Caramel and bananas = a perfect couple, isn't it, really :)

So! Banoffee pie! Such a traditional thing, so easy to make, yet everybody loves it. It's like a perfect dessert for us ♡

1 handful of hazelnuts (optional, gives an extra crrrrunch)
6 bananas or more /om nom nom/
1 can of caramel /yummy yumm/
pocket of chocolate digestives
100g of butter
250ml of double / whipping cream

What you do:

1. Crumble the cookies in the food processor

2. Melt the butter, mix with the cookie mixture

3. put the cookie base into the pie / tart form, bake in the oven for 10min (200degrees) 

After 5/7 min of baking, take the base out, push down if it rose up, put a thin layer of caramel on the base, and put it back into the oven.
Let it cool down.

4. Cut bananas into thin slices.

5. Chop the hazelnuts, put on the caramel base. (Leave a bit for decoration later) 

6. Put layers of caramel - bananas - caramel - bananas (leave a bit of bananas on the side for later) leave a bit of caramel on the side. 

7. Whip the double cream, divide in half. 

8. Mix the leftover caramel with a half of the whipped cream, put on the banana layer. 

9. Put the rest of bananas on the caramel cream. 

10. Spread the whipped cream on top, decorate with the rest of hazelnuts and sprinkle with chocolate.

11. Put in the fridge to chill. 

12. Make yourself a nice coffee with the any leftover caramel you have (well, if you didn't eat it all before:))

Enjoy yyyy y! !! :-)

 

Stuffed peppers and tomatoes tomatos peeeepeeeeeeerz

Ahoy! long time no write anything. no time, studies, boring life. so tonight, Im gonna stuff our faces with stuffed peppers and tomatoes.
first thing: u hear stuffed beg and u picture: vegetarian. ha! nope. not this time, I like ma meat too much maaan😈

Alors! to stuff 4 people you will need:

a package of mince beef
200g rice (I used basmati)
4 peppers, larger ones
4 tomatoes
any canned veggies u like (I used mix of baby carrots and peas, bought in tesco)
1 onion, 2 garlic cloves
spices
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 cube chicken/beef stock

how are we doing it?

          easy peasy, make it easy!

# cook rice according to the recipe

# chop onion and garlic, fry on the pan until soft

# place the mince on the pan, fry until cooked

# when the rice is ready, stir in the veggies from the can (without the water)

# mix the cooked meat with rice, spice up as you like

# chop the tops of the tomatoes and peppers,  take the flesh out

# stuff the veggies with the prepared mix

# put onto the baking tray, cover with foil, put in the hot oven (200degrees)

# put the flesh of tomatoes and canned chopped tomatoes onto the pan, put one chicken stock cuben spice up with oregano and whatever u want

# take the tray out of the oven (it's bloody hot, be careful!) and pour the tomato sauce in between the stuffed veggies, cover back and put the tray back in the oven for another 20 min.

# do the dirty dishes ;-)

# ohh, I forgot. enjoy!!!
serve with side salad to go even more veggie ha.

what do you think: yay or nay? 😀😁😃

beef stuffed aubergine with veggie tagliatelle

Cooking for family.

for around 5/6 people

what do we need? 

• 500g minced beef/lamb up to u
• 4 aubergines
• 1 tomato
• tagliatelle around 6 nests
• 1 packet veggies for steaming
•  (up to you which ones)
• 1 onion, 2 garlic cloves
• cheese for the top

how to make it? 

Cut onions, garlic, tomato, fry a bit until golden and soft. Add the beef, fry until cooked. Spice up with the spices you like. I used coriander, cumin, cayenne pepper, salt.

Scoop the flesh out of aubergines, sprinkle cumin, salt and pepper on top. put in to the microwave for around 4min to cook a bit.

cut the veggies into smaller chunks. boil salty water, put the pasta and the veggies, add a bit of oil, boil until cooked. drain.

stuff the aubergines with the meat, put on the baking tray with the foil. Cover the aubergines with the foil and put into the oven for around 30min, 200degrees

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In the meantime, heat some milk with 2 triangles of soft cheese, until melted. put the veggie pasta into it. mix and spice up.

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when the aubergines are ready, sprinkle with some cheese, put back to the oven until cheese melted.

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Serve and enjoy :)

my version of serving :)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT ? 

any comments? what is your favourite dish?

Goat cheese Risotto? por que no!

hola amigos y amigas!
Estoy escribiendo en español porque estoy en el camino a la lección español... (no sé si es correcto, perdón)

so! M & B changed our menu in the pub on Monday, and during cook-off we tried this delicious hearty goat cheese risotto. Geeeee! when I heard goat cheese I knew... I'd love it. very good. so I tried to do it at home, and since risotto is a primary school cooking, I cooked it for lunch today.

so, what do we need?

1 small red onion (I had a massive one so I used half)

bit of oil

1 and 1/2 goat cheese (100g one)

300g risotto rice

1 packet sundried tomato

half pepper (any colour)

2 cubes of veg/chicken stock, up to you which one

1l hot water

spring onion and rocket salad for garnish

how do we do it?

chop the onion and pepper, heat the oil, fry the onion and pepper until soft

add the rice and stir until its coated with oil

add the stock cubes, mix

add 1/3 of the hot water, stir until its all absorbed

add another 1/3 of water, stir 

add the rest of the water, cook and stir the risotto until its smooth and creamy, and the whole water is absorbed.

add the chopped goat cheese, mix until the cheese is melted

add the sun-dried tomatoes and spinach, mix

if you want, put a bit of rocket and spring onion to garnish on top of the risotto, on the plate.

enjoy :)

Passion fruit/maracuja mousse = brazilian summer

I subscibed to BBC Good Food magazine, and in the June edition I found a brazilian #passion #fruit #mousse traybake recipe. so... why not? I gave it a go. It's chilling in the fridge now:-)

in the meantime, Im sharing the recipe with you.

Ingredients:

for the base:

250g digestive biscuits
100g butter

for the mousse:

4 x passion fruit
2 x 400ml condensed milk
1 x 300ml double cream, whipped
250ml passion fruit juice, from the box
4 x sheets gelatine

for the mango coullis:

2 x mango
2 x teaspoons sugar
juice from 1 lime

how to make this?

crumble the biscuits in the food processor, dissolve the butter and mix in the biscuits, put in the tray, make the base.

cut the passion fruits and spoon out the flesh, mix with the box juice.

take the gelatine sheets and put into cold water to soften .

put the juice and passion fruit flesh in the pan and heat it up. take the gelatine sheets out of water, put into the juice, stir until dissolved. leave to cool down.

whip the double cream, add the condensed milks (I used only 1.5 because I thought it would be too sweet), mix and add the cooled down passion fruit mixture. stir. pour onto the cookie base.

cut one mago, put into the food processor along with the lime juice and sugar, mix until smooth.

cut the other mango into small pieces, stir into the coullis.

put into the fridge to cool down:-)

enjoy:-)

and the resault:

Carrots, Carrots! = carrot cake!

My boy loves carrot cake, so... I decided to get up early, go to the shop to get the ingredients... 2h later puufff! Carrot cake reaaady :) And honestly, that was the best carrot cake I've ever eaten...




 So! What do we need?

For the cake:

175g caster sugar
175ml sunflower oil (or any)
175g of self raising flower
3 large eggs
140 grated carrots (I used 4 medium ones)
100g raisins 
grated zest of one orange and the juice
1 tbs of bicarbonate of soda
1 tbs of ground cinnamon
2tbs of mixed spice
some finelly chopped nuts, if you like

For the frosting:

1 bar of white chocolate
1 tub of mascarpone cheese
leftover juice from orange

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1.  Preheat the oven to 180C

2. Grate the carrots, put aside

3. Combine the orange zest, raisins and nuts and orange juice in the container, microwave for 1min, leave to cool (raisins will become moist and very juicy in the cake after that, giving this nice orange flavour)

4. Combine sugar, eggs and oil in the bowl, whisk thoroughly until smooth, add the bicarbonate of soda, flour and spices into the mixture, add carrots and raisins (no juice) mix thoroughly. The cake mixture will be fairly soft and almost runny.

5. prepare the cake tin: oil and line the base and the sides of the tin with the baking parchment. Pour the mixture in and bake for 40-50min (I baked for exactly 40min and it came out beautifully brown)

6. Pour the leftover orange juice from the raisins to the jar or bowl, put the white chocolate in, heat it until the chocolate melted, mix until the chocolate mixes well with the juice. Set aside until cool.

7. Whisk the mascarpone, mix in the white chocolate mixture, put in the freezer to get firm.

8. take the cake out of the tin, leave on the plate until it's only slightly warm. 

9. Spread the frosting on top of the cake.

10. ENJOY THE CARROT GOODNESS :))

Stuffed bread roll with mince

Hello Again!
This time something from my mom's kitchen, when I was at home.

She made it once and I fell in love with it. So I made it twice already and my flatmates and boyfriend got mad about it. We want more :-)

So!
If u want to make 1 bread roll per one person, you need to have:
4ppl:
1 pack of minced meat (any, for me lamb's the best
Spices you like
4 bread rolls
4 eggs
A bit of milk
Onion and garlic
Grated cheese
1 packet of cream cheese

1. Firstly cut the onions and garlic and fry a bit, put the meat and fry, spice up to taste (thyme is very welcomed)!

2.Take the rolls, cut off the top and take the inside out (they need to look like nests)

3. Take the cream cheese and spread it inside the whole roll, the whole inside has to be covered

4.  Put a bit of salt and pepper in the bread rolls

5. Put the cooked meat in the rolls, leave around a 0.5cm for the egg.

6. Take the eggs and crack 1 egg on the top of the meat of each roll

7. Put in the oven until the egg is cooked medium-ish

8. Put the grated cheese on top of the rolls and put them back in the oven until the cheese is melted

9. Serve with any salad you want.

Bon appetite :-)