Salad with boiled egg and asparagus

An idea that raised from the need to take advantadge of the ingredients I had in my fridge.  So, i prepared this simple salad with a good result.

INGREDIENTS (for two persons):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- A piece of leek.
- 1 tomatoe.
- 100 grs. of asparagus.
- Pistachio.

For the dressing:
- Mayonnaise.
- A little white pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce or the salad prepare as the base into the salad bowl.
- Boil the egg.
- Pick up the leek in pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the boiled egg and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the tomatoe into pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Pick up the asparagus into pieces and spread it over the salad bowl.
- Spread up the pistachios over the salad bowl.
- Now, mix in another reccipient the mayonnaise and the white pepper. 
- Dress the salad with the mix between mayonnaise and pepper.
- Serve it!

 

Lavender cookies with a lemon esence

The second one today.  A dessert.  Who could resist to a cookie?  Well, i adore cookies.  And, in this case, is very simple to prepare cookies.  And, you can prepare it in every moment, because i used ingredients that everybody have always in the kitchen.

INGREDIENTS:
- 100 grs. of flour.
- 50 grs. of butter.
- 80 grs. of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- A handful of lavender branches.
- A half a lemon.

PREPARATION:
- First of all, you have to warm the butter up, until it were liquid.
- Mix the butter with the sugar.
- Add the two eggs beated to the previous mix, and remove.
- Add the flour and the lavender branches, and remove.
- Add the juice of the half lemon, and remove the mix until it were melted and thick.
- In a piece of vegetal paper, put little pieces of the dough.  Separe it well, to avoid that the final cookies were melted.
- Preheat the oven, until it had a high temperature.  Put the pieces and cook it.
- You have to repeat the previous step until you finished the dough. 
- Serve it!

(1) - You can use an orange instead a lemon, and you will obtain the cookies with an orange esence.

Eggs in the nest

I'm here again!!  After a long time, i've prepared a new dish.  Thanks to a friend of mine, i think in preparing something very easy and delicious.  Something that have so much ways to prepare it, and so much combinations.  It consist on fill a piece of bread with a filling and an egg.  The filling i choose for today is a mix of fried potatoes and sauté spinach.  I hope you like it!!!

INGREDIENTS (for one person):
- A piece of little bread.
- A little potatoe.
- A handful of spinachs.
- A little spoonful of milk.
- A clove of garlic.
- A pinch of salt.
- A pinch of pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Cut the potatoes into slices. 
- Fried up the potates slices into a frying pan on a slow flame, picking the slices while they're frying.  Add the clove of garlic into little pieces.  When the potatoes were well done, not toasted, retire it.
- Stir the spinachs into a frying pan for 2-3 minutes and retire.
- Cut the high part of the bread piece, retire the crumb.
- Wet the bread piece with the milk, to avoid the bread were hardened.
- Put the mix of spinachs and potatoes into the piece of bread (the nest).
- Break the egg into "the nest" of bread, adding a little pepper and salt.
- Put "the nest" of bread into the oven during 5-10 minutes, until the egg were prepared.
- Serve it, accomplished, as example, with little pieces of tomatoes, as in the example.

ADVICE:
- As i said before, you can use another kind of filling.  Please, try with another ingredients.  The result will be as delicious as this one.  

Cherries clafouties

INGREDIENTS:
- 150 grs. of cherries.
- 20 grs. of flour.
- 30 grs. of powdered almonds.
- 80 grs. of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- A little vanilla.

PREPARATION:
- Beat the two eggs in a recipient.  Add the sugar, the milk and the vanilla while still beating.
- Add to the previous mix, the powdered almonds and the sifted flour.
- Spread the mass into little recipients, not plenty.
- Pick up the cherries, and add to the recipients.
- Heat up the oven at high temperature during almost five minutes.
- Put the recipients into the oven, and wait almost 10-15 minutes, or the mix was settled.
- Serve it.

A FINAL ADVICE:
- We can use strawberries instead of the cherries.

Seafood and wild asparagus covered by a poached egg

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- 200 grs. of elver.
- 100 grs. of prawns.
- 10-12 wild asparagus.
- 1 clove of garlic.
- 2 eggs.

PREPARATION:
- Cut the wild asparagus into little pieces and fry it gently into a frying pan with a little garlic cutted.  Retire.
- After it, fry the elver and the prawns gently into the frying pan, with a little garlic.  Retire.
- Now, we have to poach the eggs.  We have to do it as we saw into the eggs benedict recipe. 
- To serve, put the elver, the prawns and the asparagus as the basis for our dish, sitting the egg in the middle of the dish.
- To start eat this dish, break the egg yoke, and deliver it over the elver.

Eggs Benedict

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- 8 eggs.
- 2 pieces of sliced bread.
- 250 grs. of butter.
- 4 slices of bacon.
- 1/2 lemon juice.

PREPARATION:
- The first we must prepare, is the "dutch sausage".  Melt the butter over low heat.  When it was prepared, retire the white part of the melted butter and reserve it.
- Put a pan plenty of water over medium heat. 
- Meanwhile, retire 4 egg yolks into a different recipient, and put over the pan with the water, as a double boiler, while we beat it.
- Add the melted butter slowly while we're still beating the eggs yolks until the mix were thicken, adding finally the lemon juice.  Reserve it.
- Now, taking advantadge of the boiled water, we're going to poch the 4 remaining eggs.  Add a little vinegar to the boiled water and, one at a time, break the 4 eggs and, slowly, slide its into the boiled water, retiring it when it were well poched.  Reserve it.
- Pass the 2 pieces of sliced bread over a frying pan, to get two toasted bread.
- Pass the 4 slices of bacon over a frying pan.  Reserve it.
- To serve, put the 2 pieces of toasted bread.  In every piece, put two slices of bacon and 2 poched eggs, sliding a little "dutch sausage" over it.     
- Serve it.

Poached eggs with elver

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- 200 grs. of elver.
- 1 clove of garlic.
- 1 chili pepper.
- 2 eggs.
- 2 spoonfuls of white wine vinegar.

PREPARATION:
- Pick up the clove of garlic and the chili pepper into little pieces.  Fry it into a frying pan with a little oil.
- Add the elver, and remove it until it were well done.  Reserve it.
- Crack one of the eggs into a separate recipient, while were boiling a little water with the vinegar.
- When the water were boiled, slide out softly the egg over the water.  Let it boil during roughly a minute and a half, and retire with an skimming spoon.  Reserve it.
- Repeat the same operation with the oher egg.   
- Put the elver as the botton of the dish.  Over it, put the eggs yolks, separing the egg white part.
- Serve it.

Cesar Salad

Today is the moment to review old dishes.  This is my version about the so well knewn césar salad.

INGREDIENTS (2 people):
- Lettuce or a salads bag.
- 2 chicken steaks.
- 1 egg.
- 100 grs. of breadcrumbs.
- Grated cheese.

For the dressing:
- 4 spoonfuls of mayonnaise.
- 2 spoonfuls of olive oil.
- 1 clove of garlic.
- 3-4 spoonfuls of lemon juice.
- A little white pepper.

PREPARATION:
- Put the lettuce (or the salads bag) well washed as the base into the salad bowl.
- Boil the egg.  Once the egg is boiled, pick up in littel pieces and reserve it.
- Pick up the chicken into little pieces, and fry it, until the chicken were well toasted.
- Add the breadcrumbs, the chicken pieces and the egg.
- For the dressing, mix up into a separate recipient the oil, the mayonnaise, the garlic well picked and mashed, the lemon juice and the white pepper.
- Dress the salad withe the mix prepared in the below point.
- Add the grated cheese, remove and serve it.