Clafoutis with mixed Fruits

The fruits are topped with sweetened Condensed Milk and a pancake like batter.

It is a good recipe to get rid of a bunch of fruits sitting around. But feel free just to use apples or pears.

The apples and pears don't need to be peeled, just wash them and take the core out. Cut in small pieces. Store them in a bowl with water and the juice of one lemon. That prevents discoloration.

Butter a rectangular baking dish and sprinkle some breadcrumbs on the butter. Drain the fruits well and put them evenly in the dish.

Open the can of sweetened condensed milk and pour on top. Do not mix it in.

Prepare the batter by beating sugar and eggs together, adding the flour and the other ingredients and make a pancake like consistency. Let it rest 10 minutes.

Preheat the oven 180 C.

Pour the batter over the fruits and place the dish in the oven for 40 minutes.

After baking let it cool down to roomtemperature, then serve. You can try to get the upside out of the dish.

Ingredients:

3 apples, 2 pears, 1 banana, 75 g raspberries

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 lemon

3 eggs

150 g sugar

200 g sifted flour

250 ml milk

120 ml oil

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

Pickled Eggs or Sol Eier

There are hundreds of recipes for eggs stored in a jar. Many years ago often found in Bars on the counter.

Some are still in their shell others are peeled. This recipe is adapted from a good friends grandmother. I still remember her jar she had in the last century.

I was at the Nuerburgring again and bought 10 eggs for the long weekend. But things changed and I haven't used one. At home were more eggs.

In the jar the hard boiled eggs have to sit in the pickling liquid at least 3 days in the fridge. But eat them the next 10 days and they are good.

Ingredients:

9 eggs

1,2 l water

200 ml white vinegar

1 tbsp sugar

3 tbsp salt

1 yellow onion with peel

1 garlic clove

3 bay leaves

1 stalk dill

8 juniper berries

1 tsp carraway

1 tsp yellow mustard seeds

White pepper

1 pinch quarte epice

Cook the eggs 10 min and place them in cold water. Crack the shell all around but it has to stay with the egg. Put them in a large jar.

In a pot get all other ingredients in, bring it to a boil and cook for 5 min. Let it cool down a little then get all the stuff in the jar and fill the liquid in. 

Cool it down and then put it in the fridge.

Zucchini Risotto with Cream Cheese and Dip

I made a zucchini dip and the biggest part of my vegetable was left over.

The risotto was planned as a cheesy one, but the piece of zucchini was still sitting on my cutting board, so I decided to put it in the risotto in the end for texture.

This time I did not use the Thermomix, it was still in use for the dip. I did it the traditional way in a pot. A lot more work.

Recipe for 3:

190 g carneroli rice

150 ml apple cider

2 green onions

2 garlic cloves

30 + 50 g butter

600 ml veg stock

Pepper

50 g cream cheese

25 g grana padano

80 g zucchini cubed

Melt 30 g butter and toss in onion and garlic. After 3 min add the rice and coat it completely in the butter. Pour in the apple cider and let it cook down.

Prepare a pot with hot water and veg stock paste and in 3 or 4 batches add it to the rice. Stir every 5 minutes and get the heat down.

When the rice only has 3 more min, add zucchini, cream cheese and butter and stir well. Check the seasoning. Add the grana padano last.

Grilled Zucchini Dip

Or Courgette Dip.

Some call it pesto because they like to eat it with pasta. But I will use it in different ways.

My main dish today will be some kind of risotto. I have not started it yet, but the grilled zucchini comes first.

If you can put it on an outdoor BBQ grill it will be much faster. I used my Le Creuset cast iron grill pan. It is so heavy that I need 2 hands to handle it. 

It takes some time until the 0,5 cm slices of zucchini caught some grill lines. I chucked a large green onion in bigger chunks in the pan too. A bit of avocado oil sprayed helped a bit.

In a small pan without any fat I dryroasted peeled almonds. Keep an eye on them, they will turn dark from one second to the next.

I filled my Thermomix with all other ingredients and added the hot veggies.  The blend kept a coarse consistency.

I added some of it to a zucchini risotto later.

Ingredients:

1 medium zucchini/courgette

4 garlic cloves

8 sorrel leaves

A bunch fresh basil

50 ml olive oil

Salt and pepper

35 g Grana Padano

Chicken Strips in Tomato Sauce

I am in a new AirB&B near the Nuerburgring to take part in the Green Hell Driving Days over the German Unify Holiday Weekend.

Since Saturday is the holiday, all shops are closed, Sunday they are always closed, I used my arrival day to do my grocery shopping on Thursday.

A busy place 2 days before the weekend. I did not want to go to a Restaurant on the weekend. Everywhere is crowded.

I decided on a meal I can eat on two days. Having a microwave in the kitchen to reheat the dish was easy.

Recipe for 2:

400 g chicken breast strips

1 jar tomato basil sauce

2 green onions

3 garlic cloves

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp butter

Italian and vegetable seasoning

Salt and pepper

300 g pasta

I used very thick pasta that needed 15 min cooking time. I started that first.

In a pan heating up oil and butter, the chopped onions and garlic went in. They needed 3 min. Then the chicken strips. They had to take color on all sides. Don't forget to season.

Next the tomato sauce with a bit of water to clean out the jar. Use pasta water for better consistency. Let it cook 5 min, then the chicken is done.

Dump in the pasta and stir everything.

Burger with BBQ Kraut

I am spending a long weekend at the Nuerburgring for the Green Hell Driving Days.  

After a 2 hour drive I stopped at Raeder Motorsport for a check up of my trackcar. Now breakpads are coming in November.

Then I drove South to Kelberg. On the outskirts beside the gas station I went to Eifel Rast for the third time. During my last stay I was here twice.

The homemade burger are always a good choice and the French fries are very tasty too. These are the fries seldom left on the plate.

I choose the Burger with BBQ Kraut and Cheese. The kraut was sauteed and sweet tangy and went well with all the other ingredients on the burger.

Eating out at an Asian place again

My friend celebrated her 72nd birthday in the middle of September. Since I was away on a racetrack, we went for lunch yesterday.

We went to Lotus Sushi & more in Gross-Umstadt. Last year we've been there too.

They have inproved their menu. It is a bit bigger with some more choices now.

I went for "hot" duck in Oyster sauce with rice and lots of vegetables. I only missed the "hot".

The other dishes were thin rice noodles with salad and seared beef and Udon noodles with duck.

As a small starter we shared some fried wan tans with chicken and carrot filling.

We all loved our food and will come back again.