If you have watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, you’ll certainly remember the apple strudel that Queenie prepares for the stunned Kowalski 🙂 . Its fragrance enchants the confectioner almost as much as the beautiful sorceress. Once the scene was over, our usual analysis and reconstruction of the recipe began. Let’s start with the obvious, it’s an apple … Read More
Garfield’s Lasagne
Lasagne are one of the most popular dishes of Italian cuisine 🙂 . Sheets of egg pasta, stuffed with meat sauce, bechamel and grated Parmesan. There are many regional variations of this dish, although the most famous is that of Bologna; the meat, of excellent quality, must be half beef and half pork to give more flavor to the sauce 🙂 … Read More
Katniss Everdeen’s lamb stew with dried plums and wild rice
The past years we have presented two recipes taken from famous books Hunger Games: the pumpkin brew and roasted quails with tangerines. Today at the release of the last chapter of the saga, we could not let slip the opportunity to present the favorite dish of Katniss! The lamb stew with dried plums and wild rice. “The stew’s made with tender chucks of lamb … Read More
Snow White toffee apples
On the occasion of Halloween we’ll prepare some good toffee apples Snow White would surely appreciate 🙂 . Crisp and shiny on the outside, soft juicy inside… The queen went in haste to a secret room where no one could enter and prepared the most poisonous apple that the world ever saw. Outside the apple was so beautiful, red and white, … Read More
Sansa’s lemon and almond cakes
Today the 5th season of Game of Thrones will sadly close, we have been inspired by the book and the series to prepare a cake to taste during the last episode :). So, here come some lemon cakes with almonds, brown sugar and the exotic touch of cardamom. Halfway between a biscuit and a cake, these desserts look like giant … Read More
Katniss Everdeen’s roasted quails with tangerine sauce
One year ago we began to explore the recipes from “the Hunger Games” novel, especially from the enormous buffet for the winners’ tour end party. As Katniss, we were blown away by the tons of tasteful dishes, so we had to try all the soups described on the first table of the buffet. If you haven’t tasted it yet, you should really … Read More
Night’s Tart
Today the 4th season of “Game of Thrones” is about to end, so we let us inspire by this series for this recipe 🙂 . Here comes… the mysterious Night’s Tart, a crumbly shortcrust pastry enclosing a vanilla custard heart, topped with blueberry jam and tiny meringues. You’ll be able to gaze at a starry sky in each slice of … Read More
Katniss Everdeen’s Pumpkin Brew
If you haven’t read the novel “Catching Fire” or you’re waiting for the movie beware there might be some insignificant spoilers in this recipe 😉 . At the end of the “Hunger Games winner’s tour” there is a great party, held in the mansion of president Snow. The party buffet is enormous, there are tons of really tasteful dishes 😉 . We … Read More