Mother´s Day Pasta Salad

Nothing special about this pasta salad, other that I made it on Mother´s Day. 

- Pasta of your choice
- courgette thinly sliced and raw
- mackarel fillets
- boiled egg
- walnuts
- black sesame seeds
- grated parmesan cheese
- chili olive oil
- white pepper
- salt

Chop the large pieces of the ingridients and mixed all together, drizzle with oil, pepper and cheese. 


(Sorry no photo, I was too hungry and I gulfed it down before I even reached for the camera!)
;-)

Rice salad

Boiled rice
Boiled carrots, diced
Boiled egg, cut into pieces
Mackerel or tuna fillets
Mayonnaise
Herbs to decorate


Mixed all in a bowl & serve

It was so yummy & I was so hungry I forgot to take a picture!!!!
Sorry!
;-)

Cold tapas

A group photo - compliments of Pau

Avocado & Crab

Avocado, mashed

Garlic, crushed

Salt & Pepper

Served on toasted bread or crackers

A drizzle of chilli olive oil

Crab sticks, torn length-wise to decorate

Dates & Walnut

Cut length-wise to remove the stone

Fill in with cream cheese

Decorate with a quarter of a walnut

Shredded lettuce to decorate the plate

Cheese & Quince

Cheese

Quince jelly

Served on toasted bread or crackers

Parsley to decorate

Salmon Eggs

Boiled eggs cut in half

Smoked salmon mixed with the egg yolks and mayonnaise

Grated carrot to decorate

Tuna & Red peppers

Tuna mixed with soft cheese

Cooked or tinned red peppers cut in slices to decorate

Served on toasted bread or crackers

Enjoy!

Courgette muffins

When I read the title of the recipe I had the same reaction than when I first heard of carrot cake. I thought: "really?"

But since I have learn that I should give new flavours a go. So I did. 

I used as base recipe my friend's Zuri from AZ Atelier's. But I didn't have nutmeg and I skipped the sugar. Zuri's muffins are a sweet version. Mine are savoury. With a twist. 

Thanks for the inspiration, Zuri!

Ingredients:

2 cups of self-raising flour

1 courgette roughly chopped

2 teaspoons of grated lemon zest

3/4 of a cup of milk

1 egg

a chili, chopped

a pinch of salt

Instructions:

Mix all the ingredients, pour into the muffin molds and bake on a pre-heated oven... you know the drill. 

You can eat them on their own, or with a bit of butter, or with ham and cheese... the possibilities are unlimited! Yum!

What will your twist on the courgette muffins be? Share it, please!

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.

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

Egg, crab & mais salad

Boild egg, chopped
Crab sticks, chooped
Mais
Mayonnaise
Pepper