Valentine Salad with Chocolate Vinaigrette

Ingredients:

200 g fresh mozzarella cheese, diced
1 American lettuce, chopped
1 red apple, diced
2 slices bread, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
½ red onion, shredded
Vegetable oil and butter

Vinaigrette:
70 g bittersweet chocolate, chopped
4 oz olive oil
2 lemons, their juice
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Fry the bread cubes with garlic in butter.
Place in the oven to roast well.
Mix all ingredients together.

Vinaigrette:
Melt the chocolate with half the oil, stirring constantly.
Transfer to a cold bowl and mix with remaining ingredients.

Bathe salad with the vinaigrette and serve.

February 4th, 2010 | Category: antipasti, appetizer, apple, bread, butter, cheese, chocolate, Christmas appetizers, Christmas food, Christmas recipes, cook, cooking, dressing, easy recipes, entrance, food, free, free recipes, garlic, Hanukkah appetizers, Hanukkah food, Hanukkah recipes, healthy recipes, lemon, lemon juice, lettuce, low fat recipes, mozzarella cheese, new years appetizers, new years food, new years recipes, olive oil, onion, pepper, recipe, recipes, Saint Valentine's appetizer, Saint Valentine's food, Saint Valentine's recipes, salad, thanksgiving food, thanksgiving recipes, thanksgiving salad, vegetable oil, vegetarian recipes, vinaigrette | Leave a comment

Saint Valentine’s Tenderloin with Pears and Malbec Honey

Ingredients:

4 medallions of beef tenderloin
3 ripe pears, thinly sliced
½ t Malbec wine
1 carrot, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
½ onion, cut into strips
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp honey
1 tsp olive oil
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).

Fry the onion, garlic and carrot in olive oil for 5 minutes. .
Transfer to a bowl and reserve.
Brown spiced medallions in the same skillet on both sides.
Bake medallions for 10 minutes.

Return vegetables to skillet and add Malbec wine.
Add the balsamic vinegar, honey and butter when the wine has been reduced to a third par, and whisk well.
Add pears and wait about 3 minutes.
Strain the sauce, add salt and pepper and reserve the pears.

Serve the medallions, bathe with the sauce and accompanied by pears.

January 25th, 2010 | Category: balsamic vinegar, butter, carrot, cook, cooking, easy recipes, food, free, free recipes, garlic, honey, liqueur, loin, low fat recipes, malbec, meat, olive oil, onion, pears, pepper, recipe, recipes, Saint Valentine's food, Saint Valentine's recipes, tenderloin, wine | Leave a comment

Olive Octopus Carpaccio

Ingredients:

800 g of cooked octopus, cut into slices
¾ t olive oil
1 small can boneless olives
1 egg
1 tsp ketchup
Juice of 1 lemon
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Blend the egg into the blender.
Pour the olive oil and blend.
Add lemon juice, salt and pepper to form a mayonnaise.
Add the ketchup and olives and blend until form a homogeneous mixture.
Bathe cooked octopus with mayonnaise and serve.

January 20th, 2010 | Category: antipasti, appetizer, carpaccio, cook, cooking, easy recipes, egg, eggs, food, free, free recipes, healthy recipes, ketchup, lemon, lemon juice, low fat recipes, octopus, olive oil, olives, pepper, recipe, recipes, Saint Valentine's appetizer, Saint Valentine's food, Saint Valentine's recipes | Leave a comment
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