Snack / lunchtime #74

This is a nice quick one with low fat!! for breakfast,lunch or snack.I'll take this almost everyday to work.No fridge at work to cool your curd? ,no problem,use an icepack under the plastic small container and put the curd in it.
The only things you need are 125ml curd,2Tbsp raisins and 50gr Kellog's.(I prefer the one with chocolate chunks).
Mix well and enjoy...

Duck breast with succory and balsamic vinegar #73

Thank god my headache was cleared,I had to make a picture of the kids (the girl is from my brother in law) for grandpa's birthday next week.He's 70!! but superb with the kids.After we take the picture's friends of us came over,had some wine,and have to cook and shoot some pics for this blog.I had not taken enough time to set the light in the right position.But the duck breast with succory, balsamic syrup and sweet potato from the grill tasted great!!.

This is how we did it.

Cook 2 sweet potatos till they are done,slice it in 2 parts and take the potato out of the shell,make some puree of it with some cheese and put it back in the shell.Heat it up on the Weber until the cheese is melted.

Make the balsamic syrup with 2Tbsp apple syrup and a few Tbsp balsamic vinegar,heat up and stir.
Cut the succory end off and peel the leave's off,bake them on a hot grate in a fry pan,add some sugar until it melt's.
In the meantime grill the duck on a hot grate 2 minutes each side.(core temp. about 52 degrees).let it rest for a few minutes.

Put the duck on the leaves and add some balsamic syrup on the duck and succory... Enjoy it with a nice smooth red wine.

Tosti / Sandwich on the grill #72

Damn, what a saturday...Headache,squash with Boris,and then to soccer with Rik,and I had to pick up my duck breast for sunday.While I was picking up my duck I get a call from the coach of Rik,due to the bad weather,the game was canceled..Thank god for this time;-).I was not in the mood for cooking,so my wife made a pan of our favorite homemade soup(tomato) and we had some hot sandwiches with it (tosti's).I asked some guys from Twitter of it would be fun to write a blog about soup and tosti's..The answer was YES sure!!! Now I got a problem...what to make from a simple meal like soup and toast..so I give it a try!!!
For the soup you need a pan of boiled water,boullion,a package dried tomato,fresh veggies cut very small,minced meat balls and noodles.Cook it for about 2 hours.Now we came to my part,the tosti's...Heat up the Weber for medium heat 150 degrees.Now I used a open grill pan to heat up the sandwiches.We made them with ham,cheese,tomato and a pinch of Balsamic vinegar..It taste awesome!! We also made some sandwich with ham,cheese,and jalapenos and a bit of biological tomato ketchup...It's also very nice to make..the kids loved it...Enjoy!!

Halloween pumpkin "Apple" cake #70

My son Rik made an awesome pumpkin for halloween. We both are big "Apple" fans,so he draw an "Apple" logo on a pumpkin and carved it out.It just turned out great!!From the pumpkin fruit we made a Pumpkin-chocolate cake.All you have to do is use the normal ingredients for a cake recipe,and add 200gr well blend pumpkin fruit and 1Tbsp chocolate powder..shove it in the oven for about an hour.Enjoy Halloween !!

Chicken legg's plum & fennel #71

Last week my colleague,was slaughter a chicken..a big one!! He gave me a few legg's,and ask me what i'm gonna do with it?..I had a nice plan of doing them in the grill (Indirect).I decide to make it with fennel and plum,the chicken was marinated for a few hours in soy,honey,garlic,thym and 5 species powder.Now it was the time to lit the charcoals. Prepare the Weber for indirect grilling.Put the chopped fennel and plum with the chicken and marinade in a skillet.Leave it in the Weber for about 90 minutes (indirect).Serve with some pomme duchesse a salad and a red wine,we had a "Settesoli" The chicken tasted awesome, it has more flavour then the one you buy from the grocery,it looks like red meat and taste like wild! The combination with the fennel and plum you have to try!! Enjoy!!

Halloween Meringue Ghosts #69

WoW,I had a nice day off as always on friday;-) the kids had holiday too,so we did some quality time together.We had a plan of doing lunch at a special restaurant called Tante Truus (dutch only). In this restaurant work only disabled people.It's so much fun to see how serious they take there job,and the food was awesome!! The kids loved it!! After we came home the oldest went to his friends,and the youngest want's to help with the "ghost's".
This is what you need,it's so easy and fun to make.Take 3 egg's (only the white) 180 gr castersugar (white).First blend the eggwhite till it's a little stiff and creamy,then add the sugar spoon by spoon and keep blending,till you have a smooth cream.Put it in a pipingbag and make the figure you want.Preheat the oven on 100 degrees.Put the figures on the baking paper and shove it in the oven for about 90 minutes.After that let it cool down.In the meanwhile you can make some chocolate "au bain marie".Now you can add it on the meringues.have fun and enjoy!!

Stew...slow cooking #68

This is so easy and quick to make and taste great.This is what you need. 800gr stew meat,400gr carrots,400gr small potato's,rosemary,clove,laurel,1 onion,1clove garlic crushed,300ml boullion,0,7 ltr red wine,pepper salt and flour.
Cut the carrot's,onion,laurel and garlic and put it in a skillet, with the wine and rosemary and boullion,heat up.
Cut the meat in pieces of 5 cm and roll it in the flour,and put it with the rest of the ingredients in the cast iron skillet, put it in the oven 110 degrees.Now the hardest part..you have to wait 5 or 6 hours till everything is done..or you go to a football match,birthday party or go shopping;-). When you came home dinner is ready....Enjoy!!