Monday 22 April 2013

Proteins and carbs

I have finally got the motivation and interest in sports. I have a new training program and a new diet. Well, not a lot different from my "usual" diet, just a lot bigger food intake per day. So breakfast and snacks are now in my daily routine.

Today's dinner menu said: minced beef, whole grain pasta and vegetables.

So I made this:



Minced beef pasta dish (2 portions)

2 dl whole grain pasta
200g minced beef
1 onion
1 green bell pepper
2 handfulls of fresh spinach
2 cloves of garlic
6 cherry tomatoes
½ teaspoon salt
a pinch of pepper
½ tl grill seasoning
2 tl extra virgin olive oil

Prepare the pasta. Put the oil on a pan, fry the minced meat, chopped onions and bell peppers. Add roughly chopped spinach and tomatoes. Fry until the vegetables and the meat is cooked. Season. Toss in the pasta and enjoy.

Drink: Cold milk




Saturday 13 April 2013

Weekend breakfast is the best


One of the best things about weekends is that you have time to make a good breakfast and time to eat it in peace. My red espresso machine is crucial when making a nice cup of cappucino, this morning flavoured with hazelnut syrup.



Hazelnut Cappuccino and a Fry Up

Bacon strips
Onion
Cherry tomatoes
Egg
Salt
Oil

Fry bacon and onions.Cut the tomatoes in half, season, add to the pan. Add the egg and fry sunny side up. Leave the yolk a little runny. And then just enjoy your breakfast. :)


Thursday 11 April 2013

Food Journey to Vietnam

I have wanted to try Vietnamese Spring Rolls for some time now. I have some rice paper I have bought from our local eastern food store. Lovely store! Today I went to have an apple cider in the sun (restaurants are opening patios first time this year). I felt the spring so I was inspired to make these today. It was quite nice at the patio, only about +3C but sun was shining warmly, had one cider before the wind chased us away. :)

You can stuff these with the veggies you like, spicy or not, shrimp or chicken.


Vietnamese Spring Rolls

8 sheets of rice paper
180g shrimps (peeled)
1 red chili
2 small shallots
2-3 cloves of garlic (or 1 small one-clove garlic)
2 tablespoons grated ginger
1 small yellow bell pepper
any crispy green salad
1 carrot
1 small avocado
1½ tablespoons fish sauce (vietnamese/thai)
4 tablespoons lime juice
½ teaspoon coriander powder (you can also use fresh if you like)
Sweet chili sauce

Cut the onions and chili into thin strips. Grate the ginger. Mix onions, chili, ginger, fish sauce, lime juice and coriander. Add the shrimp and put in fridge to set.
Shred the salad, grate the carrot, cut the bell pepper and avocado into thin slices. Soften the rise paper sheets one by one in hot water. Put some of all the stuffings on the sheet and roll. Cut diagonally and serve with sweet chili sauce.




I made these to be quite spicy and hot and these were really good. :) I like the stickyness of the rice paper and the avocado cuts the heat a bit.

Drink: Rainbow Rasberry flavoured sparkling mineral water, my favourite

Ngon quá!

Wednesday 3 April 2013

Linguine with raw sausage sauce

I was thinking about starting this post with "I love pasta". But then again I should start all the posts with "I love this and that"! Let's just say I LOVE food and I will try to come up with other starting lines. :) Well anyway, I do love pasta... I have not yet tried to make some myself but I just bought a pasta machine so I hope there will be a post about that too soon. 

Yesterday evening I made some pasta sauce using raw sausages. I usually have it in the freezer because it's much easier to cut while it's just a little bit thawed. With this recipe you can make a big portions for two. The sausage I use is quite basic pork sausage, spiced slightly with nutmeg, cloves, chili and black pepper.


Ingredients

250g raw sausage
1 small onion, chopped
500g crushed tomatoes
1 teaspoon dried thyme
½ teaspoon dried oregano
½ teaspoon dried basil
½ teaspoon dried parsley
½ teaspoon crushed black pepper
2 tablespoons oil
linguine or other pasta you like

Cook the pasta. While it boils prepare the sauce. Put the oil in cold frying pan. Cut the sausage into bite size pieces (I take the skin off eventhough it is edible) and add to the pan. Put the pan on medium heat and sautee until the sausages are fried on one side, stir and fry until they have some colour on both sides. Add onions and herbs. Cook until the the onions are soft and then add crushed tomatoes and pepper. Let it simmer for a few minutes. Check if the sauce needs salt and serve it with pasta.

Drink: Cold milk again, I love that too. :)




Tuesday 2 April 2013

A little snack before bed

I love avocado and I when I saw an Avocado Egg Salad recipe in Pinterest I just had to make some last night. :)
You can find the recipe here. This was really delicious! I had it on gluten-free buckwheat bread with couple of capers.



Drink: Lipton Oriental Earl Grey tea