Leek and garlic peperoncino

Konnichiwa ;)

Greetings from Japan!

Cherry blossom is blooming now. It's so beautiful :)

 

It's the best season for "Leek" now here in Japan.

I cooked simple and tasty peperoncino with leek and garlic.

INGREDIENTS

-federini or spagetti

-1 leek (only the white part)

-1 clove of garlic

-2 tea spoon natural salt

-extra virgin olive oil

slice leek on cross about 5 mm.

slice garlic.

heat olive oil in a pan, add garlic and fry until garlic is cooked.

add leak and fry it until it gets soft .

boil pasta during cooking leek.

stop boiling pasta about 1 min before the boiling time.

put pasta in the pan with cooked leak, add salt as much as you like and stir well.

put the pasta on a dish and put black pepper on it.

COMPLETED!!!

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I hope you'll try this.

I think it is true Italian with good Japanese ingredients ;)

 

Ok, I'll try to shake this blog alive!

Just got a reminder from April about the blog. To be honest I had forgot about it - shame on me! I'll try to make it up by posting a recipe ;)

When I got the reminder I had just came home from workout and was just about to make dinner. Let's share the dinner I thought - so here it is! It is Daniels recipe, really easy when you are tired and hungry.

Start with frying mushrooms and then add leeks. Continue frying and then add creme fraiche. Add some borlotti beans and spice it with salt and pepper. Cook it until everything is really warm, if you have tomatoes or red pepper you can add that. I didn't have it today :) I made some pasta to it and decorated with pumpkin seeds.

Enjoy!

And please share your dinners or whatever food you do!

KRAM

Ratatouille seal of approval ^_^

Ratatouille!!

1 eggplant
1 14.5 oz diced tomatoes
1 zucchini, sliced
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
3 T olive oil
1 bay leaf
1 t oregano, marjoram
1/2 t rosemary
1 bell peppers, cut into strips
3/4 cup Parmesan & Romano, grated
salt and pepper
cayenne pepper
1 1/2 t cumin

-chop eggplant into slices, salt, and press slices between two plates with a weight.
Saute onion, garlic, bay leaf
- rinse and squeeze water out of eggplant, cut into chunks, and saute with onions and garlic (add spices, herb) until soft.
-add zuc, peppers, tomatoes and two cups of water
-simmer for 10 min until peppers and zuc are tender
top with parsley and olives.

My roommate Vincent approves of the particular recipe!! This is what I found on the refrigerator the next morning.

Let's keep this blog alive 2.

Hi everyone!

Hope you are well. Here in Sweden it is getting colder and the leaves are turning red. I think I'm having a small cold going on but exept that everything is good.

The apples are delicious here now and it is not impossible to find different kinds of Swedish apples in the stores now :) I have a cake I like to make if I have apples that are a bit too sour to eat as they are (of course you can take any apples).

Fyri's cake (Apple Sponge Cake)

125g stick margarine or butter
2/3 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

2 tablespoons milk

3-4 medium apples

1-2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Oven temp: 175 C/350 F

Grease and flour a 24cm (10 inch) springformpan.

Melt the butter and let it cool. Beat the sugar into the butter. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Combine the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Pour into the prepared pan.

Peel the apples, if desired, and cut into thin wedges. Puch the wedges into the batter in a pinwheel pattern. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon (or another spice like cardamom, brown sugar works well too, try what you have at home!). Bake on a low oven rack for around 30-40 minutes. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

Fyri's cake and coffee = a great fika!

Take care!

Karin

My Love Affair with Peanut Sauce

While you are more than familiar with gado-gado (yeah, the vegetable salad + peanut sauce), my recent trip back home to Indonesia made me realize how much I love foods with peanut sauce! Funnily enough, I'm not a big fan of roasted peanuts and so-so with peanut butter. Both of these are my favorites beyond gado-gado:

Siomay


Ketoprak

Simple 4th of July Brownies

Happy 4th of July. Today is Independence Day in the USA. We Wonder Lake"rs" enjoy the day by going to see the small town parade and our national winning water skiing team!! Tonight there will be fireworks after sunset.

In the meantime, we do our best to bring our families and friends together to BBQ and one of the desserts that is a must is our famous gooey and thick brownies. Check this recipe out.

The Ultimate Brownie is my absolute favorite brownie. It is tall like a cakey-brownie, but is dense like a fudgy-brownie.

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

• 8- 1 ounce squares of unsweetened chocolate
• 1 cup butter
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1-1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2-1/2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts, toasted (optional)
• powdered sugar
  

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 13 pan.

Melt chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat; set aside. In a mixer, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla at high speed for 10 minutes**. Blend in chocolate mixture, flour and salt until just mixed. Stir in the nuts. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake for 35-40 minutes. (Don't overbake.) Cool and frost if desired, but that is not necessary. Top with a light sprinkling of powdered sugar!