Cocoa sausage

Ingredients for 6 people:

• 500g of mascarpone cheese
• 200g of candied
• 2 yolks
• 5 spoons of sugar
• 10 crushed biscuits  
• 75g of  cocoa
• 3 spoons of pistachios
• 3 spoons of almonds

Mix all in order to get a frothy consistency. Pour the mix on a tinfoil.
Give the shape of a sausage and close the tinfoil.
Put all with the tinfoil in the fridge for 2 hours.
Finished!

Apricot plum cake

Preparation: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes

Ingredients for 6 people:

• 250g flour
• 240g apricot alves
• 125g sugar
• 125g butter
• 3 eggs
• vanilled yeast
• grated orange peel (of 1 orange)
• a plum cake cooking mold
• extra butter and flour for the cooking mold

Mix in a pot butter, orange peel and sugar until the compound becomes frothy.
Then add the eggs, flour and yeast, mix all until becomes an homogeneous compound.
Cover the internal surface of the cooking mold with butter and then flour.
Put the compound  in the mold.
Now cut in pieces the apricot valve and put them in the compound.
Put the mold in the oven for 45 minutes at 180°C.
After the 45 minutes extract the mold from the oven and leave it to cool at least for 5 minutes.

Almond donut

Preparation time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

• 200g of butter
• 180g of flour
• 150g of semolina sugar
• 2 spoons of  velvet sugar
• 4 spoons of coffè powder
• 2 spoon of brandy
• 1 glass of cooking cream
• 50g of toasted almonds
• 100g of raw sugar 

Whip the cream.
Mix the flour with pieces of butter and 10g of semolina sugar.
Mix until it becomes friable.
Put in a donut shaped mold.
Put the mold in the oven at 220°C for 10 minutes.
Chunk the almonds.

Candy the sugar
Put the raw sugar in the pan, bring it to the flame with a lively flame stirring continuously with the wooden spoon.As soon as the sugar begins to blend, lower the flame, without ceasing to mix, and waits for the sugar to begin to change color. At this point, it is essential to lower the flame to the minimum while stirring until sugar is caramelized.Often lowering the flame to the minimum is not enough to control the temperature, so it is necessary to remove the pot from the fire and put it back when the sugar is cool. Alternate fire and phase steps away from the fire until sugar is caramelized.
 
Add 40g of toasted almond to the candy sugar.
put the candy sugar on a baking paper on a baking tray, in order to create a film.
Leave cool the candy sugar, so it become solid.
Mix brandy with coffy powder and whipped cream.
Break the candy sugar in small pieces and add to the cream.
Take the donut, slice in half and put the cream inside.
Close it
Put  the velved sugar and the crumbled remainder of the toasted almonds.

Oat biscuits

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 150g of brown sugar
• 100g of butter
• flour 100g  
• oatmeal 75g
• chopped almonds 50g
• 1 egg
• yeast

Put in a bowl butter with sugar and mix them.
Put all the remaining items in the bowl and mix very well.
Create from the dough the biscuits making heaps on a baking paper on a baking tray.
Put the baking tray in the oven at 180°C, cook the biscuits for 20 minutes. 

Spaghetti with beacon

Ingredients:

• spaghetti
• slices of bacon 
• Chilli pepper
• white wine
• Parmesan cheese (or some other hard cheese)
• Peeled tomatoes
• Salt
• Pepper

Method: 
Cut the bacon into small pieces.
In a large pan fry the bacon with olive oil, when it begins to give its fat, put the chilli pepper, toast a bit and blend with white wine.
Once the wine is evaporated, add tomatoes, salt and pepper and bake until all is well cooked and the pieces have loosened a bit.
Take a pot and put enough water to cook the spaghetti, then heat the pot until the water boils.
When the water boils put the spaghetti inside, wait a minute so the water soften them and put all the spaghetti under the boiling water.
Cook the spaghetti for 2-3 minutes less the indication on spaghetti package.
Now dry the pasta and put the pasta in the pan with the sauce and, finally, add the Parmesan cheese.
This is the result:

Pork rolls with beacon and dried plums

This recipe uses the dried plums dry to avoid meat drying during cook and a special flavour to the meat. This rolls are fantastic, but you need more than one hour to cook them.
You need:

• beacon
• slight slice of pork
• dried plums, one for 2 rolls
• flour
• Wine, usually red one, but any type is good
• Salt
• Sage
• Oil
• Toothpicks, one for roll

Put a slice of beacon on every slice of pork.
Roll the pork with inside the beacon, stop at half of the roll, insert half dried plum and finish to roll.
Use one tooth pick to maintain closed the roll.
Cover with flour the rolls.
Take a pan and crate a film with the oil, put the rolls in the pan , use a low flame or temperature to cook, cover with a lot sage the rolls. Cook rolling the rolls in the pan until the change color.
Now start to use wine, pour a bit of wine in pan and continue cooking and rolling the rolls in the pan. When the wine evaporates, put it again at least other 3 times.
The total cooking time in the pan is about 1 hour, remember to roll the rolls in the pan to obtain a uniform cooking.
This is the result:

Paprika chicken nuggets

This recipe requires:

• chicken breast
• potatoes
• paprika
• lemon juice 
• rosemary
• flour
• oil
• salt

First of all peel potatoes, then put them in a pot full of water and boil the potatoes inside the pot.
The potatoes are cooked when they can be break easily in pieces with just a fork!
Drain potatoes and wait they become cold.
Cut potatoes and chicken in square or cubes.
Cover everywhere the chicken pieces with flour.
Put some oil in a cooking pan, then put potatoes and chicken in the pan.
When the chicken change color, add salt, paprika and rosemary.
Continue to cook chicken and potatoes, and at the end pour the lemon juice in the pan and mix all together.
This is the result: