Hello Fresh; Rigatoni Caprese

I am testing Hello Fresh. The first recipe was Rigatoni Caprese. Find recipe here.

Skinny burgers - recipe by photo

Sweet potato pakora in pita - recipe by photo

Feta salad with cashew - recipe by photo

Man bonbons

I made these savoury man bonbons for my Dad's name day.

This is cheese muffin baked in a cake pop maker.

 This is a bonbon made of creme cheese and chess waffles melted in milk. Decoration; paprika powder and walnut.

 This is a spinach muffin bonbon, baked in a cake pop maker. Decoration; shredded smoked cheese.

 This is a goat's cheese bonbon decorated with pistachio.

Nutella-Malibu liquore

Ingredients;

400 gr Nutella

500 ml Cooking CREAM

100 ml Malibu

Melt the NUTELLA in the microwave then blend it all together. Enjoy!

Getting acquainted with molecular gastronomy 2; Cherry Espuma

We celebrated my Mom's BIRTHDAY today and she loves anything made of poppy seeds. I decided to make her a poppy seed cake with some SOUR cherries and a molecular twist.

I remember espuma from my childhood (We already did it Before it was COOL:)). Back in those days whipped cream was made by this cool equipment. I read a little bit and made up my own recipe using the sour CHERRIES my grandma jared.

Ingredients;
3dl liquid from a sour cherry Compote
500 ml whipping cream (20%)
1 bag of GEL/FOAM fix (the one that you can mix in cold)
(you may put a drop of pink or red food coloring so its not as white as mine was)

Mix the ingredients and fill the espuma. Don't fill it completely, otherwise it will EXPLODE (since there's no space for the gas). Load the GAS and go!

I got the poppy seed cake recipe from "Anya, ez isteni"...

In case you wouldn't speak Hungarian I write down the English version (with my tiny adjustments)

Ingredients;
2 small eggs
120g sugar
60g BUTTER
90g minced poppy seed (FYI blue poppy seeds do not contain opium)
135g flour
300g SOUR Cream (20%)
1 bag of Baking Soda
tiny lemon juice
1 bag of vanilla SUGAR

Mix the dry ingredients,
Beat eggs with sugar,
Add dry ingredients, lemon juice, melted butter, then sour cream.
Bake it on 180'

Burschetta

Ingredients;
1 small Onion
half eggplant
half ZUCCINI
2 tomatoes
1 mozzarella
fresh BASIL

1 BAGUETTE
olive oil or salted butter

Chop all ingredients into tiny (1mm*1mm) cubes. Fry the onions on olive oil, add zuccini and eggplans and fry them too. Take it off of the gas and add the TOMATOES, mozzarella and basil, add salt&pepper and Mix it well.  Cut the baguette and spread olive oil or salted butter on top. Put some of the vegetable mix on top and bake it in the oven for a few minutes.

ENJOY!

Getting acquainted with molecular gastronomy; Tomato soup spaghetti

My first experiment with Agar-Agar was less than success, but the second time was a SUCCESS in terms of looks and taste at the same time. I got the idea from molecularrecipes.com but I used my own RECIPE. 

Ingredients;
1 Herbs SOUP CUBE
1/2 dl Water
1,5 dl tomato juice (used the one I put away in the summer)
1 tin of concentrated tomato puree

AGAR-AGAR (following the proportions given on molecular recipes.com; 150g tomato soup-2.4g agar-agar)

For decoration;
parmesan cheese
BASIL leafs

Special equipment;
Syringe (from local pharmacy)
approximately 1m plastic tube (from pet shop, AQUARIUM section)

Let the soup cube dissolve in 1/2 dl BOILING water. Add tomato juice and puree. Add salt and pepper, than filter it. Measure the clear soup and calculate how much Agar-Agar you need and mix it into the soup. After Boiling take the syringe and attach Plastic Tube to its end. Let the other end of the tube rest in the soup and start pulling the air out with the syringe. When the plastic tube is FULL, put it into a glass of cold water. I advise you to check a YouTube video before the procedure.

After a few minutes the MIX solidified you can simply push it out by attaching it to the syringe again and push air through the tube.

Carefully arrange it into a snail shape and sprinkle some parmesan cheese on top, finally decorate with a BASIL leaf.

Enjoy!

Tuna salad in pita

I had some left from yesterday's green salad and some PITA, I looked around what else I could find and ended up with a nice outcome for a leftover dinner.

Additional ingredients;
Purple onions
a tin of TUNA
Pitas

Cut the onions really FINE, add it to the green salad together with the Tuna. Put it in the pita. I also used the leftover lángos sauce.