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sábado, 30 de junio de 2012

Veggie

Underwood Family Farms has a beautiful veggie stand, open every day!


          

sábado, 21 de abril de 2012

Quinoa en la Gastronomia

       

          


Propiedades de La Quinoa


  

Sirve para adelgazar, colesterol, glicemia, enfermedades cardiovasculares.
Contiene Omega3, Omega6, Minerales, Vitaminas...



Ingredientes Internacionales

Principales productores.. PERU Y BOLIVIA


      

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Quinoa..

Los incas la consideraban la fuente de la vida, la semilla madre, el grano sagrado; la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) la ha calificado como el “alimento ideal para el ser humano” y, como si eso no bastara, además se debate el primer puesto como Grano del Futuro. Esta bendición de los dioses es la quinoa: un seudo cereal que parece, por el contrario, un súper cereal cuya semilla, no más grande que un grano de arroz, contiene buena parte de los nutrientes que el organismo necesita para sobrevivir.
Su calificación como uno de los mejores alimentos para el consumo humano, también por instituciones como la Academia de Ciencias de los Estados Unidos, no es poca cosa. Y es que esta maravilla vegetal contiene un balance tan adecuado de proteínas, lisina, vitaminas, calcio y hierro que se ha ido convirtiendo en la sensación de la cocina mundial. Si los conquistadores españoles hubiesen sabido que la quinoa se convertiría, luego de más de 500 años, en el verdadero tesoro del Nuevo Mundo que venían buscando, quizá no hubiesen acabado con sus plantaciones ni la hubiesen desprestigiado al llamarla “comida para salvajes”.



   

jueves, 19 de abril de 2012

International Ingredients

Garlic


  


   


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Benefits of Garlic


The extracts of Allium sativum bulb and compound preparation possess pharmacodynamic properties. The extract of garlic was found to have a significant protective action against a fat induced increase in serum cholesterol and plasma fibrinogen and in fibrinolytic activity.



Garlic is used as a carminative, aphrodisiac, expectorant, and stimulant.


Anticancer Actions:


Human population studies show that eating garlic regularly reduces the risk of esophageal, stomach, and colon cancer. This is partly due to garlic's ability to reduce the formation of carcinogenic compounds. Animal and test tube studies also show that garlic, and its sulfur compounds, inhibit the growth of different types of cancer-especially breast and skin tumors.

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Kinds of Garlic:


Green Garlic, is lovely in Soups, Souffles and Pesto.






Garlic Scape




  Added to strir fries,grilled, pickled, and added to pasta.


  Fresh Garlic




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St. Peter and the garlic bulb 
My Grandfather had a friend named Pete. He was short and round, with a pink face, a child’s smile. He often wore a white paper painter’s cap perched and tilted on his head and spoke in the same broken English as my grandfather. His big belly hung over his pants when he teetered on a bar stool or sat in a folding chair playing pinochle in a dark cellar, or out on a picnic table in the warmer months. His big, kind eyes bulged a little more each year from all the booze he drank.  Pete made his own wine and cooked better, with more subtlety and variety, than most of my grandfather’s cronies. He also drank more, and in the console of his big car, a Lincoln, was always a bulb of garlic. Pete would pop one clove into his mouth and chew it in case a nosy cop pulled him over. It masked the smell of all the wine and cognac, the scotches and sodas. The New Haven cops, who were all Irish according to Pete, or at least not Italian, would quickly send him on his way without so much as a warning, happy to be rid of another garlic-stinking wop.  Pete, who defied all manner of cancers and liver disease to outlive most of his friends, did get arrested once. He, my grandfather, and a few other pals armed themselves with rifles and went out to hunt pheasants on the side of a Connecticut highway. No amount of garlic could’ve kept Pete and the boys out of a cop car that day. I like to imagine them smiling and giggling, punching eachother’s thighs in the backseat.


Garlic.. PARTS



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Allium sativum, commonly known as Garlic, is a species in theonion genus, Allium. garlic is native to central Asia, and has long been a staple in the Mediterranean region, as well as frequent as seasoning in Asia, Africa, and Europe. was known to Ancient Egyptians, and has been used thoughout its history for both culinary and medical porpuses.


                  


sábado, 14 de abril de 2012

International Ingredients

A Truffle is both a black mushroom that lives underground and a luxurious chocolate. Both taste very good






International Ingredients

TRUFFLE CULINARY USE
Because of their high price and their pungent taste, truffles are used sparingly. Supplies can be found commercially as unadulterated fresh produce or preserved, typically in a light brine.
White truffles are generally served raw, and shaved over steaming buttered pasta or salads or fried eggs (the latter is recommended by many gourmets as the best way to enjoy the flavour). White or black paper-thin truffle slices may be inserted into meats, under the skins of roasted fowl, in foie graspreparations, in pâtés, or in stuffings. Some speciality cheeses contain truffles as well.
The flavor of black truffles is far less pungent and more refined than that of white truffles. Its strong savory flavor is similar to earth and dashi.
While in the past chefs used to peel truffles, in modern times most restaurants brush the truffle carefully and shave it or dice it with the skin on so as to use most of this expensive ingredient. A few restaurants, such as Philippe Rochat in Switzerland, still stamp out circular discs of truffle flesh and use the skins for sauces

  



Tipos de Trufas



Hasta la fecha en Europa se han encontrado veintiuna especies diferentes del género Tuber. Solamente unas pocas son comestiblemente apreciadas. Las de mayor valor comercial son las tres siguientes:
  • Tuber nigrum Bull (= T. melanosporum Vitt.). Es la llamada trufa negra o de Perigord y la más apreciada en España y Francia. 
  • Tuber brumale Vitt. Es una trufa negra muy similar a la anterior pero de inferior calidad y precio. Se recolecta junto a T. nigrum en los bosques españoles. Para su correcta separación hay que adquirir experiencia.
  • Tuber magnatum Pico. Es la trufa blanca de Italia y la que alcanza los precios más elevados en el mercado.

    

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La Trufa es un hongo subterráneo oculto a unos 30 cm. de profundidad, asociado a la raíz de determinadas plantas leñosas que se recolecta entre noviembre y marzo, aunque algunos gourmets recomiendan tomarlas después de Navidad. De inimitable color negro, por su delicado y apreciado sabor, las trufas son llamadas "diamantes negros" o la "patata mágica (George Sand).
Hay más de setenta variedades de trufas, más de la mitad en países europeos. Son muy conocidas la de Perigord y la trufa blanca del Piamonte. En España es muy apreciada la trufa de Morella (Morella es uno de los pueblos más bonitos de España situado en el Maestrazgo), junto a ella: Burgos, Soria, Cataluña y Aragón son algunos de los sitios con mayor reputación.
Hay que tomarlas frescas, crudas o cocidas; a rodajas o ralladas en polvo fino. Como ingrediente le da un sabor inigualable a muchos platos: carnes, caza, aves, pâtés, ensaladas. Está estrechamente asociada al Foie. La forma más sencilla es tomarla con pan, aceite de oliva virgen y una pizca de sal. Como entrante: lavadas o cocidas en vino, con sal y pimienta..