Bread is a basic thing, without it nowhere. Recall, at least, how Robinson Crusoe suffered on an uninhabited island, until he raised wheat. And meat is ... also a basic thing. And without him, too, nowhere. Take any epoch from the Stone Age - the feasts of the times of antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance ... Everything, all cultural epochs, up to the modern history of Europe, in the culinary sense - are an ode to meat. Of course, the approach has changed, the pathos of serving the dish has changed - from luxurious, busy and, so to speak, detailed to simplified and brutal; from the bull stuffed with nightingales, served in the house of Caesar, to the bull carcass, roasted entirely on a spit in the castle of the feudal lord. With a resurgent interest in antiquity in the days of the Renaissance, the attitude to food, its serving, serving, changes, but meat remains the central dish. As time goes on, the era of technical progress is coming, the same one that, as science-fiction writers promised us, should have simplified everything in the spirit of greater functionality: I took a pill and was full. Fortunately, they were wrong. Please note: we already live in this era, however, we are not going to give up the old good food. From a good steak, for example. With a glass of wine, of course. And for dessert, choose something tasty, homemade, for example poppy seed roll.

Marina Levina, "El Gaucho":"I would like to share recipes of dishes popular in our restaurant of Argentinean cuisine" El Gaucho ". This is a simple, but extremely tasty meat dish steak fillet and dessert poppy seed roll. For cooking steak fillet, it is important to use only very high-quality grain-fed meat. The secret of this dishes that steak is roasted on a grill using birch charcoal and served on a special roaster.The cabbage salad with pineapples, which we recommend to our guests for the steak fillet, will emphasize its delicate flavor. And the taste of poppy seed roll I remember from childhood. My mother always baked him for holidays and birthdays. He was equally loved by all adults and we children. The specialty of making this beloved dessert in El Gaucho is that the dough should be rolled very thinly and in no way case of not saving poppy. "

Steak filet

Poppy seed roll

Poppy with water boil for about an hour. Then filter. Give cool. Cooled poppy with sugar scrolls through a meat grinder. Add honey, cream, egg. Stir. Roll out the dough, spread the filling evenly on top. Fold the roll, pinch the edges. Grease roll yolk. We put bake in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 160 degrees.