The wrong omelette

Ok, ok, it was supposed to be an omelette but it didn't go according to plan. Still, one of the best non-omelettes I had in my entire life.

Pitty that it was too dark to take a decent picture, even with flash... Mmmm, I'll have to cook it again some other time.

Ingredients:
- green asparagus & pumkin flowers (both fresh from the Finca Tres Peñas stall in the Tahiche market)
- onion 
- garlic
- eggs
- oil (in this case I used my own juniper infused olive oil)
- salt & pepper

Instructions:
wash and chop all the veggies
pan fry them in oil
add the garlic crushed or finely chopped
beat the egg
add the fried veggies to the egg and mix well
put it back in the pan, adding a bit of oil if required
if it doesn't stick, try it in omelette form
if it doest, just keep mixing until it takes a "scrambled" texture & it doesn't burn

You can eat it on its own or on toast or with rice.

Butternut squash, potato & sweet potato soup

eh.... do I need to say more?

peel, chop & boil until it gets soft with enough water that it will have a "soupy" consistency, rather than a "mashy" one

add salt, pepper, butter and herbs to your liking

serve & eat!

(sorry not photo this time!
let your imagination run wild!)

Ingredients from my ecological basket of F&V from Finca Tres Peñas

Quick and easy gazpacho (cold tomato soup)

Ingredients:
cucumber
(*) tomatoes
(*) green pepper
salt
sugar
vinegar
pepper
parsley

... and in the rush I forgot to add the stale bread! I didn't add the traditional garlic either, as I need to meet a few people shortly afterwards... made up for it by adding a bit extra pepper!

I didn't have time to refrigerate it either, but veggies were on the fridge, so they were cool enough.

Wash, peel and chop the veggies
Pour into the food processor and blitz
Season to your taste
Serve and enjoy this refreshing and healthy drinkable cold soup!



(*) ingredients from my ecological fruit & veg home delivered basket

Traffic light smoothie

Ingredients:
kiwi
(*) strawberries
(*) pear-melon
 milk

Wash, peel, chop and blend the fruit with the milk.
Enjoy!


(*) ingredients included my home-delivered ecological basket

Banana muffins

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups of self-raising flour (saves you having to buy baking powder & soda)
1/2 teaspoon salt
(*) 3-4 ripe bananas, mashed
3/4 cup brown sugar (it adds a different -nicer- flavour & crunchiness than white sugar)
1 egg
1/3 cup butter, melted

Preheat the over at 250-300 degrees
Melt the butter in a saucepan
Peal & mash the bananas
Add all the ingredients, except the flower & mix well
Add the flour & mix well
Pour the mixture into the containers - I love these silicone ones, non sticky, easy to wash & store!
Bake for 15-20 minutes depending on the size of the containers

This recipe made 8 small muffins + a second batch with 2 more medium ones still baking as I write!

Mmmm, banana muffins for breakfast, anyone?


(*) ingredient included my home-delivered ecological basket

Chicken salad

Left over homemade chicken kiev (*)
2 types of lettuce (lollo rosso and normal lettuce)
beetroot
carrots
basil

wash and cut the lettuce
wash, peel and dice the beetroot and the carrots
dice the leftover chicken and warm it

tossed it all together
garnish it with chopped basil, olive oil and a pinch of salt


(*) ingredient not included my home-delivered ecological basket

1,001 veggies soup

green asparagus
dark green courgette
carrots
green pepper
leek
red cabbage
beetroot
tomatoes
onions
spinach
... and / or any other veggies that you find laying around, for that matter!!!! 
I know, it's not literally 1,001 :-)


wash, peel & chop
boil in salted water
blitz

serve with a dash of cream (optional)

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It didn't look to good while cooking...

 

but it tasted fastanstic and I had some left-overs to freeze - very convinient for again! 

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Strawberries, papaya & banana milkshake

ehmmmm, self explanatory!


Wash, peel & chop as required
Add cold milk
Blitz


Serve & drink... enjoy!

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Smoothie

Banana
Carrot
Kiwi
Grounded cereal  of your choice (flaxseed & goji berries in this case)
Milk

Peel & cut fruit into small pieces
Add milk & cereal
Blend
Drink!

You might add the fruit juice of your choice instead of milk.

Pilau rice

Sliced carrot into very thin sticks.
Melt butter in the pan and fried the dry rice on it, adding the carrot sticks.
Before the rice starts to burn, add the chicken stock (see chicken stock sort-of-recipe).

The rice should be ready when the stock is consumed.

Serve as a base ingredient of your favourite stir-fry meat or fish. In  this case, I used strips of pork.

15-Jan-2012 menu & sort-of-chicken stock recipe

Breakfast: cereals

Lunch: Fish (pollack in this case) pan fried with herbs & soya sauce; carrot & courgette soup

Dinner: Roasted poussin (small chicken would do too) stuffed with lemon & roasted onions and red peppers

Washed down with a glass of white wine

Sort-of-chicken stock recipe:
With the carcass & roasted skin of the poussin, I made "poussin stock" (ie. chicken stock) by boiling the remains. Now I have my very own stock! See stock recipes for, emmmmm, stock recipes)

Chicken and walnut salad

Chicken
Lettuce
Cherry Tomatoes
Cheese
Walnuts
Red Pepper
Parsley
Pepper

Cut the chicken in small pieces / cubes in Juniper oil, salt & pepper.
Make the salad with the rest of the ingredients.
Add the chicken when cooked.


If you like salads, try these also:

• Calabrese meets prawn cocktail salad
• Papaya & ham salad

05-Jan-2012 menu

Lunch:
Breaded chicken
Carrot salad with honey and peanuts (it actually didn't matter  that they were salted!)