Upside Down Pineapple and Serano Ham Pizza

I saw this on the Internet, where else!

It is not made with the usual pizza dough, but with puff pastry.

First I was a bit worried if I would be able to turn the hot pizza after it came out of the oven. It was a lot easier, not to worry.

First you have to decide which shape your pizza has. There are round and rectangular puff pastries to buy. I had a the second one and only took 2/3 off it.

Mark the baking paper if you do not have a good eye for sizes. Otherwise just brush the place on the baking paper with some olive oil. Then start with pineapple chunks and scrunched up ham. Add veggies, if you like.

Next step: some Italian seasoning and pepper and now 2 kinds of Mozzarella. First the grated dried one, then slices from a ball of fresh Mozzarella.

Now to the puff pastry. The piece cut off and then a couple of teaspoons of Calabrese pesto smeared on. Use tomato sauce or what ever yoz have on hand. Place that sauce side down on the ingredients and try to cover all of it. Press it down around the sides a bit.

Preheat the oven 220 C.

Bake for 20 min. Now comes the fun part. Put the baking paper on a board, put your plate on top and turn it over. Remove the baking paper catefully. Scrape sticky cheese directly back on the pizza.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Pudding with scrambled Eggs

Do not say yuck! And stop buying expensive "high protein" chocolate puddings at the supermarket.

When I first saw that Reel I thought WTF? But then I remembered my Moms velvety chocolate puddings everybody loved so much.

These puddings were enriched in the end with raw egg yolks and stiff egg whites. Why not use an easier way and have cooked eggs in the pudding.

It was a bit strange to take a pan with some butter, beat 3 eggs with a pinch of salt and scramble that dry in the pan.

Adding milk, agave syrup and a very heaped tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa powder to the hot eggs in the blender looked a bit strange.

A couple of whirls in the Thermomix and voila:

Looked like chocolate pudding! It tasted like warm pudding. Now it is sitting in the fridge to chill.

Ingredients for 1:

3 eggs

1 tbsp butter

Pinch of salt

50 ml milk

1 tbsp agave syrup

1 very heaped tbsp cocoa powder

Cucumber Slinky with Korean Dressing

This is called Chinese Criss Cross Cut Cucumber.

But Slinky is a good name for it too. Just a fun way to eat some spicy cucumber salad. No times for boring salads. I choose a Korean style dressing. 

Just take two wooden cooking spoons and place the cucumber in between. First step: cut the cucumber diagonal, but not too thin.

Second step: turn it on the other side and cut straight between the other cuts. Now you have a slinky and carefully pull it apart. Now you can bend it into a circle.

Dressing:

1 tsp neutral oil

1 tsp toasted sesame oil

2 tsp light soy sauce

1 tsp vinegar

1 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp agave syrup

Onion powder, garlic powder, ginger powder

Add as much Gochugaru hot pepper flakes and toasted sesame seeds as you like.

I added some chopped fresh herbs from my balcony for more freshness.

Swiss Chard with Egg on top

9 plants of colored Swiss Chard are producing a lot of leaves to pick. I am happy, that I only have to eat from these 9 ones. I offered 3 more plants to a neighbor.

Yellow, white, pink and red stems were greeting me behind the house. I took a couple of them with me to the kitchen. After a good wash, I pulled the green part off the stems and chopped the colorful stems.

Adding a green onion to the stems is a good idea. After cooking that for 5 min in some oil, the roughly chopped green parts went in. Salt, pepper and nutmeg followed.

After 3 min a splash of water was good and helped wilting the greens.

I had one broken egg sitting in a small coffee cup. That was left over from the Cloud Cake baking. I stuck it in the microwave covered at 600 watts for 2 min.

That came on top of the Swiss chard.

 

Watermelon Salsa

Summertime is watermelon time!

The only problem is that after one week with temperatures above 30 C, we are back to rain and wind and temperatues about 16 C.

My zucchini plant behind the house had two small zucchini gone black due to too much rain.

And it still raining the whole week.

But I needed something fresh going together with the piece of salmon I bought. That only went in the oven for 20 min at 180 C fan, just seasoned and with a bit of lemon.

The lemon juice went in the watermelon salad. 10 cm cucumber and a small red onion. Lots of black pepper and lemon salt. A bit of parsley and the refreshing salad was done.

Ingredients:

Watermelon, cucumber, red onion, parsley

Lemon juice, olive oil, peppet, lemon salt

Cloud Cake or Wölkchenkuchen

I wanted to bake something.

A Reel from "nadinas-fit-food" came my way. A no flour cake with only 67 cal per slice (8 slices in total).

But she used Chunky Flavour sweetener instead of sugar. This sweetener has gone through the roof here in Germany. Available in several flavours like: Blueberry, Vanilla, Caramel, Cinnamon and more. These were just the ones I found at the Protein isle of my supermarket.

I am not a huge fan of all these "healthy" sugar imitations. Aspartam, Stevia or Xilit leave a metallic aftertaste in my mouth. I don't do Zero Cokes or Sodas either.

But this recipe made me curious and I bought a vanilla chunky flavour. Do not ask me why it is called cunky. It is a very fine powder, like sieved icing sugar. 3 g of it are 50 g of sugar.

I adjusted the recipe to my liking a bit.

Recipe:

3 eggs

1 Dr.Oetker vanilla pudding powder

3 g Chunky flavour vanilla

2 tsp Bourbon vanilla sugar

250 g Vanilla Skyr

Pinch of salt

3 tsp Italian orange marmelade rosa

Butter and breadcrumbs for the 18 cm loose bottom round cake tin.

Preheat the oven 150C.

Put egg yolks in a bowl and add skyr, pudding powder, chunky flavour, vanilla sugar and give it a whisk.

Add the pinch of salt to the egg white and beat that until stiff, very stiff! Fold in with the mixture very carefully. Pour in the baking tin and bake for 45 min.

Let it cool in the baking tin for 10 min, then take it out. It shrinks!!!!

Spread some orange marmelade on top and enjoy.

Rice Cooker Tomato Rice with Salsiccia

Add a couple of ingredients to the rice in your cooker and finish a complete dish. Just add the protein of your choice and the Sunday lunch is done.

Not much time for cooking today. I am watching Fanatec GT Europe CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa. 

My rice cooker needs about 15 minutes to get the rice done. With the added veggies it took 5 more minutes. Just adjust the timer on your own cooker.

A bit of freshly ground pepper and a few chopped herbs and lunch is done.

I cut the sausages in small chunks and browned them in a small pan in some olive oil. That took only ten minutes and was done while the rice cooker was working.

Ingredients:

1 rice cooker cup short grain rice

2 tsp veg stock paste, 2 tsp Ayvar

Salt, pepper, dried chives

2 medium tomatoes

1 small carrot

20 g leek

Parsley

2,5 cups of water

Italian salsiccia, olive oil