One of the best starters ever my dear friend Alejandro, living in Spain for many many years, prepared us on one of our visits. We worked in the same village, he as the local dentist and I as the new coming female family physician. He left the country many years before us. His move was … More Sweet heart of little gem
Again and again and again, Ottolenghi ‘s ‘Simple’ is the source of tonight’s dinner. Remember the spring vegetable, agretti? Agretti has a gentle salty taste and looks like chives. Mostly you find them here in packages of 300 grams. Remove the hard part and split. Rinse and drain. For 2p, boil 120 grams of spaghetti … More Ottolenghi with Italian ingredients
For 2p, remove the skin and chop 1 small butternut pumpkin( approx 800 grams of pumpkin left). Put the cubes on baking paper. Add 4 peeled garlic cloves and a drizzle of olive oil. Bake in the oven at 200° for 25-30 mins. Cool down. Boil 120 grams of integral spaghetti in salted water al … More Pumpkin spaghetti pie
This morning I removed a nice piece of salmon from the freezer. After a long day outside easy cooking is welcome and baking paper is the best tool to do this. Come home, preheat the oven at 180-200°. Use two oven trays, cover them with baking paper. Wash 250 -300 grams of potatoes pp. Cut … More Cooking on baking paper
Cold and cloudy with something in between snow and rain are not my favorite ingredients. Iris did rearrange the unpacked boxes and I found the magimix tools. Internet showed me some ideas for our menu tonight. Rösti is real mountain food, ideal for this time of year. My friend, Magimix, grates 600 grams of washed … More Real winter food
Again, a recipe based on the latest Ottolenghi, pizza bianca. Iris is waiting for our future ‘cinema’-room to be ready. The boxes with DVD, CD and old video tapes will be unpacked soon. The red velvet sofa (also sleeping chair for guests) may soon be freed from its removal packaging. This pizza bianca will be … More Pizza bianca
I love gratins, not only in winter. As for many recipes there are rich versions, and less rich versions. My preference is obvious, the less rich versions, but still ‘gratin’. For 2p, cut 2 fresh fennels, 2 sweet potatoes (approx 300-350 grams in total) and 1 large onion in slices of 0.5cm. Put the slices … More Gratin
Start with the dough. Step 1: mix ½ table spoon of honey, 312 ml of warm water and ½ teaspoon of dried yeast in a recipient. Set aside. Put 455 grams of farro flour and 1 ½ teaspoon of salt in the kitchen robot with the dough hook. Knead slowly and add slowly the yeast … More Flour of farro in a calzone with pumpkin
I know, certain food is at his best in a classical version, but the recipe in the November edition of Libelle Lekker inspired me. For 2 portions a ready made rectangular pizza dough, 300 grams of Brussels sprouts and 1 mozzarella of 200 grams are the perfect base fort his recipe, so it was really … More Brussels sprouts on a pizza, holy shmoly, what a combination
Square puff pastry covered with a mixture of new Philadelphia, ‘active’, with even less kcal than the light one (92 kcal for 100 grams) with 4 chopped garlic cloves, pepper and salt. Cover with 1 big sliced red onion, 150 grams of smoked salmon. Finish with a few halved cherry tomatoes (I ovendried them for … More One more day to go before I make my new shopping list…woop woop
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