Archive for April, 2009

Family Fun :How to Throw a Halloween Party for Kids

There are tons of fun Halloween activities that kids look forward to all year, so get creative and plan a festive party the kids will love.
Have the party in the daytime, and keep in mind that two hours is long enough for a simple children’s party.

You may wish to have a Halloween party in lieu of trick-or-treating.

Other activities kids enjoy are decorating Halloween cookies, making egg-carton spiders, decorating their own treat bags, painting pumpkins, or having a costume parade. Read the rest of this entry »

Peach wine - My own way

Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking: 0 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Moderate

Ingredients for 15 people:

300 sheets of fish
3 T sweet white wine
85 sugar cubes
1/4 L of alcohol at 90° Read the rest of this entry »

Carpaccio de Saint-Jacques and Salmon

Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking: 20 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Moderate

Ingredients for 4 people:

8 Saint-Jacques fresh
1 small fillet of fresh salmon
2 bag of mince
juice of 2 lemons untreated Read the rest of this entry »

Peach wine

Preparation: 10 minutes + 1 week of maceration Cooking: 0 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Economic

Ingredients for 4 people:

50 sheets of fish
1 liter of rose wine
1 glass of brandy
250 g powdered sugar. Read the rest of this entry »

Carpaccio de Saint-Jacques

Preparation: 15 minutes Cooking: 20 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Moderate

Ingredients for 4 people:

12 Saint-Jacques
extra virgin olive oil
hazelnut oil
5 melange berries (pink pepper cilantro …) Read the rest of this entry »

Walnut wine - Family recipe

Preparation: 10 minutes Cooking: 0 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Moderate

Ingredients for 20 people:

5 liters of red wine to 12°
1/2 liter of alcohol fruit
30 nuts with their green bark and cut into 2
1kg sugar Read the rest of this entry »

Fried squid Andalusia (Spain)

Preparation: 5 minutes and 1 hour marinating Cooking: 5 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Moderate

Ingredients for 4 people:

500 g of whole small squid
lemon juice
1 clove garlic
oil
flour
1 beaten egg Read the rest of this entry »

Walnut wine

Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking: 0 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Economic

Ingredients for 4 people:

4 liters of red wine
500 g sugar
40 green walnuts
1 / 2 liter of water of life
1 cinnamon stick Read the rest of this entry »

Skewered mussels and beans of Greek

Preparation: 25 minutes Cooking: 20 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Inexpensive

Ingredients for 6 people:

700g mussels g (Spain)
400g beans of Greek
1 dl white wine
C 1 tablespoon flour
1 egg Read the rest of this entry »

Wine hyprocras

Preparation: 10 min + 12 hrs of maceration Cooking: 5 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Reasonable

Ingredients:

10 cloves
10 cardamom pods
30 g cinnamon Read the rest of this entry »

Mussel Skewers

Preparation: 20 minutes Cooking: 5 minutes Difficulty: Easy Cost: Inexpensive

Ingredients for 4 people:

24 large mussels
1 onion
1 small stalk celery
1 small leek
1 glass of white wine Read the rest of this entry »