Salmon paté

Wonderful in summertime and reminds me of home.

Ingredients:
5 slices smoked salmon
500 g salmon
3 eggs
3 dl cream
1 Tbs potato flour
1 pk crab-sticks
200 g frozen spinach (press out the water)
fresh herbs (dill, chervil, chives)
Pepper and salt

1. Place the 5 smoked salmon pieces in a oiled bread form.
2. Cut the salmon in pieces and add the cream, eggs, potato flour and salt/pepper. Use a hand held mixer to make a smooth mass of the fish. Then place one third of the mass in the form.
3. Take out 8 big spoons of the mass and mix in the herbs and spinach. Place half of the green mass in the form, then place the crab-stick in the center of the green in a double row and cover them with the rest of the green mass.
4. Fill the pink mass on top.
5. Cover the for with aluminum foil and place it in a water bath in the oven on 180 degrees for 55 minutes.

Perfect to serve with a good salad with cucumbers, new potatoes and a yogurt dressing with herbs.

Banana bread

Banana bread with figs or dates is a wonderful an health alternative to a muffin of other sweet cakes on a Sunday morning. Excellent with some good jam!

3 very ripe bananas (must have brown spots)
3 cups flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup milk (or Soy milk)
1/2 ts cinnamon
1 ts vanilla sugar (optional)
1 ts baking powder
1 handful of chopped figs (walnuts or dates can be used)
1 egg (optional)

1. Mosh the bananas with a fork and mix in all the ingredients
2. Place it in a smeared bread form
3. In the oven for approximately 30 min on 180 degrees until golden

Fruits of the Forest Yogurt Cake

A fresh and light delight for nice long and sunny summer days.

Fill:
500 ml forest fruit yogurt
100 g cottage cheese
1 big handful of frozen berries mix (or raspberries)
5-6 plates gelatin dissolved in hot water (approx. 1 dl)

Bottom:
6-7 digestive biscuits crushed (NOR: Bixit FR/BE: Lu Petit Déjeune GER: Leibniz Vollkorn)
50 g dark chocolate melted
1 Tbs butter melted

1. Melt the gelatin in hot water in a kettle and stir to avoid lump.
2. Pour the yogurt and cheese into the gelatin mix while stirring with a hand-held mixer.
3. Mix the crushed biscuits and the melted butter-chocolate mix together and place in at the bottom of a cake-form.
4. Pour in the yogurt mix and place it in the refrigerator till the jelly has coagulated.

To be served with hot coffee, fresh berries and if you want cream or vanilla ice cream...

Pad thai = Peanut, Rice-Noodles and Carrots in a Wok

This weekend I had my favorite vegetarian drop in for a visit. As I am a big carnivore my self I always find inspiration and challenge in cooking my dishes without a source of meat. But the result is if I may say it myself not half bad ...

Wok:
1 hand peanuts
1/2 chili pepper
1 clove garlic
70 g carrots shredded

125 g rice noodles boiled
2 eggs
100 g bean sprouts (soy)
5 spring onions chopped

Sauce:
1/2 dl soy sauce
2 Tbs ketchup
1 Tbs brown sugar
2 tsp citron juice

1. I suggest you make chop the veggies while the water is heated and make the sauce while boiling noodles.
2. First add the peanuts, garlic and chili and fry it lightly then the carrots.
3. Add the noodles in the pan and mix in the eggs. When the eggs appear scrambled, add the beans sprouts and spring onion and pour over the sauce. Let it heat up but reduce the plate from about maximum 7 till 2-3.

Serve with more soy sauce if wanted.

Raspberry Smoothie "Blender in the Grass" style

The first time I drank a smoothie I was 13 and living in Santa Barbara CA from a small mall on the way to my Raintree Ranch. It is cool easy and delicious.

Smoothie, shake, sorbet.....
1,5 dl frozen raspberries
1/2 banana
1 Tbs yogurt
2 tsp vanilla sugar
0,5 dl orange juice

Mix it all with a hand held mixer or even better a blender.

Check out: http://www.drinkblenders.com/

Burrito with friends

Extremely quick easy and good, so dig in! It is wonderfully filling after a long day of city walking.

1 box Mexican or barbecue baked beans (kidney beans)
1 small corn box
1 rice cooked (10 min bag 2 pers.)
2-4 tortillas
1/2 Mexican spice mix package (Santa Maria)
1 chicken breast

1. Slice the chicken breast and fry it in a pan while the rice cooks for 8 min.
2. Add the rice and spice mix and mix in beans and corn.

If served with Guacamole, salad and salsa i promiss that your mouth will water..at least mine always does.

Tortellini, champignon and herbs with a creamy touch!

A dish I whipped up today with all the rests I had in my fridge...that's why the ingredients list is so long this time...

1-2-3 pasta:
1 pack tortellini (with herbs/ricotta fill or what ever you might have or want ;))
250 champignon sliced
250 g broccoli
1,5 dl cream 7%
70 g Philadelphia cheese
30 g chèvre
1 hand fresh basil
1 hand fresh parsley
1 hand Parmesan
salt and pepper after taste
1 hand pine-nuts

1. Boil the tortellini and broccoli pieces together 3 minutes
2. Fry the chopped champignon parallel in a pan with some olive oil, butter, salt and pepper
3. Combine the pasta/broccoli and champignon. Add both cream, philadelphia, chevre, parmesan and herbs (I also added an egg at the end but this is not necessary).

To be served with the pine-nuts and toasted bread with some Roquefort, yum!