Salmon Mousse

     And we keep posting summer recipes. We are having a fantastic hot summer, so that is the only thing we want to cook these days! We bring you an easy and healthy cold recipe for the summer: Salmon Mousse, full of proteins and good fats. 

     It requires very little cooking time, although it needs to cool for several hours to settle. It is perfect to eat with a good toasted bread. For sure, we will eat it like that next time. 

     Do you want to know how to cook it? You just need a couple of spare minutes. Watch our video here: 

Two Fruit cold soups for the summer

     We all like a nice cold soup a a starter in the summer. We are andalusian, so we love gazpacho and salmorejo (maybe some day we will share those recipes!) and we eat them at home quite often. But today we are bringing you a couple of different soups. Both of them are fruit based and we think they have a special flavour. 

     They are both very easy recipes, and there is not cooking involved in their preparation. The first one is a pineapple soup with olive oil, and we serve it with prawn and chive. You can used canned pineapple for this recipe. If you do so, do not add the water and use the juice in the can. 

     The second one has flavour little bit more exotic for us. We used mango, melon and coconut milk. To serve it we used bacon. Coriander is a good option for this soup as well, we just didn't have it at home! 

     So that's it for today. Just check our video! 

Lemon and meringue pie

     A classic English dish and one of our home favourite cakes: Lemon and meringue pie.

 

     We've optimizing this recipe for a while now, and we are happy with the result. There is still something we would like to improve, because the sides of the cake are not as nice as we would like them to be, but the flavour is just great. You can bake each layer while you are preparing the next one, so it is a relatively easy and fast cake. 

     There is no need to use a pipe to decorate it. You can just spread the meringue over the lemon layer and make some peaks with a fork. You will still have a stunning cake. 

     We say it in the video, but be especially careful not to burn the meringue, it is quite easy (not that we know it by experience....) 

     You have to try this one. Let us know what you think about it! 

Crispy vegetables snack

    It seems that with the hot weather we are lowering our activity level in Cuukinando. To solve that we bring you a new recipe today. It is a healthy one, a good option for these days.

     They are a fantastic alternative to processed potato crisps and their taste is just as good as theirs (if not better!)

     We have used different vegetables with different cooking times. That means that the crispiness is not the same for all of them. We could try to be more exact and adjust the cooking times, but the truth is that the method is so simple and the result so good that at least for us... it is just not worth it! Be specially careful with the courgette, it is the first one to burn in our combination. We think that parsnip are specially good. 

     Use good quality olive oil and sea salt to cook them, you will see they are much better that way. 

     Will you try to cook them? Let us know if that is the case! 

 

Chocolate layers panna cotta

     We have been thinking about this recipe for a while, and finally we can bring it to you: chocolate layers panna cotta. 

     Panna cotta is an easy dessert and it is always a success. It is kind of the Italian custard. But despite how simple this recipe is, there are huge differences between a good and a bad panna cotta. It is not that easy to find the perfect one! You have to find the perfect fat percentage, sweetness and gelatine amount. For us these are the perfect parameters. But this is not any panna cotta. This is a chocolate layers panna cotta! 

     There is a 3 chocolates cake in Spain that is similar to this recipe, but it is not based in panna cotta but in junket. That was the origin of the idea! 

     We think that this is a very rich and attractive dessert, and we hope you agree with us! 

    Just check out our video, and see you all in our next post. 

Beef stew with cinnamon and dry apricots

     And because people do not live by sweets alone (or they shouldn't!) we bring you a beef recipe today. An easy one with an exotic touch: beef stew with cinnamon and dry apricots. 

     We have cooked this recipe in other occasions with lamb and it is delicious too. We like serving it with just plain rice, because it has an intense flavour and we think it is better not to add anything else. We used flaked almonds today, but any nuts would do (pine nuts goes fantastically well with these flavours). 

     We won't take more of your time today. Here is the video, we will come back soon.

Mini cakes with rose petals and sweet yolks

     It's summer and England is full of roses everywhere. I have a fantastic rose plant at home with beautiful purples roses that smell (and taste!) delicious. So we decided to make some recipe to use them... and we must have a sweet week in Cuukinando, because we are bringing you another cake recipe today. 

     Crystallized petals are easy to make, and you can keep them in an airtight recipient for several months. They can be used to decorate lots of different dishes and they always give an original and fancy touch. And the sweet yolks... well, we are Spanish and they are typical there, so we just love them. We will upload some other sweet yolk recipes. 

    This is a perfect decoration for beginners, so easy to make. And you don't need to be an artist! We hope you decide to give it a try. 

     You can use any cake recipe. We have used our olive oil sponge cake, that we love because of its flavour and the moisture texture. 

     

      You can find the video here:

Chocolate sponge cake bonbons

     We are back today to tell you how do we cook what we call chocolate sponge cake bonbons. It is nothing else than a chocolate sponge cake presented in convenient bite size balls. 

     Once more, it is an easy recipe, and it has a classic chocolate flavour that everybody likes. The only problem we can see in this recipe is that as it happens with any kind of bonbons... you always end up eating more that what you intended! 

     This recipe can be used to make cake pops too. You just need to add the stick and they are ready to decorate. 

     This is our new video, we hope you cook them, and above all, we hope you enjoy them!