Quick Tip: Coffee with Truffles

My aunt gave us a box of really fancy-looking chocolate truffles, and because they were really fancy-looking we didn’t eat them right away *insert goofy chuckle*. But then we came over to her house and she gave us a really great tip. And it’s: make coffee and melt in some truffle.

So that’s basically just mixing in chocolate with coffee but these truffles are really good so it makes the coffee fantastic. I usually use sweet and/or creamy coffee because these particular truffles are dark chocolate, but it goes really well with stronger coffee, too. Half a truffle is enough for one cup of coffee. If it’s a small cup, use half of half a truffle. Some people might say “use a quarter of a truffle” but I think my way is better. But anyways, it’s personal taste so if you wanna use more or less truffle, go right ahead.

So far we’ve never eaten the truffles by themselves.

Later tater!
Patricia

P.S. The truffles are Chocmod Truffettes. Here’s a picture of ‘em so you have something to look at in this article *insert goofy chuckle once more*.

9 July 2 Permalink

Meat Rolls Recipe

I was watching random Jamie Oliver videos when one recipe caught my eye; some sort of a sweet meat roll. So I decided to make my own version.

Feeds:

3 hungry monsters, or

6 satiated humans, or

ZERO weight-conscious bastards

Ingredients:

- Ground beef (2 cups)

- Puff pastry

- Bacon (about 4 pieces)

- Brown sugar or preferably palm sugar (1/4 cup)

- Mustard (2.5 tablespoons)

- Salt and pepper for taste

Steps:

- Preheat the oven at 210 degrees Celsius

- Start by cooking the bacon (don’t add any type of oil, since we’re going to use the oil from the bacon fat) until semi crispy, set aside

- Mix the ground beef, 2/3 of the palm sugar, mustard and salt and pepper (as needed) in a large bowl

- Cook the beef mixture in the pan used previously to cook the bacon until cooked, set aside

- Cut down the puff pastry into 6 long rectangles, then add the cooked beef mixture and the bacon equally

- Roll the puff pastries and then smother the outer layer of the rolls with the remaining palm sugar

- Cook in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius until the pastries expand and turn brown (this takes about 20 minutes)

- Serve!

Indita

14 June 8 Permalink

Smores, a Recipe

This a recipe for the simplest thing you can make, smores. At first I thought this was such a stupid idea, but then I know a lot of people who still Google smores recipes (you know who you are). So here goes.

What you need:

- Oven

- Baking tray

- Cinnamon graham crackers (this will make a HUGE difference!!)

- Marshmallows

- Thin chocolate bars (I prefer milk chocolate)

Prepare the oven by setting the temperature for 350F

Set the graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolates on the baking tray (to make your smores look nice, I would recommend to separate the chocolate and marshmallow while baking), like this:

Bake for 5 minutes under 350F heat

Take the baking tray out and stack the crackers on top of each other, like this:

SOOO DELICIOUS!

Enjoy!

Indita

28 March 3 Permalink

Recipe - Puff Pasty Pizza

Wow haven’t seen you for a while! As you know, non of Tasteritos’ contributors post anything during school season, hence the absence. However, even though I am in the middle of midterm week (nay, weeks!), my finance midterm actually got postponed to next week, so now I have time to post stuff. YAAY FOR ME! (and you loyal readers, of course!)

This time, I am going to post a recipe for puff pastry pizza. The topping can be anything, but for me it is chicken curry with fresh chopped tomatoes. Here goes…

Ingredients:

For pizza

Puff pastry (Cheater! I know)

Egg

If you are interested in the topping

Shredded boiled chicken

Curry paste

Salt and pepper for taste

Freshly chopped tomatoes

Milk

Olive oil

Caramelized onions (recipe is in another post!)

Instructions:

- Heat the oven (about 350 F)

- While you wait for the oven to heat up, cook the shredded chicken on a skillet with olive oil. After about 3 minutes, add the curry paste and milk. Turn the heat down and let it boil for about 10 minutes.

- Cover the top of the pastry with whisked eggs, leaving the about 1 inch in the outer corner dry.

- Add the chicken curry on the egged, inside part of the pastry. Add the caramelized onions on top of the chicken curry.

- Put the chicken pizza inside the oven for about 20 minutes or until the puff pastry rise.

- Take the pizza out and add the freshly chopped tomatoes. (I added this just to keep the taste fresh, since the curry might be to heavy for some people)

TA-DAAH!

Enjoy!

Indita

1 March 2 Permalink

Homemade Raspberry and Vanilla Ice Cream

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How time flies, we’re already halfway through the summer and it’s nearly August! Have you made the most out of the summertime? If not, why not make some raspberry and vanilla swirl homemade ice cream? It’s one of the traditional summer things you can do and there’s no excuse if you have an ice cream maker sitting in your cupboard. 

If you don’t have an ice cream maker, you can still make your own homemade ice cream—it will just take a while longer (although worth it)! Still interested? Read on. 

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22 August 4 Permalink