Egg, crab & mais salad

Boild egg, chopped
Crab sticks, chooped
Mais
Mayonnaise
Pepper

Chickpeas with chorizo

Onion
Chorizo
Chickpeas
Potatoes

Peel & chop the onion finely
Fry until golden
Add chopped chorizo

Peel & boil the potatoes
Add the cooked peas
Drain and add to the pan with the fried onion & the chorizo
Stir

Serve & eat... enjoy!

Pasta with tuna, carrots & tomato sauce

...eh, as it says on the tin...

boil the pasta
peel and chop carrots finely
fry them until golden in the pan with a bit of oil (chili olive oil used here)
add a tin of tuna
add tomato sauce
season with your favourite herbs and top it up with parmesan cheese.

Ah, and don't forget the salt, I almost did.

Very tasty!

06-Nov-2011 menu

Breakfast:
coffee
muesli

Lunch/dinner:
Starter: 2 pancakes 1 with almond mojo, 1 with cheese
Main course: Chicken soup with veggies, fideus (noodles) & potatoes
Desert: cashew nuts and 1cheese portions
Glass of semi-sweet white wine (Miranda from Tenerife)

Tea: coffee
:-)

05-Nov-2011 menu

Breakfast:
3 chocolate pancakes
banana
coffee


Lunch:
Chicken with cashew nuts and carrot purée
2 cheese portions

Tea:
3 biscottes with almond mojo
cofee

Dinner:
Burger with onions
Kiwi

Chicken with cashew nuts and carrot purée

Chicken
Cashew nuts
Carrots... so far so good
Onions
Courgette
Potato
Olive oil
Salt
Herbs
Butter


Peal & chop all the veggies
Boil them all, except for the onions
Fry the onions in a pan with olive oil -I used my own chilli infused one
Add the diced chicken and the cashew nuts until golden
Mash the veggies when done & season to taste with your favourite herbs
Add some butter for flavour too :-)

Serve and enjoy!

Panga with potatoes

Panga
Potatoes
Courgettes
Salt & pepper
Lime

Cut the panga into cubes, marinate in lime
Salt & pepper
Fry the courgettes in a pan & add the panga
Peel the potatoes, cut them into chunks & boil in salted water
Strain & add the fish

Panga and pasta

Panga
Onion
Courgettes
Sweet paprika
Soya sauce
Rosemary
Salt & pepper
Parmesan cheese
Pasta - shape of your choice

Cut the panga into small cubes
Salt & pepper it
Add sweet paprika & rosemary to taste
If possible, let it all marinate for a while with a bit of soya sauce

Fry in a pan chopped courgettes & onion, when golden add fish

Boil the pasta in salted water

Strain & add the fried ingredients

Add parmesan cheese to your liking

Gnocchi with steak strips

Gnocchi
Steak strips
Pepper & salt
Cheese (in this case gouda)
Butter
Onion

Chope the onion finely & fry in the pan
Cut the steak into think strips, salt & pepper them & add to the onion
Cook the gnocchi in boiling salted water
Strain & put some butter & cheese
Add the onions & steak
Enjoy!

Chicken satay skewers

peanut butter (chunky or smooth, your choice)
coconut milk or coconut water and milk
onion
green pepper
brown sugar
soya sauce
salt & pepper
oil
chicken breast
wooden skewers

Satay sauce
chop onion finely and fried until golden in a pan

stir in the peanut butter, coconut milk, soya sauce & brown sugar
mix until it has a uniform texture & season to taste
let it cool down

Chicken skewers
cut the chicken into cubes, bite size
salt & pepper them

marinate the chicken cubes overnight in the satay sauce

put the chicken cubes in the skewers, alternating a piece of meat & a piece of vegetable (onion and / or green pepper) or any other vegetable that you like

barbecue or fry them and... enjoy!

Chunkie smoothie

I know, it sounds like a contradiction, but bear with me...

I have never been one for smoothies, I find them too heavy. Add more liquid I hear you say. I could, I guess. But it wouldn't be a smoothie anymore, it would be a more of a drink, wouldn't it?

Plus the blending & the cleaning of the blending equipment... oh, don't get me started!

So today I decided to have a chunkie smoothie instead:

Grab whatever fruit, dried fruit &/or nuts are at your disposal, peel them, chop them, etc. into a bowl, pour a yoghurt & honey to your  taste & enjoy.

Easy, healthy, quick & .... yummie for breakfast or dessert !!!!

Chicken wraps

Fried onions & chicken seasoned with pepper & pimentón dulce
(any spices at hand will do, really, as long as they are... spicy!)

Cheese (maasdam in this case, any cheese will do too)

Tortilla wraps (1 mayonnaise, 1 fried tomato sauce)

20-Nov-2010

Creamy chards or spinach

Chards or spinach with garlic, raisins, crab sticks & loads of cream

Nov-2010

A tornado of flavours, from breakfast till... duck!

Savoury breakfast: Polish bread, toasted, butter & white matue cheddar & brie... yummie!

Lunch:
Tornado (or whatever that's called) of duck
Red pesto pasta (the twirley one)
Baby carrots

Glass of red - optional (Canti Sangiovese / Merlot)

Dessert: kiwi, mandarines & blueberries with greek yoghurt


13-June-2010

Calabrese meets prawn cocktail salad

Lettuce Cherry tomatoes
Mozzarella
Prawns
Marie Rose sauce

12-June-2010

If you like salads, try these also:

• Chicken and walnut salad
• Papaya & ham salad

Bacon & Cabagge with starters & dessert + breakfast

Breakfast: Coffee and pecan pastry

Brown bread toast with pâté
Cheese and crackers
Glass of red wine
Bacon & Cabbage

Dessert: Strawberries & cream with lime juice

02-May-2010

Amuse-bouches... or amuse yourself, anyhow!

Coffee
Parma ham
Brown bread toast with pâté
Edam cheese
Vino frizzante (bianco)
Cherry tomatoes deeped in sugar (thanks Karine! - pls, do try it!)
Crab sticks
...
heaven!

25-Apr-2010

Sirloin steak with herb potatoes & fennel + Fleurie (glass or two, optional)

It does what it says on the tin

18-Apr-2010

Smoked salmon pasta

As Blue Cheese Pasta, but swap the blue cheese for... you guessed!

11-Apr-2010

Blue cheese pasta

Tortellini
Onion
Mushrooms
Courgettes
Cream
Blue cheese
Parmesan cheese

10-Apr-2010

Green pasta

And no, it's not mixing green pesto with pasta, although you can also do that, of course.

They normally say a salad should have ingridients with 5 different colours. This recepy doesn't have them. Then again, it's not a salad either.

Ingredients:

• Pasta of your choice, in this instance: fusili
• Meet of your choice, in this instance: stir-fried beef
• Broccoli
• Green beens
• Avocado
• Cucumber

 

Then again, it has 4 different shades of green & all the ingredients have very different shapes and textures.
It tasted very nice indeed!