Archive for August 2012 | Monthly archive

152. Burger with poached eggs (a recipe from Men's Health magazine)

Eggs for breakfast can never bore a healthy person, especially if you cook them in different ways. If you've already mastered the recipe for poached eggs, making this dish won't give you any trouble at all. Under the cut you'll find another recipe for a healthy burger from Men's Health magazine — this time with pesto sauce (if you have any left after the Italian spaghetti with pesto), pepper and bacon. Read more »»

149. Cappuccino soup with champignons and airy foam (a cream soup recipe)

I've already posted a cream soup recipe with cheese and prawns and an ordinary cream of mushroom soup recipe. Today it's the turn of an unusual cappuccino soup. Outside, the best mushroom season — August — is slowly coming to an end. Any mushrooms will do for this cappuccino soup recipe with its airy milk foam and gentle aroma, so do look under the cut — among other things, you'll learn how to flambé mushrooms with brandy. Read more »»

151. Spaghetti with pesto sauce (Italian recipe)

Today you have a unique chance to add to your store of simple Italian recipes with bacon. Not long ago I posted the recipe for spaghetti with bacon and chilli, and today I'll post the recipe for pasta with pesto sauce. Pesto is a popular sauce of Italian cuisine based on olive oil, basil and cheese. Pesto is usually sold in small jars, has a distinctive green colour and changes the taste of familiar dishes very easily. Details are under the cut ;). Read more »»

148. Hot pizza sandwiches (recipe)

As a counterweight to the healthy burger from Men's Health magazine, I'm posting a recipe for an unhealthy pizza sandwich. It's quicker to make and uses the sort of things you always have to hand. If you can't be bothered making pizza dough — look under the cut ;). Read more »»

150. Poached eggs (French recipe)

I post breakfast recipes fairly rarely (the last one was the recipe for cheese toasts), but today I decided to share one of the basic recipes of French cuisine — the recipe for a poached egg, which is the foundation of an enormous number of dishes (a poached egg is loved for its soft, creamy yolk wrapped in petals of white). Details under the cut. Read more »»

147. A healthy burger (a recipe from Men's Health magazine)

Burgers have always been unhealthy but popular, haven't they? Not so. Today I'll tell you about a not very popular and absolutely harmless sandwich made to a recipe from the editors of Men's Health magazine. I often cook chicken (tacos with chicken and chilli, for example), but for the first time there will be a very filling and healthy chickburger recipe with natural yogurt and Tabasco sauce under the cut. Read more »»