Quick dinner: Chicken with corn Risotto and grilled veGG

I think the best thing you could do with chicken is to cube it up and FRY it on some olive oil. I always use the chicken spice mix from ALDI. I just love it.

I made this with some rice, mixed with a can of corn, and a bag of frozen vegg from the SUPERmarket. It is delicious with home-made Saffron mayo (1 egg and some oil whisked).

Salmon Salad

It's been a while... I was busy with School, WORK and so on... You know how it goes... Anyways, back to Business, I have a few pictures in the line, waiting to be posted. I will start with this Salmon salad that I presented like it was CARPACCIO.

Ingredients:

Smoked Salmon

Iceberg lettuce

Olives

Advocado

Corn

Cashews (I used garlic-Rosemary cashews)

I guess I don't need to tell you how to do it :) Enjoy!

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

Quick pasta with Pesto

The best recipes born when you are really hungry. This is one of those. Pretty simple but delicious.

Ingredients:

Fusilli for Two

300 gr of GREEN Pesto

150 ml Creme Faiche

2 mozzarella balls

Parmaham

PARMEZAN cheese

Mix the pesto with the CREME Fraiche while the fusilli is cooking. When the pasta is ready, mix them together. Put the mozzarella cubes on top, decorate it with some ROLLED up ham and hint some parmesan over it. Good appetite!

My favorite TUNA salad

I invented this RECIPE after the gym in the sauna. I was SUper Hungry and was thinking what do I have at home? I ended up with this Tuna salad which I absolutely love.

Ingredients (serves 2):
two handfuls of iceberg lettuce
3 boiled EGGS
1 tin of Tuna in olive oil
a handful of Olives
300 gr FETA cheese
2 handful of salted Chashew nuts

Put the ingredients in the above mentioned sequence on a plate. I hope you will like it as well!

ARRIVAL Walnut salad by Tatus

This walnut salad is very SPECIAL for me. It has been created by my Granddad and I love it. He never managed to make a Portion that we did't finish in MINUTES.

Story behind:

At the place where my Granddad is from (Makó) they call grandpas; TATA but when I was small I named him TATUS. Since then, we call him that. He is a very social and Cheerful man. They have been married with my Grandma (MAMI) for more than 50 years now. They built a house up in the Mountains and spend most of the summer there.

I live in Holland for 4 years by now and they often pick me up at the AIRPORT. They always ask me what would I Like to eat when I ARRIVE, and the answer was always; Tatus's salad. By now it is kind of a TRADITION.

Ingredients:

6-8 dkg Walnut

2 apples

20 dkg GRAPES

1 big purple Onion

6-8 dkg ChEeSe

Dressing:

5 dkg Mayo

1 tbs Mustard

2,5-3 dl Sour Cream

2 tbs Sugar

a handful of Chives

Cut the Apples and cheese into small cubes and the Onion and chives FINE. Mix the ingredients of the dressing and add the other COMPONENTS. Add the least Fragile ones first.

With love from Tatus.

Daring bakers Challenge: Armenian Nazook

Blog-checking lines: The Daring Bakers’ April 2012 challenge, hosted by Jason at Daily Candor, were two Armenian standards: nazook and nutmeg cake. Nazook is a layered yeasted dough pastry with a sweet filling, and nutmeg cake is a fragrant, nutty coffee-style cake.

Finally I made my first Daring Bakers Challenge: Armenian Nazook. I used the recipe Jason provided with small adjustments.

Ingredients:
Pastry dough

• 420 gr Flour
• 1 pack  dry YEAST
• 225 gr Sour Cream
• 225 gr softened BUTTER (room temperature)

Filling

• 210 gr flour
• 340  SUGAR
• 120 gr Softened butter (room temperature)
• 15 ml VANILIA extract
• 25 gr Sour cream
• 3 tbs grasped COCOnut

2 eggyolks

Preparation:

Pastry dough

Mix the ingredients until its not sticking to the BOWL. Put it in the Freezer for 3-5 Hours.

Filling:

Mix the ingredients.

After freezing cut the dough into four Parts. Knead the dough and ROLL it into an oval with a little flour. Put the FILLING in the dough and roll it up.

Cut the roll into small diamond shapes and put eggyolk on top and bake it on 180 degrees.

Enjoy!

Milka cream with CHERRIES

I liked the MASCARPONE-White chocolate cream so much that I decided to make a Milk chocolate version. This one is just as SImPle as the other one.

Ingredients:
200 gr Milka
200 gr Mascarpone
a handful of Cherries

Melt the Chocolate and mix it together with the Mascarpone. Mix some cherries in. READY!

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!

Delicious WHITE chocolate-mascarpone CREAM with fruits

I was thinking about mixing MASCARPONE with white Chocolate for a while. I KNEW it is going to be incredibly DElicious, and I was RIGHT.

Here is the super-simple recipe:

Ingredients:

200 gr WHITe Chocolate

200 gr Mascarpone

Fruits to your liking

Melt the cHOcolate over boiling water. Mix the MAScarpone in the melt CHoCO until it turns to be smooth. Serve it with fruits.

Enjoy!