Although courgettes are a real local ingredient I don’t seem to manage to have my own harvest. I bought healthy plants, planted them on the compost ground, watered them every day and still 😭, not even flowers. Courgettes are, next to tomatoes, my preferred vegetables. The following pasta recipe is delicious and super easy. For … More What’s happening with the courgettes in our garden?
There are many different ways to use old bread in your recipes. It’s always useful to cut the bread in smaller pieces before becoming extremely hard. Put 2 chopped garlic cloves in some olive oil in a pan. Heat the fire. Add a handful of old bread crumb cubes. Bake and stir now and again. … More Old bread in a salad
What a special day : the first patient in my new practice, the first opening in our house, and above all a lovely sunny day to welcome all this and to do some studying and gardening outside. And, above all 😉, 1 kilo of green asparagus is waiting for a recipe. Remove the hard end … More A crispy package of asparagus
Iris gave me a few years ago a special ‘smoke ‘barbecue, which I never used because I’m not a ‘fire’ person. To smoke your own fish seems of course a delicious idea. In one of the recent magazines of Libelle-lekker.be I read this recipe of smoked fish in the oven, on pine cones. Let’s try. … More How to smoke salmon in the oven?
For 2p, chop and fry 4 garlic cloves, 1 small onion and 600 grams of courgettes in a drizzle of sunflower oil. Add 1 table spoon of indian curry powder. Bake and stir. Boil some pasta al dente. Add 200 ml of soy cream to the vegetables once they are al dente. Add 200 grams … More Few ingredients for a quick pasta
Chicory doesn’t belong to the ‘exotic’ department in Italy, but this recipe is for sure not familiar in this country of foodies. I bought 1 kilo of fresh chicory (recipe for 2p). Chop off the little brown end, make a few incisions in the hard part. Blanch or steam the chicory al dente. Drain and … More I did this one before, but it’s really worth to prepare it once more
Slice 500 grams of small courgettes with a potato peeler, or spiralizer. Mix with the juice of 1 lemon, a drizzle of olive oil, 2 table spoons of chopped chives, some roasted pine nuts and pepper. Spread 100 grams of smoked salmon. Ready!!
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!
Originally this recipe is made with ham, but for non-meat-eaters smoked salmon is a delicious and perfect alternative. For 2p boil 6 chicory stumps (almost 1kilo) until al dente. Drain thoroughly (a few hours in advance), put some weight on the chicory to press out most of the liquid) and keep 300 ml of the … More This is Belgian, chicory in the oven with a cheesy sauce
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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