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