Category — At lunch

One of the latest trends in our civilized world is health and what does it take to improve and maintain it. More and more people just start realizing their kids get overweight because of all that junk food that’s so tasty and so convenient, yet so damaging for the health.

So, we all agree we want to eat healthy. However, when it comes to defining healthy eating recipes, many arguments and contradictory beliefs show up. Some nutritionists claim that cow’s milk, for instance, is highly detrimental to a baby’s normal development, because its formulation is completely different from the human milk one. They base their reasoning on the fact that a calf needs to grow much more than a human baby grows over its first year of life. I don’t really know what to say… we’ve grown up with cow’s milk and some of us are in an excellent shape and in good health.

One of the most appreciated meals in my group is the beef brisket. It’s never missing from our table whenever we meet for a small party, mostly over the weekends. Yet, there are so many beef brisket recipes out there, some of them healthier than others, that we can argue forever if eating this kind of food is actually healthy or not. Moreover, the beef brisket quality matters a lot: if you make sure to buy only high-quality, organic meat, coming from beef that’s been fed solely with grass, with no chemicals or artificial nutrients added, then you’ll probably be on the safe side with this kind of meals. There are some studies that have revealed that feeding an animal with grass leads to a higher level of good fatty acids like Omega 3, which are known to be a great helper in stopping the aging process.

I’d be happy to know what’s your take on that: can beef brisket recipes be considered healthy eating? Please just don’t tell me vegetarian is the way to go, because I don’t think I’m ready to drop meat from my diet, at least for the time being.

Pizza is one of my favorite foods. I like it so much that I can’t help myself from going out every other day to eat one. I’m lucky, because the nearby restaurant has some excellent pizza recipes, so I have all the reasons in the world to come back again and again. However, there are days when I feel like not going out and still I’d like to eat some pizza. For such days, I’ve got the following pizza recipe which my friends and I love so much. I hope you’ll like it too.

Ingredients for 4 mini-pizzas

• 50 g parmesan
• 230 g wheat flour
• 1/4 butter pack
• 1/2 glass of milk
• 4-6 spoonfuls of pesto sauce
• 2 baked bell papers
• 12 black olives
• a small ruccola

Cooking Procedure

1. Grate half of the parmesan and put it in a kitchen mixer
2. Add the flour, the milk and a bit of salt
3. Pour the milk and process until you get a homogeneous pastry
4. Divide the pastry in 4 parts and extend each part in the shape of a plate
5. Spread pesto sauce over each slice, then put on top of it pieces of baked bell pepper and olives
6. Put everything in a hot over for 10 minutes
7. Add ruccola leaves and parmesan pieces and serve hot.

This is an easy to prepare and enjoyable meal, which you can eat in front of the TV set, watching the Cult TV series with your friends, or any other TV show you may enjoy. However, I wouldn’t advise you to eat these pizzas while playing online games, because you may need a new keyboard very soon.

Salmon recipes are sought after quite a lot. I suppose this is due to the great taste salmon has and to its reputation of celebrity food. Being a big fish, salmon can be sliced in such a manner that your guests would never encounter an unexpected bone in their plate or in their mouth. Salmon is the kings’ dish. Cooked properly, it can make eating a pure pleasure. You can never get enough of a well-cooked salmon recipe.

Ingredients:

• 600 g. salmon
• 400 g. asparagus
• 300 g. tomatoes
• 100 g. leek
• 40 ml. balsam vinegar
• 50 g. rucola
• 20 g. fresh basil
• 10 g. fresh mint
• salt, pepper

The sauce:

• 80 ml. oil
• 400 g. cream
• 1 lemon
• 120g. butter
• 1 orange for decoration

How To Cook It

1. Put the salmon in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.
2. Turn it on both sides.
3. Fry the tomatoes. Peel them off and cut them in thin blades. Leave part of them for the salad.
4. Cut the leek on its length in thin slices. Leave part of it for the salad.
5. Add the tomatoes and the leek with the salmon.
6. Put it in the oven for 15 min.
7. Blend the asparagus.

For the sauce:

1. Melt the butter.
2. Add the cream and the lemon juice. Stir.
3. Leave it to diminish for 5 min.
4. Cut the basil.
5. Add salt, pepper and the basil.

For the salad:

1. Cut the rucola, the mint and the basil.
2. Mix the up the slices of the tomatoes and the leek.
3. Add balsam vinegar.

On a plate put:

• The asparagus.
• On top the salmon.
• On top the sauce and the salad.
• The slices of orange, round about.

This is all you need for a delicious meal. If you wish, you can replace the salmon with any kind of dried fish, as it offers a special savor to this meal. By the way, I think you can even find dried salmon, so you can use it from time to time, just for a change in your salmon recipes.

Ingredients

• 600 g. spinach
• 750 g. calamari without the head
• 5 spoons of olive oil
• 3 onions
• 70 ml. of white dry wine
• 50 g. of dill
• 3 spoons of mint (cut small)
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the calamari 1 cm. thick.
2. Cut the onions and the dill small.
3. Fry the onions for 3 min.
4. Add the dill, the mint and the calamari pieces. Salt and pepper them.
5. Fry for 5 min.
6. Add 200 ml. of hot water and cover the pot.
7. Leave it on the fire, at low temperature, for 20 min.
8. Cut the spinach small.
9. Put it in the pot with the rest of the food.
10. Add 50 ml. of water and boil for 10 min.
11. Add the wine and boil for 5 min.

If you still don’t know how to cook calamari, you’d better go have dinner to your favorite sea food restaurant.

Lamb can be a delicious meal, if properly cooked. Moreover, if you can’t eat everything at one meal, you can use the rest for preparing some great leftover ham recipes. This is only a matter of creativity, to combine leftovers with fresh food, in order to create original meals. Ham is a great ingredient in such cases, as it helps a lot.

Ingredients

• 800 g. lamb pulp
• 150 g. butter
• 2 lemons
• 5 spoons of olive oil
• 500 g. of small potatoes
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the meat big. Salt and pepper the pieces.
2. Fry them in hot olive oil, for 10 min, on each side.
3. Take the pot off the fire.
4. Squeeze the lemons.
5. Pour the lemon juice over the meat.
6. Cover the pot and leave it for 5 min. like this.
7. Add ¼ l. of water.
8. Put the pot on the fire, at low temperature, for 30 min.
9. Cut the potatoes in cubes. Salt and pepper them.
10. Fry them for 5 min. and put them in the pot with the meat for the last 15-min.

Ingredients:

• 600 g. pork pulp
• 4 onions
• flour
• semoline
• 2 eggs
• paprika
• tomato juice
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the meat in medium pieces.
2. Cut the onions small.
3. Fry them for 3 min., than add 1 cup with hot water.
4. Stir from time to time until the water evaporates.
5. Salt and pepper the meat and the onions.
6. Add 50 ml. of vegetable oil.
7. Continue to fry for 3 min.
8. Add 500 g. of hot water.
9. Leave the food, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
10. During this time, scramble the eggs. Salt them.
11. Add, bit by bit, flour and semoline (equal shares) and stir until you obtain a thick cream.
12. Boil 400 g. of water.
13. Put, spoon by spoon, the cream in it.
14. Don’t stir.
15. Wait for the cream to become hard.
16. Boil it for 5 min.
17. Take them out and put it in the meat and onion sauce.
18. Add the paprika.
19. Put the food in the oven, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
20. Add the tomato sauce and put the food back in the oven for 5 min.

If you want, you can replace the pulp with bone-in pork chops, thus creating original pork chops recipes for your dinner guests.

Ingredients

• 1 kg. of green salad
• 100 g. of rice
• 2 carrots
• 1 onion
• 3 eggs
• 50 g. of vinegar
• olive oil
• salt

Cooking Procedure

1. Grate the carrots and the onion. Salt them.
2. Fry them with the rice for 5 min., adding few spoons with hot water.
3. Boil 2 l of water.
4. Put the mixture in them and boil it, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
5. Cut the salad.
6. Put it in the soup. Add salt.
7. Continue to boil for 10 min.
8. Scramble the eggs.
9. Pour them in the soup throw the fork’s teeth.
10. Continue to boil for 10 min.
11. Add the vinegar.

This is it. If you didn’t know yet, please find out that you can successfully use vinegar for heartburn. Try it and see for yourself.

This cauliflower soup recipe is the favourite of my brother. I personally prefer the cauliflower recipes based on roasted or mashed cauliflower. That’s because I’m not so much of a soup eater. However, I still think this recipe is worth sharing with you, especially that it belongs to my heart healthy cooking recipes. We all have to take care of our heart and avoid too much of the bad cholesterol which causes so many troubles.

Cauliflower Soup Ingredients

• 1 vegetable marrow
• 200 g. of potatoes
• 4 carrots
• 2 onions
• 100 g. of cauliflower
• 50 g. of cabbage
• 3 tomatoes
• 200 g. of cream
• 50 g. of dill
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the potatoes in medium cubes.
2. Boil them for 5 min. and throw away the water.
3. Grate the vegetable marrow, the carrots, and the onions. Salt and pepper them.
4. Fry them, at medium temperature, for 3 min.
5. Put them in 2 l. of hot water and boil them for 20 min, with the cauliflower bouquets, the grated cabbage and the potatoes.
6. Cut the tomatoes in small cubes.
7. Add them in the soup and boil for 5 min.
8. Cut the dill small.
9. Leave the soup to chill up for 10 min. and add the dill and the cream.

Serve the cauliflower soup with sower cream and garlic toast. If you want to show your creativity in the kitchen, you can prepare as the second course a nice roasted cauliflower, which will have a totally different taste if you add some curry at the end of the roasting process.

Ingredients

• 400 g. of spiral pasta
• 100 g. of sugar
• 450 g. of nuts

Cooking Procedure

1. Boil the pasta until they are ready.
2. Cover the pot and leave it for 30 min.
3. Smash the nuts heart very small (powder like).
4. Mix it up with the sugar.
5. Strain the pasta and sprinkle it up with cold water.
6. Mix it up with the nuts and the sugar.
7. Put it in the oven, at low temperature, for 10 min.
8. Stir from time to time.

You can serve it hot or cold.
Good either way.

Ingredients

• 1 l. of milk
• 8 eggs
• 300 g. of sugar
• 50 g. of vanilla

Cooking Procedure

1. Put 100 g. of sugar in a stainless steel pot, to cover its bottom.
2. Leave it at low temperature, moving it from time to time, until it is turning brown.
3. Than, make sure you are turning pot in a way that the sugar covers the margins for 1,5 inch.
4. Leave it for 2 more min. and take it away from the fire, to chill up.
5. Blend the eggs.
6. Add bit by bit the sugar.
7. Blend until you obtain a cream.
8. Add the vanilla.
9. Add, bit by bit, the milk.
10. Pour every think in the already cold pot.
11. Put it in the oven, at medium temperature, for 35 min.
12. Take it out and leave it to chill up.
13. Put it in the refrigerator for one hour.