My international cooking recipes bible

International : describes interaction between nations, constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations, or generally reaching beyond national boundaries.

Cooking is the act of preparing food. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to alter the flavour or digestibility of food. It is the process of selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure to achieve the desired result.

Thursday, 3 July 2008

Cocktails - Martinis from NYC

- pucker up, smirnoff triple distilled, fresh granny smith juice
- cranapple martini, cranberry & apple infused vodka
- cosmopolitan, citrus vodka, fresh squeezed lime
- watermelon martini, fresh muddled watermelon
- bellini martini, peach puree, smirnoff, champagne
- raspberry lemondrop, stoli raz, lemonade, chambord
- ruby sipper, absolute ruby red, fresh grapefruit juice
- pomegranate pear martini, pear sorbet, pomegranate juice
- saphire fizz, bombay saphire, fresh citrus, champagne
- lychee-pear martini, grey goose la poire, fresh lychee

Thursday, 29 May 2008

Rochers a la noix de coco or Congolais

Ingredients :
180gr of sugar
2 eggs
250gr of coconut

Break the eggs and add the sugar then the coconut. Mix well until the dough is becoming easy to cut. On a buttered baking sheet make small mountains/triangular shapes and bake in the oven for about 15minutes or until creamy golden colored. Let them cool down before to unstick.

note : this recipe contains full eggs and not just the white part.

Sunday, 4 May 2008

Tiramisu

400gr savoiardi (ladyfingers)
500gr mascarpone cheese
150gr sugar
4 eggs
3 coffee cups (approx.)
powdered unsweetened cocoa

Preparation :
Beat the eggs yolks together with the sugar in a bowl until you obtain a frothy mixture ; stir in the cheese and mix carefully. Add the whipped cream, soak the savoiardi in the coffee, turning them on both sides and then line them on top of the cream. Pour a second layer of cream onto the savoiardi and then arrange more savoiardi soaked in the coffee. Top with another layer of cream, spreading it with a spatula. Using a sieve, sprinkle the powdered cocoa generously over the cream. Put in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

Thanks Manuela!