Claudia&Julia's blog

It means arriving at this time of year and putting myself in "dinners on the terrace" mode, with friends, in a lively environment and with cool recipes that take me very little work. Without a doubt, the one that never fails is the steamed mussels, which is one of the easiest dishes to prepare that you can resort to. It is an inexpensive dish that everyone usually likes, and washed down with a good Ribeiro... What am I going to tell you that you don't know!

Possibly, with the hustle and bustle of the week, breakfast is the great forgotten. So one of the things we enjoy the most on weekends is breakfast. It is the ideal time to do something special and unhurried for the whole family.

The gluten-free pancakes that I bring you today are one of the favorites in my family. They are very simple pancakes, with very few ingredients and that are made in 10 minutes.

At home my mother always made the hamburgers; he preferred to choose the meat and have it minced at the moment and then season it with garlic, parsley and onion. Those things are not forgotten and I have been unable to buy prepared hamburgers.

Cod is undoubtedly one of the most versatile fish. We can find it salty and already in almost all supermarkets also at its point of salt, which means that we can decide to eat cod almost immediately.

Today we are going to prepare it with white wine and tomato. We will use cherry tomatoes of different colors that give it a fresh and very appetizing appearance these days when the heat is on.

Surely it is not the first time that you feel attracted by alternative ways of enjoying pizza and that your conscience does not hurt when you eat it. Perhaps the idea of ​​making a pizza with a cauliflower base and free of flour and guilt has appeared when you were looking for new ideas to make your little ones eat cauliflower without complaints. Either way, these cauliflower-based pizzas are a new and healthy way to make pizza fast, fresh and delicious.

Few things are more refreshing when the heat is on than a granita, and if it's homemade and lemon, I won't even tell you. To start and not stop!
Sorbets and granitas differ from ice creams, in general, in that they do not contain dairy (or eggs in the case of cream ice creams), so they are much less greasy and tend to produce a more icy sensation. But for that very reason they are perfect for the heat.

And I am sure that buying bananas has happened to all of us at some point and everyone at home decides that they don't want to eat them that week... And the poor things stay in the fruit bowl looking very unappetizing. Well, this banana bread is without a doubt the solution!

The origin of this cake is in Saint-Tropez where, in the 1950s, the Polish pastry chef Alexandre Miccka made and sold a delicate cream-filled brioche. The invention was so delicious even Brigitte Bardot herself fell for it. In fact, it was the actress who suggested the name "Tarte Tropézienne" which today is a recipe and a registered trademark and is still as popular as it used to be.

I love aromatics; I use them for almost everything in the kitchen. Some, like basil, I don't get all year round, others, in exchange, are always available in a pot... like rosemary.

In general, the aromatic ones are usually sold in trays that carry more quantity than we are going to need. Many times, as happens with parsley bouquets, the herbs end up spoiling inside the refrigerator.

For years I've been trying to have an ice cream maker like the one I used to prepare the recipe I'm bringing you today. I had them crazy at home with my refrain of... I want a fridge with a compressor! They didn't pay much attention to me, so I decided to find a solution. to the problem. Gelato Expert from Magimix arrived at home, that long-awaited ice cream maker that helps me to have delicious ice creams without much complication.

I love trying new recipes. At home they always reproach me for not making that milk bread with that tender crumb or that banana ice cream that turned out so delicious. Sometimes I try so many things that I forget to cook the everyday and simple.

Are you one of those who consume yogurt frequently? If so, preparing yogurt at home is the best solution, not only because you choose the ingredients you use and forget about the flavoring, preservatives and all the litter of additives, but also because it couldn't be easier.