It is a ball of ground meat, fish or vegetables. It is covered with flour or breadcrumbs and then fried in oil.
Easy. You can make any kind of Polpette, as long as you have enough imagination and you know how to pair ingredients. The sky is the limit! My kids love meatballs, but since I am trying to be a good mom, I am reinventing recipes to make my kids eat more vegetables. So I decided to make meatballs without meat for my kids! LOL
There are many recipes out there that require many steps and honestly, I am not a big fan. I have so many things to do in a day, I really don’t want to break my head over a recipe. Therefore, I am always looking for a way to reinvent a recipe with the simplest steps and very easy to follow. For that reason, I reinvented the banana – oat – chocolate cookies. They are so easy to make, even my kids can make them:)
A meat shank is the portion of meat around the tibia of the animal, the leg bone beneath the knee. Lamb shanks are often braised whole. This meat can be found throughout the year, but usually around the holidays, they are much cheaper.
Gremolata is a recipe that I discovered not too long ago. I was a skeptic because I am not a big fan of Italian parsley, but I really like fresh herbs. I like them so much that in my house I have 2 farms for Areogarden full of fresh herbs. That way I have fresh herbs all year round. That was the best birthday present I ever got! I am not affiliated with Aerogarden what so ever, so my opinion is real. I have them for more than a year and I really like them. I grow fresh salad in it, herbs and even cherry tomatoes.
Mix bananas and oat flakes and you will get very healthy pancakes! The oats bring you a lot of fiber and the bananas are a greats source of vitamins and contain very little fat. I usually serve them with plain yogurt or my homemade ricotta cheese, but this time I served them with my chocolate ganache! Very easy to make and soo good! You cannot go wrong – chocolate and banana is a classic combination.
Gravlax has grown in popularity in North America with all the cooking shows and food blogs. As for myself, I started making my own easy Gravlax appetizer not because of that, but because of my father-in-law and my husband. Back when they were in Russia, they used to eat it very often during the holidays (that and caviar on blinis for breakfast, which was more affordable than you might think). Gravlax became our traditional appetizer. I make it very often, and there will be no exception this Holiday season! 🙂
One morning, I was once again in front of my fridge, and I saw I had some whipping cream and some mascarpone cheese with their expiration dates were approaching. I had a craving for an orange Portuguese cake, but no use for my poor cheese and whipping cream in that recipe! So I started thinking if I can make something like an orange cake (because that’s what my soul was asking for), but with Mascarpone cheese and whipping cream? I thought maybe a Christmas log, an orange cake with cream cheese icing, a trifle, or a cheesecake? I couldn’t make up my mind, something was missing, no inspiration.
Broccoli is a super-food just like kale, a super antioxidant! Broccoli has vitamins K and C, it is a good source of folate, and also provides potassium and fiber. I know many people don’t like it, especially kids. I remember when my daughter Nina was 8 months old, she loved broccoli! However, she stopped eating it after turning two. Well, you know what, I decided to incorporate it into her favorite cheese pasta, and ever since all our kids ask for this dish at least once a week. We even used that sauce on our homemade pizza once. Wow! Usually, we have leftovers after a pizza night, but that night there was nothing left!
