026 Brownies

Ingredients:

• 225 g dark chocolate
• 225 g butter
• 30 g vanilla sugar
• 180 g sugar
• 3 beaten eggs
• 150 g almonds, chopped
• 100 g walnuts, chopped

Heat the oven to 170 °C. Melt the butter and chocolate in a pot on low heat.

Take the pot of the stove, add vanilla and normal sugar and let it cool down a bit.

Then add eggs, almonds and walnuts and put the paste in square baking form (24 cm x 24 cm) and let it bake 25-30 min until the surface is firm, but inside still humid. Let it cool down, then cut it into 16 pieces.

Serve with ice cream and/ or chocolate sauce.

025 Steak stripes with lemon and thyme

Ingredients (3 ppl):

• 1 rumpsteak (500 g, 2,5 cm thick)
• 1 tablespoon thyme
• 2 garlic gloves, pressed
• 80 ml olive oil, extra vergine
• peel and juice of half an untreated lemon
• pinch of salt
• freshly ground pepper

Heat a frying pan. Cut off the fat from the steak. Smear the steak with oil, then fry it from both sides for 3 min. Now the steak is still bloody inside, in the marinade it will cook a little bit more.

While the steak is frying, prepare the marinade in a flat casserole - mix oil, lemon peel and juice, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper.

Let the steak marinate from both sides 4 minutes. Then cut it in stripes and put some marinade over it. Serve with rosemary potatoes, green beans and sour cream.

024 Rosemary potatoes

Ingredients:

• potatoes
• rosemary
• olive oil

Peel and cut the potatoes. Put them in a casserole, add olive oil and rosemary.

Put in the oven at 200 °C for 30 minutes.

023 Clafoutis of berries

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• pinch of salt
• 50 g sugar
• 100 g marzipan
• 150 ml milk
• 25 g flour
• 25 g cornstarch
• 150 g berries (frozen or fresh)
• powdered sugar

Separate the eggs. Mix the egg whites with a pinch of salt and 20 g sugar and beat it to stiff snow. Beat egg yolks and the remaining sugar creamy. Puree the marzipan and milk in a high vessel.

Put the flour and cornstarch through a sieve on top of the egg yolk paste and stir it, then add the marzipan milk. Fold in the egg snow.

Put the paste in several small or big casseroles and add berries. Then bake it 15 - 20 min at 170 °C. Before serving sprinkle powdered sugar over it.

022 Swedish salmon

Ingredients:

• 3 salmon pieces
• dill, salt, sugar, pepper
• 3 spring onions
• 2 teaspoons mustard
• 2 tablespoons vinegar
• 200 ml sour cream
• watercress
• potatoes

Peel the potatoes and boil them in salt water until they are soft.

Put the salmon in a pan together with dill, chopped spring onions, salt, sugar, pepper and as much cold water to cover the fish. Let the water boil, cover the pan and let it cook on small heat for ten minutes.

Now prepare the sauce: stir 2 tablespoons of mustard and sugar with a whisk. Embezzle sour cream and vinegar and season it with dill and salt.

Serve the salmon with potatoes on watercress and top it with the white sauce.

021 Croissants

Ingredients:

• puff pastry
• beaten egg
• different stuff for the filling: Kinder chocolate bars, dark chocolate, ham, cheese

Heat the oven to 200 °C. Roll the dough and cut it into triangles. Lay it with the longest side to you, and put the filling about 2 cm from the edge and roll it to the top. Close the edges with your fingers and form a croissant.

Put them on a baking tray laid out with paper and spread the beaten egg on them. Bake them for 15 min, then they should be golden.

020 Fussili with salmon and avocado

Ingredients (4 ppl):

• 4 salmon pieces
• 500 g fussili (pasta)
• a ripe avocado
• parsles
• 4 tomatoes
• olive oil
• salt, pepper, sugar
• 2 lemons

Fry the salmon in a hot pan from both sides. Season it with salt, pepper and the juice of half a lemon.

Boil water and put in the pasta and prepare as mentioned on the package.

Mix the pulp of the avocado with salt, pepper, sugar and lemon juice. Puree it until smooth.

Decorate the plates with pasta, salmon, lemon & tomato slices and put the a avocado creme on top.

019 Bruschetta Avocado

Ingredients:

• 1 ripe Avocado
• 2 teaspoons of lime juice
• salt, pepper
• 4 thick slices of sourdough bread, toasted
• 1 tablespoon of chopped parsley

Halve the avocado, mix the pulp with lime juice. Smash it with a fork and season it with salt and pepper. Put the mixture on the bread and decorate it with parsley.