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Lebanese cuisine is an authentic delight, I really like preparing dishes based on this gastronomy and enjoying them with friends on summer nights.

For this reason and because I know that you love to surprise your guests, I propose some hamburgers in a mini version, which you already know are always a claim and if they are not the usual ones that we have in mind, they will always be a success. Therefore, today, I bring you mini falafel burgers.

Anyone else around here who eats salads during the summer? And someone else who at the end of July no longer has new ideas and ends up always eating the same salad? And I recognize that having a varied repertoire and to the taste of the whole family is not always easy, that's why I try different salads and those that I like the most at home I keep to share with you. And, what do you want me to tell you, this pickled chicken salad with mango, goat cheese and walnuts has gone out the front door!!

You will forgive me, I know that nowadays there are plenty of wonderful frozen desserts to beat the heat. An immense range of flavours, textures, colours... But I am a romantic and, despite enjoying everything new and novel, I cannot do without the sweets of a lifetime. That is why this summer we cannot stop making this Frozen Whiskey Cake and dust off good childhood memories.

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.