Ranja's Foodie Tales

Oregano Beetroot Meatballs

2010-09-08T10:49:00.000-07:00

Step for step:

400 g beef mince
2 beetroots, grated
50 ml semolina
1 tsp fresh oregano
2 garlic cloves, crushed

2tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp olive oil

1 onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp olive oil

300 ml stock

salt, pepper

Put the beef mince, grated beets, semoline, oregano and crushed garlic in a bown.
Season and mix welll with your hands.
Form into walnut-sized balls.
Put the flour on a plate and roll the meatballs in the flour.

Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a skillet and blown the meatballs.
Move the meatballs to a plate.

Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in the skillet and the onion.
Cook for 5 min and add the stock.
Get to boil, lower the fire, add the meatballs and put the lid on.
Simmer for 1 hour.

Serve with rice and bread.

Broccoli Red Pepper Chicken Meatloaf

2010-08-13T02:45:00.000-07:00

Do you have these ingridients?

2 red peppers
1 head broccoli
2 garlic cloves

1,2 kg chicken mince
70 ml semolina
1 egg
1 tb sp mustard

Salt, pepper

Step for Step

Heat over to 220 C and roast the peppers for 30 min.
Cool and peel the roasted peppers.
Drain and chop the peeled peppers.
Cut the broccoli head into florets.
Peel the garlic cloves and chop roughly.

Put the chicken mince, semoline, egg and mustard into a large bowl.
Squezze the garlic cloves into the bowl and mix well.
Add the broccoli florets and roasted peppers, season and mix again.

Cover a tin by a parchment paper and spoon the meatloaf mix into the tin.
Flip the overhanging parchment paper over the top.
Heat the oven to 175 C and bake the meatloaf for 1 hour.
Cool in the tin for 10 min, then drain off any excess liquid and turn out onto a board.
Cut into thick slices and serve warm or cold.

Spring Cabbage with Prawns

2010-07-14T09:53:00.000-07:00

We call it summer cabbage, it comes to Oslo in late June. It is green, soft and tender. You can saute it with a butter, fry in oil, just slice for a salad or saute in Asian way, like I did this evening.

Do you have these ingredients?

2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped.

2 tbsp grated ginger

3-4 tbsp vegetable oil

400 g spring cabbage, shredded

1 1/2 cups already cooked prawns, defrozed and peeled

1 tbsp soy sauce

salt and pepper

Step for step

Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet.

Add ginger and garlic, stir well for 1 min.

Add the cabbage, mix well and stir for 5 mins.

Add the prawns, mix well and stir for 1 min.

Add the soy sauce, season, mix and stir for 1 min more.

Roasted Bell Peppers Rolls

2010-07-06T11:02:00.001-07:00

This is a real celebration of summer colours. Red and yellow bell peppers, green spinach and white garlic! Try this easy made Roasted Bell Peppers Rolls as appetizer.

Do you have these ingredients?

7 red or yellow bell peppers

100 g spinach
1-2 tbsp olive oil

185 g can tuna in oil
1 tbsp capers
7-8 Basil leaves
1-2 garlic cloves

1 garlic clove
1 tbsp olive oil

salt, pepper

Step for step

Heat oven to 210C.
Put the peppers into large baking dish and roast for 30 mins.
Peel the peppers and divide into 3 parts each.

Heat olive oil in a pan.
Wash the spinach and add to the pan.
Leave the spinach to wilt for 1 min, stirring once or twice.
Peel and slice 2 garlic cloves.
Put the tuna, capers, spinach, garlic and Basil leaves into the blender.
Puree.

Lay the peppers pieces on a work surface and put a teaspoon of the spinach-tuna mix over.
Roll up the pepper pieces put on a plate.

Peel and slice the garlic clove.
Mix the garlic with the olive oil.
Sprinkle the garlic olive oil over the pepper rolls.

Amond Salmon with Asparugus

2010-07-04T05:16:00.000-07:00

Finally summer arrived in Oslo. We had guests for dinner the last Tues. Easy made quickly prepared Almond Salmon was served.

Do you have these ingredients?

250 g asparugus, trimmed and halved

4 salmon fillets, about 200 g each

2 handfuls of flakes almonds

olive oil

salt, pepper

Step for step

Heat oven to 210C.

Tip the asparugus and the olive oil into the overnproof dish.

Season the salmon and put the salmon in with the asparugus.

Scatter the almond flakes over the salmon.

Roast for 15-20 mins.

Warming Winter Punch

2010-01-18T09:51:00.001-08:00

It was minus 18 C in Oslo 1 week ago. Can you imagine? I was wearing wool sweater, wool jacket, a long wool scarf and a long warm mink coat. And it is noway we could survive without this warming winter punch. The recipe is from nice sales assistant working in Vinmonopol.

Do you have these ingredients?

500 ml red wine
70 g sucker
3 1/3 cup strong tee
100 ml vodka
1 lemon – zest

Step for step

Grate the lemon zest.
Pour the wine and sucker into the skillet.
Warm up but not boil!
Add the tee, vodka and lemon zest.
Warm up.

Lovely.

Pear Oat Pancakes

2009-12-27T08:07:00.000-08:00

Christmas holiday means lazy mornings and long family breakfasts. For today's breakfast I cooked these easy made pancakes. Really food for holiday breakfast.

Do you have these ingredients?

200 ml kefir
100 ml porridge oats
1 pear
100 ml flour
1 tsp bake powder
2 tbsp sucker
pinch of salt
2 eggs

butter for frying

Step for step

Mix the kefir and oats and set aside for 10-15 mins.
Peel and grate the pear.
Stir in the grated pear.
Add all the other ingredients and mix well.

Heat the butter in the frying pan and add the batter in tablespoonfuls.
Cook all the pancakes and serve with jam poured over.

Enjoy!

Fried Bacon Rocket Salad

2009-12-20T01:57:00.001-08:00

Yesterday was Christmas presents shopping day. I know it was too late, but at least I started. Yesterday's dinner was quick and easy – after hours in crowded shops I didn't feel to spend hours in my kitchen. I quickly fried lovely pieces of fresh Norwegian cod and served them with the salad of rocket and fried bacon. You can of' course drop cod and take a slice of fresh bread accompanying this salad. This would make the salad as a main dish.

Do you have these ingredients?

250 g rocket
2 tbsp olive oil
¼ lemon
2 garlic cloves

300 g bacon

salt, pepper

Step for step

Wash and dry the rocket.
Pour the olive oil into a glass.
Squeeze the lemon juice into the olive oil.
Peel and squeeze the garlic into the oil mix.
Whisk together all the ingredients and add the dressing to the rocket.
Thoroughly mix through the rocket salad.

Chop the bacon and fry it.
Add the fried bacon to the salad and mix.
Season.

Enjoy!

White Fish under Beet-Achovy Sauce

2009-12-13T06:50:00.001-08:00

Of some reason Danish people always relate red beets to Russians. I am sure the Russian soup Bortsh is guilty, however when Danish name beets and anchovies sauce as Russian, I do not agree. But I really like this kind of sauce.

Do you have these ingredients?

1 beet
½ red onion
3 garlic cloves
6 anchovies
2 tbsp capers
3 tbsp olive oil

1,5-2 tbsp flour
600 g white fish file (I took cod)
половина красной луковицы

olive oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Divide/chop the beet in 4 pieces and cook it in a pot of boiling water.

Peel the onion and chop finely.
Peel the garlic and chop finely.
Chop the capers.
Chop the anchovies.

Peel the cooked beet and grate it.

Heat the oil in the skillet.
Add the onion and garlic. Cook for 3 mins.
Add the grated beet and cook for 2 mins.
Add the anchovies and capers. Cook for 1 min.
Set aside.

Slice the fish into portion pieces. Season.
Dredge the fish pieces in the flour.
Heat the oil in the skillet and fry the fish turning it once.
Transfer the fish to the plates and drizzle the sauce over it.

Enjoy!

Tomato-Anchovy Pasta with Zucchini

2009-12-10T11:25:00.000-08:00

While Oslo was hosting Obama and Norwegian celebrities were attending the banquet in honor for Obama, I prepared this easy pasta dish. For anchovy lovers.

Do you have these ingredients?

500 g penne
1 zucchini
1 red onion
3 garlic cloves
150 ml tomato sauce (homemade, with oregano)
¼ cup anchovies
¼ cup oil from the anchovy box
½ cup grated parmesan

Step for step

Slice the zucchini.
Peel and chop the onion.
Peel and chop the garlic.
Chop the anchovies.

Heat anchovy oil in the skillet.
Add the onion and garlic, stir for 5 mins.
Add the anchovies, stir for 2 mins.
Add the tomato sauce, stir for 5 mins.
Set aside.

Cook the penne in large pot of boiling water for 9 mins.
Add the zucchini and cook for 1-2 mins.
Reserve ¾ cup cooking liquid.

Add the cooking liquid to the tomato-anchovy sauce in the skillet and get to boil.
Stir for 1-2 mins.

Mix the pasta and zucchini with the tomato-anchovy sauce.
Season, sprinkle with the grated parmesan and server.

Enjoy!

Coriander Tomato Tiger Prawns

2009-12-05T08:27:00.001-08:00

I know the winter is rolling out. But still we can drink white wine...

Do you have these ingredients?

500 g tiger prawns

7 tomatoes
2 cups frozen peas

1 piece fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves
1 green chili

2 handfuls fresh coriander

salt, pepper

Step for step

Take the frozen peas from the freezer.

Slice the tomatoes crosswise and place into a bowl.
Pour the boiling water over and set aside.
Peel, seed and roughly chop the tomatoes.

Peel and chop the ginger.
Peel and chop the garlic.
Seed and chop the green chili.
Chop the coriander.

Place the chopped tomatoes, ginger, garlic, chilin and one handful coriander into the blender and process.
Pour the sauce into the skillet and bring to the boil.
Let simmer for 15 mins.

Meanwhile peel and prawns.

Add to the tomato sauce the peas, bring to the boil and let simmer 1-2 mins.
Add the prawns, mix and let simmer until the prawns get pink color.
Season and sprinkle with the remaining handful chopped coriander.

Enjoy!

Brown Lentils Soup with Coriander Salsa

2009-12-01T10:11:00.000-08:00

Congratulations with the first winter day! It is cold, it is dark, and this is a winter food.

Do you have these ingredients?

1 cup brown lentils
2 cups chicken stock
3 bay leaves
½ tsp coriander

2 tomatoes
1 red onion
handful of chopped coriander
½ tbsp crème fraiche

salt, pepper

Step for step

Add lentils and the spices to the skillet.
Pour the stock, season and bring to the boil
Simmer for 25 mins.
Blend until chunky.

Peel and chop the red onion.
Chop the tomatoes, the onion and the coriander.
Add the crème fraiche and mix.

Serve the soup with a spoon of the salsa on the top.

Enjoy!

Creamy Pumpkin Savoy Cabbage

2009-11-17T11:38:00.000-08:00

Presumed you have roasted and pureed pumkin, this is a real easy dish.

Do you have these ingredients?

½ large savoy cabbage

2 garlic cloves
1 cup roasted and pureed pumpkin
3 tbsp cream fraiche

oliven oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Slice the savoy cabbage.
Bring a pan of water to the boil and add the slice cabbage.
Boil for 2 mins, then drain.

Peel and chop the garlic.
Heat the oliven oil in the skillet.
Add the galic and cook for 1 min.
Add the pumpkin, mix and cook for 1 min.
Add cream fraiche, mix and cook for 1-2 mins.
Add the drained cabbage, mix well and cook for 1-2 mins.

Enjoy!

Pumpkin Polenta with Blue Cheese

2009-11-16T11:33:00.000-08:00

Presumed you have roasted pumpkin, this is a real quicky for midweek dinner. And do not forget about cheerful orange color – it will cheer you up on Monday evening. Like it cheered me.

Do you have these ingredients?

2 cups milk
2 cups water
1 tsp salt
1 cup instant polenta

2,5 cups roasted pureed pumpkin

30-50 g blue cheese (Gorgonzola is best)

Salt, pepper

Step for step

Puree the roasted pumpkin in the blender.
Mix polenta and salt.

Pour milk and water into the skillet and bring to the boil.
While stirring the water constantly with a wooden spoon, tip in the polenta in a thin stream.
Lower the heat so the polenta isn't spluttering too much, then cook, stirring occasionally, for 10-15 mins.
Add the pureed pumpkin, season and mix well.
Cook for 10-15 mins.

Chop the blue cheese and add to the polenta. Mix. Serve.

Enjoy!

Apple Herring

2009-11-15T04:20:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I spent morning in the Quilt Shop – in this shop you can buy everything you need to put together colorful characterful quilt. I do not sew quilts but a colleague of mine does – she got me into this shop and I spent about a hours watching lovely quilt-maker cutting and sewing triangles into quilts. This morning breezed old fashionable mood into my kitchen – yesterday's dinner was after an old Norwegian cookbook from 60thies; the cookbook is about herrings and only herrings. Easy made, quick prepared, not demanding to ingredients at all.

Do you have these ingredients?

8 herrings fillets
1 apple
1 onion
50 ml capers
30 g butter
2 tbsp bread crumbs

oil for buttering dish
salt, pepper

Step for step

Season the herring fillets. Set aside.
Peel and chop the apple.
Peel and chop the onion.

Butter the dish and put the apples and onion into the dish.
Add the capers and mix well. Season.
Place the herrings fillets over the vegetables.
Chop the butter and place over the herring.
Sprinkle the bread crumbs.
Heat the oven 210C and put the dish into the oven.
Roast for 20-25 mins.

Enjoy!

Fried Rice with Grapes

2009-11-03T11:57:00.001-08:00

Last Saturday my husband visited the local flea market. He was there for 30 mins but came back with 2 suitcases filled with old cookbooks. Now I am a happy owner of 50 (or more) cookbooks from the seventies and eighties. Poor pictures and good old recipes. For the last 3 days I skipped hundreds of photos and read hundreds of recipes. Todays dinner is an outcome of all information consumed and digested the last days.

Presumed you already have a cooked rice, this is a real quicky.

Do you have these ingredients?

1 cup cooked rice (I took basmati)
1 red onion
1 cup green grapes
½ tsp coriander
½ tsp cumin
1-2 tbsp olive oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Peel and chop the onion. Set aside.
Wash and halve the grapes. Set aside.
Heat the oliven oil in skillet.
Add the coriander and cumin, cook for 1 min.
Add the onion, cook for 2-3 mins.
Add the rice, mix and cook for 2-3 mins.
Season and add the grapes. Mix and cook for 1 more min.

Enjoy!

Indian Apple Halawa

2009-11-01T06:59:00.001-08:00

After I bought the book 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi a new world opened a door for me. Of'course I have eaten Indian before, in restaurants and take aways. But cooking curries on my own is definitely a new step for me. This dessert is from this book, I only adjusted 2 things – I cooked evaporated milk on my own and I substituted ghee by butter (not a smart thing to do, I know...).

Do you have these ingredients?

10 apples
½ lemon
4-5 tbsp sugar
10 g butter
1 cinnamon stick
5-6 cloves
handful raisins
4-5 tbsp evaporated milk

Step for step

Wash and peel the apples.
Grate them and sprinkle with the sugar.
Add the lemon juice and mix well.

Heat the butter in the skillet.
Add the cinnamon stick and cloves, cook for 1 min.
Add the apples and cook over a high heat for 10 mins.
Add the milk and raisins and cook over a high heat for 8 mins.

Serve warm or cold. We liked both.

Chicken Cottage Cheese Cakes

2009-10-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

This is an easy quickly made dish, exactly what I needed yesterday. ...And it is getting cold here in Oslo, not fair...

Do you have these ingredients?

2 chicken breast, about 400 g
100 g cottage cheese
handful of chopped spring onions
14 leaves sage
1 tsp mustard
1 egg

3-4 breadcrumbs

salt, pepper
vegetable oil

Step for step:

Blitz the cottage c
hees in the food processor.
Chop roughly the chicken breasts and put into the food processor.
Add the spring onions, sage, egg and mustard and blitz again.
Season and mix.

Tip the breadcrumbs onto a large plate.
Form the cakes with wet hands and put each cakes into the breadcrumbs.

Heat the oil in a frying pan, then fry the cakes over a medium heat for about 8-10 minutes, turning once.

Enjoy.

Oatmeal Office Cookies

2009-10-11T00:43:00.001-07:00

Every Wednesday my colleagues are crowded in our office kitchen — it is the day when fruits and cookies baskets arrive in our office. Fruits are cheerful as always but the oatmeal cranberry cookies are worth to mention here. You can buy them in every supermarket — usually I never do that, it is really seldom we have cookies in my home — they are sweet, they are tasty and due to the oatmeal we can say they are healthy.

The recipe is taken from the cookies package, with small adjustments.

Do you have these ingredients?

For the dough:
145 g butter
210 g flout
210 g oatmeal
55 g brown sugar
80 g sugar
½ tsp salt
2 tst bakepowder

To add to the dough:
2 tbsp honey
2 handfuls yellow raisins
1 handful dried cranberries
50 ml water

Step for step:

Place all ingredients for the dough in the food processor and run it.
Add honey, raisins, cranberries and water and run the food processor again.
Form from the dough 2 rolls and put them into your fridge for 30 mins.

Slice the dogh rolls and put the dough slice on the baking sheet.
Heat the oven 200C, decrease the warmth to 175C and put the baking sheet into the oven.
Bake for 22 mins.

Lovely.

Red Onions and Brie Tart

2009-10-04T10:09:00.000-07:00

It is definitely not true that Norwegians got social only during summers. Well, it is true that the most of them are to find outside on summer nights but when you got short summer, you outa enjoy it as much as you can. But really social people in Oslo get in October - when the fall is a factum, fireplaces comfort by dancing flames and it is a time for a glass of red wine. I was invited to my friends on Fri, I got friends over to my place on Saturday. And the best you can serve for these days is this comfort pie. Or tart.

Adjusted this recipe.

Do you have these ingredients?

125 g butter
250 g flour
cold water

2 red onions
50 g cheddar
180 g brie
200 m creme fraiche
2 eggs

oliven oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Process the butter, flour, salt and a little water in the food process.
Butter the form and roll out the dough into the form (I used my hands)
Pick the dough in the form by the form and put the form into the fridge.

Peel the onion and slice.
Heat the oil in the skillet and cool the onion for 15 mins.

Grate the cheddar. Put it in the bowl.
Chop the brie, add to the bowl with the grated cheddar.
Add the creme fraiche and eggs.
Mix well.

Remove the form from the fridge.
Bake in the oven 220 C for 20 mins.
Remove the form from the oven.
Arrange the cooked onions in the tart shell.
Pour the cheese mix over the onions.
Bake in the over 200 C for 30 mins.

Roasted Tomatoes filled with Meatballs

2009-10-04T09:46:00.001-07:00

You can of' course serve good old homemade meatballs; they are easy to make, traditional in look and probably a little boring. But put meatballs in tomatoes and suddenly you got the same meatball but with a new touch. Why not?

Do you have these ingredients?

9 tomatoes
1 onion
400-500 гм ground beef
2 garlic cloves
80 ml semolina
handful sage leaves
vegetable oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Remove the tomato tops and scope the tomatoes.
Drop a little oil in the form and arrange the tomatoes and the tomato tops in the form.
Bake in the over 180 C for 20 mins.

Peel and chop the onion.
Heat the oil in the skillet, add the onion and cook for 2-3 min.
Chop the outscooped tomato «meat», add to the onion. Cook for 3 mins.

Peel and chop the garlic.
Put the ground meat, garlic, onions, semoline and sage into the food processor and process.

Remove the form with the tomatoes from the oven.
Remove the tomato juice form the tomatoes.
Fill the tomatoes with the dough from the food processor-
Cover the filled tomatoes with the roasted tomato tops.

Bake in the over 180 C for 35 mins.

Enjoy as we did.

Garam Masala Prawns and Pineapple

2009-09-27T07:14:00.001-07:00

Sometimes when we feel like that we go to an Indian restaurant near our place. To be honest, there are not so many Indian restaurants in Oslo, and as some Indian people say, the Indian restaurants in Oslo are actually Pakistani. There is a little place called Curry and Ketchup, a budget cafeteria run by cheerful dark haired immigrants serving colorful curries on all fasons and colors plates (you never get the same plate in this cafe, believe me on this!). There is a spacious restaurant Gate of India made in old fashioned apartment in the city, you can sit there in comfort red velvet armchair and sip Indian white wine. Very polite Swedish speaking waitress will bring you hot nan bread and ask if you like the view of the busy Bogstadveien. But no matter, the case is that I know nothing about Indian food except of that nan bread is tasty and garam masala has something with chicken to do. Never too late to learn. Based on several recipes from BBC Good Food, I made this dish yesterday inspired by Indian smells and tastes.

Do you have these ingredients?

2 cups of chopped pineapple
500 g frozen unpeeled prawns
1 red chili
1 green chili

2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp turmeric
3 tsp tamarind
400 g coconut milk

vegetable oil
salt, pepper

Step for step

Defrost the prawns.
Peel and chop the pineapple. Set aside.
Peel the prawns. Set aside.

Heat the vegetable oil in the skillet.
Add the garam masala and turmeric, cook 1 min.
Add the tamarind and coconut milk, get to boil.
Add the chopped pineapple chillies and cook 5-7 mins.
Add the prawns and cook until the prawns get pink colour (about 5 mins).
Season.

Enjoy as we did.

Grated Zucchini Tart

2009-09-26T13:26:00.000-07:00

It is seldom I get my home for myself. But this morning I did. It was wonderful drinking coffee listening to jazz doing nothing. At the end I found myself in the kitchen baking a tart. Really easy made. Definitely will be making this again.

Do you have these ingredients?

150 g butter
240 g flour
80 ml water
1 tsp salt

1 zucchini

3 tbsp creme fraiche
1 tsp tomato-garlic paste

5-6 tbsp grated parmesan

Step for step

Place and flour into the food processor. Run the food processor for 1 min.
Mix water and salt; add the salty water to the food processor. Run the food processor.
Take the dough from the food processor and roll out it.
Fold the roll-out dough 4 times and roll out the dough again.
Repeat this rolling out/folding action 3-5 times.

Butter the ovenproof dish and place the roll-out dough into the dish.
Put the dish into the fridge for about 30 mins.

Grate the zucchini. Set aside.
Grathe the parmesan. Set aside.
Mix the creme fraiche and the tomato-garlic paste. Set aside.

Remove the dish from the fridge and spread over the creme fraiche mix.
Sprinke over the grated zucchini.
Sprinkle over the grated parmesan.

Bake in oven 200C for about 1 hour.

Walnut and Dolcelatte Linguine

2009-09-23T10:40:00.000-07:00

This dish is especially for my daugther - a busy student who never has time for cooking. Followed this recipe.

Do you have these ingredients?

Linguine
350 g broccoli
150 g crème fraîche
150g dolcelatte
2 handfuls walnuts

Step for step

Slice the broccoli. Set aside.

Warm the skillet og toast the walnuts. Set aside.

Cook water for pasta.
When water is boiling, add the linguine.
When the linguine is almost cooked, add the sliced broccoli.
Drain into a collander.

Put the skillet back on the heat.
Add the crème fraîche and the dolcelatte. Stil until the cheese melted.
Stir in the pasta and the broccoli.

Serve sprinkled with the walnuts.

Bread and Tomato Gratin

2009-09-16T11:55:00.001-07:00

Bread is the most important meal of all nations. No matter if we are talking about elegant French baguettes or rustic African flat breads, there are bread all together. What is so fantastic about bread, that you can use it as main meal, snack, site dish or even dessert. My today's dinner was all about bread – easy made bread gratin, with tomatoes and parmesan. Really good. Definitely will be making this again.

Do you have these ingredients?

3 red bell peppers
1 yellow bell pepper

8 tomatoes

2 garlic cloves
3 cups cubed loaf
¾ cup grated parmesan
5 tbsp oliven oil

2 handful finely chopped parsley

salt, pepper

Step for step:

Heat oven to 200C.
Halv the bell peppers lengthwise, seed and place in the form cut sites down.
Roast for 20 mins.
Remove from the oven, cool a little, peel and cut into strips. Set aside.

Slice tomatoes. Set asite.

Peel and chop the garlic.
Discard the crust and cut the loaf into cubes.
Grate the parmesan.
Mix the garlic, the loaf cubes and the grated parmesan in a bowl.

Chop the parsley and season.

Arrange halv of the tomatoes in a gratin dish.
Spread the peppers strips and sprinkle with the parsley.
Spread the bread mixture.
Spread the remaining tomatoes, pepper strips and parsley.

Bake gratin for 1 hour.

Greek Tomato Pancakes

2009-09-14T10:37:00.000-07:00

A nice Greek lady shared this recipe with me. At first I got really surprised - can you do pancakes of tomatoes? And so I tried - and yes, you can.

Do you have these ingredients?

5 tomatoes
2 spring onions
1 egg
100-120 g flour
salt, pepper
2-3 tbsp oliven oil

Step for step:

Halve tomatoes and grate on the largest holes of a grater into a colander.
Chop the spring onions.
Mix the grated tomatoes and the chopped spring onions.

Beat the egg and whisk in the egg. Beat in the flour, season, mix well to make a thick smooth batter.

Heat a non-stick frying pan and fry spoonfuls of the batter mix, cook pancakes 2 to 3 minutes on each side, or until golden and cooked through, transferring pancakes to a plate.

Courgettes Pancakes with Rocket Leaves

2009-09-14T10:30:00.000-07:00

Do you have these ingredients?

6 courgettes (about 700 gm)
1 red onion
2 egg
2 handfuls rocket leaves
60 gm plain flour
1 table spoon creme frache
1 teaspoon salt
pepper
vegetable oil for frying

Step for step:

Grate courgettes on the largest holes of a grater into a colander. Let courgettes drain 30 minutes.
Thinly slice the onion.
Using hands, squeeze as much liquid from the grated courgettes as possible.

In a bowl whisk eggs, stir in the grated courgettes, the sliced onion, rocket leaves, flour, cream frache and mix well to make a thick batter. Season.

Heat a non-stick frying pan and fry spoonfuls of the batter mix, cook pancakes 2 to 3 minutes on each side, or until golden and cooked through, transferring pancakes to a plate.

Baked Aubergine and Pomegranate Salad

2009-09-12T11:05:00.001-07:00

Blogging opens new doors, trust me on this. A friend of mine, whom I met by blogging but never have seen in person, shared with me her recipe of this salad. And I tell you — this is the best baked aubergine salad I tried. And I have been to Middle East many times...

Do you have these ingredients?
1 aubergine
handful walnuts
handful basil leaves
handful pomegranate seeds
1 garlic clove
1 tbsp oliven oil
salt, pepper

Step for step
Heat the oven to 200C and bake the aubergine for 1 hour.
Remove from the oven, peel and chop.
Chop the basil leaves and the walnuts. Mix with the aubergine mix.
Peel and crush the garlic clove. Mix with the aubergine mix.
Add the oliven oil and the pomegranate seeds to the aubergine mix and mix well.
Season.

Rustic Breakfast or Baked Tomatoes filled with Eggs

2009-09-08T07:52:00.000-07:00

Lazy breakfasts are for weekends. This Saturday morning was an early one; it was lovely cooking this quick and rustic breakfast and eating it after that - the day was about to begin and the weekend was just starting...

Do you have these ingredients?

40 g ham

5 tomatoes

4 sage leaves

2 eggs

oil to butter your form

salt, pepper

Step for step:

Heat the skillet and chop the ham.

Add the chopped ham to the skillet and cook for about 5 mins.

Remove the tomato tops and scoop out the tomatoes.

Chop the tomato «inmate» and add 2-3 tablespoons of the chopped tomatoes to the skillet.

Mix and cook for 2 mins. Chop the sage leaves and add to the ham-tomato.

Butter the form and place the scooped out tomatoes in the form.

Using a tea spoon, fill the tomatoes with the ham-tomato-sage mix.

Heat oven to 200C and bake the tomatoes for 10 mins.

Remove the form with the tomatoes from the oven and fill the tomatoes with eggs.

(Divide one egg among 2 tomatoes).

Season and put the form back in the over. Bake for another 10 mins.

Have a nice Saturday! It is not yet over...