I think all the ingredients are visible in the photo. Put the top piadina, and bake for 15 min at 200˚C. Fantastic: creamy, crunchy, salty… Yum!
Month: September 2016
Chana Dal with Cauliflower, Cashews, and Coconut Milk
I love this curry. I love everything about it. I will be making it again for sure!
I found a recipe while Pinteresting. I was captured by the photo, and only then looked at the ingredients. Well, you can have a look, and compare it to my version above. But I am sure mine was not lacking in flavour!
Amarone risotto
I am continuing my series of crappy photos of recipes that taste fantastic. This time, featuring Amarone risotto. It. Is. A. Keeper.
Cucumber salad
To take the edge off that spicy curry, have some cucmber salad, with a Greek yogurt dressing: 1 Tbsp red wine vinegar, 3 Tbsp olive oil, 1 tsp salt, 2 Tbsp Greek yogurt, mixed and poured over chopped cucumbers. Bonus points for putting purple onions in the salad 😉
Beef maharaja
I adapted this dish from Nigella’s book Feast: because we could not find the lamb, we used beef; and I changed a few other details, small things. The flavours were fantastic, certainly one to repeat.
The amount of chili was just above my level; I had to make small breaks during eating because my mouth was on fire.
Pasta bake
Take some curly pasta, a rich tomato sauce, cover it with cheese, and bake in the oven. What’s not to love?
Home-made pasta
I consider this one of my great achievements: I can now make pasta without too much stress, even for a dinner party. There are a few gadgets that help me on my way, the most important one being the KitchenAid pasta attachment. I can really recommend it!
The recipe I use is from the tried and tested book Made in Italy, page 330. I cannot add to or substract from this recipe, but I am too lazy to retype it; instead, here is another very similar version.
Tarte Tatin
This cake is a classic, and for all the right reasons. And if you make it with shop-bought puff pastry, it makes for quite an easy and impressive dessert.
I am kicking myself now for not taking a photo when I made this, but I was so into it at the dinner party where I made it, I simply forgot. It looked stunning, and I am sure there will be additional opportunities to take photos.
Weekday dinner party
We had some friends over for dinner on Friday, and I wanted to push the boat out a bit, but Friday being a (very!) working day and the week not allowing for any preparation in advance, I had to be a bit careful in choosing the dishes. In the end, I was too optimistic with the timing, as usual, but with the Boyfriends help, the dinner was a hit. This one should for sure be repeated for the right crowd.
Here it is. For the starter, goat cheese, mushroom, thyme, and puff pastry tart. For the main, home-made pasta with a tomato, sausage, and chicken sauce. For the salad, mixed salad with tomatoes cucumbers and spring onions. For the dessert, tarte Tatin.
Macarons in the making
Good thing my dessert-making skills are better than my photography skills!