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Puff pastry with crumbles

Ingredients:

ready rolled Puff Pastry Sheet (found refidgerated mostly)

50g butter

1pck vanilla sugar

1/2 pck baking powder

4-5 tablespoons flour and sugar

Recipe:

Mix the butter, baking powder, vanilla sugar, flour and sugar together and knead it with your hands until it is no longer feeling 'wet' or buttery, add more sugar and flour if needed.

Roll out the ready made puff pastry and cut it into squares (don't separate, just cut it). Sprinkle the crumbles on the sheet of pastry.

Bake in the oven at 180°C convection/ air circulation mode ( ???, no idea what the correct translation is) for 15-20 minutes till slightly brown.

Enjoy!

Saxon style cabbage noodles:

Ingredients:

500g-1kg spirelli or fussilli noodles (depends on how much you want)

½ head of white cabbage

1 onion

Salami

ham cubes/bacon cubes

2-3 tsp paprika powder

1 tsp cumin

salt, pepper

Oil

Recipe:

Cut the cabbage into small strips and cook in salted water till mostly soft.

Cook the noodles till al dente. Cut the salami and the onion into cubes.

In a big pot, sear the onion, salami and ham and season it with the salt, pepper, cumin and paprika.

Add the cabbage and let it simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes - don't forget to stir!

Add the noodles and mix well, simmer for another 3-10 minutes till everything is properly cooked through/soft enough for you.

The food tastes best when it has had a few hours to steep, I recommend making it the say before you want to eat it (how I like it best) or at least 5 hours before consumption. You can reheat it in the pot and It'll taste even better.

Day 46:

From Tomorrow on I'll make food posts for almost an entire week straight.

On the menu are:

- cabbage noodles

- german potato dumplings with schnitzel

- mashed potatoes with chicken hearts

- vegetable rice with some type of meat (not decided yet)

- sugar-lemon salad

- potato gratin

- fries noodles

I am looking forward to everything!

-Val

Day 41: Spaghetti carbonara!

Ingredients:

500g Spagetti

6 Eggs

Diced ham/ Bacon cubes/ preferred sausage(cubed)

Salt, pepper, nutmeg

Oil

Recipe:

Cook the Spagetti in slightly salted water till al dente (don't forget to stirr, add some oil so it doesn't stick as easily) . Sear the meat, add oil only if the meat is not fatty.

Separate the egg from the yolk and collect the yolk in a big bowl. Season the yolk with salt, pepper and a little (!) but of nutmeg and mix.

After the Spagetti has been cooked, wash with hot water and add it to the bowl and mix together.

You can add the meat before or after putting it on your plate. Serve it however you like.

I like to put olives on mine, specifically Spanish ones but you don't have to.

Day 35: Jambalaya!

INGREDIENTS:

olive oil

500g boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces (remove tendons, it makes eating easier)

1 pound andouille sausage, thinly sliced into rounds (I used polish kielbasa as substitute)

3 small bell peppers, cored and diced (whatever you prefer, I used a mixed pack)

150g celery root, diced

1 chilli pepper, diced with seeds

1 white onion, diced (about mid-size)

3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced (extra is always good)

1 can (400g) crushed tomatoes

3–4 cups chicken stock

1 1/2 cups uncooked long grain white rice

2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning or Creole seasoning

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 bay leaf

1 pound raw large shrimp, peeled and deveined

Kosher salt and freshly-cracked black pepper

Fresh parsley (for garnish)

INSTRUCTIONS:

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a deep (non-stick) pan over medium-high heat.  Add the chicken and sausage and sauté, stirring occasionally, until the chicken is cooked through and the sausage is lightly browned.  Transfer to a clean, big bowl and set aside. (Do this before starting to cut the vegetables or you will end up cooking for over 4 hours, I know I did)

Add the remaining 2 tablespoons oil to the pan.  Add bell peppers, celery, chilli pepper, onion and garlic. Sauté while stirring occasionally, until the onions are softened.

Add the crushed tomatoes, chicken stock, rice, Cajun seasoning, thyme, cayenne, bay leaf to a big pot, and stir to combine, add the vegetables. Cook on medium heat for about 25-30 minutes (cover the pot with a lid), stirring every 5 minutes or so along the way so that the rice does not burn.

Add the shrimp with the chicken and sausage and stir to combine. Continue to simmer, stirring occasionally, until the shrimp are cooked through and pink. Remove and discard the bay leaf.

Season the jambalaya with salt, pepper, and additional Cajun seasoning if needed.

Remove from heat!!!

Day 34: Cajun seasoning today for those that don't have any of those good ol' Louisiana spices.

2 Tablespoons paprika (smoked or sweet are pretty good)

1 Tablespoon iodine or kosher salt

1 ½ Tablespoons granulated pepper (mixed)

1 ½ Tablespoons granulated garlic

1 Tablespoon granulated chili

Some dried parsley

Some dried oregano

Some dried chervil

1 Teaspoon thyme

This is my personal preference, feel free to add or subtract from it.

"granulated [food] " is another word for "ground [food]" except that it doesn't mean "powdered [food]"

Day 30: Banana Milk again, no (barely any) waste in this house. You can find the recipe under the tag: #food with aliens

Day 21: Potato-gratin with bacon cubes

Shit looks good

Ingredients:

1,5kg firm boiling/ waxy potatoes (I don't know the word, sorry)

Butter/Oil

100g bacon

1 Stick of leek

150g melting cheese (?), Salami flavour

200g cream

3 eggs

Salt, Pepper

Herbs of your choice

Recipe:

Peel the Potatoes, wash them and cut into 4mm thick slices. In Saltwater barely cooking (not done) and then put them in an oiled up baking form.

Cube the bacon, clean the leek and cut it into rings. Sauté in hot oil for 5 minutes while stirring. Spread over the potato slices.

Whisk 100g of the cheese, cream, eggs, salt and pepper and herbs. Spread over the Potatoes also.

Bake in preheated oven at 200-225°C for 40-45 minutes, adjust if needed.

After 25 minutes, add the rest of the cheese in small blobs.

Enjoy!

Day 18: got some Tortelloni with cheese sauce

Good food, sadly not self made though

I made a banana milk today:

2 bananas

2 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon lemon juice

500 ml milk

Cut the banana into slices and put it into a pot. Add the milk and mix the two together. After that add the sugar and the lemon juice and mix again.

It tastes better than it looks. It will have a thick layer of bubbles because of the mixing as well

Day 10: Sushi

Forgot to post the result yesterday

It was very tasty and you have food for at least 6 people

Some nice food

It's really tasty and good comfort food