Iris wants to eat something with pepper sauce and I want to make something with Brussels sprouts. Why not combine in one dish? Clean 600 grams of Brussels sprouts and cut in quarters. Put in salted water together with 4 chopped medium sized potatoes and 1 bay leaf. Boil until tender. Drain, add 1 tea … More How to combine a pepper sauce with ‘flatulent’Brussels sprouts?
200 grams of fresh frozen salmon cubes, 125 grams of baby spinach, 5 carrots, 1 leek, a few white celery sticks, some garlic, some fresh ginger are for sure good ingredients for an Asian meal for 2p and then the fridge is empty! Chop 4 garlic cloves, 5 cm of fresh ginger, 1 spicy little … More The last meal before departure
In every kitchen you find leftovers of unfinished bags of dried pasta. So check your cupboards regularly before opening a new package. Chop a few garlic cloves and, of course, a spicy little pepper. Fry in some olive oil. Add chopped green cabbage (1 green cabbage = 1 recipe with the outer leaves + 1 … More Green cabbage and pasta (a lovely recipe for ravioli in a simple version)
500 grams of tasty radicchio from Treviso (the real stuff) and a lucious cheese (mixture of gorgonzola and mascarpone= really lucious!) are perfect ingredients for a quick risotto. Fry 1 chopped white onion and 4 chopped garlic cloves in a mixture of butter and olive oil. Add 120 grams of good risotto rice. Stir and … More Radicchio, not just a salad
The house is a mess. Presents to be packed in every corner, luggage for several destinations, and still our dog struggling to become better. In between I try to prepare healthy food and in the meanwhile to finish everything in the cupboards. All this is a perfect excuse for non-inventive cooking. Is a dish with … More In a few days we will leave our lovely home for 4 weeks
Wikipedia explains us the origin of this well known dish. Thus, Copy Paste : The word ratatouille derives from the Occitan ratatolha and is related to the French ratouiller and tatouiller, expressive forms of the verb touiller, meaning “to stir up”. From the late 18th century, in French, it merely indicated a coarse stew. The modern ratatouille – tomatoes as a foundation for sautéed garlic, onions, zucchini, eggplant, bell peppers, marjoram, fennel and basil, or bay leaf and thyme, or … More Ratatouille
Mix 200 grams of smoked salmon, 200 grams of ricotta, 1 table spoon of sour cream with the juice and lemon zeste of 1 lemon. Add a drizzle of good olive oil, a pinch of cayenne and some extra pepper and salt. Store in the fridge. Serve with white celery stalks or chicory leaves, grissini, … More Another appetizer for many occasions and for many mouths
Panna Cotta is a lucious dessert. With a good list of ingredients it’s not difficult to prepare, but the tricky thing is to find the ideal way to get the right shape on your plates. For 14 little portions you need 500 ml of full milk, 500 ml of full cream, 150 grams of light … More Something sweet to finish a lovely dinner
Salmon ‘en croûte’= a nostalgic recipe of Jamie Oliver (Christmas cookbook) For 8 large portions you need : 2 white onions, 2 garlic cloves, 3 table spoons of butter, 1 kilo chopped deepfrozen spinach, 2 rectangular sheets of puff pastry, 1 kilo of large salmon filet, 1 egg, 1 leek, 50 grams of sundried tomatoes, … More Ready for the main dish?
For 1.5l of soup : 500 grams of butternut, 2 onion, 4 garlic cloves, 1 table spoon of curry powder, 2 bay leaves, 1 table spoon of dried basil, 1 l chicken stock (good quality cubes), coconut cream to finish. Put the chopped pumkin, the chopped onions and garlic cloves on baking paper. Add the … More Spicy pumpkin soup in a little cup
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