Tuesday, February 3, 2009

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FINALLY THE MENU OF HALLOWEEN

Sorry it has taken so long to display the shortcut I made on Halloween this year, but is that between home, work and then I had free time I devoted to preparing the Invisible Friend gift Gastrónimico (AIG), which in another post I will comment in more detail, after the Christmas holidays, in short, a whole circle. I'm missing hours a day.

Now we are on what counts. Halloween menu.

This year, as I said at the time, I decided to celebrate with my friends at home and do a special menu. Well, food was not very different from normal, but I tried to put together with my partner cooking our personal touch to look like a true Halloween menu.

And the truth is that we won.

Many years have gone to restaurants that make a show and give you a menu, the last thing the truth is that we felt bad. And indeed we have seen that a menu can be anything complicated and different. Here we go



Diner COFFIN
(Pumpkin Bread)








to see Bea's recipe

To me, I must say I came out quite right. I swelled up very quickly and began to burn on top, so I remove and was still raw in the middle. But hey, was good. I have to try again.

Ingredients: 300 gr

. pumpkin, peeled and cut into cubes 1 envelope yeast
Royal
120 ml. warm water 1 teaspoon salt

560 gr. bread flour 1 egg, beaten

Pumpkin seeds for garnish (I got it I found)

PREPARATION: Boil the pumpkin

during 10 minutes or until tender.
Drain and mash.
Cover the base of a mold and coat the walls of butter.
In a bowl sift the flour with salt. Sprinkle yeast
. Mix.
Add the pumpkin puree and warm water and mix again until dough separates from the walls of the bowl.
The dough should be slightly sticky.
Grease a bowl with a little oil and place the dough.
Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled in volume.

Degas the dough, beat and work it on the kitchen table for 1 minute. Set aside a chunk the size of a golf ball. With the remaining dough, forming a large ball and uniform and put it on the prepared pan. Extending
smaller ball until a string of 35 cm. long.
form a loose knot and fasten it to the dough with a little water to keep it in place. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise again for 1 hour in a warm place.
Preheat oven to 210 º.
Brush the surface of the bread with beaten egg and sprinkle the pumpkin seeds on the surface (if available).
Bake for 20 minutes and reduce temperature to 180 º.
Continue cooking another 20 minutes or until well done.
Remove from oven and let cool in pan for 10 minutes.
Unmold and cool completely on a rack.


Potion with cobwebs and their bodies
(Cream of Pumpkin)







pumpkin ¾ ½ kg potatoes 3 leeks

1 cup evaporated milk 3 tablespoons oil

1 teaspoon of salt and pepper meat

Bacon cut into cubes grated Emmental cheese


- Peel the leeks and cut into pieces
- cook the leeks for 5 minutes
- Peel the potatoes and squash, cut them into pieces and add them to the pan to sauté the leeks with
- Where are lightly golden brown, take 1 liter and ½ water and season lightly. It should get very little salt because the meat concentrated
- When a boil, reduce heat and simmer slowly for about 45 minutes.
- While sauté the bacon and reserve
- After this time, remove from heat and grind to make it a fine puree.
- Add evaporated milk and finally the meat extract, stirring until blended.
- Make a cross with half the cheese and put the reserved bacon


SKINS courses Charred and bloody with TWISTED
WORMS (Spaghetti with squid ink and prawn sauce)






















For the pasta:

100 grams of flour or semolina (for 2 people) 1 small egg

1 sachet of squid ink


salt For the sauce: ¼

small peeled shrimp
double cream 500 grams of cooking oil

1 onion, salt, garlic, parsley, Parmesan cheese




red dye was together all ingredients and knead dough until smooth and not stick to hands. If we see that sticks we add a little more flour, and if instead we see that it is too dry add a little water.
will be thrown on squid ink and continue kneading until dough is joined
is wrapped with a cloth and let stand for 30 to 45 minutes

After that, put the dough in the machine to make spaghetti. Once facts are left dry for 30 minutes or less.


After that time, was fired.

While making the sauce.

Cut an onion into small cubes. The
fry in a pan with a little oil until translucent. In the middle of cooking we lay the small prawns in the pan with garlic
and parsley and sauté.
We add cream and mix it with the shrimp, onion and the juice has been dropping
the taste of garlic / shrimp. Salt, pepper and Parmesan
cast as a thickener. Once cooked
withdraw the fire and put red dye. We

a few spaghetti dish and beside it a bit of salsa.


THE EYE OF THE DEVIL
(Red Velvet)
CAKE Recipe A GOGO, Valerie Barrett















Ingredients: 75 gr
. melted unsalted butter.
300 gr. superfine sugar.

2 beaten eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 225 gr

flour 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1 / 2 teaspoon baking soda 1 pinch salt

red dye (place 1 scoop in paste, but I did it by eye). 125ml

buttermilk 1 tablespoon white vinegar

for coverage:
75 g unsalted butter, melted
225 gr. cream cheese.
450 gr.
icing sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

RECIPE

---------------- 1. Preheat oven to 180 º. 23cm greased mold (in this case raises two molds
oil to fill it within range).
2. Mix the butter and sugar. Add the beaten eggs and vanilla
. Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in another
story.
3. Mix the two bowls. Add buttermilk and vinegar.
4. Put food coloring until desired color.

theme coloring I put it in the end, as in the original recipe that you put through recipe
When you take the whey is added to the dye and then throw it
flour, but we prefer pq then throw it into the final surprise is that the mix
separately the first time I did stay super dark, and if I put it in the end because now I'm going to give me a touch of color that I like

Bake 30 minutes or until done.

To cover: beat the butter and cream cheese.
add icing sugar and vanilla extract. Cover the cake over
(cooled) and wait a while to "crystallize" coverage. If you
made two molds also put it in between the cake.

Imp Cagadilla
(Panellets)


















500 g sugar 500 g almonds 250 g potato
Pine


Coco Chocolate
Strawberry flavor 2 eggs



Cook the potatoes and puree with it. Board
sugar and almonds and mashed potato.
When well blended, mix parts in four parts to make the flavors.
Separate the white and yolk, and beat the egg white until stiff and the yolk the bat aside and reserves all

For the sprockets.
mass reserved for the gears, you're making ball. The gaskets in the egg that we had reserved. Let stand about 5 min.
Put the pine nuts in a bag, some 200 grams, and you're getting the ball to go gathering nuts in the balls. The bags and you put a source for oven.

Coconut: A mass
we add grated coconut, the amount as we will like it. Be tested.
was smeared on the egg white and let stand for 5 min.
After this time the balls in coconut batter and put them in the baking dish.

of chocolate: The mass
we add chocolate powder, the amount as we will like it. Be tested. After that time
the coated balls in chocolate sprinkles and put them in the baking dish. Strawberry

mass
A strawberry flavor we add the amount as we will like it. Be tested.
After that time we put the ball above colorful noodles and put them in the baking dish.



With the egg yolk we spread over all panellets to put in the oven to catch a little color.
In the oven, put the fire up and leave until they are golden.





And to drink:



freshly drawn blood

(Water)











1 liter of water red food coloring




Well guys, I have taken, certainly, but finally here it is.
I hope you liked

Hasta la proxima

Making Homemade Luggage Tags

Plaza subsidized housing and underground parking

Competition 1st Prize - 2002 Guadalajara






An existing site with steep and wooded, making it very attractive urban enclave attached to a library, but now the movement of cars and surface parking detracts from the beauty of the place and not allow the development of public use.

This is the reason you decide pedestrianise the square and main entrances. The proposal meets with a small gesture, dialogue with the palace Dávalos and creating a pleasant place to rest for library users, which in turn is compatible with underground parking. A main route connecting the main street with access to the library by crossing Alvarfáñez Minaya. In addition, it is intertwined with an alternative path consists of a series of platforms, with a sinuous gentle slopes to allow wheelchair access. These platforms are articulated through cracks around the garage light and ventilate naturally. This natural light is screened from a rusted steel lattices that reproduce the woodwork of the palace and at the same time protecting the garage.

Through holes five large trees arise under which stay organized spaces. If possible, trees should recover now existing roots plastering techniques.

In turn, these spaces we study with folds in the form of balconies that are staggered to a possible scenario, which is drawing the cover of the garage ramp. Therefore, the square can become a small outdoor auditorium for public performances, such as marathon cuentos.Frente at the entrance of the palace offers a visual clearway. So, this piece takes on the importance of a good property of historical value.

The furniture are: some benches, which are seen as a fold of the pavement itself and a series swivel chairs made of cast aluminum, which are placed in an anarchic way, with the users, which are grouped or individualized.

The pavement is a Continuous precast concrete sleepers, which is played with different types of finish. On the way to the library is engraved with famous texts that lead us to the entrance, thus highlighting the nature of it. Alternatively, the ties are replaced by small beds of herbs or other types of flooring such as wood.