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  • Asparagus Pasta

    Ingredients:

    • 100g pasta (I used faralle)
    • 8 spears asparagus stalks
    • Mintin-fused extra virgin olive oil
    • Olive oil
    • Salt
    • Black pepper
    • Parmigiano reggiano

    Procedure

    1. Trim woody ends from asparagus stalks and toss in olive oil, salt and black pepper.
    2. Heat griddle pan until hot and cook asparagus on it until seared and cooked through.
    3. In a separate pan, heat some water until boiling. Add some salt and cook pasta according to instructions until al dente. Drain and rinse under running water.
    4. Cut heads off asparagus and slice the remaining into thin rounds. Toss asparagus and pasta together with a good drizzle of mint oil, salt and pepper. Top with shavings of parmesan cheese.
  • Almost Spring Salad with roasted garlic lemonette

    Ingredients

    For roasting
    • 1 beet washed and wrapped in foil
    • 1 head garlic, tops chopped off, drizzled with EVOO and wrapped in foil
    For salad
    • 1/2 apple peeled, cored and mandolined into slices (leave them stuck together to keep them from turning brown)
    • 2 C baby greens (I used mizuna, field cress and miner lettuce)
    • bleu goat cheese
    • candied walnuts
    • fresh ground black pepper
    For dressing
    • 1 clove roast garlic mashed
    • 1 Tbs lemon juice
    • 1 Tbs EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
    • 1/4 tsp honey
    • 1/4 tsp kosher salt (add a little more if you feel it needs it)
    • fresh ground black pepper

    Procedure

    Put the foil wrapped beet(s) and garlic on a baking sheet in a 375 degree oven. The garlic will be done in about 35 minutes, but the beets will need at least an hour (or until you can stick a knife all the way through).

    Whisk all the dressing ingredients together. Peel the beet and slice into 1/8" thick slices. Dress the beets with enough dressing to coat.

    To assemble the salad, just put down 3 pieces of beet on a plate, put 1 or 2 slices of apple on top. Lightly dress the greens with some of the dressing (you won't need it all), and place a handful of greens on top of the beets and apple. Top with some crumbled bleu goat cheese, candied walnuts and some fresh ground pepper.

  • Vegetarian Breakfast Quesidilla

    Ingredients:

    • Medium or large sized tortillas- flour, wheat, spinach whatever kind you like
    • 1/2 C soysage (soy chorizo is perfect for this)
    • 1 half yellow onion, diced
    • 1 half red bell pepper, diced
    • 2 scrambled eggs
    • 1/2 cup shredded monterrey jack cheese
    • Sprinkle of red pepper flakes
    • Salt n pepper to taste

    Sour cream, guacamole, salsa for dipping

    Procedure

    1. In the same pan you plan to finish making your quesadilla, scramble your eggs as desired. Set aside.
    2. In another pan saute onions, peppers, and soysage until the veggies are tender.
    3. Stir in eggs and get egg pan ready for the tortilla
    4. Place tortilla in pan and add cheese. Now add in the egg mixture and fold over the tortilla.
    5. Slightly brown tortilla on both sides, flipping carefully.
    6. Serve with your choice of condiments if you like.
  • Asian Summer Rolls

    Ingredients:

    • 6 pcs shrimp (shelled, cut in half and boiled)
    • small pack of vermicelli rice noodles
    • 1 pc cucumber (peal and cut like matches)
    • lettuce (cut like matches)
    • carrot (cut like matches)
    • for the sauce: 3 tbsp peanut butter
    • 1tbsp sugar
    • 1/2 tbsp rice vinegar

    Procedure

    Soak rice paper into hot water so the rice paper will be soft. Place the rice paper on cutting board, put rice noodles, lettuce, carrot, and cucumber. Roll it half, add 3 shrimp and roll to the end. For the sauce: mix peanut butter with sugar and vinegar, add water and cook it a while till simmer, set aside. PS: 6 shrimp can make 2 rolls.

    When mixing peanut butter sauce, continue to add water if the sauce is too thick.

  • Pasta with Broccoli Sauce

    Ingredients:

    • 400g penne (or any pasta of choice)
    • 250g broccoli, peeled
    • 1 large lemon
    • 1/2 tsp dried chilli flakes
    • 3 tbsp pine nuts
    • 5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
    • 3 tbsp Parmesan

    Procedure

    Tip the pasta into a large pan of boiling salted water and cook according to pack instructions. Meanwhile, bring a smaller pan of salted water to the boil, add the broccoli and boil for 4 minutes.

    Drain the broccoli and return it to the pan. Lightly mash the broccoli with a potato masher or fork. Finely grate the garlic and zest the lemon, then mix into the broccoli with the chile flakes and pine nuts. Cut the lemon in half and keep for later.

    Drain the pasta and return it to the pan. Stir in the broccoli pesto and squeeze over the juice of 1/2 lemon. Pour in the olive oil and generously season with salt and pepper. Spoon in the grated Parmesan, toss the pasta well and serve.

  • Creamy Cucumber Salad

    Ingredients:

    • Salad cucumber/s
    • Sour cream or Creme fraiche
    • Fresh dill (okay, you can also take dried dill)
    • Salt
    • Olive oil

    Procedure

    1. Peel and slice the cucumber/s with a mandolin or any other vegetable
    2. Slicer and put into a bowl
    3. Finely chop the dill and add to the cucumber
    4. Add a generous serving of sour cream
    5. Mix well and season with salt
    6. Splash some olive oil on top
  • Beaf, beans'n'beats

    Ingredients:

    • 400g beef loin (or other boneless part good for roasting)
    • 1 can baked beans
    • baked beet roots
    • 1 onion
    • 1 carrot
    • red wine
    • parsley leaves

    Procedure

    Cut beef loin into finger-thick strips and set aside. Chop onion and cut carrot into sticks. in a large skillet, heat some EVOO and cook carrots and onions until caramelized, adding wine and more oil if necessary. It makes great sauce as sugar from onions compliments wine's acidity. Just before they start to caramelize, begin cooking beef in separate frying pan. No restraints here. I personally found that really well done suits kinda best.

    Add baked beans into the carrot-onion skillet along with liquid from the can. Season with ground pepper and salt (watch out as the beans come already salted).

    Meanwhile, peel beet roots and slice 5 mm thick. Roughly chop parsley leaves. Serve by almost covering the plate with hot beans and sauce, then lie down the meat and top with beet slices and sprinkle parsley. Enjoy!

  • Banana Chocolate Swirl Cake

    Ingredients:

    • 315g flour
    • 225g sugar
    • 1 teaspoon natron
    • 60g butter, smooth
    • 120g sour cream
    • 375 ml smashed banana
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
    • 1 egg, little bit swirled
    • 120g melted dark chocolate frosting
    • 340g melted dark chocolate
    • 400g sour cream, room temperature

    Procedure

    1. Preheat your oven to 180∞C. Butter and flour two roundly spring forms (diameter 24cm).
    2. Mix the ingredients A and cut the smooth butter into. Incorporate the butter with your finger tips till the crumbs look like little peas.
    3. Mix the good mixed ingredients B with the ingredients A softly.
    4. Add the melted chocolate with one move into the banana dough. Don't stir it much!!! We want to keep the color contrast between the banana dough and the chocolate.
    5. Dispere the dough to the 2 spring forms and bake it for 34 min. Cool it for 10min before you take the cakes out of the forms. The cake should be cool if you want to dish up the frosting! So... you can dish up the frosting on the first cake and put the other cake to this. Dish up the frosting to this one! You've got one big delicious cake! :-)

    Sour Cream Ganache Frosting

    1. Give the melted chocolate to a bowl. Fold the sour cream with a wooden spoon in. That's it! Dish immediately up with a palette-knife.
  • Banana Bread

    Ingredients:

    • 2 cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 cup butter
    • 3/4 cup brown sugar
    • 2 eggs, beaten
    • 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

    Procedure

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

  • Bacon & Squash Penne

    Ingredients:

    • 1 1/2 cup penne or your choice of pasta
    • 1/4 of a medium-sized sweet squashor any dense-fleshed squash
    • 4 rashers of unsmoked bacon
    • 2 shallots
    • 2 cloves of garlic
    • 1 tbsp creme fraiche
    • 1 tsp wholegrain mustard
    • salt & pepper to taste

    Procedure

    Chop squash into 1.5 cm cubes. Bring a saucepan of water to a boil, add a pinch of salt and cook pasta according to instructions on the package. In the last five minutes of cooking, add squash. While pasta is cooking, prepare the other ingredients. Separate the bacon into fat and lean and chop both separately into small pieces. Mince shallot and garlic finely. In a dry pan over low heat, add bacon fat and fry until crisp. Remove crackling and leave liquid fat in the pan. Add shallot, garlic and lean bacon and cook over a low heat until shallot is soft. When the pasta and squash are ready, remove from heat and drain well. Add pasta and squash to the pan with the shallot, garlic and bacon. Add creme fraiche and mustard, stir and season with salt to taste. Remove from heat after creme fraiche has been heated through gently. Sprinkle with ground black pepper, grated parmesan and crackling.

  • Ingredients

    • 8 Onions
    • 4 Kg. meat
    • 3 Tomatoes
    • Salt
    • Peper

    Procedure

    How to make Basic Steak Seriously, it's not that hard. It's a very basic dish, dressed up to look good. As for what wine would go with it, dry, red wine. Not a wine buff I did not pick the wine to go with this.

    1. Finely chop garlic, slice mushrooms into desired thickness, cut up tomatoes and brocollini.
    2. Boil potatoes until you can spear it with a fork.
    3. Pre-heat oven to 100 degrees celcius and wrap the potatoes up in aluminium foil and leave them for 10 minutes.
    4. Put to boil about a cup of beef stock, 1/4 cup red cooking wine and mushrooms, salt and pepper to taste.
    5. Boil it until the sauce thicken which may take 10 minutes or so, if it doesn't, feel free to add cornflour.
    6. Tenderise beef and heat up grill.
    7. Little bit of cooking oil and when your grill is hot enough, put the meat in. ( 1 minute on each side then 30 seconds on each side again for medium-rare, 1 minute on each side and 1 minute again on each side for more well done - don't recommend it though)
    8. When the steak it done, put it on a plate then grill brocollini and tomatoes.
    9. Take potato out and make a cross cut on the top and put a blob of sour cream on it.
    10. Arrange all nicely on a plate :)