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Pineapple Smoothie Recipe

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Culture & Science - Cooking and Eating
Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:51

The shakes are an excellent companion to the summer and begins in Europe. Not only are refreshing during hot days, but are a great way to add fruit to your diet and enjoy a healthy and energizing drink. Here we tell you more about how to maximize the shakes and especially how to prepare a delicious pineapple smoothie.

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Shake pineapple for a sweet tooth

This pineapple smoothie is only for gourmands. Includes ice cream and it is excellent to work as a dessert too. Enjoy and rebel heat this summer!

Ingredients (serves 2 people):

  • 500 ml of milk (best if chilled)
  • 1 slice pineapple thick
  • 2 ice cubes (chopped best)
  • 2 tablespoons of vanilla ice cream

Preparation:

Put all ingredients except ice cream in a blender. Process for a few minutes until it looks smooth. Pour into tall glasses and garnish with bochitas over ice cream. Serve with straws.

Light pineapple smoothie

For what they are doing a diet or prefer a healthier recipe, I also share a light pineapple smoothie (serves 4 to 6 people).

Ingredients:

  • 2 kilos of fresh pineapple (pineapple probably 3 medium)
    1 liter of milk
    1 liter water and half
    Condensed milk 3 tablespoons light
    1 tablespoon vanilla extract light
    1 tablespoon lemon juice

Preparation:

Cut the pineapple into medium pieces and process in blender or food processor until it is hand cream. If necessary, add a little water. Let stand in refrigerator for half an hour.

Incorporate after this time the water, milk, condensed milk, vanilla essence and lemon juice. Serve in tall glasses.

Want to make the recipe for fewer people can split the amounts.

Pineapple trio

How to cut a pineapple?

The task of peeling and cutting a pineapple is quite complicated. Therefore I share a video so you can see step by step how to:

Like peeling a pineapple

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Quality dairy products, milk quality

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 19:02

Do you know how to differentiate quality milk from other milk? Gourmet Taste Today we enter the world of dairy products to make a difference and besides, we bring you a video that you love.

Dairy consumption is critical since the beginning of life, from the first day we give babies milk and continue to consume over time, enjoying the flavors and varieties of dairy products that give us vitality.

There is nothing better to know how the way milk is produced and what quality can be the same as you dive on a farm one day to find any work, his work, his love of animals, their dedication.

This time we enter the Livestock Rielo in Galicia and Orlando presents us with his family.

In this stud mime is crucial to the cows, the treatment with respect, because in the end is near animals that are growing every day from birth in cattle until they become beautiful cows that give milk quality.

Food is essential for a quality product, in the case of the Livestock Rielo a good walk in the sun until the meadows, spend the day grazing in green fields and fresh ... There's nothing like the natural.

Because the reality is that not so much the quantity and quality.

How to differentiate a quality milk or not you can see in the smell of milk, in color, in taste. The quality of the milk remains in the Danone yoghurts and therefore select the best herds do to get quality products, with fresh milk.

Because for a Danone product quality is needed quality milk.


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Steaming

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Saturday, 28 April 2012 09:00

Steaming is one of the healthiest ways to cook and it does not add fat and keeps all the nutrients in foods. Gourmet Taste Today we talked about this type of cuisine and all the possibilities offered to enjoy healthy food, rich and nutritious.

Although this type of preparation is one of the healthiest people are increasingly those who prefer fast food or other preparations that do not involve steam food because they think the flavor is lost.

The reality is that steaming retains both the flavors and textures and nutrients in each of the ingredients and offers more advantages than we imagine, because it is the easiest way to cook and also does not lose fluids containing the food.

What can you steaming?

One of the most favored foods are vegetables go, quick cooking often need to not lose any property or nutrient. To serve with a simple bit of oil you can get a delicacy, healthy and nutritious, others prefer to make a vinaigrette with garlic flavor to give you a pill or stock cube , and it is in taste.

The same goes for seafood, steam cooking is great for sensational slices of hake, cod or a great fish you like. When used as well as vegetables, a little oil, some garlic, paprika ... Whatever you want and as you have chosen the fish enjoy something healthy and delicious.

The culinary world is full of possibilities and steaming helps us that the ingredients do not lose their properties, try and enjoy!


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Typical food in Costa Rica

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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 10:11

Costa Rica, one of the favorite destinations of Central America, offers a cuisine interesting, diverse, with a vibrant personality and rich history. Typical foods of Costa Rica often have a strong Spanish influence, given the settlement, and an undeniable presence of the "local flavor". Today we tell you what is best of the cuisine of Costa Rica.

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As mentioned at the beginning, the meals of Costa Rica are influenced by European colonization, and local culinary traditions for those who survived the passage of time. But we also find elements of African cultures that have combined to create a mestizo cuisine.

Contributions of the world, a typical cuisine and unique!

Among the local contributions that were imposed in the preparation of dishes that we know today as typical of Costa Rica are:

  • tamales
  • corn
  • potatoes (the best-known species worldwide from Costa Rica)
  • beans
  • Several tubers such as cassava or pumpkin

Those European contributions that were adopted locally are:

  • milk
  • butter
  • chickens and eggs
  • raise farm animals

The role fulfilled by Costa Rica as a European colony, especially talking about cocoa producing locally is a very strong presence and tradition associated with the same chocolate. Just as Costa Rica had the monopoly of liquor production, so there is a strong tradition of producing spirits in the country.

Another product that represented Costa Rica was long the coffee: the excellent quality of the grain he dominated the world market during the nineteenth century.

Today the kitchen of Costa Rica has been frequently exposed to global influences and globally standardized plates begin to take the place of the typical dishes.

palmito gratinado

The recipe: grilled hearts of palm

An excellent choice to serve as input, this dish of Costa Rica is light, tasty and easy to prepare and serve.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup of palm
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese (or similar) grated
  • 1 tablespoon bread crumbs

Preparation:

First let's turn on the oven preheated to the maximum and while we prepare the recipe.

While we will clean the palm, especially if the can (not to be flavored vinegar). Then we will cut or sliced ​​very thin or very thick and are located in a glass bowl to oven is not very deep. Cover with cream, cheese and bread crumbs.

Bake for about 10 minutes (should be slightly golden on top) and serve hot.

More recipe for Costa Rica

You can try to prepare this recipe on video that we leave then. Gallo pinto, one of the most typical dishes riquenses coast-explained step by step. Costa Rica at home!

Gallo Pinto

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