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TUNA-SPINACHE LASAGNE
TUNA-SPINACHE LASAGNE
Need a quick, low fat and easy comforting diner after work! Try my delicious and healthy
For 4 people
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 onions, chopped
2 cans tuna in water, drained
1 cup quartered cherry tomatoes (optional)
1 cup frozen spinache
2 cans tomato sauce
3 garlic cloves
1 cup white wine
8 lasagne noodles
2 cups cottage cheese
2 cups mozzarella (low fat)
½ cup parmesan
Salt, pepper
Preheat oven to 180 °C. In a large pot heat oil and fry onions until browned. Add tuna, tomato, cherry tomatoes, wine, salt, pepper and garlic. Boil for a few minutes until spinache is thawed. Season to taste. In a casserole start by layering tuna-tomato sauce, then follow by layering lasagna noodles, tuna-tomato sauce, cottage cheese, mozarella, lasagna noodles, tuna-tomato sauce, cottage cheese. Top with mozzarella, parmesan and pepper. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
EASY CHOCOLATE-NUT CAKE
EASY CHOCOLATE-NUT CAKE
As simple as it gets…Through all these ingredients together, bake and …tada….done is your cake!
5 eggs
2 cups sour cream
2 cups sugar
1 cup cocoa powder
2 cups flour
2 Tsp baking powder
½ Tsp salt
2 cups almonds and walnuts, ground
1 cup oil
Mix all ingredients and bake for 60 minutes at 180°C.
MEXICAN CHICKEN FAJITAS
MEXICAN CHICKEN FAJITAS
There are certain kinds of food that I cannot get enough from. Well…Fajitas are definitely one of them. I just love this mixing and matching and the way this is a wonderful socializing family food. And the best thing is it is really easy to make!
For 4 persons
12 soft Tortillas
1 kg chicken breast, cut into fine stripes
6 cloves garlic, crushed
70 ml olive oil
2 large onions, cut into fine half rings
4 tomatoes, pitted and cut into stripes
2 green bell peppers, pitted and cut into stripes
1 Tbsp paprika powder
Salt and pepper
Serve with: Guacamole and hot salsa
Mix 4 crushed garlic cloves, 50 ml olive oil and cut chicken breast and set aside. Cut the veggies. Heat a large pan (or wok) until very hot and quickly fry chicken from all sides. Remove chicken from the pan and set aside. Heat rest of the oil in the pan and fry onion until browned, then add bell peppers, tomatoes and 2 garlic cloves, pepper and paprika powder and fry for a few minutes. Add chicken breast and mix well. Let simmer until chicken is tender about 15 minutes. Warm tortillas between two wetted plates in the oven or microwave until warmed. Serve with: Guacamole and hot salsa
How to eat: Take a tortilla place all the ingredients you like in the middle line leaving a bit space on the bottom side facing you. Fold up the side facing you and then the left and right side to form a package that is open at the upper end. Now you can pick this up and eat with your hands.
HOW TO RID YOUR CARPET FROM ODORS, NON-TOXIC
HOW TO RID YOUR CARPET FROM ODORS, NON-TOXIC
Well, I love my carpet but the dog of my friend unfortunately does too… There is a non-toxic way to get rid of any kind of smell from your (flokatti) carpet.
Baking soda
Sprinkle a good amount of baking soda evenly over the carpet. With the shut off vacume cleaner rub it into the carpet. Let sit for at least 1 hour up to one day. Then vacume clean as usual.
BASLER LEBKUCHEN (LECKERLI)
BASLER LEBKUCHEN (LECKERLI)
Ok…I must admit these are addictive. I have to pull away my family from the cookie jar to save some for Christmas.
350 g honey
350 g sugar
150 g ground almonds
150 g chopped walnuts
250 g Orangeat and Zitronat
500 g flour
30 g cinnamon
2 Tsp ground cloves
2 Tsp baking soda (Natron)
4 cl Schnaps (hard liquor like Coantreau or Williams)
Cook 250 g sugar and honey until liquid. Mix all dry ingredients. Add warm sugar-honey mixture and Schnaps and knead to form a homogenous dough. Let sit at room for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 200 °C. Roll out dough between two baking sheets to form a finger thick square. Place on a baking sheet lined baking pan and bake for 20 minutes. Cook rest of the sugar with a little water and spread over still warm cookie square. Cut into little squares and let cool completely. Store in cookie jars.
HOME MADE SUSHI RICE
HOME MADE SUSHI RICE
I just love sushi. With this easy tricks you can eat fresh home-made sushi whenever and with the high quality you want without paying the extraorbitant prices real sushi places charge. Come on …they are realy crazily expensive!
2 cups uncooked glutinous white rice (sushi rice)
3 cups water
1/2 cup rice vinegar
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Rinse the rice in a strainer until the water runs clear. Combine with water in a pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover and cook for 20 minutes. Rice should be tender but with a bite and water should be absorbed. Meanwhile, combine the rice vinegar, oil, sugar and salt. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Pour the hot rice into a big bowl and spread out. Pour the vinegar mix over the rice and mix it in slicing motions with a wooden spatula or spoon. Don’t stir, that will make the rice stick together too much and be smushy. Mix until rice is dry and slightly sticky.
Let cool and make your favourite sushi. No limits for creativity!