65th birthday cookies

My mother-in-law, Mrs Abelcinda Jubileu celebrated her 65th birthday!

So, I decided to make some cookies for her.

I think they were just lovely!

Well, she liked them.

See you soon...

Ana&Vera

Bolachas Puffles

Quando as crianças estão de ferias é preciso ter ideias- muitas ideias!- para ocupar os seus tempos livres... E, também, para gastar as suas energias!

Uma coisa que já me tinham pedido era se podíamos fazer bolachas. Mas não queriam fazer umas bolachas quaisquer, não! Tinham que ser  bolachas dos Puffles!

E foi isso que passamos um dia a fazer....

Na véspera, fizemos a massa das bolachas, cortámos e cozemos.

No dia seguinte, começámos a decoração.

O resultado final? Uma mesa cheia de Puffles e dois ajudantes com muito jeito e muita vontade de repetir a experiência...

Vera & Ana

Cheese crackers

Hello again!

Today I was on call for flights, so I could not leave my home! I was bored...

So I decided to start checking my "to do recipes" to see if I was in the mood to do anything!

And those cheese crackers poped... Yes I was going to do cheese cracker...

So ingredients are:

226g gratted cheese

4 tbsp butter

Salt

3 tbsp water

Put all ingredients in the food processor or Bimby and pulse, add water until combined.

Roll and cut into any shape. I decided for leaves!

Put in the oven, 180° for 10 min.

And here they are! Delicious!

See you soon...

Ana & Vera

Homemade pasta

A couple of days a go I just celebrate my 41th birthday. :)

When my husband ask me to give him some clues as to what to buy me I didn't hesitate and asked for a pasta machine...

I got a wonderful pasta machine with an extra tool to make ravioli. Uau! 

So today I am making pasta for the first time in my life.

This recipe falls in the category of simple and fast, just the way I like it.

You'll need 1 3/4 cup of flour and 3 eggs. That's it!

Knead the dough with your fingees for 10 minutes and let it rest for 15 minutes.

Cut the dough and pass it through the machine. You'll need to do this several time, adjusting the ma hine, each time. I did it 5 times.

Then it's time to make our tagliatelle!

You have to let it dry for an hour to use right away. The little ones must not touch each other or they will stick to one another. 

If you want to store it, you have to let it dry for 24 hours. Then just store it in a zip lock bag. 

Tagliatelle and spaghetti...

Enjoy!

Ana & Vera

Nogat

Hi! My father used to do nogat for us, when I was a child. Today I decided to do it with my son.

You just need peanuts and sugar! Easy and fast! Just the way I like it! 

Put the peanuts in a pan and cover with sugar, lots of sugar!

Heat and wait until the caramel forms itself!

Put it in wax paper to cool.

Wait for it to get solid.

Chop it and eat it! Hummmy...

Chocolate ganache mini-tarts

• Hello again!

  My son asked me to make something sweet with chocolate. He was in the mood for chocolate...

  So after my search I found this amazing recipe from Martha Stewart and convert it in mini-tarts.

  
  
  

  You'll need:

  3 tablespoons almonds

• 6 tablespoons sugar

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 2 teaspoons grated orange

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cut into pieces

• 1 bar of chocolate, coarsely chopped

• 200g heavy cream

  
  
  

• Preheat oven to 180°.

  Make dough: In a food processor, pulse almonds until finely ground. Add sugar, flour, zest and salt; pulse until combined. Add butter, pulsing until crumbs form.

  
  
  

  Immediately roll dough using a cookie cutter and make the little tart shapes.

  
  
  

  Bake for about 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Make ganache: Place chocolate in a saucepan with cream and let it boil. 

   Stir until smooth and creamy in texture.

  Pour chocolate mixture into each cooled tart shell. 

  Let stand until set, about 2 hours, or chill for 1 hour.

  Simply delicious! 

  Ana & Vera

  
  

Lembrança para a Professora

E no final de um ciclo de aprendizagem, o que oferecer a uma professora que passou 4 anos com o nosso filho?

Teria que ser algo diferente, algo especial para uma professora igualmente especial.

Foi alguém que o ensinou a ler e a escrever, que lhe transmitiu o gosto pela leitura, que lhe incutiu a responsabilidade, que fomentou o espirito de equipa... alguém que ele jamais irá esquecer!

Vera & Ana