Capellini Pasta with Crab Sauce and Tuna

Japanese Spaghetti Sauce with Crab meat is something not so easy to come by here. I had ordered it at a Japan store in Düsseldorf.

But only pasta and sauce sounded a bit bland and adding some fresh ingredients and a jar of tuna in oil to it, made it a lot tastier.

Recipe for 2:

180 g capellini pasta

150 g tuna fish in oil

1 bag Japanese spaghetti sauce crab flavour

10 mini cherry tomatoes

1 green onion

1 tsp oil

Pepper

Seperate the tuna from the oil. Halve the tomatoes and chop the green onion.

Start the pasta in salted water.

In a pot heat up the oil, toss in the onion and after 2 min the tomatoes. Season. When the tomatoes have softened a little, add the sauce.

The sauce needs to cook 5 to 7 min in the pot. I drained the capellini before al dente and let them finish in the sauce.

Put the green from the onions in it last.

 

 

Scrambled Eggs with Shrimps

No need for bacon every time.

Up your breakfast game and serve your eggs with shrimps. 

Less fat, less greasy smoke in the kitchen and a little bit healthier.

I used my regular method for the scrambled eggs. Some potato starch in milk, eggs, seasoning and dried chives. The shrimps were ready to eat and only needed to warm through.

I put all of it on two toasted wholegrain sandwich toasts.

Ingredients:

3 eggs

30 ml milk

1/2 tsp potato starch

Salt, pepper, dried chives

1 tbsp butter

65 g ready to eat shrimps

Ground Beef and Spinach Thai style

This is a recipe from "YT Aaron&Claire ", but I changed it to my preferences heat wise. It is a Thai dish.

Ground beef is so versatile and you can find it in almost every kitchen of the world, except the countries that don't eat beef. 

A huge mountain of fresh spinach goes in the pan last. It barely fits. After a couple of stirs and 3 minutes it has dissapeared. Use even more fresh spinach and put it in the pan in two batches.

I used a homegrown habanero as the heat element, I did not have any Thai or Korean chilis at home. And a red bell pepper for color accent.

Recipe for 4:

500 g ground beef

7 garlic cloves

2 green onions

1 tbsp oil

125 or 250 g fresh spinach

1 red chili

1 red bell pepper

Sauce:

2 tbsp fishsauce

2 tbsp mirin

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp light soy sauce

1tbsp rice syrup or sugar

1 tbsp cornstarch

2 tbsp water

Pepper

1 tsp Sesame oil

Basmati

In a wok heat the oil to high. Put the beef in and let it sit to take good color, then start to flip it and break it up more. Add garlic and the white of the green onion. Don't forget the chili.

Start the basmati.

After a couple of min the red bell pepper is next. While everything cooks prepare the sauce.

Add the mountain of spinach and let it wild while stirring it with the beef. Now in with the sauce. Let it thicken and finally add the green of the onions. 

Serve with rice.

Air Fryer Cheese Hot Dogs

There are food hacks on the Internet that look interestin and good enough to try.

A hot dog with a cheese pull made in the air fryer sounded like an easy evening snack.

All ingredients on hand and the work started. Toast is bread, so wholegrain toast is bread too.

It started with flattening the slice of toast with a rolling pin. Then one side was spread with butter. 

But when you turn it to fill it and then try to roll it up, butter sticks to the plate and then to your fingers. 

Put a toothpick to prevent the rolled up toast to open again.

Put it in the air fryer at 180 C for 8 min, then turn the rolls over and give them 3 more min.

It them with pickles and ketchup.

3 slices of toast

Butter

3 slices cheese

3 tiny wieners

Some dry rosted onions

Gherkins

Ketchup

Chia Coconut Dessert

I am not a huge fan of Chia seeds.

Having some in tupperware sitting around does not make it any better.

Now I found an easy dessert that can be made without lots of work. So I've got rid of 50 g of it.

Recipe for 3 large glasses:

400 ml coconut milk

150 ml water

4 tbsp maple syrup

1 tsp vanilla ectract

50 g chia seeds

60 g shredded oats -these come later!

6 tbsp Blackberry jam

4 tbsp toasted desicated coconut

The chia seeds have to soak in the liquid for 2 hours, no cooking required. After 2 hours in the fridge I tasted it. 

FROG SPAWN

Now I had 2 solutions for the bowl: 

1= toss it

2- improve it

To improve I added fine oats and heated the bowl in the microwave for 5 min on 800 watts and stir. Then I let it sit and cool down.

Tasting it while it was cooling down showed the improvment. I decided to keep it.

Filled in 3 tall glass jars, spooned the blackberry jam on top.

Put the desicated coconut in a dry pan and heat it up. Stir often and keep an eye on it. Some minutes nothing happens, then they get brown quickly. Get them out of the pan in a bowl, otherwise they burn.

Put them on top of the blackberry jam. Let them sit in the fridge. When you serve it, tell everybody to stir it.

It even was nice for breakfast the next day.

Cauliflower Bulgour Soup with Shrimps

Cauliflower florets still in the fridge. A soup on a Saturday sounded good. 

While I baked my Spelt Bread in the morning I had found an opened package of large bulgour in the pantry where my spelt flour sat. 

From a kilo package just 160 g were left. Enough for 2 portions in combination with other ingredients. The fridge showed cooked cauliflower, an open bag of Emmenthal cheese, some leftover homemade chicken stock and some ready to eat shrimps.

Combining the chicken stock with some vegetable stock the bulgour cooked for 20 minutes. Then the cauliflower went in, the cheese and last but not least the shrimps and a little green part from a spring onion.

The tastetest showed a lack of seasoning. Some pepper and Vegeta helped.

Ingredients:

160 g large bulgour

500 ml chicken -+ veggie stock

350 g cooked cauliflower

40 g Emmenthal cheese

100 g cooked shrimps

1/2 green onion

Salt, pepper, Vegeta

Spelt Bread - no kneading

On a cold Saturday morning thinking about walking to the bakery or baking yourself is the question.

I decided on baking myself. The ingredients are at home, no supermarket needed. The recipe is from "gaumenfreundin.de

There are two interesting things about this bread: it is just stirred together and no kneading is required. If you are someone who often forgets to preheat the oven, no problem: the loaftin goes in a cold oven and then you turn it up.

Recipe:

500 ml luke warm water

7 g dry yeast or 21 g fresh yeast

1/4 tsp sugar

250 g spelt whole grain flour

250 g spelt 630 flour

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp white balsamic vinegar

Linseeds and oats for topping

Use a 25 cm loaftin and spray of oil it.

Get everything together in a huge bowl. A wooden cooking spoon is all you need. Make sure no lumps of flour are left.

Pour it in the loaftin and sprinkle with seeds amd oats.

Put in the cold oven, turn the temp to 200C

Bake for 60 min. Take it out of the tin and check if it sounds hollow. If not put it back in the oven without the tin for 5 to 10 min.