Marinated Mushrooms

Today I was browsing in a grocery store and found this easy and delicious recipe:

Marinated Mushrooms


Ingredients

1 packet of mushrooms
1/2 dl olive oil
2 or more garlic gloves chopped
fresh oregano
dried mint

Mix all ingredients in a bowl..


... put the mushrooms in a foil...




Bake in 200C for 20min until the juice from the mushrooms in dripping out.


Serve with vegetables, fish, steak, chicken.. or let it cool in a fridge and eat them the next day!

Kürbis- Fenchel- Croustade

Habe euch schon mal von dieser Speise erzählt. Das Rezept ist von hier. Dem gibt es auch nichts zu widersetzen :) Hier aber nochmal kurz zur Übersicht, was man alles braucht:

1 Zwiebel
2 Knoblauchzehen
300 g Rinderhackfleisch
300 g Fenchel
300 g Kürbis
1 Packung Schafskäse (Feta)
Salz, Pfeffer, Chili-Pulver nach Geschmack
1 Paket Yuffka-Teig

Gemüse klein schneiden, bzw. fein hobeln. Zwiebeln und Knoblauch in Öl glasig dünsten, Hackfleisch hinzugeben und anbraten. Danach Fenchel und Kürbis hinzugeben und kurz mitbraten. Anschließend das Ganze nach Geschmack würzen und den Schafskäse untermischen.

Den Yufka-Teig wie hier in einer Kuchenbackform vorbereiten, die Füllung (etwas abgekühlt) hinzugeben und verschließen. Mit zerlassener Butter bestreichen und dann ~30 Minuten bei 180°C im vorgeheiztem Backofen backen.

A Basic Greek Salad and Snack Potatoes

Both of these dishes are my favourite stay-at-home-and-snack foods - so easy to make and delicious!

Basic Greek Salad

1 cucumber
1 pepper
5 cherry tomatoes
1 red onion
1 packet feta in olive oil
1-2 handfuls of black olives

olive oil
lemon juice
salt and pepper
a bit of balsamic vinegar if you like

Chop and mix all the ingredients in bowl. Let it rest for a while before serving.


Snack Potatoes


4-5 potatoes
fresh chives
olive oil
lemon juice
salt and pepper

Peel and cut the potatoes, heat the oven to 220C. Mix olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper in a bowl - add the potatoes into bowl and mix the marinade well into the potatoes.

Roast potatoes in mid rack for 30min. Then add another mix of marinade and fresh chives. Roast for 10-15min more, depending how the potatoes look like.

Soy and Ginger Salmon

Here is a lovely new recipe from Epicurious which I modified a bit:

Soy and Ginger Salmon (with Sesame Noodles)

Ingredients

800g salmon

Marinade

0,5 dl brown or normal sugar

1 organic lemon

1 garlic glove

fresh chives

soy

1 teaspoon olive oil

fresh ginger or ginger paste, a few teaspoons

1 dl orange juice

Mix all marinade ingredients except orange juice in a small kettle and cook until sugar is melted.

Add orange juice.

Put the salmon in a plastic bag or in a pan, add the marinade and make sure it's all over the salmon and let it rest in a cool place. Ideally the salmon should sit in the marinade for 3hrs- overnight but I didn't have time for that, so I took it out after an hour.

Heat a iron pan and add a bit of butter. Pour the marinade into a small kettle and let it cook slowly while you cook the salmon. Add the salmon on a very hot pan, skin side down, and let it cook for 6minutes. Turn the salmon around carefully and let it cook for few minutes more. The skin of the salmon should go off very easily at this point.

Put the salmon on a plate, pour a bit of marinade on it, add fresh chives.

Sesame noodles

1 packet ( 300g) whole wheat egg noodles

Marinade

0,5 dl soy

2 table spoons sugar

4 garlic gloves, smashed

2 table spoons rice wine vionegar

3 table spoons sesame oil (I used a sesame/chili oil mix)

1/2 table spoons chili sauce (I used sweet chili sauce)

5 table spoons oil

Mix all the ingredients, cook the noodles according to the instructions on the packet. After the noodles are ready, pour water away and mix the marinade with the noodles.

Ahhh, delicious and easy dinner for 2!

Steak Sandwiches

I found another great recipe from Epicurious which I modified a bit.

Here is my version of Steak Sandwiches:


Ingredients:

4 big tomatoes
2 onions
1-2 cups of olive oil
2-3 garlic gloves
4 pork or beef steaks
2 table spoons of white wine vinegar
2 teaspoons of sugar
1/2 cup finely chopped cilantro
1/2 cup finely chopped mint
1 fresh bread
salt and pepper

How To Do It:

Preheat oven to 250C with rack in middle.

Toss tomatoes with shallots, garlic, oil, and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt in a shallow baking dish, then arrange tomatoes cut sides up. Roast, uncovered until tomatoes are tender but still hold their shape and are starting to brown, 35 to 45 minutes. Let them cool in room temperature.

Sprinkle each steak all over with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper (total per steak). Cook them medium-rare in a frying pan / grill / . Transfer to a cutting board.

Cut bread into 2 cm slices, add butter into a frying pan, add bread slices and let them cook until beautifully brown on both sides.




Stir together vinegar and sugar until sugar is dissolved, then stir in herbs. Spread one side of each bread slice with some of herb mixture (about a tablespoon per slice). Slice steaks, then make into sandwiches with bread, roasted tomatoes and onions.

As a bonus I added some home made coleslaw to my sandwiches.

Ingredients:

1/4 cabbage
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
salt and pepper

Cut cabbage into thin slices add spices, olive oil, vinegar and toss in a small bowl.

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