Marmelada - Quince Jam and Gelly

It's been a while... I have been running around and no time for blogging.
Winter is the month of quince in Portugal and therefore many people still home makes the famous Marmelada. I guess that the name comes from marmelade but it is a unique taste and texture. It has not been a good year for this fruit but I had a few kilos from my trees and as always spent a weekend making marmelada.

Quince is a fruit but I have never seen it been eaten any other way than as a jam, I guess because it is quite hard and bitter.

As a jam, you can keep it for one year if stored in a cool place.

This is how I make it , usually for 2 kgs of quince , i use 1,5 kgs of white sugar.

Start by peeling the fruit and in a bowl place the fruit skins and on the other place the fruit already cut in quarters. Remove the seeds and add these to the skins bowl.Put a large pan of water to boil and add the fruit. Let it cook for 15 minutes until is soft.
Remove from the water and in a food processor make a pure.Place the sugar in a pan over medium heat with 1 cup of water from cooking the quince.

Let the sugar melt totally and add the pure.

It will cook 1,5 hours in medium to low heat. Once ready , pick a spoon and take a small piece that you place on a cool surface and when cold , put your finger tip gently and if it sticks , it is ready.

Place in small bowls without lid and let it dry on air for one day. Cover it with parchment paper and store.

Great to eat with cheese.

Now make the gelly.

Place the skins and seeds in a pan and cover with water. Bring to boil for at least 1 hour.

Strain the skins over a clean pan and keep the water. Disregard the skins.

Now use a clean cloth and strain the water again , to make sure that it will became translucide.

Now for 2 L of water , add 1,5 kgs of white suger.

Bring to medium heat for 1,5 hours until it gets a gelly consistency.

Place in containers with lids that are totally airproof. It can be stored for over 1 year.
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SEVILLE - SPAIN

This is a city I love and for so many reasons!

Since very early I come to Seville at least one day in the Summer and the sun , the heat , the oranges , the memories, the light, the tapas are always a reason to come back.According to legend, Sevilla was founded by Hercules.

Place of Spain

Sevilla lies on the banks of the Guadalquivir and is one of the largest historical centres in Europe, it has the minaret of La Giralda, the cathedral and the Alcázar Palace.

Some quarters are famous for the typical cobalt narrow streets ,Triana , La Macarena, Santa Cruz and San Bartolomé but mostly La Maestranza bullring below.
Seville is famous for being joyous town. The city of Carmen, Don Juan and Figaro.

The Hotel Alfonso XIII one landmark of Sevilla. The Sevillians have their most important events in Fería de Abril, where the men parade on their fine horses and the women dance in their coloured gypsy dresses and the Holy week.

The Giralda is one of the most magnificent buildings in Seville and dominates the skyline.

Sevilla is also the home of one of my favorite hotels - HACIENDA BENAZUZA

EAT , PRAY , LOVE

Some weeks ago, I wrote on my right column (the one that people don't really read...) that I recommended this book but since I now finished it, I decided to make a dedicated post to that experience.

Not that it is any literary supremacy but for the simplicity, funny and heartbreaking way the author writes, which puts you as the main character.

It is so easy to put yourself on her shoes and no matter what, you are driven to stop for some minutes and analyse your own life.

She is brave, intelligent, enthusiast and strongly in search of her own identity and soul.

No matter how much you have achieved, there are moments when you just want to fill yourself with the power and the courage to put your life in stand-by and for one year , one single year , do anything that you have been postponing for years , anything that you just want to do for no reason, a time for you away from anything that might distract you from finding who you really are. 

I could not stop myself from thinking, how many of us would like to make this, just for one moment in a whole life to be able to stop with no judgements.

I guess that those who red it cannot be indiferent to the situations and moments she  faced on her journey to meet her own God.

Her trip is fullfilled with mistic dreams, visions and dialogues between her and her mind.

This best seller is the real story of Elizabeth Gilbert , which after a nasty divorce, decide to take one year to do things she always dreamed but never had the chance to achieve.

She decide to make a journey through the pleasures of the food in Italy without any feeling of self conscience about the weight she would later put on (and regret...), she then gave herself to the life in a ashram in India in search of the peace of mind so much dreamed about and finally the encounter of love in Indonesia.

This is a book writen by a woman for women and it is much more than a simple story , it is a notice to all of us - Search for your dreams.

One thing I took from this book:

You rather live your own destiny in a unperfect way than someone else life in a perfect way.

A TEA IN THE ISLAND

Gorreana is the name of the only tea made in Europe, in Portugal and in the Azores Island. It seams that we have kept a secret and a tresory undiscovered as in fact, even in Portugal so many people never heard about this fabulous tea, and this centenary unique ritual.

It looks like green veins covering the mountains on the beautiful emerald cost line of San Miguel, drawing lines of bucolic landscape.

This plant called camelia sinensis was brought to the Azores first from Brasil but it was not until later in 1873 that the first lot of dried tea was made by the hands of chinese that not only brought the rights seads but also the knowledge.

This is the camelia sinensis plant.

The tea is made by the traditional process denominated Hysson, a technique that uses steam and produces three different types of black tea and one of green tea.

The black is Orange Pekoe mader with the first leaf , the Pekoe made with second leaf and Broken leaf made with the third leaf.

The weather in the Azores island is perfect for the plantation of tea as it rains all year.

Here the different teas of Gorreana.

STARDOM RESTAURANTS

Most people know about my passion for food and I am often asked:

What really makes a «star restaurant»?

So much is written about the subject and yet how do you know a restaurant is stardom?

Off course , in this subject , as in most other, opinions spread out from one extreme to the other and while some people go out for dinner just for the food, others go for the whole combination of going out.

The menu does not always have to be written in french or abuse of the nouvelle cuisine or even be molecular cuisine , it has to do with the carisma and how long did the doors opened.

For me a perfect restaurant is a combination of:

food, service, the wine list , location and off course the atmosphere ... so many criterion's yet, it can be a simple Tratoria in Italy, simple grilled sardines outside in Portugal, fusion cuisine at Asia de Cuba , molecular cooking at El Bulli , great Japonese at Nobu - but one single word - excellence!

From the 50 best in the world , El Bulli is again ahead in the parade and 36 of the world's *** michelin are located in France.

I know this: Greatness is never effortless.

When people ask Ferran Adrià of Spain’s El Bulli if he’d dreamed he might one day be considered the world’s best chef, he replied, “Absolutely not. I never looked for this. It was not in the script. It wasn’t logical for a Spanish cook to think this.”

Here some of my stardom favorites:

1. Le Bernardin New York's internationally acclaimed four star seafood restaurant. The impeccable French service is the best. And then there's the chef, Eric Ripert, who, unlike most super-chefs , tends to stay in his kitchen and cook.
   
2. Villa Joya - Albufeira, Portugal 's single two michelin star restaurant. Wonderful location above the clouds, aboce the cliff. Welcome to Paradise.


3. I-Thai, at the Hempel in London boasts a stunning modern décor that firmly places it amongst the classiest in London. Fusion Italian and Thai is amongst my favorite places as it combines two of my favorite cuisines


4. S. Gabriel - Almancil Portugal - I will make soon a full article about this place that I specially love.
   
5. DOM in Brasil it is the only restaurant of latin american amongst the best in the world. Chef Alex Atala has found the perfect combination of brazilian ingredients and french classic cuisine.


6. NOBU London - I love all the NOBU restaurants for the atmosphere and the innovative japanese food but the Nobu in London is special and was the first Asian restaurant to receive a Michelin star.


7. River Cafe in NYC - mostly and above all for the incredible view of Manhattan skyline and the incredible wine list.


8. Le Louis XV in Monte Carlo avec Chef Alain Ducasse - located just besides the Monte Carlo casino and surrounded with history this is a unique location.
   
9. El Bulli in Roses Spain with Chef Ferrán Adriá - I have already explained on another post the reasons for this restaurant to be a stardom.

Nestling by the river and open to the sea...

... this is the proud and modern city of Porto.
Along the coast, holiday resorts and cosmopolitan beaches, busy ports like Matosinhos, with splendid seafood grilled open air , or traditional fishing towns.
Right next to Porto you can visit, in Vila Nova de Gaia, the lodges where Port wine is blended and aged and where you can taste the different varieties, or you may choose to take a river cruise along the Douro. Porto is Portugal´s second largest city and there is a certain feeling of rivalry towards Lisbon. But although its ancient roots have been preserved with pride, a modern and lively commerce makes it a thriving city and its traditional importance as an industrial center does not diminish the charm and character of its old quarters or even of the newer and busy avenues, shopping centers and quiet residential blocks.


The Cathedral area deserves to be explored, with its various monuments, such as the Renaissance church of Santa Clara, and the quarter of Barredo, which appears not to have changed since medieval times. The riverside quarter of Ribeira is also delightful, with narrow streets, typical houses and picturesque life-style: it has been recently restored and now includes fashionable restaurants and bars.


Lello & Irmão Bookstore - in 2008 The Guardian newspaper classified it as the third most beautiful bookshop in the world. The current builing dates from 1903 which was the time when it was re-launched by this two brothers. At that time, onw writer defined this bookstore as a temple to the divine worship of Emotion and Idea.





Equally lively and colourful is the market of Bolhão, where you can buy almost anything, but more elegant shops can be seen nearby, especially the jewelleries and leather goods shops in the Baixa (down-town).
UNESCO for the classification of the Oporto Historic Centre as Heritage of international importance.
Porto affords many other attractions, monuments and museums, as well as a cultural agenda which has been steadily improving. With a well-known gastronomy and hospitable population, it is also the starting point to explore the river Douro in an unforgettable journey upstream.



Clerigos tower , is without a doubt, Porto's most famous monument but the set of six bridges that link the south is its modern equivalent.



Porto is also known of its romantic hideaways, walks and escapes. Caminhos do Romântico.






Porto's living room is the café unlikely any other portuguese city, keeping with two hundred years of tradition, here café's are preserved and restored. Café Majestic on Rua Santa Catarina, is the king of all of the city's café's with its 1920's elegance.




Foz do Douro quarter - the sands don't extend very far. Porto beaches are urban , sandwiched between the rocks but giving a spetacular dance of waves and colours.

Avenida Brasil a weekend favorite for families to jog, play, walk or just enjoy sun at one of the many beach pavement cafés.



Two of the main cultural attractions of Portugal are found in Porto. The Serralves Contemporary Art Museum and Casa da Música , born in 2001 for the European Capital of Culture, Casa da Música has changed the city's arquitecture but also the musical panorama.

The art quarter - Miguel Bombarda is part of COOL PORTO programme, this small street joins together dozens of art galeries that monthly and simultaneously launch new exihbition capativating the interest of clients, dealers or just people with alternative ways of living.

The street also offers a great choice of restaurants, bookstores ,retro-cool furniture, alternative interior design, desig, music, etc

Tascas old fashioned taberns in Porto are a major institution. There are still some 80 old style taberns and they were often called as places of freedom , as it was here that working men on the 19th century would meet friends.

How my husband found his grandfather after 50 years desapperead

It was back in 1952 when this gentleman , together with other hundreds of Portuguese , left Portugal to Rio de Janeiro in search of a better life and to run from the misery , recession and dictatorship .

He left his family behind, wife and two daughters with the certainty he would soon be back to take them along.
The girls were 16 and 4 ...

The first years they heard through the seldom letters, all about his life in this tropical paradise and the bitterness of adapting to a new culture and a new country.

As the years were passing , the letters became Christmas postcards and the lack of news lead his family to start searching through the embassy and with no news, they start thinking the worst.

Life in Portugal carried on and his wife had to survive the difficulties of raising his two daughters alone. I guess she always waited for him to return.

10 years went by and they finally got to know he had started another family there.

Another 20-30 years and they never heard from him, his memory vanished from peoples hearts and time concealed the pain of the abandon. The family assumed at his age , he was death.

His wife died in 1989 with her unconditional love for him and a heart filled with sadness. My husband used to play with her saying he would find him one day.

Soon comes 2001 and together the letter that changed our lives and made us different people.

God knows how this letter ended in our hands..

Our hands were shaking when we finally got the chance to read it , it was from one of his neighbours who sent this letter to an old adress, hoping that by chance someone would get it.

She was appealing for help from someone in Portugal.

The whole idea of finding him was distant , strange and uncertain but there was a light.

So here we go to Rio in search of someone we don't even know , some selfish old man that left his family , someone that had a new family - why would we care?

But the moment we set eyes on him, all the doubts collapsed as we felt we were sent for a reason.

He was incredibly similar to my husband.It was no doubt that this man was my husband grandfather.

There he was in the sofa next to the window, doors open to the street , the torrid heat of the summer in Rio invaded the little cottage house in a poor neighbourhood. Next to him sat new wife. They were both very old , tanned , skinny , white hair and very ill. They did not have a friendly face.

It was hard for him to believe and understand who we were. He was totally confused as he could not see the relation (off course when he left my mother in law was 16 years old).

He had difficulty to accept and believe, who we were, how did we found him , what did we want from him?

He was 92 years old and his head was crawling around with questions and questions - why would he get our visit after 52 years of total evasion.

His attitude was a mix of shame, sadness, uncertainty and he was not a nice old man.

He was certainly embarrassed with his attitude towards the family. He made no questions and we never mentioned the life he left behind.

Life was not nice to him and we guess that his decision to never return Portugal was maybe because he felt he failed reaching for that golden life he was looking for. He was ashamed and turned his back.

Together we found his wife Laureana which was 87 years old and his companion for about the same time as his departure and maybe one of the reasons why he never returned.

She was from Lisbon and we think they met on the boat journey back in 1952, she was taking a new job as a nurse in Rio. She left nothing and no one behind. She was alone in this world.

When we found them, he was badly injured , had bruises and scars all over his arms , she was in a terrible condition due to a brutal infection on her foot. What a scenery !!

They didn't know who we were and we didn't know how we ended up in such a story.

The same day we arrived , we figured out who the neighbours were and we were told the full story about how they ended up living in this neighbourhood, how they were living on charity for some years , what was his job , how did they found an address in Portugal where to send the letter and all this thousands of questions we couldn't stop asking.

They were really nice people that supported them for few years but the moment they realize we were relatives, they all returned to their homes and left the puzzle for me and Gil to figure out.

The days that follow were still somehow illusion as little we knew about what was expecting us and so we concentrated on getting them to an hospital and making sure they would get proper treatment.

My cousin which is also a doctor helped me finding the hospital and the doctor to treat them. Thanks to my cousin, they had the best treatments and support. I can never thank them enough for that.

They finally returned home and we knew that they could not be alone and this was the moment when we started thinking about the future.

What are we doing now?

How will we deal with this situation?

Should we just leave them?

Should we just forget this episode and carry on like if it never happened?

In the end of the day , they were just another old couple in search of help , we could not relate to them as family, we didn't know them at all.

So after some clear nights, we decided that we would ,somehow, take care of them.

Next day we looked for a nurse to give them the necessary medical support at home and found a maid to look after them.This way we could leave and be sure that they were being taken care.

These perfect situation lasted a couple of days as he was not prepared to have someone inside his home and started being aggressive.

Next day ,my life was - me , Gil , two kids and two old persons... My life changed!

We had to decide their future. Oh my God , what a responsibility. One day we are on holiday in Rio and next day we to take care of this couple.

We thought a lot about it and disregarded the family bounds when deciding to adopt them.

Should we bring them to Portugal?

This was not such a good idea , they would not resist to the flight and they would have troubles adapting to the weather.

We decided to look for retirement houses and found one that was simple but clean and with medical assistance. We didn't really know how to take them there, how to make them leave their house. We told them they were going to the hospital.

That was a very touching moment as I felt when we left the house, they would never be back. It was a sad thought.

They soon adapted to their new life and home. We made their room homely and attached photos of our family so they would know, we would come back.

Slowly they got to know us, start to trust our decisions and we became their only family, in fact, they became our family too.

Through the years we became closer and attached to them. They were part of our plans , the kids were involved and we had one more reason to go to Rio.

We never asked him about his reasons to leave his family and we never judged him either. Sometimes, life gives you no alternatives and the reasons that are ununderstandable for us are the only way out.

During the year my cousin Adelaide was an incredible support to them by visiting and bringing them all they needed. We can never thank them for that.

He was the first to pass away at the age of 96 and she died one year later at 91 years old. It was difficult for her as she missed his company but also because she was worried we might not take care of her.

We went to see her every time we were in Rio.

In 2004, we spent Christmas in Rio and on Christmas Day we went to see her.

When we arrived, she sat right on the bottom of garden , with her little watering eyes crying of sadness and loneliness.

All the others had their families around in such a special day but she was alone.

Suddenly we arrive ,she sees the family arriving and starts calling every one's attention saying «My family has arrived

This moment was our pay-back. We miss them and will never forget them.

Tropical Fruit salad with Ginger and Lemongrass

This is my favorite fruit salad and I have been doing it for many years specially in the Summer.

Usually I make a bigger portion so we can keep it in the fridge at least for one more day, it is even better when chilled.

60grs of sugar

1 piece of fresh ginger (1cm)

1 stick of lemongrass

2 passion fruit

1 papaya

1 melon

2 mango's

1 small pineapple

12 fresh lychee's

5 leaves of mint

Place the suger, the ginger and the lemongrass in a sauce pan.

Add 125 ml of water and bring it to boil for 10 minutes. Let it cool , remove the ginger and the lemongrass and add the passion fruit pulp.

Clean the fruit from all skin and seads anc cut in medium pieces.

Place all fruit in a serving dish and add the sirup.

To finish put the mint leaves.

Grilled Vegetables with Balsamic Vinegar

4 small aubergines

5 tomatoes

2 red peppers

1 green pepper

2 courgettes

100ml olive oil

2 mozzarella

45grs black olives

1 garlic clove

3 soup spoons of capers

2 soup spoons of balsamic vinegar

salt and pepper

Cut the aubergines and the tomatoes in slices of around 1,5 cms.

Slice the peppers in halves and clean the seeds. Cut slices.

Cut the courgettes in a a diagonal.

Pré-heat the oven or grill.

Sprinkle the vegetables with olive oil and salt.

Star to grill the tomatoes with cut face down. let all vegetables grill for around 5 minutes.

Place the grilled vegetables in a serving dish , add the mozzarella in small pieces, add the olives, add the capers, add the finely shopped garlic and finally finish with the balsamic vinegar and the olive oil.

Check for salt and pepper.

Hands are the heart's landscape.- Pope John Paul II

I love hands ,

they are the mirror of our soul.

I write my vision about hands and leave some famous statements so we all think about it and start paying attention to the way our hands speak to the world.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.- Colin Wilson

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.- John Ruskin


The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.- Tokujiro Namikoshi

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Hand in Hand

To share secrets

To share joy

To share suffering

Hands to say I love you

To confort and to warm up

Twisted finger on wedding days

Wisdom hands

Hand in Hand

For a walk

For a Lifetime

For the family

Hands with history

Working hands

Hands that work the land

Hands that save lives

Hands that reach the stars

Hands that hold the fall

Hand that play, that engrave that fight

Hands that write the future

Hands that bring life

Hands of tenderness

Used hands

Magic hands

Warrior hands

Lovely creative hands

Hands of victory

Hands of prayer

Hands on waiting

Hands to rule the world



Hands against racism

Hands of mercy.

EL BULLI RESTAURANT

Some 180 kms from Barcelona and another 70 from Perpignan , in the tyne village of Las Rosas, sits the world's best restaurant El Bulli.

El Bulli is a three Michelin star restaurant run by chef Ferran Adrià.

This place was founded in 1961 by a German couple, who wanted a restaurant for a piece of land he had purchased.

The name "El Bulli" came from the French bulldogs they owned.

The first restaurant was opened in 1964. Ferran Adrià joined the staff in 1984, and was put in sole charge of the kitchen in 1987.

In the mid-1990s a new style of cuisine began to be forged in elBulli and in 1990, the restaurant gained its second Michelin star, and in 1997, its third.Today, this style is fully consolidated.

The small restaurant has been described as "the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet"with a great deal of work done on molecular gastronomy.

The restaurant has a limited season from April to September; bookings are taken on a single day in the previous October. It accommodates only 8,000 diners a season, with 800,000 people calling to try and book places — around 400 requests for every table.

The average cost of a meal is €250;

As of April 2008, the restaurant employed 42 chefs.

2007. Ferran Adrià in a Disney film. In May of last year, Walt Disney Productions suggested that Ferran Adrià lends his voice to one of the characters of his new cartoon’s production. It is about the Ratatouille film, which is set in Paris and concerns with the world of high cuisine.

But Ferran Adrià is also involved in another spetacular project.

Hacienda Benazuza - in a small village outside Seville , the detailed and careful renovation, transformed this 10th century Moorish farmhouse into a fantastic 5 star hotel.

It is one of the most spectacular hotels of the world and combined with first class cuisine, makes your stay a truly memorable experience.

http://www.elbullihotel.com

Married Life

I guess that after 20 years of a happy marriage I have legitimacy to speak about it.

I know that all I may say will be read or not, taken in consideration or not , understood or not but still I owe a statement about what i think married life should be.

The doubts come quickly to your head, specially when society made it so easy to undo.

Is it going to be as we expected?

One of the misunderstandings about marriage is that people tend to think that marriage is a 50/50 deal but in the end it is no more than two people giving 100/100 all of the time.

I was young , my generation was becoming selfish, my career was only starting - so why did it last?

What makes a marriage work?

The key is empathy. It means being able to put yourself in another's position, to feel what they feel and see what they see, without losing yourself in the process.

For me is all down to a list of key points that all together make married life wonderful.

• Never assume - think that all you have today , might quickly go away tomorrow.
• Compliment more than you criticize.
• For each time you moan about your husband to your family and friends, tell three positive stories.
• Remember that it is ok to do things differently - there is more than one way to peel a potato.
• Marry someone that you enjoy listening and talking to.
• Be fair! Split the housework (involve your husband in the kitchen, they love it!)
• Never go to bed angry. (Unless it's 3a.m. and you're exhausted, angry, and not thinking straight.)
• Before starting an argument, consider if it's really worth it. Remember that people do fight. It's how you do it that matters.
• Respect each other's privacy and individuality.
• Surprise each other now and then.
• Have one date night at least every two months - leave the kids and take a day or one afternoon for both of you.Set up a romantic weekend !
• Never pass up an opportunity to say "I love you".Hold hands and Hug & kiss every day (several times a day actually!).
• Keep the in-laws out of your marriage!
• Never keep secrets from each other. Communication is the key , talk, talk , talk.
• Listen - this could be the most important one ever.
• Always respect each other.
• Don't compare your marriage to others. What you see on the outside is not always what it is on the inside
• Accept differences - No one is perfect.
• Give gifts
• Smile often - I would say: smile always as it is contagious - laughter is like smiling and as they say: it is medicine.
• Touch - intimacy between married people is very important and touching is a mean of communication that reflects closeness, connection and love;
• Talk about dreams
• Encourage - positive support and being there for one another !
• Slow down ~ and don’t jump to conclusions; always give the benefit of the doubt .
• Ask for each others’ opinion - absolutely.Your decisions will reflect both your lives.
• Look your best - I know that this is not easy to implement since we face different situations all day long, however; it does count that you make the effort to look your best every once in a while .
• Forgive - from the heart
• Admit that you made a mistake.Be quick to say "I'm sorry".
• Ask, “What can I do to make you happier?”
• Be sensitive to each other’s sexual desires ~ more importantly; understand these desires and keep the communication going.
  

I hope that somehow I can contribute with some advise and my experience helps building happy marriages - THIS IS POSSIBLE!!

Monika's Smoked Trout Mousse

Serves 4-6

2 smoked trout filets

250 grs Philadelphia cream cheese

1/2 lemon juice - freshly squeezed

1/3 cup of heavy cream

Shred the filets in the mixer. Add the cream cheese and the lemon, then add the cream.

Taste for lemon juice. Refrigerate in mold for several hours.

Serve with cressonette or salad on toast.

Chocolate Demi Cuit with Red Fruits Coulis

Serves 16

8 eggs at room temperature

500 grs chocolate Valrhona

200 grs of butter at room temperature

400 grs sugar

200 gras self raise flour

Preheat the oven at 200º

Beat the yokes with the sugar until you get a soft and whitened cream.

Add butter and keep mixing.

Place the chocolate in a sauce pan and place it in heat over a pan with water, leave it to melt.

Add the melted chocolate to the egg mixture while warm and beat for 2 min.

Add slowly the flour alternating with the whipped whites.

Wrap the molds with butter and vegetable paper.

Fill the molds and place in oven for 15 min.

Before you take the cakes out of the mold, sprinkle with powder sugar.

You can also leave the cakes on the mold as I did in this pictures.

Red Fruit Coulis

250 grs of red fruits - strawberry's, redcurrant, raspberry's

1 soup spoon of honey

1 cm of ginger

1 cinnamon stick

1 small glass of port wine

Add all ingredients and bring to boil in slow heat for 15-20 min.