07th Nov2012

Brussels Sprout Ravioli

by marie

Pasta Dough

Knead 300 grams of plain flour, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons of water and a pinch of salt to a dough. The dough should be one not to wet ball. Cover it and let it stand for about 40 minutes.

Brussels sprout

Remove the outer leaves of 400 grams of brussels sprouts. Set aside half of them. Hash the other half in pieces.

Fry 50 grams of bacon crisp, add the chopped brussels sprouts and stew for about 5 minutes. Add 50 grams of cream and let reduce until the liquid vanished, then mix with 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs, paprika and pepper.

Vegetarian Version:

Substitute the bacon with chopped walnuts.

Ravioli

Bring 3 liters of water and a pinch of salt together with the left over brussel sprouts to a boil in a big pot.

Roll the pasta dough on the floured worktop. Cut the dough in squares or circles with a diameter of 8 centimeters. Put some of the brussels sprouts filling on each dough piece and fold them to Ravioli. Press together the edges with wetted fingers.

Cook the raviolis successively in the boiling water for 3 minutes.

In a big pan melt a tablespoon of butter add 1 tablespoon of oilve oil, a chilli, 4 tablespoons of the ravioli water, the cooked ravioli and the decanted brussels sprouts. Spice with a handful of parsley, a pinch of nutmeg, salt and pepper.

03rd Nov2012

Oatmeal Cookies

by marie

Inspired by danish oatmeal cookies I created some softer oatmeal cookies with fruit pieces.

Bring 175 ml of milk, 1 tablespoon of brown sugar and a pinch of salt to a boil. Add 40 grams of oatmeal and turn off the heat and let the porridge cool down.

Cut 80 grams of dried dates into small pieces and put them in a bowl with hot water. After 30 minutes drain off the water.

In a bowl whisk 100 grams of margarine with 75 grams of brown sugar and 1 egg. Add a pinch of cinnamon and the cooled down porridge as well as the dates and 125 grams of plain flour. Mix everything and place dough with a teaspoon in small heaps on two baking trays.

Place the trays in the oven and bake for 16 minutes at 160 degrees Celsius. Let the cookies cool down on a wire rack.

01st Nov2012

Marzipan Apple Cupcakes

by marie

Whisk 125 g of margarine, 125 g of marzipan and 75 g of sugar until the mixture is fluffy and the colour a light yellow. Add 3 eggs, one at a time and mix.

Add 200 g of flour, one tablespoon of baking powder and one tablespoon of milk.

Peel 500 g of apples and cut them into small pieces. Add the apple pieces to the dough and put the dough into cupcake moulds.

Bake for 35 minutes at 160 degrees Celsius.

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