

Add acid
If something is missing from the dish, it is almost always acid. Add some wine, lemon or orange juice – we are sure that you will like the new taste.

The secret of juicy meat
Almost all restaurant meat is cooked in brine before cooking – and for quite a long time, from 4 to 12 hours. This trick helps to maximize the preservation of juices inside the product during its heat treatment – for turkey and chicken it is especially important. Add your favorite spices to the brine to give the meat a spicy taste and dye the skin in a darker shade.

How to keep greens fresh
To keep leafy vegetables and herbs fresh for several days, place them in a container after covering the bottom with paper towels. They absorb excess moisture and prevent quick spoilage of the product.

How to make the sauce glossy
To give a pleasant glossy shine, as well as a thick and rich texture to the sauce, professional chefs add a few slices of cold butter to the finished gravy. Just don’t let it boil! Just wait until the butter has melted, and immediately remove the sauce from the heat.

Do not wash the pan. Deglaze!
Whatever sticks to the bottom of the pan, do not rush to wash it off. Add quite a bit of wine or broth to get a delicious gravy that has gathered the taste of all the products cooked in the dishes.

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Valentine’s Day is universally celebrated in different parts of the world, lovers give each other gifts, send valentines, confess their feelings … The magic of Love seems to be in the air and the winter day on February 14 magically becomes a real spring holiday!

Your care for your beloved can also be expressed in a culinary gift – for example, to prepare for breakfast on Valentine’s Day and bring him to bed, the morning awakening to the scent of fragrant coffee will leave few people indifferent. And you can arrange a romantic dinner with candles for a glass of sparkling wine.

I suggest that you prepare Tiramisu today – a very airy, gentle Italian dessert, with an amazing contrast of sweet creamy cream and a bitter taste of strong coffee. However, it is useless to explain what Tiramisu tastes like, it’s just worth a try. The recipe for classic Tiramisu includes: cream cheese Mascarpone, chicken eggs, espresso, sugar and Ladyfinger (biscuit), on top, dessert is usually sprinkled with cocoa powder.

Now Tiramisu is very popular all over the world, but his homeland is Italy. In translation from the Italian Tiramisu means “Lift me up” or “Take me up”

There is still a version of what it means to “cheer me up”, but more often the name “Pick me up” is associated with the version that Tiramisu has a kind of invigorating, exciting effect and that the Italian grandees ate this dessert before loving dates.

Classic Italian dessert tiramisu is a delicate treat for all lovers of sweet. Try to cook our unusual version of tiramisu with lemon notes.

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INGREDIENTS

• 300 g mascarpone
• 4 eggs
• 170 g of sugar
• pinch of salt
• 3 lemons
• 1 lime
• 100 ml of limoncello
• cocoa powder

To make the tiramisu work well, the main thing is not to overdo the Ladyfinger (biscuit Savoyardi) cookies in the impregnation, otherwise the dessert will flow, the best option is to dip the biscuits in impregnation for one second. You can prepare this delicate dessert as in separate small forms or glasses, and in one large.

How to make lemon tiramisu

Remove the zest from the lemons, and from one squeeze the juice. Separated egg yolks from proteins. In a separate bowl, whisk yolks and a half of sugar to white, then add mascarpone and whisk for another 2-3 minutes. Add lemon juice and zest, whisk a little more. In another bowl, whisk to a strong foam proteins, adding 2 tbsp. l. sugar and salt, then very gently interpose them in the mass of yolks with mascarpone.

In a suitable container, mix the remaining sugar with limoncello, lemon juice and lime until the sugar is completely dissolved. Dip the savoyardi into the resulting syrup and spread it into a mold, then a uniform layer of cream, and so before filling the mold. The last layer should be a cream. Evenly sprinkle the dessert through a cocoa mesh powder and take it to the refrigerator for 6 hours.

We will reveal some secrets of preparing ice cream at home – no worse than what is served in cafes and restaurants.

In the preparation of ice cream, the most important thing is to withstand the technological process – not the most difficult actually. In industrial production, the raw mix is ​​filtered, cooled under pressure and frozen with air saturation in special machines. The resulting soft ice cream is packed and sent for quenching.

At home, you can use a freezer (automatic or semi-automatic), but if it is not there is nothing to worry about. There are other fairly simple ways to bring the ice cream “into shape”.

Use thickener
The main components of ice cream are milk, cream, sugar and thickener. Thanks to the latter the ice cream becomes tender and freezes well. The role of the thickener is played by yolks, gelatin, agar-agar or starch. Without them, ice cream will not keep in shape and quickly melt.

The most simple ice cream can be made from 2.5 cups of milk, 1 glass of sugar, 4 eggs and vanillin. Egg yolks need to be ground with vanillin and sugar until they are completely dissolved (do not beat), pour the mixture into a saucepan, add hot milk, boil until the mixture thickens and the foam disappears, strain through a sieve and freeze.

Mix and saturate with air
The principle of the ice cream maker is as follows: it freezes the mixture while mixing it, saturating it with air and not letting the crystals freeze. After the ice cream, the mixture must be transferred to the mold and sent to hardening in the freezer.

In the absence of ice cream, there are secrets of cooking. The correct texture of the product can be achieved without special equipment.

The first option: the prepared mixture is put in the freezer and whipped every 15 minutes with a blender, mixer or whisk until a soft “semi-finished product” is obtained. It should be left in the freezer for another 3 hours.
The second option: take two tins – one bigger, another smaller, to fit in the first. Pour the mixture into a smaller jar, tightly close the lid, put in a large jar, which is also tightly closed with a lid. And for an hour and a half calmly and accurately roll the jar to and fro. This will allow the mixture to mix well and be saturated with air. After that, the contents are transferred to a bag and placed in the freezer for several hours.

Withstand ice cream before serving
Before serving ice cream it is recommended to keep it in the refrigerator for a day. To allow to freeze cold and avoid the formation of “fast” ice crystals or stratification. So it’s better to cook ice cream the day before the filing.

Experiment with filler
To the basic recipe for ice cream, you can add various fillers – syrups, fruits, nuts, chocolate, etc.

The syrup is added to the ice cream before freezing, and the fruit or nuts – in the process, when it starts to solidify.

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To make chocolate ice cream, add 50 grams of dark chocolate to the hot yolk mixture and mix thoroughly until the chocolate dissolves.

Lemon ice cream can be made by adding condensed milk, lemon juice and a little lemon peel to the mixture.

Banana ice cream is made as follows: bananas are ground to a puree state, add egg yolks with sugar, cream (300 g) and heat on the fire until thick. The mixture is cooled and placed in a freezer in a periodic stirring and shaking.

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Sugar can always be replaced with honey, which will give the ice cream an original taste.

Think about filing
To serve ice cream “as from a restaurant”, use special “scissors” for cutting balls. They cost inexpensively, and the result will be neat ice cream balls in the sherbet dish. You can do without this device – then you’ll have to learn how to cut balls with an ordinary spoon.

Bon Appetit!

A stunning holiday cake! Very delicate and incredibly fragrant.

Key Lime  Pie is a branded dessert that comes from hot Florida, consisting of an ingredient available for the tropical climate – lime of “Key Lime” but an ordinary variety is also quite suitable. One of the main secrets of making the right Key Lime unit is not too long to bake. Today there are a lot of variations on the lime pie theme all over the world, but they all revolve around the cheesecake principle: a fine sand base and a lot of rich, delicate stuffing. The version of the unit we are preparing in UpsideDownCake is even more tropical – due to the addition of coconut chips to the composition of the cake. Acid-sweet, with a thin lime bitter, it resembles foaming lemonade. A real salvation on a hot summer evening.

And here is the recipe of the unit for 8 servings:

To bake the cake we take cornflakes (6,17 oz), sugar (2,4 oz), grind in a blender. Add the butter (3,5 oz), a little vegetable oil and bring to a homogeneous mass. Spread it evenly into a mold with high sides and put in the oven for 10 minutes. Have gotten – let’s cool down.

Now is the time to start the filling. For her diligently mix in the blender 2 eggs, 6 yolks, lime juice (8 oz) and condensed milk (21,5 oz). We lay out on the time to cool down the cake and send it all together in the oven for another 10-15 minutes. After that, we send to the refrigerator for as long as you have patience – in a chilled form it will be easy to cut. Before serving, decorate Key Lime with cream, slice and lime.

Bon Appetit! Have a Merry Christmas!

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This wonderful drink combines milky foam and strong spicy tea.
Tea-latte is an excellent alternative to coffee and ordinary tea, so it will be an excellent option for a drink for winter days and evenings, and as an addition to a hearty breakfast.

Interestingly: if you use a special device for heating milk or a coffee machine with a steam tube, the drink will get more foamy.

Spicy Latte Tea
To make this drink you will need a variety of spicy spices: cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, ground pepper, cloves, as well as black tea, milk and water. To make a drink, pour water into the Turk, milk and tea, add spices and sugar, bring to a boil. Then you need to whip the milk separately and add foam to the drink.

Camomile tea latte
This version of the drink is perfect for those who suffer from stress and strain, as chamomile will help calm down and relax. To prepare this drink it is necessary also, as well as previous, only instead of spices to use a dried chamomile.

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Caramel-chocolate tea-latte
What a winter night without chocolate? This drink will be a real treat for you and your guests. In milk, tea and water, add caramel syrup and a little cocoa, or real chocolate. All this also lead to a boil, top add milk foam.

If you look at the history of Latte, then it is a native Italian drink, which in this country is considered traditional and national. There are a lot of recipes for its preparation, but those that include mate, tea or Rooibos leaves are very popular.

Immediately I wanted to pay attention to the very delicate taste and sweetish-spicy flavor of this tea. Everyone who has ever tried it at least once, will confirm that it just melts on the tip of the tongue, conquering receptors with incredible sweetness. This drink is able to give just a magical pleasure and true pleasure.

However, to feel all the versatility and unusualness of tea can be provided that it is properly brewed. On this issue, we will dwell in more detail below.

The drink is very fragrant, soft, tasty and at the same time “airy-light”. However, its main advantage lies in the fact that it is saturated with a huge amount of useful substances, microelements and vitamins, which first class tone the body. If you drink a glass of intoxicating aromatic tea from the very morning, then the person will fill with energy and vivacity for the whole subsequent day.

INGREDIENTS

• 400 g fillet of salmon
• 1 tbsp. l. honey
• 4 tbsp. l. soy sauce
• 2 tsp. lemon juice
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp. dry Italian herbs
• salt and pepper to taste
• olive oil

This delicious and delicious dish is prepared very simply and quickly, but you will need an additional 30 minutes to marinate the fish. We used salmon for the recipe, but other types of red fish, such as salmon or pink salmon, are also suitable.

How to cook baked salmon in honey-soy marinade
Cut the salmon fillet into portions. Mix in a bowl soy sauce with lemon juice, honey, passed through the press with garlic, herbs and salt and pepper to taste. Lay the fish in the marinade and leave for 30 minutes.

While marinating fish, heat the oven to 220 degrees. Lay the prepared pieces of fillet in a greased olive oil, send it to the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
This fish contains some substances that improve the functioning of brain cells.

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Baked turkey

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She is the most important dish for Thanksgiving. A dish for which any American will travel half the country, only to be in the parents’ house and try a turkey performed by his mother.

Recipes of baked turkey – a million. It is made as with a filling, and without. Bake with apples, giblets, dried fruits, oranges, spicy herbs …

Often a turkey is made without a filling or put it at all a lot: the thing is that a densely packed bird is badly baked. The filling is loved by everyone, so it is often cooked separately from the turkey itself – such a paradox.

•  1 turkey
• 1 sour apple
• 1 orange
• 0.5 L of white dry wine
• ½ a bunch of fresh rosemary
• ½ a bunch of fresh thyme
• Salt, white and black pepper, ground coriander
• 1 tbsp. flour
• Disposable syringe
• Baking bag

Step 1. Wash the turkey, gut it (leave the giblets for the filling).
Step 2. Grate the bird with spices and salt. Pour the wine and leave overnight.
Step 3. Collect the marinade in the syringe and chop the bird.
Step 4. Put inside the apple, peeled and sliced ​​slices, and the orange, sliced ​​into slices, as well as spicy herbs.
Step 5. Put the sleeve for baking inside the flour, put the bird in it, tie it and bake it in the oven for 4-6 hours at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Step 6. When the turkey is ready, open the sleeve, increase the temperature and brown the turkey for 15-20 minutes. Fill the stuffing and cut the bird into portions.

Cranberry Sauce

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Baked poultry is always served with cranberry sauce. By the way, on Thanksgiving Day Americans eat a fifth of the whole cranberry, which they use for a year.

• 2.2 LBS of cranberry
• Juice of 4 large oranges
• 1-2 cups of sugar (to taste)
• A little orange peel
• Pinch of pink pepper
• 100 ml of orange liqueur (optional)

Step 1. Cranberries washed and blended with a blender.
Step 2. Gradually add orange juice and sugar, as well as pepper.
Step 3. Bring to a low heat to a boil, add the zest and allow a little orange liqueur

Mashed potatoes with cheese

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Mashed potatoes are a traditional side dish for turkey. We suggest making it quite sharp and adding cheese.

• 2.2 LBS of potatoes
• 1 glass of cream
• 200 g of grated hard cheese
• 100 g of butter
• Red pepper ground
• A bit of ground chili
• Salt

Step 1. Peel potatoes, cut into large pieces and boil until tender. Salt
Step 2. Drain the water, mash the potatoes with a blender. Cream warm.
Step 3. Introduce cream and cheese in puree. Blend again with a blender. If necessary, you can additionally dilute the mashed potatoes with a potato broth.
Step 4. Add pepper and salt.

Sandwich with canned tuna

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You will need: 2 pieces of any bread, 1 egg, 75 grams of canned tuna, 1 teaspoon of mayonnaise or sour cream, vegetables for your taste: tomato, cucumber, as well as lettuce and greens (parsley, green onions).

How to cook a sandwich with canned tuna: First, boil an egg, peel and cut it into slices. Wash and thinly cut vegetables, and canned tuna with a fork and mix with a teaspoon of mayonnaise. Put eggs on the first half of the bread, then lettuce leaves and canned tuna. After that, sprinkle the fish with finely chopped vegetables and cover with a second half of bread.

If you count calories, then use bread from whole wheat flour or loaves, and also eliminate mayonnaise or use lean sour cream instead. Even in this case, the recipe will not lose its taste.

Sandwich with spicy cottage cheese

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You will need: 200 grams of cottage cheese, greens (onion, parsley, dill), a spoonful of low-fat sour cream and mayonnaise, one pepper and cucumber, as well as spices to taste (salt, coriander, ground black pepper).

How to cook a sandwich with spicy cottage cheese: Wash and finely cut cucumber, pepper and greens. Add to the cottage chopped vegetables, greens, mayonnaise, sour cream and spices to taste. Mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

Such a mixture can be spread on bread or make a traditional sandwich with two rolls. The recipe for mayonnaise can also be excluded – the taste will not be affected.

Sandwich with mozzarella

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You will need: one tomato, half eggplant, 2 tablespoons olive or sunflower oil, 125 grams mozzarella, spices (ground black pepper, salt, Provence herbs).

How to cook a sandwich with mozzarella: Dry the bread in a dry frying pan. Then cut plates of eggplant and fry it in olive or sunflower oil. Cut the tomato and mozzarella into thin slices. Lay out the bread ingredients in this order: eggplant tomato and morcarella. Season everything with spices and cover with a second slice of bread.

Sandwich with beans and cheese

You will need: 250 grams of white beans, 100 grams of cheese, greens (oregano, coriander), salt, pepper and olive oil.

How to cook a bean sauce with beans: Soak the beans for a night in the water, and in the morning – cook it until ready and drain the water. Beans, herbs and spices mix and bring to the state of mashed potatoes with a blender.

Dry bread on a dry frying pan, and in the meantime – cut finely cheese. Next, take the bread, sprinkle it with olive oil and spread the bean paste over it (or lay out the whole bean paste). Top with cheese and cover with a second slice of bread.

Sandwich with chicken and cheese

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You will need: 20 grams of cream cheese, 50 grams of boiled chicken, half a cucumber, salt, pepper.

How to cook a sandwich from a chicken: Drain the bread in a frying pan and even in a warm form spread it with a thin layer of cheese. On top, lay a slice of boiled chicken and cucumber slices. Add spices to taste. Such a sandwich can be eaten and cold.

INGREDIENTS

• 300 g of pumpkin
• 200 ml of milk
• 3-4 tsp. honey
• 2 stars of Illicium
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• pinch of nutmeg

To prepare this cocktail, a small but ripe and rich pumpkin is best, and since there are many of its varieties, we recommend that you try it before preparing a cocktail, and, depending on the taste of the pumpkin, adjust the amount of honey.

How to make a milky-pumpkin cocktail with spices
Peel the pumpkin from the peel and seeds, cut into pieces and fold into a small saucepan. Add a cinnamon stick, a Illicium and a pinch of nutmeg. Pour hot water and cook for 12-15 minutes until soft.

Lay the pieces of pumpkin in a blender and whisk until smooth, then add milk and honey, whisk again. Ready cocktail pour into glasses and garnish with cinnamon chips.

A pumpkin is useful for losing weight, it is often included in the diet of its patients by nutritionists. Useful properties of pumpkin for weight loss are that it is a low-calorie product, and thanks to the substances contained in the pulp helps to reduce weight and normalize metabolic processes.

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A fragrant and juicy chicken fillet with lemon and rosemary is a great idea for a dinner or a light lunch.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 chicken fillets
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice
• 2-3 slices of lemon
• salt and pepper to taste
• 4 tbsp. l. chicken broth
• olive oil
• sprig of rosemary

This delicious and flavorful chicken dish is prepared simply and quickly. The dish is perfectly combined with boiled rice or pasta. Rosemary is added only at the very end of cooking, otherwise the fragrance will be too pronounced, and you can supplement the recipe with dry Italian herbs.

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How to cook chicken fillet with lemon and rosemary

Chicken fillet salting and pepper to taste, field a tablespoon of lemon juice and leave for 15 minutes. Marinated fillet napipuy thinly sliced ​​garlic. Heat the frying pan with olive oil and sauté the fillet on both sides on high heat until crusty.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Lay the fried fillet in a greased baking dish, add lemon slices, pour the broth, pour the meat into lemon juice and bake for 20-25 minutes. 5 minutes before the end, add a sprig of rosemary and prepare the dish.

Already cooked meat can be served with lettuce leaves.
In contrast to many other vegetables, lettuce leaves are the field properties of which are not only in diet, they can heal wounds and ulcers in the stomach and intestines. Therefore, it is desirable to make the basis of vegetable dishes with peptic ulcer or various colitis.