Baked trout with vegetables and rucola

Baked Trout with Vegetables

Baking fish wrapped in foil is an excellent idea, because flavors are much more intense and the meat is more tender. The downside, as you can see from the above photo, is the presentation, which suffers a bit. Well, to be honest, I don’t have special fish plates, that’s why I served it straight from…

Mushroom quiche with potato crust topped with beetroot

Mushroom Quiche With Potato Crust

Basic quiche recipes call for pastry for the crust. However, if you want, you can replace the pastry with potatoes. I did this and here’s my potato crust quiche recipe, which you can use as base for any kind of quiche you like: mine has mushrooms, red bell pepper, parsley, dill and onions, but variations…

Stuffed pork chops served with potatoes

Stuffed Pork Chops

Although at first sight stuffed pork chop recipes might seem complicated, they are just as easy as any other pork recipe. All you need to take into account is that the total cooking time will be longer, because you have to prepare the stuffing, then to cut pockets in the chops, then to fill them…

Crustless Vegetable Quiche

Ingredients: 3 cups chopped vegetables (mushrooms, zucchini, onions, broccoli, corn, asparagus or anything else you may like) 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 eggs, beaten 1 cup heavy cream 1 cup Swiss cheese, grated 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese, grated pinch of nutmeg salt and pepper to taste Directions: Heat the olive oil in a skillet and…

Mushroom Quiche

Ingredients: 1 pie crust (frozen or homemade) 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 cups fresh mushrooms, sliced 2 cups Emmentaler cheese, shredded 1 onion, chopped 4 eggs, beaten (always buy free range eggs, they taste so much better) 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup cream nutmeg (just a pinch) salt, freshly ground pepper Directions: Heat…

Mixed Vegetable Curry

Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric 1 1/2 teaspoons coriander powder 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds 4 garlic cloves, minced 1 onion, chopped small 2 green chili peppers, chopped small 2 courgettes, chopped 2 tomatoes, chopped 2 average size potatoes, chopped 10 button mushrooms 1 average size carrot, sliced salt Directions: In a…