Homemade dark chocolate and hazelnut spread

cacao

Another chocolate spread recipe!

I took major inspiration here.

You will need:

60 gr of honey
35 gr of cacao powder
40 gr of hazelnut butter (I used Biona hazelnut butter)
70 ml milk

Mix the cacao powder with the honey
Add then the hazelnut butter, mix well.
Finally add slowly the milk.

Put it all in a beautiful jar.


Store it in the refrigerator!


Nachos especial

cheddar



Nachos especial is a starter that I used to eat in a Mexican restaurant in Brussels.

Unfortunately the restaurant had to close. And they took with their closure one of the tasties nachos I had ever eaten.

You have to keep in mind that those nachos aren't the ones we get in the movie theater.

The ingredients for this super delicious nachos are

a bag of natural flavoured nachos ( don't take the doritos)
mais
two tomatoes
sour cream
100 gr cheddar
guacamole (optional)
foil paper

Pre-heat your oven on the highest grill stand of your oven.
Take a big plate and dispose your nachos on it.
Grate the cheddar and put the grated cheddar on your nachos.
Put your plate in the oven. Make sure it doesn't burns.

In the mean time cut your tomatoes in little parts. 

Once your cheddar has melted take the plate out of the oven.
Dispose the mais, tomatoes and (three dots) sour cream on your nachos.

Serve immediately (on a nice summer day)!







Crostata alla ricotta / Ricotta tart

crostata

A new day, a new tart ... I mean a new crostata!

And then you're like what IS a crostata?
Crostata is the italian word for tart.

I took major inspiration here, but i left out the pine nuts and the honey.



For one crostata alla ricotta you will need:

-For the dough

200 gr flour
80 gr of sugar
80 gr butter
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
the zeste of one lemon (non treated)
a pinch of salt

-For the filling:

 300 gr ricotta
2 eggs
80 gr sugar
25 gr maizena
the zeste of one lemon (non treated)
a pinch of salt
powder sugar 
50 gr pine nuts (optional)
(honey (optional)


First you have to make the dough. Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and zest together.  Add then the butter, you will be left with a 'sand' texture. In the end you  add an egg. Mix it all well. Once you have the desired texture, let the dough rest for a bout half an hour in the fridge.

Preheat the oven to 180°.

While your dough is resting, make already the filling. Whisk in all the ingredients, a part from the eggs and the powder sugar. Then add slowly the eggs. 

Take your mould (23 cm) and make sure to butter it. 

Roll out the dough and put it in the mould, make sure to press the dough well.

NOTE: the dough can be a little fragile, so pay attention when you work with it.

Put the filling on your dough, and fold up the edges of your dough on the filling.

Bake for 25-30 minutes in your pre-heated oven!

Let it cool and serve to your family and or friends.
 











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