Something nice for dessert
Whatever juice is left in the fridge, last berries from my frozen stash, mint from the garden. Looks great, but hardly can be called cooking.
Quick fix
Avocado filled with rice and salmon
Suhi salad...
I had no heart to make a proper rolls and came up with two ways to enjoy the sushi taste in half the time. It won’ substitue the real thing, but when I’m in a hurry it works very well. Quick chop and toss, dash of wasabi, splash of soy, meal is ready.
Oriental Meal
Love the dinners I can toss together in 20 minuets. Rice noodles, some prawns and veggies. A touch of Chinese sauce, and I can start my evening wind down.
Something Prettyful for Weekend Tea
Free hand baking – no recipe to talk about. Challah type of dough filled with poppy seeds, walnuts and dates. Decoration… don’t know what came over me.
Good dish in the restaurant gets my imagination going and my creative juices flowing. Perfect meal out is the one I want to replicate at home. Here is the example. Steamed snapper with ginger, scallions and soy sauce. Had to use the oven with a bowl of boiling water instead of a proper steamer and snapper instead of barramundi. It works.
Backyard Harvest
Purple basil threatens to overrun me. I can consume a great deal of green, but purple is always left behind. Need to find more recipes. After all why not to take advantage of summer flavours while it lasts. Looks pretty though.
School Lunches
Looks like I finally cracked it! Cookie dough! Use it as cement to glue together as many goodies as you dare. I tried half a dozen recipes, with moderated success. They were all good, but never great. Biggest problem – too crumbly. Not a handy thing for kids during lunch break to go around the school with handful of bits of what was supposed to be a convenient snack. Out of desperation I tried to experiment with basic cookie dough. Result far exceeded my hopes.
Why not ready made? Control of cause. I can cut on sugar at least by half. Make a fruit&nut combination to cater for some fussy eaters. Warning! Not suitable for the fancy wrappings lovers.
