Plum Bresaola Salad

A Salad...

...the first of the season. Well, actually the season for all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits, otherwise known as spring, doesn’t really want to start here. We are having below zero temperatures and the sun seems to have got forgotten how to rise... Okay, I’m being overly dramatic but the essential picture is true: It’s cold, windy and there was some snow.

All that bad weather couldn’t keep me from making a nice salad for dinner.  I’m usually not known for eating ‘just’ a salad for dinner but this one did the trick. I didn’t even touch the bread with herb butter I served.

 You’ll need:

(serves 2)

• 2 ripe plums (this also works really great with peaches, oranges and even pears)
• rosemary, preferably fresh and finely chopped, but dried works fine
• Bresaola or Parma ham, 3 -4 slices per person
• salad, a mix with some rocket (or just rocket)
• olive oil
• sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
• 1 tsp natural yoghurt
• some goat’s cheese, crumbled

Roasted Red Pepper-Tomato Soup

Sometime last week (or maybe the week before) I read this mouth-watering recipe over on Tea&Cookies...  And it inspired me. It sounded amazing and I wanted to do something similar. I guess this happens a lot when you read so many food-related blogs.

So I made a soup like that one when I had a group of girls coming over to watch some silly tv.

I just added a few ingredients here and there.

You’ll need:

• 2 red peppers
• 2 onions
• some celery
• 4 small potatoes
• 500g diced tomatoes (canned)
• some garlic
• rosemary, thyme
• olive oil
• vegetable broth, if needed
• crème fraîche, 1bsp
• salt, pepper

The lazy Dinner...

... really very lazy...

Chicken Pita

One dinner planned in the meal-planning-euphoria I was going through was chicken pita.

I’m pretty sure that serving pita doesn’t qualify as cooking at all, because you simply prepare the chicken, toast the pita bread and cut up some vegetables... As I said no ‘real’ cooking involved.

I made a guacamole to spread inside the pita bread, but again there is no cooking involved in that.

You’ll need:

• chicken
• pita bread
• some dips, or sauces (mayonnaise, guacamole, ketchup)
• salads
• vegetables
• some feta cheese

For the guacamole:

• one avocado
• one clove of garlic
• two – three ripe tomatoes
• two tbsp of crème fraîche

We ate fries as side dish... (Again no real cooking involved)

Bloglovin'

I've been reading a lot about Bloglovin' on the blogs I follow because come June 1st Google will take down their reader.
I like the Google reader -  I love its simplicity.
I don't really understand why they are taking it down, might have something to do with Google+... but they are doing it, so I had to look for a new way to keep up with the blogs I love to read.

Enter Bloglovin'.

Everyone kept mentioning it, so I decided to give it a try.

I signed up - they actually help with the transition from Google reader - and a few seconds later I was ready  to go read.

So if you haven't found a  platform yet, I suggest you take a look :)

.. and maybe follow my Blog with Bloglovin'

Onion-Quiche

Well, it is a widely known fact that I love French cuisine... and pastries. Hand me a great Croissant and a coffee and my day will be perfect.

Any kind of Quiche is pretty high on my favourites-list. 

(And on top of that list is the Quiche my boyfriend makes – yes, my boyfriend cooks... and yes, it is always really good!)

But for now you’ll have to do with one of my recipes.

This Onion-Quiche is pretty basic but doesn't dissapoint at all. Just try it... 

You'll need:

• five onions
• one clove of garlic
• bacon, 200g, diced
• puff paste
• one egg
• crème fraîche
• milk
• cheese (this time I used Gouda)
• butter
• olive oil
• salt, pepper (freshly ground if you have it)...
•  a glass of vegetable broth