Tuesday, March 23, 2010

What can you do with a pumpkin?

After alot of  work with the editing of the new video it's finally ready. It's cut in two parts since it's more than 10 minutes hope that won't be any problem for you. This time I choose to do 3 recipes with pumpkin as an experiment to see the feedback, I'm guessing not many know how to use this particular vegetable! In Italy it's very well used from autumn to spring and there are many traditional dishes for example tortelloni di zucca, risotto con la zucca, gnocchi di zucca and so on... There are different varieties of pumpkin but the one that I recommend to use is the one you can see in the video, as you'll see it's not the typical halloween pumpkin... I insert a picture as you see, and it's the greenish ones that I use.



These dishes that I make this time are absolutly delicious and very simple, so...just follow the links for the videos and enjoy!

Kuteer's Kitchen - Pumpkin Part 1

Kuteer's Kitchen - Pumpkin Part 2


List of ingredients

To bake at 200 C in preheated oven for 45 min:

1 kg Pumpkin
3 tbs Extra Virgin Olive oil
2 clove Garlic
Fresh rosemary, salt and pepper

Cream of pumpkin soup
400 gr Baked pumpkin
250 ml Cream or Soya cream
100 ml Vegetable broth

For the asparagus version add:
4 pieces of asparagus
A drizzle of Extra virgin Olive oil

For the parmesan version add:
4 slices of parmesan cheese like in the video
1 tsp of good quality balsamic vinegar

Herb crepes, ricotta pumpkin, drops of balsamico
Crepes batter:
30 gr White flour
75 ml Milk
1 Egg
1 tbs Fresh herbs
Salt and pepper to taste

Filling:
150 gr Baked pumpkin
100 gr Ricotta cheese
1 tbs Grated parmesan cheese
Salt and nutmeg to taste

Finishing:
Balsamic vinegar and Extra virgin olive oil

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The recipe for the tofu dish

Hi guys!

Some friends were asking me for the ingredients for the tofu dish I made. So from now on I'll publish the ingredient list together with the video. For now I hope this will be of great help for the ones that like to try this at home! (And yes it is as easy as it seems!!!)

Serving 2 persons:

300gm              Tofu cut in 4 slices
100ml               Shoyu or soya sauce
100ml               Red wine
100ml               Water
50gm                Grinded almonds
30gm                Gommasio
1                       Egg white
2pc                   Spring onions
8pc                   Whole cloves
200gm              Green beans
4tbs                  Extra virgin olive oil
1tbs                  Balsamic vinegar
Salt to taste

New and fun ideas.

Welcome everybody!

For fun I and Trisha started this blog where we will post videos where I'm cooking and write about food, cooking, ingredients etc. Some lines about meditation will probably also sneek in... This is our passion, so what could be a better fit??? :)

Since people likes my cooking we thought we would give them a chance to do it themselves at home in their kitchen. My way in the kitchen is very simple and the most important thing is good ingredients and to have FUN!

This spring I will do a cooking class in Modena at the Salotto Culturale Aggazzotti, also with Trisha I'm planning a evening event at the new fancy hotel Yu Resort. And who knows, there could also be a new Osho festival in autumn to plan.


So, back to the cooking! If you follow the link you'll see my first video, where you will see that my favorite words  are "So now...." :) I'm making a very simple dish that anyone can do with tofu, greenbeans and roasted spring onions. Enjoy and good luck in the kitchen!

Kuteer's Kitchen - Tofu