BREAD AT SPRING

Spring smell thanks to Il cucchiaino di Alice

Ingredients: manitoba flour 300 gr, kamut flour 150 gr, fresh brewer's yeast 12 gr, sugar 1 little spoon, salt, water 150-200 ml, parmigiano cheese 1 spoon, pecorino cheese 1 spoon, asparagus pointed, boiled honeycomb, oil.

Melt fresh brewer's yeast 7 gr with a little spoon of sugar in a cup of warm water, wait few minutes. Mix 100 gr of manitoba flour with two little spoos of warm water. Put the compound in a fresh place to leaven some hours (even the whole night). Take the risen ball, melt the remain brewer's yeast in warm water with a spoon of sugar, wait few minutes and add the flour. Add warm water (where you melt 1 little spoon of salt before) and parmigiano chesee, knead. Put the compound in a warm place to leaven(for example the oven 35 C°) for 2 hours.

Dust with flour the little pots, put the mixture there in small portions. Put the honeycombs on the top, in the middle an asparagus (put some alluminium sheet around them for the oven). Leave them in a warm place to leaven for 1 hour.

Finally put them in the oven 200 C° for 25'-30'

SOUP WITH THE TASTE OF SPRING AND LITTLE BIT OF WINTER TOO

by Il cucchiaino di Alice

Ingredients: leaves of chicory, half pear, 1 or 2 zucchini, extra virgin olive oil, 1 mozzarella, (salt, pepper for mum&dad), onion, parmigiano reggiano cheese

Stew onion with 2 little spoon of oil, add zucchini and pear, leaves of chicory. Cover with 1 and half litre of water. Cook for 20-25 '. Blend all with a little spoon of oil, parmigiano, for the baby add some pieces of  mozzarella and pearl millet.  For mum and dad add salt and pepper  and if you like some peel of ginger.

BLACK RICE MUFFINS

by il cucchiaino di alice

Ingredients white flour 250 gr,   Venere rice, eggs 3, milk 90 ml (or half milk and half white yogurth), 80 gr sugar,  1/2 portion of baking powder, 50 ml olive oil, cinnamon 1, (50 gr almond chopped)

oranges gelatin 4 oranges, 1 little spoon of agar-agar, 1 little spoon of sugar

oranges gelatin: Mixed the oranges pulp with agar-agar and sugar, warm up for few minutes. Switch off and wait. Fill a freezer  box and put there for around 30'.

muffin: whip egg whites, mix very well yolks with sugar, add oil and milk at the end egg white. Add flour with baking powder and cinnamon. Fill with this some muffin shapes. Add in the middle a piece of orange and put in the oven for20-30'. Serve them with orange juice!