Month: February 2021

Homemade Tarte Flambée with Apples and Cinnamon !

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame
Tarte Flambée with apples

Dough ingredients:
– 220g wheat flour
– 1 egg yolk
– 2 tablespoons olive oil
– 100ml warm water
– 1 pinch salt

Filling ingredients:
– 200ml 10% sour cream
– 2 apples
– 1 tbsp cane sugar
– 3/4 tsp cinnamon

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 220C
2 Mix dough ingredients and knead the dough for 5 minutes
3 Roll out the dough into a 3mm height oval
4 Put the dough on the baking paper: bake at 220C for 5-8 minutes without filling
5 Meanwhile wash and finely slice the apples
6 Remove the baking tray from the oven, spread the sour cream over the baked dough and put apples slices over sour cream
7 Mix sugar with cinnamon and sprinkle over apples
8 Bake Tarte Flambée for another 5-8 minutes at 220C
9 Serve and have a nice weekend !

Creamy Salmon and Rice: quick and delicious lunch !

No one’s serious at seventeen,
When lindens line the promenades

A. Rimbaud
Creamy Salmon and Rice

Ingredients (for 2 servings):
– 180g salmon
– 100ml 33% cream
– 180g Basmati rice
– salt for boiling rice
– 1/2 tbsp olive oil for frying

Serving ingredients:
– 60g Parmesan
– 2-3 scallion sprigs
– 1/2 tsp black pepper

Method:
1 Grate Parmesan into a bowl and put in the fridge
2 Wash and cut scallion into thin rings, put in a separate bowl
3 Boil rice in salted water until ready and keep it warm while cooking salmon
4 Wash salmon and cut into 1-1.5cm cubes
5 Fry salmon for 5 min in olive oil at middle heat, add 33% cream and stew for another 5 min
6 Transfer the rice into the serving bowls and put the salmon over the rice
7 Sprinkle the dish with grated Parmesan, chopped scallion and black pepper
8 Serve !

Very Quick Homemade Pizza with Buffalo Mozzarella and Tomatoes !

“And what if the abbot finds us?”
“We will pretend to be a pair of ghosts”

Umberto Eco
Pizza with Mozzarella and Tomatoes

Dough ingredients:
– 1 and 1/2 cup (1 cup=250ml) wheat flour
– 1/2 cup water
– 1 tbsp olive oil
– 1/2 tsp salt

Sauce ingredients:
– 300ml mashed tomatoes
– 1 tsp olive oil
– salt and pepper

Filling ingredients:
– 200g buffalo mozzarella (it’s very tasty!)
– 50g Grana Padano

Serving ingredients:
– 1/2 bunch of scallion for serving

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 220C
2 Combine dough ingredients and knead the dough
3 Roll out the dough to the 3-5mm width round
4 Put the dough round on the baking paper and bake for 8 minutes at 220C (no filling yet)
5 Sauce: mix mashed tomatoes, 1 tsp olive oil, salt and pepper
6 Distribute the sauce evenly over the baked dough round
7 Add mozzarella slices and sprinkle with grated Grana Padano
8 Bake the pizza for 10-15 minutes
9 Sprinkle with scallion and and enjoy !

Notes: I tried this recipe today and loved it – the dough is really easy to make, overall cooking time is less than 30 minutes but the result is delicious 🙂

Shrimps Toasts !

“An diesem Ort, in Travemünde, dem Ferienparadies, wo ich die unzweifelhaft glücklichsten Tage meines Lebens verbracht habe, Tage und Wochen, deren tiefe Befriedigung und Wunschlosigkeit durch nichts in meinem Leben … zu übertreffen und in Vergessenheit zu bringen war, an diesem Ort gingen das Meer und die Musik in meinem Herzen eine ideelle, eine Gefühlsverbindung für immer ein…”

Thomas Mann


Ingredients (for 12 small toasts):
– 160g small shrimps
– 12 Ciabatta slices
– 12 cabbage slices
– 1/3 lemon
– 2-3 tbsp mayonnaise
– 1/2 tbsp olive oil for cooking shrimps

Method:
1 Slice 12 ciabatta pieces
2 Butter every ciabatta piece with mayonnaise
3 Put a cabbage leave over each piece
4 Fry shrimps until golden and put warm over the cabbage leaves
5 Finely slice a lemon and put the slices over the shrimps
6 Enjoy the toasts with your best friend and a cup of coffee 😉

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