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The day you dare to make ice cream at home you will wonder how it is possible that it is so easy. Today, one of my favorites: vanilla ice cream with caramelized walnuts (yes, like the ice cream that you surely know from Häagen-Dazs®, because you can make it with Macadamia nuts if you prefer, although once caramelized you will see that it is with walnuts or walnuts of Macadamia the result is just as wonderful).

If there is something that conquers me about an authentic American hamburger, it is the taste of the first bite.

The wonderful conjunction achieved with first class meat, fresh vegetables and the slight spiciness of the chili, all wrapped up with good cheese and the best bread, makes that first bite seem irresistible to me.

I am not bringing you one bundt cake recipe but three: first, a basic and essential in any home, the recipe to make an easy and delicious vanilla bundt cake. You can turn that same recipe, in a very simple way, into a lemon bundt cake or an almond bundt cake. At the end of the post I will tell you how.

Focaccia is a very easy and versatile recipe. Today we make it with red onion (exactly the same you can do it with white onion), but you can follow the same recipe and replace the onion with tomato, green or black olives, cheese, sausage, you can make it alone with oils and spices,... Focaccia will easily become an essential recipe in your day-to-day life, because it also lasts very well for hours if you keep it well preserved (it will last two days great if you make it a little thick).

I don't know if this lemon cake will be the best in the world or not. What I can tell you is that you will fall in love like no one has done before. It is a dense sponge cake, with all the texture of English cakes rich in butter and with a flavor and aromas of lemon that will put everyone in the house in a good mood.

The French brand De Buyer has released some sets that are ideal both to give as gifts and to surprise, as well as to equip yourself with some basics. There is, for example, the Brunch Time set -perfect for pampering yourself- or the Steak Lovers set, for lovers of natural cuisine and which includes some of the usual basics. Along the same lines, it has released the HomeMadeBread set ("homemade bread"), which includes a basic and essential set, perfect for getting started in the world of bread.

Nothing like dawn to the smell of freshly made waffles. Making waffles is like making pancakes, you can never make enough and if they have a different flavor on top of that, then it is one of the best ways to start the day, although I will tell you that at home they like them just the same in the morning as in the afternoon.

This type of bread is very similar to crystal bread. It is a slightly flattened bread, with a very thin and crunchy crust, accompanied by a very light and airy crumb . Undoubtedly the perfect option to use as an accompaniment or to enjoy as a coca base. For example, using the same ingredients that we use to make Coca de Recapte .

We leave summer behind but there are still days when you feel like having cold desserts. I already have my bundt pans ready to bake this fall but I am also using them for other preparations such as this one today: a pannacotta, which is a dessert with a texture similar to flan, very silky and really delicious. There are different versions of pannacotta: from the simplest, with vanilla, to more sophisticated ones.

Let's see, you catch me red-handed: Who's up for a pizza for dinner? I already imagined that you were all going to sign up! I think I don't know anyone who doesn't like pizza, and if there is, it's because they haven't tried this pizza with figs, ham and arugula. A combination of 10! And with homemade dough, of course.

With these temperatures you have to take a lot of courage (or have a thermometer-proof confectioner's will) to face an oven on. Even so, in order not to discourage those who are reluctant to deprive themselves of a succulent dessert despite the summer heat, today I bring you this S'mores Cake, a recipe that does not require an oven, but that will hardly find a rival among those that do.

Do you like Nutella? And the oatmeal cookies? Both things excite me and if we put them together I get the perfect dessert. Also now that we are in summer, the best dessert is in the form of ice cream. Do you not agree with me?

So today I propose a good homemade Nutella ice cream served on a glass of homemade oatmeal and coconut cookies. How have you been?