I prepared a nice chocolate tart, when my boyfriend comes home and tells me he doesn’t like chocolate cakes… Luckily this was before he tried this one ;-). This is a very easy and quick recipe. Ingredients: 150gr butter 150gr black cooking chocolate 50gr sugar 4 eggs orange zest 2 teaspoons Maizena (corn starch). In…
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Merguez casserole with Savoy cabbage
I was inspired by a recipe shown on a BBC show (the original recipe is Quick sausage casserole with Savoy cabbage pesto and you can find it on bbc.co.uk/food ) Ingredients: 1 Savoy cabbage olive oil 5 merguez (spicy lamb-beef sausage originally from the Magreb area) 1 chopped onion 3 pressed garlic cloves 1 chopped…
Spaghetti with Zucchini and Pumpkin Flower
It has been a long time since my last post, now is time to catch up! This almost a vegetarian version of spaghetti alla carbonara. This is because of the egg yolks you add at the end. Ingredients for 2: 250 gr. spaghetti 1 small zucchini pumpkin flowers (roughly a dozen). saffron (1 blister) 2…
Home made ravioli with Pumpkin and gorgonzola piccante filling
There is a very nice Christmas market at our main station and one stall is selling great italian cheeses. That’s where I got a fantastic gorgonzola piccante … Ingredients: For the Pasta 100gr of flour 100gr of wheat bran 1 egg a pinch of salt water (as needed) For the filling: 100gr of pumpkin cooked…
Mailänderli – Christmas Biscuits
And here the recipe for the second batch of biscuits, Mailänderli. Ingredients: 250 gr Butter 250 gr Sugar 2 tbsp Vanilla sugar 500 gr Flour 2 eggs the zest of 1 untreated lemon some more flour to roll the dough 2 egg yokes to spread Mix the butter till soft and foamy. Add the sugar, the…
Spitzbuben – Christmas biscuits
Got a nice Cooking Machine as anticipated Christmas gift, so I thought of using it a bit… Ingredients: 250 gr Butter 125 gr Sugar 2 tbsp Vanilla Sugar 1 pinch of salt 1 egg white 350 gr of white flour 200gr redcurrant jelly icing sugar Mix the butter till soft with the mixer/cooking machine). Add…
Tarte with lemon and berries
I was inspired by one of this weeks Masterchef Professional UK. Ingredients: 1 package short crust pastry rice as weight to cook the pastry 300gr mixed berries (I used strawberries, blueberries and raspberries) 5 egg yokes 80 gr sugar 400 ml condensed milk (sugared) 150 ml lemon juice 1 tsp grated lemon skin icing sugar…
Simmered Satsuma sweet potatoes with beef – japanese style
Ingredients: 2 sweet potatoes (roughly 400 gr) 200 gr. ground beef 2 tablespoon sake 1 tablespoon soya sauce cooking oil (sunflower seeds) Cut the potatoes in 2 cm slices and let them rest in water for at least 10 minutes. Heat the oil in a skillet and brown the potato slices. Add the ground beef….
Miso Eggplant Stir Fry
This was a real discovery. Very easy but tasty recipe. Ingredients: 5 small eggplants 1-2 red hot chilli 50 ml soup stock 2 tablespoon sake 2 tablespoon sugar 2 tablespoon miso (i used red miso) some sesame oil First of all peel some strips of the eggplants (alternatively) and then cut in small stripes. Chop…
Noodle soup with chicken – Japanese
Was in Hong Kong recently and found an inspiring book: Japanese Soul Cooking from Tadashi Ono & Harris Salat. Saw a very nice recipe, Kamo Nanban Soba. The problem is that my boyfriend does not like duck so much, so I did my own version. Ingredients: Chicken with skin (I took 2 thighs which I…
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