Mário Zambonelli

Alperce com creme doce de cerejas e hortelã

2009-08-30T00:37:00.003+01:00

Para 2 pessoas

Ingredientes:

-1 alperce
-4 cerejas
-raspa de 1/4 de limão
-mel
-2 folhas de hortelã
-sumo de limão
Preparação:
Descasque os alperces, corte em 2 metades e retire o caroço. À parte corte as cerejas em quartos, removendo também o caroço, e misture com o mel até obter uma consistência cremosa. Deposite esta mesma mistura com algum cuidado sobre os alperces. Por fim regue com sumo de limão e polvilhe com a raspa de limão e as folhas de hortelã picadas.

Bimby: the fabulous big help?

2009-06-16T14:17:00.004+01:00

Technology is traveling with us through time, and is experienced in every subject. In the cuisine we have the german smallest kitchen in the world denominated as Bimby. The bimby is the most advanced cuisine robot in the world. A gadget that only needs the ingredients and you to digit the way it should cook, and in some minutes...voilá, one meal ready to eat. Some critics say that it is an assault to the Cuisine, because it will end with the originality of the Chefs, and makes the cooking boring because it's just a matter of waiting. I don´t agree with this point of view. It's true that the Bimby will attract some people to the unhealthy and quick food habits, but in the other side cooking will be more funny than ever. It will buy you time to do more complex plates, it will save some space in the kitchen, you can do a sauce at the same time you're doing a desert. The cuisine like everything else has to keep up with us and our technology. This is my opinion but I would like to read yours.

Italian Cuisine

2009-06-15T20:11:00.003+01:00

When someone talks about the Italian Cuisine, the first image that travels through our minds is a pizza or a lasagna, but it's much more complex than that.
Centuries ago, Italy was divided by several regions, each one with their unique recepies, way of cooking, ingredients and the list goes on and on...
Many of the Italian dishes didn't look the same as they do today, for an example, the pizza, a dish known around the world, is a dish that appeared for the first time in the 18th century, where the flat breads were sold and then covered with tomatoe, later covered with mozarella cheese and basel, and through time the pizza obtained new covers like mushrooms, meat etc.
The Italian cuisine consists on a mediterranian diet, which, is based mostly on olive oil, different kinds of vegetables, fish, meat, fruit. In the end it is a perfect example of a balanced diet.
In this famous cuisine we can taste plates like ricotta, several types of pastas, lasagna, ravioli, pizza, tortellini etc.
Some of this dishes unfortunately were turned into frozen or ready-to-bake food, which will turn a big percentage of this wonderfull cuisine into simple fast-food.
At least the Italian Cuisine is still seen as one of the better and most influential cuisines in the world due to his basic, relatively healthy and "flavourfull" recipes.