Showing posts with label European Culinary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European Culinary. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Steak

In simple way, the steak is the meat cut from a cow (or chicken, or fish) is then aged on by burning coal, the fuel on the flames, in the oven, or even fried.

Red meat, chicken breast and fish are often cut into steaks. Most steaks cut perpendicular to the muscle fiber, add meat taste more delicious.

Steak usually cooked by baking, though it can be fried or "broil".

Steak is generally derived from beef, cooked simply. In general, served with rice, potatoes, bread or pasta.

The process of cooking steak depends on the individual; faster cooking produces a more tender meat, and a longer cooking reduces the appearance of blood and also reduce the problem of the disease.

A number of methods have been developed to describe how their steak cooked. In order from raw to cooked: Raw - uncooked.

Steak not eaten or ordered in this form, except in special foods, like steak tartare.

Steak is very rare - Cooked very quickly; exterior burned, but the inside is not cooked just warmed. Steak will be colored red on the inside, outside the gray-brown, and red middle part and a part between the outer and middle pink.

In general, we know several kinds of steak, and of some of these kinds, the most popular if we are talking about the steak, the Tenderloin, Sirloin and T-Bone Steak.
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Spaghetti

Spaghetti are Italian noodles that are shaped like long sticks, which are generally in 9-12 minutes to cook in boiling water al dente, which means not clinging to the teeth, not too raw or too ripe.

How to eat it varies but the most famous is the Spaghetti alla Bolognese with minced meat sauce and sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese.

Almost everyone thinks that the spaghetti is a noodle that brought back by Marco Polo on his journey from China.

But after investigation by many parties, since time immemorial The Romans are victorious from the battlefield is always eat Spaghetti. While Marco Polo returned from China in 1292.

Spaghetti is one type of pasta that has been known by the Italians since the days of human farming about 10,000 years ago, the flour produced and processed with a little water and eggs into a dough called pasta.

Then milled into a sheet of thin-sheet, which is the parent of pasta that we know as the Lasagna. Then the newly developed species such as Fusili pasta, Penne, Tagliatelle etc..

There was a misunderstanding in understanding spaghetti. Usually, that is the kind of food spaghetti noodle sauce added a slightly sour. Actually that's shaped noodles called spaghetti, rather than the end result. Spaghetti is a type of pasta.

Well, speaking of pasta would misunderstand again. Accustomed to toothpaste, which would be used accompanying sauce called spaghetti pasta.

There are many types of pasta, for example, is the spaghetti and macaroni. Pasta noodles shaped like a circular cross section is called spaghetti. If shaped like noodles but a bit wide fettucine calls. If such pipe paralon but short name makaroni and others.

If the instant pasta is already setup, spaghetti can be ready in 30 minutes. Making of the pasta itself was not too difficult, just takes a litle extra time. Even some of Chef never made pasta spaghetti on TV in just 45 seconds.

Convenience and practicality is what makes spaghetti growing increasingly popular and enjoyed until now.
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Pizza

Pizza has a long history, complicated and often uncertain which inspired much debate.

Origin of the word "pizza" is not clear, but it first appeared 997 years in Latin Middle Ages, and in Naples in the 16th century called a Galette pizza.

History of Pizza begins the moment one of the first Greek to make big dough, round and flat with a mixture of spices and oil. At that time the tomatoes has not been found, so as not to be used in the mixture.

In the 18th century, this type of bread began to be known in Italy as well as sold on the streets and markets with the name 'Pizza'. Pizza at the time did not have any toping but only as a round loaf of bread.

This bread is very easy to make and low cost, because it was mostly sold to poor people in the area of Naples, In about the year 1889, Queen Margherita, accompanied by her husband Umberto I, traveling around the Italian kingdom. At that trip, he saw a lot of people who eat large bread-shaped, round and flat, especially the farmers.

Curious, the queen ordered the guards to buy bread, it appeared that the queen loved it so every time out of the kingdom, then he would eat the bread.

This became the talk of the kingdom, because they are considered highly inappropriate for a queen to eat peasant food.

Queen Margherita ignores protest at court, he even brought a special chef Rafaelle Esposito's most famous for his pizza and hired him on the court to make a variety of pizzas according to the wishes of the queen.

Rafaelle Esposito chef make a special pizza for the queen to use a variety of toppings such as tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil leaves and red, white and green (in accordance with the Italian flag colors).

This pizza later became the queen's favorite pizza and called the Pizza Margherita, because the Queen is very fond of pizza so she began to become very popular among the people of Italy.

After that pizza became more popular throughout Italy, and began to be enjoyed by all the famous people and to the whole world until now.
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