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Pork Tenderloin In Garlic SaucePosted by Sergio Gallo • Thursday, March 26. 2009 • Category: Focus, Meat, Pork
Pork tenderloin is becoming increasingly more popular, and this is a dish I recently had at a restaurant that I just had to create at home. The tenderloin is cut into medallions, rolled in cracked pepper, and then cooked in Marsala wine. It is topped by an easy sauce or gravy made with garlic. Serves 6
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Pound Pork Tenderloin
1 To 2 Tablespoons Cracked Black Peppercorns
Salt
3/4 Cup Dry Marsala Wine
6 to 7 Large Garlic Cloves
1/2 Cups Whole Milk
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon Butter
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Stuffed Pork Tenderloin With Mushroom Sauce
This is one of my favorite chicken dishes that I have made frequently over the years. Luckily, ripe, sweet cherry tomatoes are available year round, so anytime I am in the mood for this dish I can find the ingredients and put it together pretty quickly. As I always state, fresh, homemade breadcrumbs are far superior to dry store bought ones and in a recipe this simple, using the best ingredients will ensure the best results. I keep my leftover bread, cutting it into cubes and then freezing it for when I need fresh breadcrumbs. When I want breadcrumbs, I then throw a hand full of the cubes into my food processor, still frozen, with whatever seasonings I want. I then pulse the mixture until it reaches the desired texture.
A chicken cutlet is simply a boneless, skinless chicken breast that has been sliced lengthwise into thin slices about 1/3 of an inch thick. If you cannot find the chicken already cut into slices it is simple to do...
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Roast Chicken With Lemon, Garlic And Rosemary
Crisp, golden brown, roasted chicken always reminds me of family Sunday dinners. This recipe is really quite easy, and yet tastes delicious flavored with the lemons, garlic and rosemary. I often cook baby potatoes in their skins along with the chicken, but you can omit them if you choose.
Serves 4
ingredients:
1 ( 4-5 Pound) Roasting Chicken, Quartered
5 Tablespoons Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
2 Sprigs Fresh Rosemary
4 Large Cloves Of Garlic, Peeled And Halved
Salt & Pepper
1/4 Cup Olive Oil
Optional:
Baby Potatoes With Skin Left On, Halved
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Risotto with clams, oysters and zucchini
INGREDIENTS
200 g rice
350 g clams
12 oysters
3 cl anise liquor
150 g zucchini
1 shallot
20 cl white wine
1,5 l clear broth
80 g tomatoes
10 lemon balm leafs
50 g butter
Oil of olives
Salt
Pepper
DIRECTIONS
Open the clams with a small knife.
Rinse them and pass the clams in frying pan with olive oil and fall through with a some anise drops.
Add salt and pepper.
Put them on the bottom of a disposable aluminium cutters.
Open the oysters keeping the liquid, filter it and then put all in a blender for few seconds.
Filter the cream you get out of the blender.
Cut only the green part from the zucchini in small pieces and pass them in hot olive oil for few minutes. Finally add salt and pepper. Keep it in a warm place.
Gild the shallot in a pan with oil of oil.
Toast the rice in further pan with few drops of olive oil. Add some white wine and let it evaporate.
Add the oil to shallot and cook it adding the clear broth. Add salt...
Fish cake and noodles with shrimp and soya sauce
Left fish? No problem! You can use it to surprise your guests with a really nice fish cake and noodles with shrimp and soya sauce.
It’s quite easy.
You need to clean the fish very carefully, taking out all the thorns and left skin.
Mix it with pepper, salt, a spoon of cooking cream, a spoon of mayo, little ginger juice drops and half lemon juice.
For the small bag on the top take a spring roll pastry square and fill it with noodles cooked with shrimps and soya sauce. Close it wetting your hands and pushing on the closure point as strong as you can. Then bake it in the oven for a few minutes, till it will get to the right color.
With a metallic cylinder create your cake in the middle of the plate and put the small bag on top. I decorated it with some vanilla mayo (normal homemade mayo with some vanilla inside) black pepper and chervil.
I cannot give you the right amount of ingredients because it depends on the amount of fish left.
All depends on your personal taste, deal with ingredients to reach the desired result.
Marry this dish to a...
Posted by Sergio Gallo • Thursday, March 26. 2009 • Category: Focus, Meat, Pork
Pork tenderloin is a great cut of meat that lends itself well, to being stuffed as I did in this recipe, or the tenderloin can be cut into medallions. This cut of meat is moist and tender on it's own, not requiring any additional steps to marinade or brine it. In this recipe I used two loins with stuffing in between, which once tied together and baked makes a nice sized roast to slice. Once cooked, I served the pork with a simple mushroom sauce that can be prepared in a few minutes while the pork is cooking in the oven.
Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients:
2 (1 Pound) Pork Tenderloins6 Thin Slices Prosciutto
1 (5 Ounce) Bag Baby Spinach Sauteed And Pressed To Remove Excess Liquid
1 Cup fresh Homemade Breadcrumbs
1 Teaspoon Chopped Fresh Rosemary
4 Tablespoons Olive Oil
Sea Salt
Cracked Black Pepper
Mushroom Topping:
1 Pound Fresh...
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Crispy Chicken Cutlets With Fresh Tomatoes
Posted by Sergio Gallo • Friday, March 20. 2009 • Category: Poultry, Focus, Meat
This is one of my favorite chicken dishes that I have made frequently over the years. Luckily, ripe, sweet cherry tomatoes are available year round, so anytime I am in the mood for this dish I can find the ingredients and put it together pretty quickly. As I always state, fresh, homemade breadcrumbs are far superior to dry store bought ones and in a recipe this simple, using the best ingredients will ensure the best results. I keep my leftover bread, cutting it into cubes and then freezing it for when I need fresh breadcrumbs. When I want breadcrumbs, I then throw a hand full of the cubes into my food processor, still frozen, with whatever seasonings I want. I then pulse the mixture until it reaches the desired texture.A chicken cutlet is simply a boneless, skinless chicken breast that has been sliced lengthwise into thin slices about 1/3 of an inch thick. If you cannot find the chicken already cut into slices it is simple to do...
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Roast Chicken With Lemon, Garlic And Rosemary
Posted by Sergio Gallo • Friday, March 20. 2009 • Category: Poultry, Focus, Meat
Crisp, golden brown, roasted chicken always reminds me of family Sunday dinners. This recipe is really quite easy, and yet tastes delicious flavored with the lemons, garlic and rosemary. I often cook baby potatoes in their skins along with the chicken, but you can omit them if you choose.Serves 4
ingredients:
1 ( 4-5 Pound) Roasting Chicken, Quartered
5 Tablespoons Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
2 Sprigs Fresh Rosemary
4 Large Cloves Of Garlic, Peeled And Halved
Salt & Pepper
1/4 Cup Olive Oil
Optional:
Baby Potatoes With Skin Left On, Halved
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Risotto with clams, oysters and zucchini
Posted by Ciro Iodice • Tuesday, January 13. 2009 • Category: Focus, Main dishes
INGREDIENTS200 g rice
350 g clams
12 oysters
3 cl anise liquor
150 g zucchini
1 shallot
20 cl white wine
1,5 l clear broth
80 g tomatoes
10 lemon balm leafs
50 g butter
Oil of olives
Salt
Pepper
DIRECTIONS
Open the clams with a small knife.
Rinse them and pass the clams in frying pan with olive oil and fall through with a some anise drops.
Add salt and pepper.
Put them on the bottom of a disposable aluminium cutters.
Open the oysters keeping the liquid, filter it and then put all in a blender for few seconds.
Filter the cream you get out of the blender.
Cut only the green part from the zucchini in small pieces and pass them in hot olive oil for few minutes. Finally add salt and pepper. Keep it in a warm place.
Gild the shallot in a pan with oil of oil.
Toast the rice in further pan with few drops of olive oil. Add some white wine and let it evaporate.
Add the oil to shallot and cook it adding the clear broth. Add salt...
Fish cake and noodles with shrimp and soya sauce
Posted by Enzo d'Antò • Tuesday, December 16. 2008 • Category: Focus
Left fish? No problem! You can use it to surprise your guests with a really nice fish cake and noodles with shrimp and soya sauce.It’s quite easy.
You need to clean the fish very carefully, taking out all the thorns and left skin.
Mix it with pepper, salt, a spoon of cooking cream, a spoon of mayo, little ginger juice drops and half lemon juice.
For the small bag on the top take a spring roll pastry square and fill it with noodles cooked with shrimps and soya sauce. Close it wetting your hands and pushing on the closure point as strong as you can. Then bake it in the oven for a few minutes, till it will get to the right color.
With a metallic cylinder create your cake in the middle of the plate and put the small bag on top. I decorated it with some vanilla mayo (normal homemade mayo with some vanilla inside) black pepper and chervil.
I cannot give you the right amount of ingredients because it depends on the amount of fish left.
All depends on your personal taste, deal with ingredients to reach the desired result.
Marry this dish to a...
Wine
Red wine against ulcer and stomach diseasesDimagrisci informato , a weblog administered and maintained by Patrizia Pasquino, reports a research made by Siena University, claiming that italian (sicilian) red wine has effects against Ulcer, Elicobacter Pylori and several other stomach diseases such as pain, burns and so on. Thirteen wines, coming from several italian regions have...
Novello 2008 vs Prosecco millesimatoOn last sunday I've been at Cantine Dal Bello, in Fonte, Treviso in Veneto region, to participate to the presentation of Novello 2008 wine, the newly "born" red wine of that wine factory. I tasted four different kind of Dal Bello wines: the Novello 2008, a Rosè, a D.O.C. red wine called "Rosso d'Asolo" and - last but not least - a Prosecco...
FocusMain dishes
Risotto with clams, oysters and zucchini
INGREDIENTS
200 g rice
350 g clams
12 oysters
3 cl anise liquor
150 g zucchini
1 shallot
20 cl white wine
1,5 l clear broth
80 g tomatoes
10 lemon balm leafs
50 g butter
Oil of olives
Salt
Pepper
DIRECTIONS
Open the clams with a small knife.
Rinse them ...
Pastries
Chocolate cake
Ingredients for 4 tortini:
100 gr. Black chocolate (70%)
80 gr. butter
80 gr. Icing sugar
20 gr. flour
2 eggs of average size
pinch of salt.
Material: aluminum monoserving cup.
Let’s start melting on a low flame in a double saucepan the chopped chocolate and the butter ...
Seafood
Salmon with Sesame
This is a really easy and quick recipe .
It’s normally used as starter or for buffet. It can be served on the plate or can be on top of a stick.
The most important issue on this is the fact that you need to be sure that the products are HQF (high quality food).
Ingredients:
Smoked ...
