When we moved to Italy I tried hard to empty the cupboards as much as possible , but still we moved 8000 kilo of stuff!!!! Old weckjars moved with us and I never really used them (shame on me) until today. For 2p boil 400 grams of peeled and cut new potatoes for 2 mins … More Weckjars
After 17 kilometers of walking we can use real healthy food. An oven without oven dish, without proper tray? Fish in papillot is managable. Use strong aluminium foil in two layers (to keep the oven clean). For 3p, make 3 different packages with sliced 2 onions, 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped spicy little pepper, … More Dinner 2 in New York
Whole dorade in advertising on my shopping day! A tasty fish does not need much ‘decoration’ to be delicious. For 2p, cut 500 grams of potatoes in chubby wedges. Put on baking paper. Add a drizzle of olive oil, pepper, salt and some rosemary. Put in the oven at 200° for 40-60 mins. Stir now … More Fresh fish = shopping day
There are many variations on vegetarian lasagna. ‘The Green Kitchen at Home’ inspires me for a delicious version of the classical tomato lasagna. The recipe serves 5-6p. Home made pasta is a little extra effort with the great advantage to create the perfect shape for the oven dish of choice. Put 250 grams of fine … More Vegetarian lasagna
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
Colorful salads, even in winter, cheer up a rainy and windy day. Something cold, something hot, something raw, something cooked, some proteins, some vegetables and a variety of colors offer a perfectly balanced meal. Last night I precooked 500 grams of peeled and chopped beetroot in the oven for 30 mins at 180° in a … More Winter salads
Baby spinach leaves spread in a circle, some slices of good quality smoked salmon, a few cherry tomatoes, finished with a dressing of 2 teaspoons of coriander oil ( cfr blogpost Cauliflower, ovenbaked tomatoes and meatball) mixed with ½ teaspoon of apple vinegar, pepper and salt as 1p starter, cooking can be easy!
It’s time to use the cataplana. The Cataplana is a Portugese cooking dish, available in cupper (is the original), in inox, or in aluminium. The wonderful thing about travelling and food is buying a real genuine cooking tool in the country and using it to cook genuine but also non-genuine dishes. Split the cataplana into … More Shells in a creamy green vegetables mix made in a Portugese Cataplana and served with quinoa
In the cold department of the supermarket you will find a lot of different wrap-like types of prepared dough (piadine). I was curious to find out how a ‘kamut-piadina’ would taste and decided to use this as an altnernative for a pizza bottom. Kamut is a kind of wheat, but per definition organically grown. To … More Healthy pizza variant
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