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Now there are 9 recipes!!

I'm posting them here and hope that the others send them too, because it can be fun to try them with your family.
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RECIPES

1. Recipe: “Carrot Cake”.  Cristina

1. Preheat oven to 300º F.

In a bowl, sift the following ingredients:

            1 teaspoon of baking powder.

            1 teaspoon of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate).

            One and a half cups of flour.

            1 teaspoon of five spices seasoning (ginger, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla).

            2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder.

            1 teaspoon of salt.

2.

Mix in separate bowl these ingredients:

            One and a half cups of brown sugar.

            One cup of vegetable oil.

(Mixing well with the blender).

            Now, add one by one, three eggs.

            Plus 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.

(Mix again with the blender to an average-high speed).

Drop in the same bowl one and a half or two cups of freshly grated carrot and stir with a spatula.

            Add 4oz of chopped nuts.

3.

Take the first bowl and pour in the second bowl, little by little mix with the blender.

Put this final mixture in a greased and floured baking tin.

Bake in pre-heated oven for 45 minutes to 400º F.

Remove from the oven and let rest for about 1 hour to cool.

4.

Meanwhile, make the cream:

            Place one and a half of Philadelphia cream cheese (room temperature).

            Plus 2 tablespoons of vanilla.

            2 tablespoons of light milk.

            Two and a half cups of glass sugar.

(Mix all with the blender).

Cover and refrigerate for about an 1 hour.

Spread the cream on the carrot cake. Finally decorate it with extra-nuts or blueberries if you want.

       

     

2.  Caesar Salad -     Laura Hernández Mejía

     Ingredients:

            
6 cloves garlic, peeled

                     
3/4 cup mayonnaise

                     
5 anchovy fillets, minced

                     
6 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese. 

                     
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

                     
1 tablespoon lemon juice

                     
salt

                     
black pepper

                     
1/4 cup olive oil

                     
4 cups day-old bread, cubed

                     
1 head romaine lettuce

Directions:

     - Mince 3 cloves of garlic, and combine in a small bowl with mayonnaise,

     anchovies, 2 tablespoons of the Parmesan cheese, mustard, and lemon

     juice. Season to taste with salt and black pepper.

     Refrigerate until ready to use.

      

     - Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cut the remaining 3 cloves of

     garlic into quarters, and add to hot oil. Cook and stir until brown, and then

     remove garlic from pan. Add bread cubes to the hot oil. Cook, turning

     frequently, until lightly browned. Remove bread cubes from oil, and season

     with salt and pepper.

      

- Place lettuce in a large bowl. Toss with dressing, remaining Parmesan cheese, and seasoned bread cubes.


Carlos
3. Chicken, red pepper and brie puff pie

Ingredients:

6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
½ lemon, grated zest and juice
2 tablespoons of fresh thyme leaves
1 tablespoons of olive oil
salt and pepper
1 can of red peppers
200g of brie

pepper

salt
1 egg, beaten, to glaze
3 tablespoons of grated parmesan

Recipe:

Cut each chicken breast almost in half lengthways and open out to form a large flat fillet. Put each fillet between plastic film and bat out with a rolling pin to flatten. Put in a shallow dish and sprinkle over the lemon zest, juice, salt, pepper, thyme leaves and oil. You can now cook the chicken straight away or leave the fillets to marinate for up to a day covered with plastic film.

Heat a large non-stick frying pan or a griddle pan until really hot. Fry the chicken (you will need to do this in batches), turning often, for about 8-10 minutes until browned and just cooked. Remove and leave to cook.

Drain the peppers, cut in half and pat dry on kitchen paper. Slice the brie. Roll out the pastry to a 35cm/14 in square. Arrange three chicken fillets along the centre third almost to the edges. Cover with half the peppers, then all the brie, followed by the rest of the peppers and finally the remaining chicken fillets, seasoning between the layers as you go.

Brush the pastry with beaten egg. Draw up the two long edges over the filling and pinch together following the shape of the filling. Seal the ends, then trim off the excess pastry with scissors or a knife. Pinch the pastry join edges with your fingers, like you would a pasty.

Carefully transfer the pie to a damp baking sheet. Brush liberally with egg and sprinkle with parmesan. The pie can now be chilled for up to 24 hours.

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 from cold. Bake for 30-35 minutes until the pastry is crisp and golden. Cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to a serving plate and cut into thick slices to serve. 

4. Cristeam's recipe:

My recipe is the national and most popular dish in Venezuela: it's called Arepas

Ingredients:

We need flour, oil,water, salt and butter

Preparation:

First at all we have to put the flour with a little of salt and butter in a bowl then we'll put the water inside and mix them for 4 minutes until you can't feel any flour lumps . Once done it we'll wait for five minutes in order to set the mixture, After we are going to make little balls with the mixture and put them on a pan or skillet with a little  hot oil, we'll cook them for 5 minutes for each side and finally for eating the arepas, you can open in the middle and fill with any food, but the most popular ingredients to fill up are yellow or white cheese with butter, meat,beans, etc.

5. Gilberto's  recipe: Lasagna with Spinach ingredients: - sheets of lasagne - fresh spinach - 1 onion - seedless raisins - fresh cheese - grated cheese - whole milk - Flour  - butter - Nutmeg - Salt and pepper - Olive oil preparation: In the first place will cook the pasta sheets in a frying pan with a little oil and salt. And let it cook for about 15 minutes. After we saute ( or brown) spinach with raisins and crumbled cheese. Then, we make the bechamel; for it in a frying pan with a little hot oil, we add the flour and stir, while we take the finely chopped onion and stir milk and let us stir until creamy. We add a pinch of salt and pepper. Now assemble lasagna, pasta with a layer, more spinach, bechamel and more pasta again; as many times as you want.

as many times as possible.

6.  Jesus: Pasta Carbonara

First of all, we must fry bacon with a little bit of butter in a frying pan during more or less ten minutes.

Beat eggs, parmesan chesse and black pepper.

Me must cook the pasta during ten minutes with a little bit of salt.

When the pasta is ready, we drain the pasta in a collander.

Finally we stir the eggs, parmesan chesse and black pepper with the pasta in the frying pan where we did the bacon.

The most important thing of this recipe is that we musn't use cream, like a lot of people think. The original "carbonara recipe" doesn't have cream.

7. GRANDMOTHER`S CAKE Esther

INGREDIENTS

·         4 eggs

·         1 yogurt

·         1 empty yogurt cup of oil

·         1 empt yogurt cup of sugar

·         3 empty yogurt cups of flour

·         1 sachet of yeast

·         lemon zest

·         a pinch of salt

PREPARING

1.      beat eggs with a pinch of salt in a bowl. Then to add the yogurt, the sugar and a lemon zest.

2.      Stir everthing and add the flour and yeast.

3.      To prepeare the mold, first to cover the mold with oil and sprinkle a Little flour, add the dough and sprinkle a Little sugar.

4.      To put the mold in the oven 30 minutes at 200 degrees.

8. Pancakes (fast and easy):  María Jesús

Ingredients:

-4 cups of flour

-1 and 1/2 teaspoonful of yeast

-2 Spoonful of sugar

-A pinch of salt

-3 and 1/2 cups of milk

-2 eggs

-25grs of melted butter

Way of cooking:

Mix in a bowl all the ingredients and whip until making a dough, then let the dough stand for 30 minutes.

Prepare a hot pan with butter, and to MAKE the pancakes you just have to pour a little dough with  care in the hot pan (a ladleful for each pancake).

You will know when you have to turn the pancake when in it many bubbles appear!

Repeat the procedure until you finish the dough. 

When you finish the dough and all the pancakes you can serve it with all kind of syrup (chocolate syrup, meaple syrup...) than you like, cream and even, if you want something more healthy, with some fruit.

Enjoy!

9. Belén's Cheesecake
Ingredients:
María biscuits, mashed into crumbs
a little butter
1 package of Philadelphia cream cheese
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
a little berry jam

1.      1.  Mix together the butter and chopped biscuit crumbs. Press the mixture into the bottom of the base.

2.       2. Beat the Philadelphia and sugar. Add the eggs and mix it until they are blended.

3.       Pour it in the base with the biscuits and take it stand in the fridge.

4.       4. Whip berries jam on the top of the cake and is ready to be eaten.