Healthiest Desserts

Apple jelly

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:44:00 +0000

Ingredients

For the cake

• 1 cup flour
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg,
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon,
• salt
• 1 pinch of sugar
• 3 tablespoons margarine
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons skim milk
• 2 large baking apples, with the interior clean and chopped

To cover

• 1 pinch of sugar
• 1 pinch ground cinnamon.

Development

Moreover, in a medium bowl, mix the flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt. In another different bowl, beat margarine and sugar until frothy, adding immediately thereafter the egg and milk and beat at medium speed one minute. The next step is adding the mixture of the first bowl to the second gradually in three stages and with a large spoon, placing them joining the apples well. Then slowly pour the resulting mixture in a rectangular, deep, anointing with oil previously.

Add a pinch of cinnamon sugar and cover and cook in the oven, which should already be hot. Approximate time is 45 minutes but can go observe the evolution until the edges are going browning.

Apple, carrot, pumpkin pudding

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:43:00 +0000

For 18 servings

Ingredients

120 grams fine grated carrots
Grated apples 120gramos
Finely grated pumpkin 120gramos
Juice of ½ lemon
120 grams dietary peach jam (authorized by the Diabetic Association)
3 egg yolks
½ cup oil
2 tablespoons powdered artificial sweetener (Splenda, sucralight etc)
2 cups flour (240gramos)
1 cup corn starch (potato starch, potato starch) (120gramos)
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder (15 grams) (dry chemical leavening)
Pinch of salt
3 tablespoons skim milk
3 egg whites
1 teaspoon artificial sweetener (Splenda, sucralight, etc)

Preparation

Put in a bowl, grated carrots, apples and squash. Mix and add the lemon juice and peach jam. Then the egg yolks and stir to incorporate all oil.

Separately, sift flour, cornstarch, baking powder, sweetener powder and salt. Incorporate interspersed with dry milk.

Finally beat the whites with the teaspoon of sweetener until well levadas without ever being harsh. Add half and mix well to incorporate the rest adding it slowly and no lower bound for the preparation.

Spray with cooking spray or a little butter (butter) melted a savarin mold 24cm in diameter base. Pour mixture and bring to a preheated oven at 175 degrees (moderate) for 50 minutes. Cooking should be done slowly because the mass has high humidity.

The impression as if he cut cooking but really missing is the addition of the apple, carrot and pumpkin which gives the final texture

Lighter sweets

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:32:00 +0000

Why is it always that which is richer and more pleasure we eat is what makes us more fat. Normally our fancy sweets are most common culprit. But there are ways to enjoy them without getting fat. Attentive to these tips.

The girls know what it costs us resist chocolates, pastries, cakes and sweets in general. The problem is that after enjoying them feel a terrible guilt for the amount of calories they provide. But the truth is that we can delight in a dessert without gaining kilos. Just to know a few tricks.

In the case of chocolate, to enjoy this delicious food without guilt, you choose black or bitter chocolate, which has more cocoa butter and very little fat. It is very tasty, nutritious and low calorie as well.

As for desserts, puddings, mousses, foams, etc.., Prefers to prepare yourself at home and thus save you many calories. For example, replace the milk or cream in their fat versions instead of sugar and sweetener deals especially for cooking.

Jams, candies and syrups can also do it at home, will be much more natural and light. Choose fresh fruit from the station and replacing sugar or sweetener stevia.

The so famous cheesecake or cheesecake can too much light cheese diet or opt for 0% fat rather than whole cheese and sweetener instead of sugar.

Cakes, pies and cakes always prefiérelos versions with fruit instead of those based on chocolate, caramel or cream. Calm the urge to eat something sweet and delicious but saving you calories.

When you want to enjoy a delicious ice cream on a hot day, opt for water-based preparations rather than those of milk and cream. Are equally sweet and refreshing, but much lighter.

Light pears with syrup

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:58:00 +0000

For 4 servings

Ingredients

4 medium pears, ripe just
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 and 1 / 2 cup water (375cc.)
1 and 1 / 2 cup dry white wine (375cc.)
2 cloves
1 orange, peeled and sliced
the shell of a quarter of a lemon
powder or liquid sweetener to taste
1 / 2 tablespoon cornstarch (starch, potato starch)

It's called product sweetener to sweeten without adding calories.

Preparation

Peel pears, cut into quarters and remove seeds. Sprinkle with lemon juice.

Place in a pan the water, white wine, the skins of the pears, cloves, sliced orange and lemon peel.
Bring the fire with the lid on and allow to lift the boil. Uncover and continue cooking five more minutes.

Remove pan from heat, remove the peels of the pears and add sliced pears.
Re-cover the pan and cook over low heat until the pears are just tender. Approximately 10 minutes.

Remove pears from liquid to drain well and bring the pan to the fire again letting it boil over low heat until the liquid has reduced by half.

Strain the liquid and add cornstarch dissolved in a little cold water. Bring the fire, stirring continuously until mixture is thickened.

Remove and add the sweetener to taste. Pour the cream over the pears and let cool then serve.

Strawberry bavarois

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:53:00 +0000

For 4 servings

Ingredients

• 250 ml. skimmed milk
• 2 egg yolks
• 150 gr. strawberries,
• 15 gr. gelatin
• 15 gr. cornmeal,
• 150 gr. cream,
• sweetener to taste

Preparation

Place the gelatin in water about 10 minutes earlier. Pass the strawberries through a mixer. Dissolve the corn flour with three tablespoons of milk and add the yolks, also dissolving. Place milk in a saucepan with half of the sweetener to a boil. When boiling, add slowly, stirring, mixing maize flour with the yolks and continue stirring until it boils again. Incorporate drained gelatin and remove, drain and stir a bit until it cools. When cool incorporates the strawberry puree and whipped cream with the rest of the sweetener.

This ultimately contributes about 230 kcal. per serving compared to 20 gr. of fat and 9 grams. carbohydrate.

Light chocolate ice cream

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:03:00 +0000

Ingredients

1 cup cold skim milk
1 cup hot skim milk
1 tablespoon butter (butter), low calorie
1 tablespoon corn starch (starch, potato starch)
1 tablespoon natural sweetener suitable for cooking (sweetener to sweeten without adding calories)
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
4 egg whites
pinch of salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preparation

Dissolve the cornstarch and cocoa in cold milk, add the hot milk, sweetener and butter. Bring the fire and stir until they begin to lift the boil and thickens. Remove. Cool in water bath reverse.

Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff. Add the cream with vanilla. Bring to the freezer until it holds ice cream. Remove just before serving to make it more creamy. It can be served alone or accompanied by a magical cookie recipe that is on our website by entering the title in the search that is to the left of the page.

Orange wheat crackers

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:48:00 +0000

Ingredients

• 200 gr. whole wheat flour
• 70 gr. bran flakes
• 2 teaspoons yeast
• The skin of an orange, finely grated
• a pinch of salt
• 60 gr. margarine
• 70 gr. mashed potato
• liquid sweetener
• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons orange juice
• 1 teaspoon margarine

Development

Preheat oven to 180 º C above. Combine flour, bran, yeast, orange zest and salt. Pour the margarine into small pieces and knead the dough until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the sweetener to the mashed potatoes and add all to the mix. Beat all together with egg and orange juice until a firm dough. Roll on a floured board until a thin crust cut into circles or squares of 5 cm. approx. Put on greased baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes, until crisp but not toast. Cool on a rack and store in an airtight container. Be careful with the intake of too high of these cookies they are 50 kcal., 2 grs. fat and 10 grams. hydrate each.

Lemon ice cream

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:06:00 +0000

Ingredients

• 1 glass of skimmed milk,
• 1 cup lemon juice
• lemon zest
• 1 egg white,
• liquid sweetener.

Elaboration

Less clear, mix everything in the blender. Add liquid sweetener to taste. Put in the freezer and when half frozen, add the egg white until stiff and mix well. Back to put it in the freezer until frozen. One serving of this ice cream makes 25.6 gr. carbohydrate and 8.5 grams. fat.

Moka light cake

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:47:00 +0000

Ingredients

Vanilla cake (pionono)

4 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
sweetener to taste
4 egg yolks
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 teaspoons superfine wheat flour
1 / 4 cup of coffee with sweetener to wet pionono

Filling

2 cups ricotta descrenada
sweetener to taste
Instant coffee 2cdtas
vanilla
1 / 4 cup skim milk
2 egg whites

Preparation

Pionono

Whip up some egg whites and then add the baking powder. Continue beating with electric mixer until firm.
Add yolks one at a time, always mixing. Then add the sweetener and vanilla. Remove from mixer and add flour little by little.

Pour the mixture over a baking sheet lined with white paper or sulphite bakery oven and carry something heavy, for 8 minutes or until just cooked. Remove from oven and immediately remove the paper. Pionono Cut in half and moisten with sweet coffee.

Fill.

Pass the ricotta through a food processor, sweetener, coffee, vanilla and skim milk. Remove and put in a bowl. Besides beating the egg whites and add to mixture.

Fill with the cream of the part of pionono, and cover with the other half. If you want you can reserve a little of the stuffing and use to decorate. Sprinkle the surface with 1 / 4 cup chopped walnuts.

Light sponge cake

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:36:00 +0000

For 16 servings

Ingredients

6 egg whites
2 eggs
6 egg yolks
1 tablespoon powdered sweetener (to sweeten without adding calories) suitable for heat
1 teaspoon vanilla
150 grams of milk powder
1 tablespoon baking powder

Preparation

Grease two 24cm-diameter molds and line the bottom with buttered white paper.

Mix the eggs with the yolks and vanilla. In addition, into the bowl of the mixer 6 egg whites with powdered sweetener.

Bring to beat until whites have greatly increased in volume and are quite firm.

Incorporate little the rest of the eggs and vanilla while continuing to beat.
Stop beating a few more minutes and then removed. The preparation must have increased greatly in volume.

Separately, sift powdered milk with baking powder and add in two times the previous preparation is always soft and enveloping.

Pour half of the preparation in each of the molds and lead to an oven to cook it cool 150 º to 160 º for 25 minutes.

Useful information. During cooking, always controlling the sponge to prevent burning. Unmolding immediately. The amount of natural edulzante can be increased or decreased according to individual taste. It should do so several times to familiarize yourself with the preparation and then you will be able to incorporate other flavors.
They can fill it with strawberry jam for diabetics or with any preparation, light, low calorie, diet, fat free, reduced fat.

These light preparations and not meant for diabetics who do not provide calories or that the ingredients are all suitable for diabetics. Only occasionally, and that when taken in small quantities as they are studied in the recipe allows them to be viable because the volume is determined for each portion can hardly affected.

The Crumble

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:22:00 +0000

The crumble is a fruit-based cake, a native of British cooking. It is a delicious way to enjoy anytime. Learn all about the crumbles in the following article.

In English means crumb crumble, making it perfect allusion to the texture of this cake. The crumble can be made with various fruits, which are coated with a dough of flour, butter and sugar, then place in the oven. In different places it usually accompanied by custard, ice cream or fruit compote. However, this recipe can also be developed in a salt, based on cheese or vegetables for example.

The mass

It is a granular mass that we must work with your fingers to make it a gritty texture and after being baked crisp. The ingredients are:
• Flour: Wheat flour, white or brown. About 250 gr.
• Butter: preferably with a little salt. It takes 150 gr. approx.
• Fruits (to crumble sweet) fruits of the season to consumer preference. 1 kilo or so.
• Sugar (to crumble sweet): white or brown, according to taste. 90 gr.
• Essences for candy crumbles, the essences of vanilla, nutmeg, almond or walnut are perfect, while the salty crumbles they can add Parmesan cheese, herbs or pepper for example.

Preparation

To prepare the dough, all ingredients together and knead with hands until mixture is half solid and grainy. This dough is stretched over a pie pan and taken to the oven until cooked (15 minutes). Then removed and filled with fruit compote, made with chopped fruit mixed with sugar and essences you wish to add. After preparing a mixture made with sugar and a little butter, worn over low heat for several minutes, until well incorporated, resulting in a grainy mixture. This is spread over the fruit compote and takes the cake in the oven for 30 minutes app.

Sweet Crumbles

The base of sweeter fruit crumble, which depend on the season. Some of the most classic crumbles are:
• The apple crumble. Use blocks or Pippin Pippin Queen of Canada and gray added cinnamon or ginger.
• The classic british: the crumble with rhubarb. To avoid being too sweet, prepared with apple compote and rhubarb equally.
• The red fruit crumble: mix them with apple, pear or banana for a delicious combination.

Salted Crumbles

In this recipe, simply substitute the fruit for a garnish of vegetables, which can also be accompanied by bits of meat, fish or cheese. It's a great idea to take the leftovers of the weekend.

All about cereals

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:20:00 +0000

In our daily diet to include more cereals than you think. They are a key element in our diet and an important factor for staying healthy. In the next article we tell you all you need to know about the cereal.

The cereals can be consumed in grain, flour, meal and other forms. Sugars are composed of slow absorption and provide us with great amount of energy released during the day. They are also good source of fiber and vegetable protein of very good quality.

Different varieties

Oats

Is mainly consumed cooked and flaked. At breakfast is commonly consumed with milk or yogurt and dried fruit is accompanied by the rich muesli.

Wheat

Wheat is a grain widely used. Durum wheat you can find whole, in meal or flour, and is used to prepare pasta and couscous grains. On the other hand, the wheat is used mainly to prepare the bread.

Corn

This cereal is just used as wheat. It is used to make semolina, flour, cornstarch, other cereals and oil for example. It is consumed in the form of spike, ie whole grain or starch to solidify.

Rice

So, rice is also a cereal. There are many varieties of rice and can be eaten sweet or savory recipes, such as rice and milk for example. It is a very complete and nutritious food.

There are many other types of cereals are very rich and healthy but not consumed so much, such as quinoa, barley, millet, rye or buckwheat.

Their preparation

Usually eat cereals are cooked, as this is more digestible. Before cooking it is advisable to rinse with cold water to remove impurities. The cooking of cereals can be slow, so it is advisable to let them soak in cold water for several hours. Finally, boil in a pot with double or triple grain water.

Recipes

With rice. We can prepare a classic dish of rice cooked with meat or vegetables. There is also the option of delicious paella or you can prepare it in salads accompanied by cheese, onions and raw vegetables of the season.

With flour. The can be used as a basis for preparing all kinds of dough for tarts, pies, quiches and breads, both sweet and savory.

With corn. Can become polenta meal, accompanied with a little olive oil and Parmesan cheese. With the meal you can prepare a classic dessert made with semolina.

Some light smoothies for improving your diet

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:09:00 +0000

Apple smoothie

2 cups of apple sauce
1 cup of apple cider
1 cup of orange juice
2 tablespoons vermont maple syrup
1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until it smooths. Pour into glasses and serve

Apples and cream smoothie
For 4 servings

2 cups of vanilla low-fat ice cream
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon or apple pie spice
1 cup fat free skim or 1% low fat milk
Ground cinnamon

In a blender container combine low-fat ice cream applesauce, and the 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon or apple pie spice. Cover and blend until smooth. Add fat free skim or 1% low fat milk. Cover and blend until just mixed. Pour into glasses. If you desire, sprinkle each serving with additional cinnamon. Serve inmediately.

Apricot Apple smoothie

1 apple peeled, cored and chopped
1 cup apple juice
4 apricots, fresh, pitted
1 pealed banana
3/4 cups yogurt
10-12 ice cubes
1 tablespoon honey

Place all ingredients in a blender and puree until it smooths.

Banana hazelnut smoothie

4 medium bananas, peeled and sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
6 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/4 cups hazelnuts
1 cup ice cubes
1/4 cup of milk
1/4 cup of dark rum or hazelnut liqueur
2 tablespoons chopped hazelnuts, for garrish

Place the sliced bananas in a sealed plastic bag and put them in the freezer for 1 hour. Place the brown sugar and 1/4 cups hazelnuts in a blender and grind together until fine.

Place the frozen bananas, ice cubes, milk, and rum in the blender with the sugar and nut mixture. Blend until smooth. Pour the smoothies into 4 globets or tall glasses. Garnish with chopped nuts, if desire.

Oatmeal cookies

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:46:00 +0000

Oats is a very complete, healthy, delicious and perfect food for keeping you healthy and skinny. You can include it in your diet in different ways, making it part of your daily nutrition.

These cookies can be ready in few minutes, are very delicious, nutritive, calorie reduced and ready to go wherever you want. Are perfect for an office snack, at school, or gym.

Ingredients

2 and half cups of oats
1 cup of brown sugar
3 eggs
1 spoon of butter
1 pinch of salt
1 little spoon of vanilla scent

Preparation

In a bowl, put all dry ingredients, oats, brown sugar, and the pinch of salt. Incorporate good. Melt the butter and let it cold. Add the eggs, the butter, and the vanilla scent, to this mix and mix it all.

If you want, you can add to the pastry, some raisins, nuts or almonds, dehidrated fruit, coconuts, chocolate chips, etc for having a texture touch and special flavour to the cookies.

Butter the oven recepient, and put the cookies with 1 spoon. Introduce them to the pre heated oven by 15 minutes to 180º. Remember each oven is different, so the cooking time can be shorter or a little longer, therefore, be alert.

You will know cookies are ready when the borders lightly get dark. You can also take them out with a little spatula, and if the cookie is consistent, then cookies are ready.

Let them dry a bit and enjoy!

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Not so light brownies

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:59:00 +0000

Ok these 2 recipes, I must admit are not so light, but as every nutricionist doctor will say: "We need a nice reward time by time, like a prize to your body for behaving so good. Consent your body with messure, and you will feel fine everytime."

So if you want to have some recreation, here I present 2 easy options for brownies.

Almond Joy Brownies

1 cup plus 2 tbl. sifted flour
1/2 tsp. of salt
2 2-1/4 oz. each chocolate covered coconut candy bars (Almond Joy)
1/2 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar or sweetener
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs

Sift togheter the flour and salt. Chop up the candy bars, and melt them with the Crisco over hot water, stir ocassionally to blend. Blend in 1 cup sugar and vanilla.

Add the eggs, one at a time, Beat well after ach. Blend in the dry ingredients, mix thoroughly.

Turn into a well greased 9 by 9 by 2 inch pan. Bake at 350* for 30 minutes until it springs back when touched lightly in the center.

Amaretto Almond Brownies

3.5 oz of fudge brownie mix
1/2 cup oil
1/3 cup water
2 tbl. Amaretto
1 egg
3/4 cup chopped almonds

Preheat oven to 350*. Grease a 9 by 13 inch pan. In a large bowl combine all ingredients. Beat 50 strokes by hand. Spread batter in the prepared pan. Bake for 30 minutes.

Topping

8 oz. pkg cream cheese
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 cup chocolate chips, melted
2-3 tbl. Amaretto

Melt chocolate chips, add the whipping cream, stirring constantly until smooth. Carefully spread the frosting over the chilled brownies. Garnish with sliced almonds, chill for at least one hour until set.

Mango Ice Cream

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:19:00 +0000

4 people
118 calories per serving

Ingredients

    * 1 large mango, peeled
    * Juice of 1 lemon
    * 1 cup orange juice
    * ¾ cup peach yogurt diet
    * ½ cup light cream cheese
    * 2 egg whites
    * Sweetener powder (optional)

Preparation

Cut the mango flesh into chunks and place in blender along with lemon and orange juices, cheese and yogurt. Blend to form a cream. Add sweetener if necessary. Drop it to a recipient.

Beat the egg whites into meringue and incorporate the rest. Put the mix into a container and cover with it with a plastic wrap. Take it to the fridge until it gets to ice cream softness. Serve in cups.

The benefits of honey

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:49:00 +0000

The honey is a food Mielle super full and 100% natural. Discover in the following all its benefits and possible uses in the kitchen.

Today very few products we can find that are not handled and treated by man. Honey is one of them. Therefore, its benefits and nutritional components are many.

Honey is a sweet substance produced by bees from the nectar they get from the flowers or, in the molasses of aphids that collect and then deposited in the alveoli of their hive. Honey can be brown, blonde or light and color and consistency depend on the flower, geographic location, the type of bee, season, climate, etc.

The properties of honey

    * Honey is rich in carbohydrates, providing energy and is easy to digest, much more than sugar. It has a very low content of sucrose and its consumption does not produce any toxins in the body.

    * The sweetening power of honey is greater than sugar. With this you can add smaller amount of honey to your beverages and recipes and have an equally or more sweet taste than sugar, so you'll finally subtracting calories to your food, plus the fact that honey is very healthy and no sugar .

    * Honey has almost the same calories as sugar (one tablespoon = 50 calories), but their nutritional power and food is much higher. Honey has antiseptic and antibiotic. Serves as a decongestant, healing and a good relief for coughs and colds. Some studies show that honey decreases the adhesion of the bacteria, preventing the formulation and proliferate.

The honey in the kitchen

We saw the many benefits of honey, it is now time to start making it part of our recipes and preparations. Experts recommend consuming one to two tablespoons of honey every day.

    * Whenever possible, replace sugar with honey. It is much healthier and you will save a lot of calories. You can sweeten coffee, tea, juices, your cereal, yogurt and fruit with honey, and even use it in the pantry instead of sugar.

    * At breakfast or tea time, always on the table alongside the other things a honey pot, so you prefer a sausage or jam, resulting in a much healthier food and light. The honey creates a feeling of fullness, so you eat less.

    * Prepare your recipes sweet and sour beef and turkey with honey instead of sugar, will achieve a rich golden and crisp on your recipe.

    * Sweeten your pancakes, waffles, croissants and other pastries with honey instead of candy or marmalade. Much more healthy, light and nutritious!

Yogurt orange flan with strawberry sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:31:00 +0000

4 people
Calories: 160 per serving

Ingredients

    * 5 tablespoons sugar or sweetener to taste
    * 2 cups plain yogurt diet
    * 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
    * ½ teaspoon orange zest
    * 2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
    * 3 tablespoons fresh orange juice or artificial light

Sauce

    * 1 cup orange juice
    * ½ cup strawberries
    * 1 ½ tablespoon of sugar or sweetener to taste

Preparation

Beat with a wire whisk the yogurt, sugar, vanilla and orange zest until well blended.

Place the orange juice in small saucepan and sprinkle gelatin over. Let soak for a minute. Put to boil over low heat, just until gelatin dissolves.

Remove from heat. Add gelatin mixture to yogurt, whisking to mix well. Split into 4 molds individual and make refrigerate for 4 hours minimum.

Sauce

Heat the orange juice with sugar or sweetener and strawberries. Let cook, shaking for 10 minutes. Remove from the burner and let cool a few minutes. Blend and strain. Cool and refrigerate. To serve, loosen with a knife edge of the molds and if necessary immerse for 2 seconds in hot water. Unmold each custard onto a plate and serve with sauce.

Light strawberry flan

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:34:00 +0000

4 servings

Ingredients

    * 1 ¼ cup skim milk
    * 1 teaspoon liquid sweetener
    * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    * 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin, preferably low in calories.
    * 1 egg
    * ¾ cup of blended strawberries

Preparation

Boil skim milk with the vanilla essence. Remove from heat and incorporates the sweetener.

Add to the mix unflavored gelatine previously dissolved in half a cup of cold water. It takes preparation to fire again until gelatin is completely dissolved, but do not let boil. Remove and let cool.

Once all the mixture cool, add the beaten egg and pre-blended strawberries. Incorporating all good.

Pour the preparation into a mold and take it to the fridge for a couple of hours.

At serving time you can decorate with strawberries and whipped cream diet.

Bavarois with strawberries and blueberries

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:15:00 +0000

For 6 people
70 calories per serving

Ingredients

    * 2 egg whites
    * 8 drops of liquid sweetener
    2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin light
    * ½ cup of strawberries and other cranberry blended smoothies
    * ¼ cup hot water

Ingredient sauce

    * 2 egg whites
    * 4 drops liquid sweetener
    * ½ cup low fat cream without beating

Preparation bavarois

In a bowl beat the two egg whites and add the sweetener. Beat all the ingredients until well incorporated, then add the strawberries and blueberries and stir well.
Then add the dissolved gelatine into the hot water and laundry. Stir everything and transfer to individual dessert container for serving. Remove to refrigerator to set.

Preparing the sauce

In a bowl beat the 2 egg whites to meringue, add 4 drops of sweetener and ½ cup of cream, incorporating everything right.

Pour the sauce over the dessert, if you want you can put them up chunks of strawberries and blueberries for garnish.

All about smoothies

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:10:00 +0000

This drink, besides being delicious, nutritious and can be incredibly healthy. Learn more about the smoothie and about all the possibilities to prepare.

Which fruits occupy

The possibilities are endless. You can use fresh fruit or frozen if not of the season. Nuts are also allowed, but always remember to mix a dry fruit with fresh fruit.

Where do

Mixer, blender, mixer, blender, are different options you have to prepare a smoothie. However, it is best to do it in the blender, or something powerful enough to mix frozen fruit or nuts.

The recipe

No! It is absolutely free, you choose the ingredients and mix it as you want, giving you the consistency you want and add the ingredients that you like, such as yogurt or ice cream if you want it thicker, or milk or juice to make it more fluid . The important thing is to always respect the fruit and fruit juice, the other things you invent.

Some ideas

With milk. You can use the one you like milk, beef, or rice, oat or soy, which can give a special flavor. This can also add more yogurt to thicken the mixture.

With ice cream. This is a recipe a little more heat, but still can choose ice cream or sherbet diet. This will transform your smoothie in a very refreshing drink and a delicious flavor.

Sugar. If you like all sweet, you can add a spoonful of sugar. However, a better idea is to add honey or maple syrup, which will give the smoothie taste and smell much more special. If you're careful, there is always the possibility of adding sweetener. In any case the amount is one teaspoon per spleen.

With spices. Cinnamon, ginger, lemongrass, cocoa powder, there are several options, but either use them sparingly so as not to clog the classic fruity smoothie.

With vegetables. So, you can also make vegetable smoothies. A good idea are tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers or avocados, and herbs such as basil, parsley, cilantro and mint. You can also mix fruit and vegetables, such as a carrot orange smoothie.

Other add-ons. You can turn your smoothie into a real experience of taste and health, adding ingredients such as ginseng, aloe vera, pollen or algae.

Healthy Chocolate, in all its cooking ways

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:55:00 +0000

Our number one guilty pleasure. We cannot resist the chocolate in all its forms and varieties, it gives us pleasure to eat we cannot explain and then a terrible guilt and remorse. Know what is the chocolate that causes us the variety of emotions and learn how and what its uses in the kitchen are.

The chocolate is made by mixing sugar with two products arising from handling of cocoa beans: cocoa paste and cocoa butter. The quantity and quality of each component are different in different types of chocolate, plus many times it is usually add milk, nuts, liqueurs and flavorings such as vanilla.

Chocolate has many properties that we believe it or not, are very favorable for our health

First, cocoa contains a compound called epicatechin, which would be very important in preventing diseases related to cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks and blood clots. This is because this component has an action that improves blood flow, mirrored the vascular tissue and improve circulation in general.

Besides cocoa is a natural energizer for their content of caffeine and the bromine. Both components stimulate the central nervous system and improve concentration. In addition, chocolate has properties that can also be found in wine, such as antioxidants.

And most importantly, eating chocolate causes the release of endorphins, a peptide that releases our body when we do sport or sex. This substance inhibits the pain, analgesic, sedative and uplifting, in conclusion, it gives us pleasure. That's why we eat chocolate while feeling overcomes us as pleasant and we feel so good. The sensation caused by endorphins may also cause addiction, which is why many times when you are exercising one has the feeling of being unable to stop, like what happens to us when we eat chocolate.

The problem is its high calorie content, and this is what makes us feel so guilty when we finished eating. However, experts recommend eating a piece of chocolate every day because all its beneficial health properties. So you know, chocolate is not forbidden, but you should eat in moderation and hopefully early in the day and at night, so they spend the energy it provides.

Types of chocolate

Black or bitter chocolate. It consists of sugar, cocoa butter and pure cocoa. It has a high cocoa content between 60 and 80%, hence the bitterer. The black or dark chocolate is healthier than the variety we find in chocolates, as being composed virtually pure cocoa mass, we can find in most all the benefits of this. It is highly recommended in the kitchen, because of its low content of cocoa butter makes it difficult to cast and further handling.

Milk chocolate. It is made with cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar and milk. This chocolate is fatter than dark chocolate and a milder taste, it contains only about 20 to 30% cocoa. Not recommended for use in the kitchen, as it hardens very quickly after being cast.

Chocolate coverage. It's special to work in baking and desserts. It has a high fat content due to the high amount of cocoa butter in its composition, this makes it very easy to cast, in addition to crystallize after a while, leaving a smooth, glossy cover.

White chocolate. This is not chocolate itself, because the seed contains only cocoa butter mixed with sugar, milk and flavorings such as vanilla. Chocolate is a greasy and difficult to work in kitchen because of the high quantity of milk and sugar composition has also hardens quickly. Therefore, it is important to use a white chocolate of good quality in the kitchen.

Light or light chocolate. Be careful with this type of chocolate, because although it contains no sugar, usually has a high cocoa butter content, making it very oily. Therefore, it is possible to use in confectionery and desserts.

Cooking Tips:

    * Chocolate Foundry:

To melt chocolate, you should always use the technique of double boiler; otherwise it burns and becomes unusable. The bowl containing the chocolate should not touch the water, just melts with the vapor of this. It is recommended to do it in the microwave, stopping every few time to stir the chocolate.
For chocolate manipulation easier, you can add a little butter when melting it.

    * Drying of chocolate:

Never let the chocolate to dry or harden in the refrigerator, as it left with some white spots, not a sleek finish. Let it crystallizes in a cool, but at room temperature.

    * Conservation of chocolate:

Save it in a cool, dry, but not refrigerated. Also looks to have no contact with other foods or odors, as the chocolate tends to absorb flavors, which alters their taste and composition.

Coffee recipes

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:02:00 +0000

Enjoying a good coffee is a sensation that can not be describe. It wakes us up, reconfort us, and give us a moment of pleasure difficult to equal. Here we present 3 exquisite coffee recipes.

Coffee is not only a hot beverage, also their uses and preparations go further than that, here you will find 3 recipes you can do at home and enjoy specially on hot summer days, Starbucks wont be your only choice now.

Coffee Shake

For 8 people

Ingredients

1 liter of milk
1 spoong of vanilla scent
200 ml of orange licour
4 little spoons of instant coffee
200 grs of sugar
Ice cubes

Preparation

Put the milk into a pot and make it boil. Melt the sugar in the boiling milk and add the vanilla. Incorporate all good and let it freeze on the fridge. Then put this mix into the blender and add the orange licour and the ice, 4 or 6 cubes will be nice. Blend it all good and then serve into cups or individuals glasses.

Sprinkle in the surface some instant coffee

Sparkling ice coffee

For 4 people

Ingredients

3 eggs
3 sugar spoons
1 spoon of instant coffee
200 grs of milk skin
Coffee beans for decoration

Preparation

Whip the yolks with sugar until you got a creamy mix. Put it all into a boiling pot with water and mix constantly till it become dense.

Add the coffee and incorporate good. Let it cold and then add the milk skin. Blend the egg whites and add it to the mix too. Put the mix into individual cups and take them to the fridge for 2 hours.

Take them off after 20 minutes before you serve and decorate with coffee beans in the surface.

Coffee ice cream

For 4 people

Ingredients

¾ of milk liter
9 egg yolks
4 little spoons of instant coffee
1 spoon of vanilla scent

Preparation

Cook the milk with the vanilla till it boils. Mix the yolks with sugar and coffee, add the milk and mix it all till it incorporates good.

Put the mix to cook don't stop stirring. Take it off from fire and let it cold. Pass the mix for a strainer and put it into a bowl. Cover it with aluminium fold and take it to the fridge for 30 minutes.

Take it off and mix the preparation for breaking the crystals, put it back on the fridge and repeat this process twice. Then keep it into the fridge till the moment of serving.

Light brownies

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:31:00 +0000

Eating carbs makes you feel good the first minutes but then you want to eat more and more, even worst will be next day. Carbohydrates addiction can almost be equal to alcohol or cigars.

The only difference with other addictions is the posibility to prepare desserts without the bad sugar that causes addiction. We will never stop eating candies and desserts, because we love them, but we can avoid been adict to carbs. We recommend this recipe of light brownies to all moms, so your kids wont have to sacrificate their gain to have some sugar, but they can also stay healthy, and raise good eating habits.

Ingredients

4 egg
1 cup of whole-grain flour
2 spoons of diet chocolate powder
4 spoons of oats
5 nuts
1 spoon of liquid sweetener
2 spoons of oil
4 spoons of non fat milk
1 little spoon of vanilla scent
1 little spoon of baking powder

Preparation

Turn on the oven to medium temperature. Grease it with a little bit of oil or butter in a tart plate.

In a bowl mix the eggs, the sweetener and the vanilla scent, till it mix good. Add, without stop mixing, the oil and milk, then the flour, baking powder and powder chocolate, mix it all in an wrapping way. The add the oats and cutted nuts, mix it all again and put it on the tart plate. Take it to the oven and cook it to a medium temperature, during 30 minutes aproximately depending in your oven, once its cooked, take it off the oven and cut it into squares.

You can sprinkle some sugar powder and decorate.

Shakes, your breakfast option

noreply@blogger.com (Sofi) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:23:00 +0000

Breakfast is the most important meal in a day. First, your organism has been at least 8 hours without having any food, therefore you need to nourish in the morning, otherwise the muscular fivers will began to degenerate.

Second, a good breakfast allows you to be more active, focused and with energy during all day. And last, but not least, having breakfast helps you to watch your weight, because it keeps you with no hunger during the morning, which helps a lot for not having snacks between meals.

A good breakfast has to include fiber, milk products, fruit and proteins. But we all know that most of time we dont have time for preparing ourselves a complete breakfast like that.

For this, we have a very good option in shakes, are quick, easy and nutritional, because you can add them all
what your imagination alouds. Here we present you 3 options of easy recipes for shakes, that will help you to
have a complete and nutritional breakfast in 5 minutes.

Milk, fruits and oats shake

Ingredients

1 cup of low fat milk
1 portion of fruit (bananas, apples, berries, peaches, etc), also you can mix different fruits in one shake.
1/2 oat cup

Preparation

Put all ingredients in your blender or mixer, and mix them up till making a shake. You can add sweetener if you want, or vanilla for scents. Put into a large cup or mug for taking in the way to work.

Shake of yogurt, fruits and oats

Ingredients

1 cup of yogurt, any flavour and low fat
1 portion of fruits
1/2 oat cup

Mix all the ingredients and blend them good, you can have it with sweetner or vanilla for scenting it up

Shake of soy milk, fruits, and dried fruits

Ingredients

1 cup of soy milk
1 fruit portion
1/2 of dried fruits (alminds, nuts, raisins, etc)

Preparation

Mix all ingredients and blend them good, you can scent with vanilla. Same as all the shakes you can have them for later