February 2018 - Cooked4U

PIZZOCCHERI

Kneading the flours with water. Rolling pasta with rolling pin until a thickness of 2-3 mm. Create some stripes of 6-7 cm of thickness and cut some stripes of about 1cm. Put boiling water in a big pot. In the meantime cut the savoy cabbage and the potatoes. Put salt into water, add potatoes and after 5 minutes also the savoy cabbage. Cook for other 2 minutes and add pasta. Pasta is fresh: it need about 5 minutes of cooking. If you'll use industrial pasta, it cooks in about 15 minutes. In this case, add potatoes, pasta and savoy cabbage in the same time. During cooking, cut the cheese and melt the butter with sage leaves and garlic. Drain the pasta, add cheese, butter and parmesan. Serve hot.

CHOCOLATE DONUT

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH MUSTARD

Take out all the fat from the meat. Tie meat with kitchen string. Put in a steel or aluminium pot oil and salt. Heat it and put in the fillet; brown it in all sides. After that simmer with white wine and then add broth. Cook for about 15 minutes and during this time turn often the meat. If you have a thermometer, the inside temperature must arrive at about 50°C (122°F). Once ready, put the fillet on a grid for about 5-10 minutes. Cut it and serve. In the meantime, get reduce the gravy and then add the mustard. Put on a plate the meat with the mustard gravy. It's perfect with polenta.

WEST COAST… I LOVE YOU – PAGE

This little town offers two incredible natural sight: the Horseshoe Bend and the Antelope Canyon.
They are both becoming very popular but I'm sure that a visit is worth the effort. They are two completely different landscapes; the first is a ring of rock surronded by the Colorado river. A breath-taking show with an unlimited horizon.
I cannot describe what you feel when you'll arrive to the limit of the path and you'll see the Horseshoe bend...it's incredible!
The Antelope Canyon is a natural canyon modelled by water and wind, very narrow and when the light pass throw the rocks, it produces particular colour effects.
I suggest you to visit it in the centarl hours of the day, from 11 to 14. It's a fascinating way of about 300-400 metres between two narrow rock's walls.
You can't go alone but it's necessary to go visiting the canyon with local guides that tell you about the peculiarity of this canyon. It's easy to book the visit throw their website and then you'll pay directly the day of the visit.
The weather in april was perfect; sunny day and warm. In august is easier to find rainy day. In this case you can't visit Antelope Canyon because with rain is very dangerous. Also here the best period for the visit is june.
So, the food? In Page I ate one of the best beef fillet of my life. American people are very good in cooking meat! For visiting Page and its attractions is necessary stay there for 1 night, so I could taste just one restaurant, a very good restaurant! Contact me for every infos and/or curiosity at info@cooked4u.it! See you at next stop!