*Fruit as sweet end of a meal : Chop 2 fresh melons. Add a few leaves of chopped mint and 1 teaspoon of rose water. Put in the fridge until serving time. *moroccan cuisine is known for real sweet pastry. I always try to find the best of two worlds, sweet but not too much … More cookies and fresh melon salad to finish a Moroccan meal
For 6p 1,5 kilo of monkfish. Remove the skin and cut in smaller parts. Prepare the marinade of chermoula with 2 chopped garlic cloves, 1 tea spoon of sea salt, 2 teaspoons of cumin, 1 teaspoon of paprika. Grind everything in a mortire. Add 1 bunch of chopped fresh coriander. Grind in the mortire. Add … More Tajine with monkfish
We live in Italy now for almost 9 months. The life of an ex-pat is fascinating. It’s a choice, it’s a gift for your relationship, it’s a way to experience unique events. Italian people are really friendly, but It will probably take years to be integrated, if you ever get really integrated. Through contact with … More Table with guests, table with (Moroccan) food. Part I; appetizers
Chop 4 garlic cloves, 1 spicy little pepper, 1 red onion. Fry and add 200-250 grams of minced meat (chicken). Add 1 big bell pepper, in smaller pieces. Fry together. Add 2 table spoon of garam masala. Fry and stir now and again. Add 1 can of tomatoes. Allow to simmer. Towards the end, add … More Chili con carne
Having visitors can be a reason to cook certain things which we normally wouldn’t. Honestly eating a T-bone on my own is exagerated ;-), knowing that Iris doesn’t eat that kind of food. Compensate the meat with a lot of vegetables. Cut 800 grams of courgettes and 500 grams of green asparagus in equal pieces. … More Awesome T-bone steak as guilty pleasure!
Green asparagus is a local vegetable and they are so fresh, you could eat them raw. Instead of eating them pure, let’s combine with smoked salmon. For 4p wash and prepare 1.2 kilo of green asparagus. The preperation is really easy, simply remove the hard part by breaking it off. Roll a slice of smoked … More Smoked salmon and green asparagus
My mother in law is a real Indian lover. When I want to impress her, I probably have to try making their version of the curry soup, or ‘mulligattiwally-soup’ as they invented themselves. When I tried to find the right recipe, the one with green apple, it became clear to me that there are a … More Mulligatawny soup for my mother in law
For 2p fry a few chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped spicy little pepper in some olive oil. After a few mins add 200 ml of white wine and allow to simmer. The real recipe is very limited in the amount of tomatoes, but nobody tells me that I cannot make my own version ;-), thus … More Pasta vongole
Blanch shortly 300 grams of thin green beans, 300 grams of green bell pepper, 3 spring onions (all cut in pieces of approx 3 cm). Marinate 300 grams of chicken breast in 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped lemon grass stem, 4 cm of finely chopped ginger, 1 chopped spicy little pepper, 2 table spoons … More Lemon grass, peanut butter, coconut milk….delicious Indonesian dish.
The first time we ate those partially sliced potatoes was after reading a recipe in one of Nigella Lawson cookbooks, since then they are called Nigellas or (since we know she didn’t invent the technique;-)) Hasselback potatoes. Take small or medium sized potatoes, wash them and make multiple incisisions close to each other but!!!! don’t … More Squid, fennel, tomatoes and Hasselback potatoes
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