Spaghetti casserole

Spaghetti in simple tomatoe sauce.
Buon Apettito!!!!!!!!!!

Just Salad

Just lazy today, maybe because it's becoming too hot around. So I opted for a quick good salad with lettuce, tomatoes.
I hope you have a lazy day, will you?

Italian recipes: fruit ideas

With the remaining pieces of dough this is what I came up with.

Italian home made fruit jam cake

Hi my dear readers,
Italian cooking made simple. This recipe is easy to make, delicious and it will fit any occasion.
I made this yesterday evening and sorry to tell you if you came to my house now I will not have a slice to share with you. Not because I'm mean, actually it is because I love eating with friends and the cake is finished!!!! History!!!

So, let me help you make one like this, this is a recipe for you. And when you have made it please come back and share with me how it was like?


Ingredients:
300g of flour
120g of butter
150g of sugar
1 whole egg and 1 yellow
Pinch of salt and grated lemon rid

Steps: make a fountain on the flour, add all other ingredients. Mix and form a dough which you put in the fridge for atleast 1/2 an hour.

After which you roll the dough and put on the oven container making a kind of basket and fill with marmalade. Use the remaining to decorate on top. By cutting long strips and putting on top.

Bake in the Oven at 200-220° for 20-40 minutes.

This dough could be used to make bisquit we will come to this at a future date.
Keep checking

Italian salad tips

Salads:
Make sure you wash the whole leaves in cold flowing water just before serving. Could also wash in a big container full of water.

To dry use centrifuge or the traditional way in a clean kitchen towel and shake energetically to remove all water.

Cutting:
Use hands to cut salad or a pair of kitchen scissors.

Note: Don't prepare much time earlier as it tends to wither.

dressing: add the oil first then other ingredients and lastly the salt.

italian light meal

a nice easy meal for the whole family. Even the young ones will enjoy.
The dish is comprised of Chicken cooked on the pan with garlic, salt, rosemary and sage.
Then served together with some salad, (lettuce, tomatoes)
And of course some fried potatoes. Could also go well with potatoes baked in the oven
which are even healthier.
But fried potatoes every now and then is ok!

Thai fried rice

Ingredients
250g chicken breasts, cut into small pieces
1 clove garlic, smashed with the side of a knife
2 1/2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
2 cups cooked jasmine rice, at room temperature or from the refrigerator (usually rice can prepared much earlier and stored in the fridge.
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 tsp. light soy sauce
1/2 tsp. fish sauce
1 cucumber
spring onion,tomatoe (optional)- cut into small pieces

Steps:
- Heat Oil in a heavy Pan until hot over medium high heat.
- Add the chicken and cook well, about 4 minutes. Add the fish sauce, as you are cooking, to the meat. Remove from Pan and set aside (usually I put on one side of the pan).
- Add the smashed garlic, cook briefly, and the egg,then rice and the soy sauce.
- Mix together and add the onion, and spring onion cook for 1 minute and remove from the heat.
- Taste adjust the seasoning (by adding a little more fish sauce if it needs more salt)
- Remove to serving dish and garnish with cucumber

Enjoy your fried Rice!!

Being Creative

This is a decoration made with banana parts, banana leaves and flowers. I made this with some thai friends when I lived there.
Enjoy!

Thai cookery: Fried Rice

Ingredients
250g chicken breasts, cut into small pieces
1 clove garlic, smashed with the side of a knife
2 1/2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
2 cups cooked jasmine rice, at room temperature or from the refrigerator (usually rice can prepared much earlier and stored in the fridge.
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 tsp. light soy sauce
1/2 tsp. fish sauce
1 cucumber
spring onion,tomatoe (optional)- cut into small pieces

Steps:
- Heat Oil in a heavy Pan until hot over medium high heat.
- Add the chicken and cook well, about 4 minutes. Add the fish sauce, as you are cooking, to the meat. Remove from Pan and set aside (usually I put on one side of the pan).
- Add the smashed garlic, cook briefly, and the egg,then rice and the soy sauce.
- Mix together and add the onion, and spring onion cook for 1 minute and remove from the heat.
- Taste adjust the seasoning (by adding a little more fish sauce if it needs more salt)
- Remove to serving dish and garnish with cucumber

Enjoy your fried Rice!!

Grilling Causes Cancer?

An article from the daily green website

Really? Grilling Causes Cancer?

Ever since 2005, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its 11th Report on Carcinogens, there has been a simmering concern among summer-fun loving grilling enthusiasts: Does grilling meat cause cancer?

That’s because a byproduct of the searing heat, called heterocyclic amines, may increase the risk of developing some cancers. That browned appearance on meat, fish and poultry is the culprit and the same concerns apply to fried foods and any other cooking method that applies the heat directly, rather than via a liquid stew or steamy air.

And cooking anything releases smoke, laced with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are ubiquitous in urban environments anyway, but which also can end up in minute quantities in grilled foods. Those, too, are linked to cancer.

What’s a grill lover to do? Restraint and moderation are probably the best antidote to the worry.

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First vegetables from my garden

This is my very first vegetables I got from my garden. Some lettuce, snow peas, scallions (green onion or spring onion) and some parsley.
Check on this link tomorrow for the recipe.
The recipe will be:
stir fried with rice
Make sure you don't miss this one!