Quick nasi goreng

When I don't have much time to cook I like to make a pasta or a quick nasi goreng. Today was one of these days. I was busy sending job applications, go grocery shopping, clean some things and took the dogs for a long walk. I didn't want to spend the rest of the afternoon in the kitchen so I made nasi goreng, the quick way.


Ingredients


Oil (I used peanut oil)
1 Onion, finely chopped
1 Garlic clove, finely chopped
1 Leek, sliced as you like it
1 Can of sliced mushrooms
200 gram chicken breast, cut into strips
"Boemboe voor nasi goreng" from Conimex
400 gram Rice


Recipe


- Cook the rice as you normally do
- Put the oil in the pan
- Put the onion and the garlic in the pan 'til there glazed
- Add the chicken breast and fry until done
- Put the leek and the mushrooms in the pan and fry them
- Add 50 ml water and the boemboe
- Add the rice when it's done
- Serve with satay sauce, prawn crackers and fried onions (sos sate,
  keropok udang dan bawang goreng)

Have a nice meal!


Petra

Tagliatelle with salmon and mushroom

Today on the menu:


Tagliatelle with salmon and chestnut mushrooms.


It's a variation on a dish I found on the WWW a long time ago (I think it was on Smulweb.nl). Everybody in our house loves this dish!

Recipe:


Ingredients:


Olive oil
400 gram chestnut mushrooms, sliced
400 gram smoked salmon, cut into small pieces
500 gram tagliatelle
250 ml whipping cream (not whipped of course :) )
2 tbsp white wine
2 shallots, finely chopped


- Cook the tagliatelle
- Put oil in a pan, put the shallots and white wine in and let it boil down
- Put the whipping cream in the pan with the shallots and wine and
   let it boil softly
- Put oil in another pan and fry the mushrooms
- When the mushrooms are done, take them out of the pan and keep
   them warm
- Put the salmon in the "mushroompan" and fry it
- When the salmon is ready, put the mushrooms back in the pan with
   the salmon and take it of the heat
- Pour the shallots mixture over the tagliatelle when it's cooked.
- Serve the mushroom salmon mixture seperately and put a little
   parsley on top


Have a nice meal!


Petra

Tomato consomme and Panna Cotta with strawberries

As I look on the internet for recipes and other foody things I stumble upon some great works of art. I use Twitter a lot to be updated about different chefs and that's where I found this picture by Tom Kitchin. It really looks great and I wish I could take a bite.

Tomato and local mozzarella, chilled tomato consomme and tomato toast



Dishes like this inspire me to make things like a tomato consomme, so now I'm looking for a good recipe.

Another thing I found on the net was this recipe for Panna Cotta with strawberries. I never made a dessert like this before and thought I would give it a try. Boy, that was a big succes! One of my daughters called it one of the best desserts she had ever eaten!

It inspired me to make more desserts and I have already thought about variations on this Panna Cotta.

The next new thing I want to try is make macarons. I'm still looking for a good recipe so any suggestions are welcome!

Have a nice meal!

Petra

Pangasusfilet curry

One of the things I tried lately was a curry based upon a Masterchef Australia recipe "Blue Eye Trevalla and Mussel curry" Instead of Blue Eye Trevalla, because I don't live in Australia ;), and mussels I used Pangasusfilet.

All the ingredients needed for the curry.

I was very lucky to be able to buy curry leaves. They are not in the toko that often so I was glad to get my hands on them. The lady in the toko told me to put them in the freezer, so I could use them for a long time.

A very important part of cooking, the mise-en-place

Before I learned more about cooking I was doing all things at once, causing myself to be completly stressed out and never enjoying what I was doing. Now I take the time to prepare myself. I organise the kitchen, cut and dice everything I need, put all of the spices on the kitchen counter and then I start cooking. And these days I never forget to taste and use my palate to judge if a dish has enough flavour! And you know what? You can taste it in the food, because now I cook with one more ingredient: Love!

This is what looked like with al ingredients in the pan.

With the curry I served Paratha bread, I also made. I forgot to take a picture of the bread, but I was very proud! It was the first time I made something with dough that didn't fail.

Everybody enjoyed the curry and they really loved the Paratha bread! When a dish is well received it makes you want to cook more dishes :)

Have a nice meal!

Petra