cooking

Pilaf night with oven baked chicken and home made beet pickles (of course made last night but Instagram was down)

Enchilada-ish ‘summer’ rolls. The lentels worked great with the mix pork/beef ground meat, sweet corn, peeled tomatoes sauce and onion. Added a touch of mozzarella to keep them nice and moist and wrapped them in pastry. Cooled them down in a nice yogurt sauce with chopped kalamata olives. ie

Mini wraps with pork, zucchini, carrots and mozzarella. Did a fresh Greek yogurt sauce with stir fried bell peppers and hard cheese.

It’s funny that after I cooked this I was watching a show on food TV with Jamie Oliver and he was saying that people tend to not homecook since meals are usually complicated. He was making a 5 ingredients meal, and lo and behold we have our own 5 ingredients meal. In order of their pan-tastic debut Bacon with thyme Onions Peas Corn And the star of the show 5. Oven baked chicken wings

Keeping it simple, meatballs, mash and cabbage each with their own little twist

His and hers soup. What you pick from the pot makes a big difference

This dish reminds me of the movie lady and the tramp. The meatballs are a beef, yogurt, sesame seeds and cheese mix while the sauce is as plain and simple you can make it with tomato paste, sugar to balance it out and a touch of basil

There are days with decent plating, and days when I am too lazy. Did some nice oven baked chicken fingers with a mix of flower, semolina, corn flower and sesame seeds (I really need to buy a brush to add some egg at the end) and some simple baked potatoes and beet. Since it is so hot here I did a refreshing yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese and cucumber dressing with sesame seed to keep it in the theme :)

again. A seared bacon with thyme and chicken base; nice leek, carrots and spring onions as super veggies; added chopped tomatoes sauce, tomato paste and a “touch” of think sour cream (wife’s favorite). The cherry on top is a smoked shredded cheese.

Even if it’s hot outside I still love to cook in the oven since it fits my lazy side. Nothing beats potatoes with a nice bechamelish sauce (I replaced the milk with a yogurt and sour cream mix and a touch of warm water) and of course I cooked chopped onions in the butter. The chicken is the standard 180degrees ventilation with just a touch of paprika. All finished with spring garlic to make it pretty and taste good....