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samosa my way

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samosa my way met text

ingredients:

– 5 sheets of phyllo dough
– 50 gr butter
– 250 gr ground beef
– 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
– 1 onion, finely chopped
– 1 tablespoon ground cumin
– 1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon
– 1/2 tablespoon ground curry
– 1/2 teaspoon ground chilli pepper
– ground pepper
– salt
– 90 gr tomato paste (1 smill can)
– 25 gr pine nuts
– 50 gr raisins
– 125 ml water
– 2 tablespoons olive oil
– coriander

directions:

minced meat

– stove the onions in a wok or large pan together on medium heat for about 10 minutes
– add the ground meat
– when the meat is almost cooked, add the garlic and tomato paste, let braise for another 10 minutes on low heat, make sure the tomato paste won’t burn
– add the water and leave on low heat until the water is almost gone
– add the cumin, cinnamon, curry, chilli pepper
– season with pepper and salt
– add the raisins and the pine nuts and the roughly chopped coriander

directions:

– Preheat the oven to 200 degrees

– melt the butter

– folding phyllo triangles

Remove phyllo from package

Unroll and place on large sheet of baking paper.

Cover phyllo with a clean humid kitchen towel. (It dries out quickly if not covered.)

Cut 3 large strips (in lenght) out of 1 rectangle phyllo dough.

Lay the strips of phyllo on a flat clean surface and brush immediately both sides with melted butter.

Place a tablespoon of minced meat on one end of the strip, fold over 1 corner to make triangle.

Then fold to the other side, make sure you’ll keep the triangle. Continue folding till the end. If there are some edge left, just fold them over the triangle.

You’ll end up with a “nice” triangle…

Repeat this with the rest of the phyllo and the minced meat.
I had around 30 samosas.

– bake it 20 to 30 minutes on baking paper in the oven, the phyllo should be golden brown.

My first triangles were a disaster…. It didn’t look at all as a triangle… But after a while I got it… So keep on trying! It’s worthwhile!!! Taste great!!!

sweet (spicy) pork with fresh pineapple.

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sweet spicy pork with fresh pineapple with text

this is one of my favourite dishes. Pork so tender combined with fresh pineapple and a little bit of spice… delicious!!

ingredients:

– 1 pork tenderloin (about 450 gr)
– 1/2 fresh pineapple
– 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped
– 2 tablespoons of lightbrown cane sugar
– 4 tablespoons of light soy sauce
– dry sherry
– sesam oil
– coriander, roughly chopped
– ground chili (cayenne) pepper to taste
– olive oil

directions:

– mix 2 tablespoons of soy sauce with 2 tablespoons of dry sherry and 1 tablespoon of sesam oil. Put aside.

– prepare the pork. Remove all the greasy white parts from the pork tenderloin and cut into dices 1 cm by 1 cm aproximately. Put the meat into the marinade. I usually leave it there for 1 hour, but less is fine too. Drain it well and throw away the marinade.

– take a wokpan on high heat with some olive oil. Once the oil is hot, put in the meat and stir until ready. Put in the chopped garlic. After 1 minute add 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of soy sauce. Stir well, put in the pineapple and remove from the heat after 1 minute.

– top with coriander and chili pepper.

Serve immediately with some rice, quinoa,…

TIP: if you like to prepare this dish ahead, it’s possible but don’t add the
fresh pineapple and the coriander, leave it aside in the fridge and add it just before serving. Delicious!!!

sweet spicy pork with fresh pineapple

the best chocolate cake ever!!! so easy!!!

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the best chocolate cake ever!!! so easy!!! With text

this recipe comes from my mother in law. So easy and so good…
There we go!

ingredients:

– 125 gr good quality dark chocolate, over 70% cacao
– 150 gr butter
– 120 gr brown can sugar (white sugar is also ok but taste different)
– 2 tablespoons plain flour sifted
– 3 medium eggs

directions:

– preheat the oven 180 degrees (conventional no fan)

– butter a round cake tin 28cm

– separate the eggs, yolk from egg white.
With a hand mixer, beat the egg white to firm peaks.

– cut the butter and the chocolate into small pieces.
Pour into a pan on medium low heat. Leave until everything is melted, don’t forget to stir.

– add the sugar and continue stirring on low heat for 2 minutes

– add the sifted plain flower, stir 1 more minute

– turn off the heat, put the egg yolks through the chocolate, mix well.

– stir very gently the mixture through the beaten egg whites

– pour this into the tin and bake for 20 minutes

– leave to cool, then turn out onto a large round plate

– put in the fridge for at least 1 hour

– top with icing sugar

It is also delicious to add fresh fruits on top like strawberries, pineapple, peaches,…
Also nice with some vanilla ice cream!!!

 

spicy pork glass noodle salad. heavenly!!!

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spicy pork glass noodle salad. Heavenly!!! with text

this recipe looks like spicy chicken glass noodle salad but taste completely different!!!

ingredients:

– 450 gr pork tenderloin ( filet de pork, varkenshaas, filete de cerdo)
– 120 gr korean sweet potato noodles (vermicelles patate douce, zoete aardappel noedels)
– 1 cucumber, cut in little dices
– 2 spring onions, thinly sliced
– 7 tablespoons nam pla (thai fish sauce, I prefer the one made of anchovies
– zest of 1 lime
– 6 tablespoons of fresh lime juice
– 1 tablespoon brown cane sugar
– 3 spicy chilli peppers, or to taste, if you don’t have it, use cayenne or chilli powder
– fresh cilantro (coriander)
– olive oil
– ground chilli pepper (cayenne)
– 50 gr chopped cashew nuts
– nice lettuce leaves

directions:

– mixture: mix 4 tablespoons of fish sauce with 4 tablespoons of lime juice, 1 chilli pepper with seeds chopped into little pieces, 1 tablespoon of brown cane sugar, coriander leaves, roughly chopped. Put aside, it should be salty, sweet, sour and hot.

– fill a large pot with water, bring it to boil. Once the water is boiling, put in the sweet potato noodles and take of the heat. Let it rest for about 5 minutes. The noodles have to be cooked through but still firm to bite.
Drain and rinse the noodles with cold water. They have to be cooled down completely.
Put them into a large bowl. Add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 2 tablespoons of lime juice and 1 finely chopped chilli pepper with seeds.
Add the sliced onions and the cucumber. Toss well.

– prepare the pork. Remove all the greasy parts from the pork tenderloin and shred it into very small pieces (like minced pork, but it taste better if you shred it yourself instead of buying it minced)
Heat the olive oil in a wok, put it the shredded pork. After 2 minutes add the remaining chili pepper , cut into little pieces with seeds again. Stir until the meat is well done. Season with 1 tablespoon of fish sauce.

– add the hot pork to the bowl and some extra coriander. Put the mixture on top. Toss well.

– top with chopped cashew nuts and some ground chilli pepper.

– serve on a lettuce leave!!!

so delicious!!!

spicy pork glass noodle salad on a lettuce leave! yummy!!!
spicy pork glass noodle salad on a lettuce leave! yummy!!!

spicy pork sweet potato glass noodle salad with vodka sundia. with text
spicy pork sweet potato glass noodle salad with vodka sundia. hmmm

super tasty meat pie

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tasty meat pie with text

ingredients:

– 10 sheets of phyllo dough
– 100 gr butter
– 500 gr ground beef
– 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped
– 2 onions, finely chopped
– 2 tablespoons ground cumin
– 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
– 1 tablespoon ground curry
– 1 teaspoon ground chilli pepper
– ground pepper
– salt
– 170 gr tomato paste (1 can)
– 50 gr pine nuts
– 100 gr raisins
– 250 ml water
– 2 tablespoons olive oil

directions:

minced meat

– stove the onions in a wok or large pan together on medium heat for about 10 minutes
– add the ground meat
– when the meat is almost cooked, add the garlic and tomato paste, let braise for another 10 minutes on low heat, make sure the tomato paste won’t burn
– add the water and leave on low heat until the water is almost gone
– add the cumin, cinnamon, curry, chilli pepper
– season with pepper and salt
– add the raisins and the pine nuts

now the funny part

– Preheat the oven to 200 degrees
– melt the butter
– in a glass bowl, put a thin layer of butter with a paint brush
– add 1 sheet of phyllo dough on top of the butter
– put some butter on top of the phyllo dough, leave the sheet hanging over the bowl repeat this until you have 6 sheets of phyllo
– put in the minced meat
– cover with the overhanging sheets
– put the 4 last phyllo sheets one by one covered with butter on top
– bake it 50 minutes in the oven, after 5 minutes, I’ll put some aluminium foil on top, if not it will get burned.

our dog loves it too!!!
our dog loves it too!!!

tasty cold chicken curry

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cold chicken curry

this is such an easy and so tasty recipe with chicken breast leftovers!!!

ingredients (see picture above):

– well seasoned (black pepper, salt, other dried herbs for poultry) fried chicken breast, cut into little pieces
– different curry mixtures
– juice of 1 lemon
– 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
– koriander (or basil or mintleaves or other fresh herbs…)

directions:

– mix the mayonnaise togheter with 1 tablespoon of each curry, I used 4 different ones, as you can see on the picture above
– sprinkle with the lemon juice
– taste if you like more curry, more lemon or more mayonnaise
– cut the koriander into medium small pieces
– add the chopped chicken breast and the koriander
– mix everything well together

so nice, one of the favorites of my husband!!!!!

the result on a bread roll!!! yummie!!!
tasty cold chicken curry on a bread roll!!! yummie!!!

happy healthy cold avocado soup

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this is a starter, so simple, easy and tasty, everyone should give it a try!!!!

Healthy tasty avocado soup

ingredients:

– 1 mature avocado
– lime juice from 1 lime
– 200 gr greek yoghurt
– 250 ml vegetable stock (1 stock cube into 500 ml of water, bring it to boil, cool down, use half of it)
– extra virgin olive oil
– small basil leaves

directions:

– mix the avocado with the greek yoghurt, the lime and the vegetable stock in a blender or immersion blender (hand mixer)

– pour it in a nice glass

– put in the fridge for at least 1 hour

– just before serving, add some drops of olive oil and small basil leaves

So Tasty!!!! So easy!!!

delicious nachos by my 11 year old friend Mathias

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Yesterday we had a delicious lunch at Kris and Stefanies place. There oldest son Mathias made nachos as a starter. So easy, so tasty, so no nonsense…

Nachos by mathias
Nachos by mathias

ingredients:

– good jar salsa (this one was mild, but spicy must be great too)

– green olives stuffed with spicy bell pepper, if you can’t find it, green olive without stone, cut into small slices

– Cheddar cheese, cut into small pieces

– tortilla chips, any and as much you like

directions:

– preheat the oven at 180 degrees

– take a flat large bowl, cover the bottom with tortilla chips

– put some salsa and some olives over the chips

– Cheddar cheese on top

– 5 minutes in in the oven, untill cheese is melted

DeliciouS!!!And so easy!!! Thanks Mathias!

hangover pasta

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Huge party yesterday!!! We started at the beach with some live rumba followed by a paella party with friends!!! Great time last night but this morning, it feels different…. My God!!!

So I decided to prepare a very simple dish.

ingredients:

– 250 gr pasta, dry
– canned tuna 415 gr, drained 280 gr (I always buy in a glass jar)
– 1 zucchini ( courgette)
– 4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
– 400 gr tomate frito (good tomato pasta) with extra virgin olive oil (also in a glass jar)
– 2 lemons
– freshly ground black pepper
– salt

preparation:

– heat 1 liter of salted water to a boil. Once it boils, add the pasta and leave it in the water as long as it needs, drain it and put in a large bowl.

– meanwhile take a wok, add some olive oil and the zucchini. Stew 2 minutes on medium heat, add the garlic and stew 1 more minute.

– add tomato frito, stew 10 minutes

– drain the tuna and stir with a fork to break up the largest chunks. Add to the wok, season with salt, pepper and the juice of 1 lemon. After 1 minute take of the stove.

– put the sauce on top of the pasta, serve with the other lemon cut in half.

Great easy food!!!

Tasty razor clams

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ingredients:

– 1/2 kg razor clams (couteaux, navajas, scheermesjes)
– 20 gr glasnoodles
– 4 tablespoons dry sherry
– 5 cm finely chopped ginger
– 6 cloves of garlic, also finely chopped
– coriander (cilantro) if you don’t like it use parsley
– chili pepper (optional)
– grounded cayenne (chili) pepper
– some olive oil
– 500 ml water
– 500 ml milk
– 1 l water
– lime juice
– nam pla (thai fish sauce)
– 2 limes, skinned and cut into very little pieces
– light soja sauce

preparation:

– mix water and milk, put the razor clams in and leave them soak for about an hour

– Boil 1 liter of water. Take of the heat and add the glassnoodle. Wait about 2 minutes, take them out, rinse with cold water, put into a bowl, add nam pla, lime juice and a pinch of grounded cayenne.

– rinse the razor clams toroughly to eliminate the sand

– take a large pot, a littlebit of oil in it, put a very hot stove, add half the razor clams, together with 3 tablespoons of dry sherry, half of the garlic and ginger and chili pepper It takes 2 minutes to get ready! Pour over a bit of light soja sauce and remove them. Put the juices into a separate bowl.
Do exactly the same with the other half of razor clams.

– no comes the tricky part!! Take the clams out of the shells, keep the shells and put half of the shells onto a nice plate. Cut the razor clams into 0.5 cm pieces, I don’t use the green part (stomach, just the white part)

– fill every shell with some cutted clams, some glassnoodles, top with some garlic/ginger/chili sauce and finish with some pieces of fresh lime and coriander!

So delicate!!!! Taste great with a glass of pink wine!!!!