Cooking World

The ripe strawberry has three indisputable advantages: color, aroma and taste. Confectioners like it therefore. And lately this berry has even been more often used not only in the raw state, but also fried, with some alcohol to strengthen the taste. Particularly well strawberry is combined with pistachios, pineapple, mint, raspberry, cheese cream.

In the morning it is good to eat strawberry with any dairy products - they are combined perfectly.
In the noon - to prepare one of many unsweet dishes: the strawberry matches seafood and poultry, can make an ensemble with salad leaves, Parmesan, cucumber and spring onions, which should be seasoned with olive oil with a drop of vinegar, citric juice and pine nuts. Or mustard of a rough grinding.
For a supper you may invent either chicken under strawberry-wine sauce, or berry paste (to make stiff dough on strawberry juice (1 glass) with a flour, 2 eggs, a spoon of vegetable oil, salt, pepper and honey; to roll out it thin and cut on wide stripes.
Or here is one more fine combination: strawberry with black pepper, especially fried (instantly) on a butter. Who has tasted - will not forget.

There is many useless statistics in the world. We don’t care, for example, that 150 g of fresh strawberry drive away negative emotions? But try to eat these seven berries – they really help!

Minus 5,51 pounds for 4 days

This ratio appears true - if you will keep to the diet. In any case, strawberry diet has already for a long time been called a “Hollywood diet”. That fact, that Victoria Beckham three days in a month eats only strawberry became the common property of the people. We can treat her differently, but it is impossible to deny that the mother of three children looks perfectly and holds for ten years the love of her husband, the main narcissus of Britain.

Anyone can take advantage of popular four-day diet. It is so simple - three times a day on your table appears a dish, marked in a hundred of links: fruit salad or yoghurt for a breakfast, salad from strawberry with asparagus for a dinner, cod with strawberry for a supper and cheese with strawberry as the small prank. But people with imagination will make their own menu, and not only for four days, but, perhaps, for all the month.

British newspaper The Guardian has published the list of ten best cafes of Amsterdam where visitors may enjoy an excellent coffee and in which sale of beer and alcoholic drinks is allowed.

To visit for a year all cafes of Amsterdam, it is necessary to attend four of them every evening, marks Russian edition Turist.ru.

The ten best include:

1. Cafe Welling, address: J.W. Brouwerstraat.
2. Cafe’t Arendsnest, address: Herengracht 90.
3. Brouwerij’t IJ, address: Funenkade 7.
4. Wynand Fockink, address: Pijlsteeg 31.
5. In ‘t Aepjen, address: Zeedijk 1.
6. Cafe Alto, address: Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 115.
7. Kafe Latei, address: Zeedijk 143.
8. De Jaren, address: Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20-22.
9. Arc, address: Reguliersdwarstraat 44.
10. Rokerij, address: Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 41.

To attract flows of fashionable public, Republic offers visitors dishes from modern American and Asian cuisine, prepared by head-cook Mark Mittlman, who earlier had worked in Beverly Hills Hotel. By the way, the executive-chief of the restaurant is Gaib Morales, legendary Los-Angeles cook and victualer, who has opened such restaurants as Bliss, BOA Steakhouse, Polo Lounge in the same Beverly Hills Hotel and others. He is that very person, to who belongs the idea of creation of “the newest American cuisine». In his concept the American gastronomic modernist style looks as follows: for the last bit - the fried Chilean sea perch with spinach and leek ($34), mini-sandwiches from pork ($12), sashimi from a tuna with ginger, lemon and soya sauce ($18) and a pie from the blue crab with citric confiture ($19).

Among the main dishes - a pork chop with an apple sauce ($34), a ragout from lamb with cheese Maytag and truffles ($36), and also ostrich fillet with mushrooms and rosemary sauce ($36). For a dessert - American classics: cheesecake “New York” ($10), warm nut pie and chocolate ice-cream with crimson sauce ($10). And certainly, the wide choice of stakes: from black angus fillet ($44) to a Colorado lamb ($34). If you don’t like such culinary experiments, stand up and safely go to the exit - directly through an adjacent door you will get into the restaurant of Asian cuisine Prana Cafe, which also belongs to the owner of Republic. Since the appearance of these two restaurants on Melrose Place, nobody left hungry.

However restaurant Republic is an absolutely new concept for both victualer, and for Los Angeles publics. The huge restaurant complex includes the main hall for 500 visitors, cocktail hall, a bar, two separate studies with a cigar room, the big courtyard with separate tents for the closed parties, birthdays, after parties, presentations and shows, and also a night club with a cocktail DJ-bar.

The main bait for Los Angeles’ Bohemia in Republic is its main hall. The picture is completed with two fireplaces, one of which is draped with the stylized chain armor from stainless steel, and a sound of murmuring water. All the rest bring the city gourmets back to more habitual atmosphere: sofas with convenient high leather seat backs, the bar made from granite and decorated with a leather of python, massive furniture from a walnut and the main attraction - «a wine tower». In the seven-meter construction which is serving as an up-to-date cellar, at temperature 12-18°C and humidity in 65 % are stored rare and collection wines from Southern Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, France, Italy and, certainly, Napa Valley. Wine rarities are served here in well-known Riedel Crystal glasses, each of which is specially developed for the certain drink. However, you may bring to the Republic your wine - for it you will be taken so-called corkage (about $20), i.e. a payment for uncorking, wine glasses, etc.

The collection of legendary Melrose Place, street of luxurious boutiques and expensive restaurants, neon and red Ferraris, has enriched with a new establishment. In the well-known area of the western Hollywood which became the real fashion-Mecca, in five minutes from Hollywood Boulevard has opened restaurant REPUBLIC.

The owner of this restaurant is Michael Izraelian, the son of the Russian emigrants, who even before opening of the Republic has had time to recommend himself as the successful businessman. For today he owns the corporation, which includes four restaurants, two cafes, company Divine Limousine Services giving in rent elite automobiles, and also brand of mountain water from Armenia which is sold in expensive American and European restaurants and spa.

However as a victualer, he became known owing to establishments with “Russian” theme: the first, Los Angeles Tea Room Cafe is created in classical traditions of the pre-revolutionary Russian tea-rooms: with an indispensable samovar, rasstegais and pancakes. The second institution - opened in May of this year restaurant Romanov, which offers tourists original synthesis of “imperial” interiors with the Russian-Armenian cuisine and the separate caviar menu.

If you have coffee tree at home, you may experience roasting your own beans in the oven. This will smoke up your house a little, and the smell will stay in the house for quite some time. The quantity and size of beans, as well as your geographical location will bring some correction in the roasting process, so this is a live and learn process.
Place the beans in some perforated container, such as a steel strainer or vegetable steamer. Then place them in a pre-heated, 248,00°F oven for about 5-7 minutes. Then increase the temperature in the oven to 446,00°F. In about ten minutes you will hear the beans to crack. But keep an eye on them, because the time may differ, as it depends on the temperature, heat capacity of the oven, and quality and size of the beans. When the beans start cracking, mix them up, to ensure an equal roast. Look at their color every 1-2 minutes until they have achieved a color a little bit lighter than the final color which you desire.
When the beans have completely cooled, place them in an air tight container in the refrigerator, or just grind them and brew the tasty drink.

The menu includes dozens of dishes from meat, chicken, fish and seafoods, meat curry, dishes from mutton, spicy meatballs in yoghurt, pickled with spices hen, meat or fish, more than fifty dishes from rice, fritters, flat cakes, and certainly eastern sweeties- cottage cheese balls, halvah (or dairy pudding).

The separate part of the menu, devoted to the eastern fruits, contains such exotic gifts of the nature, as dragons-fruit, water apples, khaki, and triple-drupe cherry.

The founder of the restaurant’s interior was well-known Indonesian designer Jaya Pratomo Ibrahim. His agency Jaya & Associates has some experience of work behind the borders of his native Indonesia. Today the designer works at once above several projects of restaurants, hotels and private apartments in the Western Europe.

As dominating colors of Chedi Milan’s interior designer has used natural motives - sand, stone, a dark exotic tree, ochre, orange. White color symbolizes spiritual cleanliness and internal calmness. Jaya Pratomo has also used some ultramodern technologies - mosaic textured ceramics and carbon.

The main idea of owners of CHEDI MILAN restaurant became creation of the gastronomic project with complex and unfamiliar for Italians eastern philosophy and cuisine in fashionable capital of Italy, the city, which unites financial, commercial and cultural processes at the whole all Apennines.

In a metaphrase from Thai “chedi” means «spiritual monument». CHEDI is an embodiment of Buddha, the object of spiritual well-being and a constant part of the Buddhist philosophy esteeming such values, as balance and respect for diffirent cultures.

Asian style of service is an addition to eastern cuisine - respectfully cautious, but always faultless.

The passion to the East - is not a simple craze. The head-cook, the Buddhist by faith, has spent several years traveling through Asia. Along with aspiration to spiritual self-improvement he had also paid attention to interesting and unusual local recipes, products and components.

Chedi Milan is an international restaurant. Its menu contains numerous and various dishes of the Italian regions, but the main accent is made on the Asian cookery. Gastronomic traditions of India, Indonesia and Vietnam are especially fully represented.

This light salad from fresh avocados and tomatoes will taste best as a quick snack and can be used as a taco filling with grilled steak or chicken.

This salad is very easy to make, as it don’t demand blending. You should mince the garlic and just mix together all ingredients.

Separate the avocado halves and remove flesh from the skin.

Ingredients:
1 large red tomato
1 medium-sized lime
dash of ground black pepper
pinch of salt, or to taste
1small red onion
pinch of garlic powder
1/3 c. olive oil
1/4 c. leaves of cilantro
dash of each white and cayenne pepper
2 garlic bulblets
3 to 4 ripe avocados

Directions
Mix olive oil, cilantro, garlic and seasonings in a blender.
Add the juice of lime, and mix well again.
Peel and cut onion into very small pieces, then rinse them under very cold water. Cut the tomato in small pieces.
Avocados should be seeded and peeled, and then cut into large pieces.
Put onion, tomato and avocado in a mixing bowl and press well. You shouldn’t place too much dressing as not all can be needed.