Gustavo

5 de abril de 2021

Homemade Chocolate Easter Eggs

We made homemade chocolate Easter eggs. (Here the usual kind is a hard chocolate shell, with sprinkles or toys inside.) My 4-year-old daughter loved it, although she did a bit of a mess. She especially helped to pass the pieces of chocolate from the bag where we bought them to the container to melt it, and to fill the halves of the eggs with the sprinkles .

The photos are very nice:

The eggs in real life were not that pretty, so I don't have anything insightful to say about the recipe. It’s better if you find a recipe from someone who knows what is doing.

The important thing is to choose the correct egg and the correct angle to take the photo. (It wasn't even the best egg, it was the one that looked the best in the photo.) (Another trick is to take a lot of photos and choose the best one. In this case I didn't use it. The first photo was very nice.) (The cellophane wrapper caused a lot of trouble, but it looks good in the photo.)

The only insightful conclusion is that you should not believe everything that is published on the Internet.

30 de abril de 2020

Coquitos for quarantine

► Versión en Español

We are still in quarantine, but we had a bit of grated coconut and we made coquitos:

200g grated coconut
200g sugar
2 eggs
I have no idea how hot the oven was.

We shaped them by hand, so they got with some very nice burnt stripes on the sides.

Coquitos: Some are already missing in the photo

(We tried a second time, but the mixture was very dry and after cooking they crumbled. It is very strange. Maybe it depends on the humidity of the grated coconut?)

28 de abril de 2018

Triple cheese and cheese sandwich

► Versión en Español

A friend bought crust-less sandwiches for his birthday. But the person who builds them made a mistake and some of them were cheese and cheese sandwiches. (That is bread-cheese-bread-cheese-bread instead of the traditional recipe that is bread-ham-bread-cheese-bread or variants such as bread-ham-bread-tomato-bread.)

18 de enero de 2017

Homemade Crunchy Nougat Recipe

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We were getting ready for dinner and I noticed there were no nougats. Very wrong. Moreover, almost all businesses had closed. I just got to buy some walnuts and almonds.

Ingredients:

Some walnuts (let's say ¿20?)
Some almonds (let's say ¿20?)
Some sugar (let’s say, a quarter of the apparent size of the mountain of walnuts and almonds)

Steps:

Butter a metal baking dish.
Put the sugar in a metal jug (I do not put water) and heat it until the caramel has a slight brown tone.
Add the walnuts and almonds and stir a little to warm the mix.
Throw the mixture into the baking dish and distribute so that there is a flat layer instead of a mountain. More or less with the high of a walnut or hazelnut.
¡Caution! ¡Wait for it to cool down! The caramel is hot, very hot. It's hot even after it gets half-hard. It's hot even after it seems cold. It's hot even after waiting a while. Better to wait for it than to get burn.
Unstick the crunchy nougat, try to break it and eat it. (If it is too high, it is difficult to break.)

Ideas:

I found it very sugary, next time I'll try with less sugar.
I should have waited a little longer for the caramel to take color, so it had a more caramely taste, but I was afraid to burn it.

2 de febrero de 2015

Pancakes

I made pancakes.This was great! The rest had apple slices and serious topological problems.