Stripe Goat cheese salad

I came up with a salad again. I found the taste very eXciting as well as the Presentation. Lining up your ingredients will be a definite success whatever they'll be.

My ingredients:
Iceberg lettuce
Olives
CUCUMBER
Thousand island sauce
Fresh goat Cheese
Corn
Sun-dried ToMatoes
Fried onions spiced with Chicken spice

Daring cooks challenge: Salmon-goat cheese SALAD with grilled vegetables and Coffee dressing

Our April 2012 Daring Cooks hosts were David & Karen from Twenty-Fingered Cooking. They presented us with a very daring and unique challenge of forming our own recipes by using a set list of ingredients!
List 1: Parsnips, Eggplant (aubergine), Cauliflower (vegetables)
List 2: Balsamic Vinegar, Goat Cheese, Chipotle peppers (strong taste)
List 3: Maple Syrup, Instant Coffee, Bananas (weird)

When I saw the April challenge I knew right away that I will choose eggplant and goat cheese from the first two lists, but I was really hesitant with the third one. I ended up with instant COFFEE. So here you are, the recipe;

Ingredients:
1 EGGplant
1 Courgette
100 gr smoked SALMON
1 roll of mature GOAT cheese
1 middle sized purple Onion
1 red California PEPPER
Bird salad

2 spoons of instant coffee
2 spoons of BRANDY

Cut the AUBERGINE into long slices and grill it with OLIVE oil in a pan. Cut the rest of the plant into small CUBES, as well as the courgette and grill it over high heat. Do the same with the pepper and Onion in another PAN. Don't keep them too long over the heat so they stay CRISPY. Cut the Salmon and the goat cheese, take the bird salad and mix it ALL Together.
Put the brandy over a little heat and then mix the instant coffee in. Put a little bit of water in the mixture.

Roll up the Aubergines (one roll is 3 slices) and stick toothpicks in it to hold the SHAPE. Fill the roll up with the salad and remove the toothpicks.
Disperse some of the COFFEE Dressing around.

I hope you'll like it!

fIG and gOAT cheese

This CHRISTMAS I made a 13 dish Dinner for my fAMIly. Actually I didn't make it, I was the CHEF. My Mom, my Grandma and my Grandpa made it :)

The WARM entrée was goat cheese with figue. The INSPIRATION is from here: http://www.nosalty.hu/recept/keksajttal-toltott-fuge but my ONE is completely Different.

This recipe is for approximately 10 person.

The ingredients:
1 roll of mature GOAT Cheese
1,5 bag of dried Fig (In FIG season you can use fresh ones)
a bag of pine seeds
A SWEET sauce - You can use anything, the more interesting taste it has the better. here are some tips

• mix a little truffle tapenade (you can buy it in ITALIAN food stores) in honey [That's what I wanted to do but I didn't know yet where can I buy TRUFFLE tapenade...]
• Balsamic Vinegar with CaCao - sounds weird heh? It is AWESOME! Disadvantage: I doubt that it is easy to find in an average grocery store... I bought it in a random store (Xenos), they sell all kinds of stuff really cheap. Anyways if you are determined to get it, here is the homepage:  http://www.sodastudio.it/ftp/carandiniweb/eng/index.php . 
• PAPRIKA syrup. Smash the paprika, filter it and cook it together with a lot of sugar.
• wINE SYRUP. Put 2-3 dl of wine in a pot with a lot of sugar, cook it until it gets DENSE.

First of ALL put the fig in hot water.When they get Big & SOFT chop them really small. Take a baking sheet and put baking paper on it. Take a STAR form and put the fig mass in it, SMOOTh its way with a small SPOON. Cut about 1 cm slices of the goat CHEESE and put them on the top of the stars.
This is how it is supposed to look like:

Just before serving, put them in the OVEN for 10 minutes. SPRINKLE some pine nut over it and decorate it with your EXCITING sauce.

Unfortunately you don't see much... again the helicopter-view... :) 

Ps.: Not recommended for retired with false teeth!