COFFEE CREAM

COFFEE CREAM

Aug 31, 2024 | RECIPES, RECIPES

Fresh and tasty in summer: coffee cream.

Do you make it at home?

You can find many recipes and various tips on how to prepare coffee cream, I decided to follow Grandma Angelina‘s instructions that Monica sent me.

But as you know I am obsessed with avoiding sugar, so I personally decided not to put sugar in.

Grandma Angelina says to use icing sugar and put it in the bottle first.

Yes: Grandma Angelina’s coffee cream is made in the bottle and the only energy you need is your arms, so in the end you eat it with well-deserved satisfaction.

Here is what I used

  • cream
  • cold coffee 
  • cocoa powder

Crema di caffè

Crema di caffè

I put first the cream and then the coffee into a plastic bottle.

Crema di caffèCrema di caffè

After closing the cap, all I did was shake the bottle for a few minutes until the desired consistency was reached.

Crema di caffè

I poured the cream into the cups and added a sprinkling of cocoa.

Crema di caffè

What do you think?

Crema di caffè

Have you ever prepared coffee cream?

The plastic bottle, including cap, is practical in this case.

How did you get on with it after the so-called ‘solidarity cap’ under the European regulation SUP or 2019 Single-Use Plastics directive became mandatory in July?

When the caps did not stick to the bottles did you behave differently?

Starting with the example of the bottle, perhaps you know of other alternative systems to the classic tools used in the kitchen, would you like to tell us about them?

FROSTA

FROSTA

May 18, 2024 | WHO CARES, WHO CARES

Frosta sent me two kinds of pasta to try, this is the second test after the granola. 

We already talked about pasta in connection with Senatore Cappelli wheat, the pasta Frosta sent me is a frozen dish, ready in minutes.

Do you ever use ready-made dishes, maybe for lack of time?

Honestly, I am in the habit of cooking pasta in the traditional way, but products like this, which Frosta is going to put on the market, are quick and practical.

All you need is a pan and a handful of minutes: just empty the contents of the bag and add a tablespoon of water. 

Here it is

Do you ever consume ready-made meals or only strictly homemade food?

As you know, there are many sides to me, so I believe there are times for rolling pin and pasta machine, but also days of relentless struggle to keep up with everything during which it is OK to concentrate on other creations.

Do you enjoy cooking?

Do you like to invent your own versions, or are you strictly traditional?

Speaking of typical recipes, what is the dish that most identifies your area?

We are actually more in the land of rice here, but I think I can say that pasta is the most common dish.

I know, I’m talking about carbohydrates, a sore point, a bit of a cross and a bit of a delight.

I think to Emily in Devil Wears Prada with her iconic phrase ‘you eat carbs!’

And you?

Do you prefer short ‘carbs’ or spaghetti?

Can you tell me your recipe? 

LECCESE COFFEE

LECCESE COFFEE

Sep 9, 2023 | ITALY

 

Leccese Coffee is a specialty with a distinctive freshness.

We chatted about coffee in Milan,  delved into the three cs of Naples, n and discovered the Nero of Trieste. 

In Puglia, however, coffee is cold, because an essential ingredient is ice.

And it is no coincidence: ice constituted the business of Antonio Quarta who sold it by weight.

Who was Antonio Quarta?

My grandfather used to say that there was a need for a drink that would give relief to our sultry and scorching summers between the two seas. But because classic iced coffee often suffers from acidity if kept in the refrigerator for a long time, my grandfather Antonio had a brilliant idea: coffee on ice.

The process is simple but no one had thought of it before. Prepare coffee normally, sweeten it, and then pour it into a glass filled with ice cubes. Grandfather, who had a small ice-making factory, began to serve freshly brewed coffee this way. And, without meaning to, he had invented a real recipe for Caffè Salentino that soon spread throughout Lecce and the province.

 

These words are from Antonio Quarta (nephew), two-term president of the Italian Association of Coffee Roasters, and now a member of the Executive of the Italian Coffee Committee, as well as a director of the Quarta Caffè roasting company, a company that has been operating in Salento for more than 60 years.

 

In recent days a controversy has arisen in the Leccesi in Lecce group  with the slogan STOP CALLING IT LECCESE COFFEE.

 

The object of contention is almond milk: apparently someone in Lecce does not like it being associated with the ingredients of Leccese Coffee.

Iced coffee involves the strict addition of coffee in the cup where there are already cubes, as also confirmed by Antonio Quarta, who claims the idea of the extraordinary alchemy between the warm aroma of freshly brewed coffee and the coolness of water crystallized to the right point.

Widely taken for granted is the addition of almond milk to iced coffee, considering it an integral part of the ingredients.

Even according to the Silver Spoon Leccese Coffee is a preparation that has made the whole of Italy fall in love with it, and includes the recipe with almond milk.

The Leccese people, however, apparently do not intend to take almond milk for granted, calling it an extra addition, a Salento custom.

In fact, the story told by Antonio Quarta goes like this: another variation saw the introduction of almond milk into the iced coffee, instead of sugar, becoming a welcome breakfast drink for consumers to pair with the Leccese pasticciotto.

I would say that this Leccese controversy is indeed a “pasty”.

What do you think about it?

Have you ever happened to drink or order Leccese Coffee?

COFFEE SABLÉ PASTRY COOKIES

COFFEE SABLÉ PASTRY COOKIES

Jan 2, 2021 | Uncategorized

Luciana asked me for the recipe and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jaya and Salvo too for their pasta recipes, and to answer Maria: Kefir tastes good to me, but consider that I don’t like sweetening … it is actually acid with a very slight slightly “alcoholic” tip so Jaya’s advice to add fruit smoothies (or simply fresh fruit) or to make other types mixing using fantasy is more than appropriate for someone who is not much for “raw” things like me laughing

But let’s get to Sablé Pastry: the first time I tried it was when I was looking for a recipe for something sweet that was egg-free since my father couldn’t eat them.

To tell the truth, many recipes, starting for example with Il cucchiaio d’argento, include eggs in the preparation, but they seem perfect to me even this way: sablé means sprinkled with sand, a concept that can be associated with the idea of a certain amount of friability, otherwise I miss the difference with the shortcrust pastry, but you correct me if I’m wrong.

Ingredients:

150 g of flour

100 g of butter

50 g of sugar

20 g of coffee

a pinch of salt

The coffee must not be hot and you can also dose it by eye according to the consistency of the dough: so that the resulting paste is smooth and elastic.

Before being worked, the dough must rest in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, after which you can indulge yourself with the shapes.

Who has cute stencils?
For example, I obviously have a weakness for wings …

Transfer to baking paper and bake at 180° for about 18 minutes, to keep an eye on and evaluate also based on the thickness of the cookies.

I don’t know about you, I would then dip the edges in melted chocolate or pair the cookies with a generous layer of Nutella in the middle laughing too much? Come on, with the first coffee it fits …

NOS GALAN GAEAF

NOS GALAN GAEAF

Oct 31, 2020 | ITALY, WORLD

It means night of the winter calends and represents the fusion between the Celtic New Year Samhain and the pagan festival in honor of Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruits, which was celebrated at the end of the agricultural harvest period as thanks for the gifts received.

Symbolically a sort of moment of mingling between the world of the living and that of the dead as the idea of ​​death is in tune with the phase in which nature is extinguished, to rest during the winter.

The association with religious worship is a subsequent superposition of Pope Boniface IV in an attempt to convert the pagan festival by emphasizing the Christian faith and the celebration of the saints: All Saints.

So, in my humble opinion, about the judgments on the American version, it would be good if we knew our origins, and were more inclined to pass them on.

Personally I find that celebrating Halloween with the classic trick or treat is absolutely fun, and worth entertaining children and more, just because smiles never hurt.

Even more so in this 2020, making children and young people but also those who are differently young smile should be a need felt by anyone, and if it is not possible to go out masked, it does not mean that we should not even celebrate at home.

There are little things that can be prepared with minimal expense and less time.
Simple things to do together, such as cutting out paper bats to hang on the windows, or making the skull cake and mummy sausages.

What do you think of Halloween? Do you have any traditional habits or special recipes?

I would say that this time our coffee can be the Pumpkin Spice version Keep Calm: double ration of cinnamon laughing what do you say?

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