I love cooking... especially for my friends. However, I never follow recipes, they are usually created along the way. So as I am no big fan of cooking books (there are way too many on the market) and as I often get asked:
"How did you make this?!"

Foodmania will be my own diary from what I consider gastronomical pleasures.

Bon appétit!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Avocado sailaway (2 pers.)


1 avocado ripe
100 g shrimps peeled
1/2 cucumber
3-4 radish
1-2 ts sour cream
1/2 citron

Spices: garlic-salt, sugar, dill

1. Divide an avocado in half and take out the stone. Use a spoon to remove the avocado-meat and mash it with a fork. Squeezed a lemon slice over the mash and add two spoons sour cream, a pinch of sugar, salt and dill to the avocado mash/chutney.
2. Chop radish and cucumber in fine thin slices.
3. Add a few shrimps and a bit of the cut radish and cucumber in the avocado chutney as well.
4. Refill the empty avocado peels with the chutney and decorate the top with cucumber/radish and shrimps.


The eighties are back!

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Summer tomato and zucchini lasagne


1 zucchini (shredded)
6 tomatoes (sliced)
1/2 onion chopped
2 cloves garlic (chopped fine)

1 ts salt

3 eggs
6 tbs cottage cheese
5 tbs floor
5 tbs grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 ts pepper

Mix the shredded zucchini with 1 ts salt and let it lay for 7-10 min before pressing out the water. Mix eggs and floor until lump-free and add cottage and Parmesan cheese into the mix and add pepper and some Provence herbs if you have to the mix.

Place tomatoes and zucchini (now mixed with garlic and onion) in layers (2 layers of tomato with on zucchini layer in between) in an olive oil oiled (26 cm diameter round/square 20x35 cm form). Bake in the oven on 200 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden.

Perfect to serve with fresh dark bread and smocked salmon with a light salad! Summer time!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Strawberry summer with love


Cooling strawberry dream cake - prefect, light dreamy...

Ingredients:
500 g strawberries
2 packages of strawberry flavored jelly-powder (10 dl jelly)
1 ready made sponge-cake bottom

1. Make the jelly with 60% of the water stated on the package
2. Cut the strawberries in half and place them in a wanted form (round max 24 cm diameter)
3. When the jelly mix has cooled down a bit pour 2/3 over the berries
4. Place the sponge-cake on top and pour the rest of the jelly mix over the sponge cake till it is covered
5. Place the form in the fridge over night
6. Before dinner, place the form (shortly! max 30 sec) in a hot water bath and place a plate on over the top and turn it (it should slip nicely out of the form)

Place it in the fridge until served and enjoy it with some nice vanilla-yogurt or ice-cream!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Fried rice


My secret friend's recipe... (for two)

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup pre-boiled rice
2 Tbs butter
1 egg
5 slices sliced turkey ham
1 can (small) mushrooms chopped
1/2 onion sliced
1 green paprika
1 pinch pepper
2 Tbs ready sweet chili sauce

Frye all the veggies first in some sauce. Then add the rice and egg.

Add soy sauce for taste.