Sandwich, sounds like ordinary?

Sandwiches are deep.

They can be grummet with nice sauces, even using minimum ingredients.

The key is choosing topings and sauces wisely.

Here's one of my sandwich recipes recently I made.

Mediterranean food inspired spicy prawn sandwich.

Caper iori sauce(will make loughly 1cup)

Capers 1tsp

Garlic 2 cloves

Dijon 1 tbsp

EVO (olive oil )250ml

Salt and pepper

Pan roasted pepper

Yellow or orange or red pepper 1 pc sliced in julian

 EVO

S+P

Spicy prawns

Prowns 4,without head, devained

Caiene powder 1/2 tsp

Cumin seed a pinch

S+P

EVO 

Lemon zest, lemon juice,hint of

Caper iori

Put dijon and caper, peeled garlic in a food processor.

Mixing them and adding the EVO very slowly.Don't add oil at once. It will be split.

Once the mixture reached stable and saucy, add oil more quickly, add salt and pepper to finish.

Pan roasted pepper

Just like you make stair fries, stair the pepper, salt and pepper to finish.

Make them bunch and keep it in air tight container, you can use them for salad, sandwiches, any other toppings.(2days)

Spicy prawns

Clean the prawns and put in a bowl, add spices and S+P and marinate.

Heat the pan high heat(I used same pan after the peppers.), put EVO, fry the prawns.

Once the prawn's edge became curly( if devained) and have nice colour, flip and fry, add hint of lemon zest and lemon juice.

Add white wine will increase flavor.

For the sandwich, I added spinach and tomatoes.

How was your Easter?

To me, Easter = Chocolate. 
You know, in every christian related events, people give people chocolates, that is awesome.

After the holidays,don't you think you have a bit too much chocolate if you live by yourself.
Here's an idea for you, without wasting chocolates, avoiding gain your pounds.
Let's make chocolate spread with ingredients from your fridge.

Recipe: 

Sterilize the bottle(s) for keeping the spread.This is important! 

How to: put the jar without the lid 10 min in 350F oven and remove from the heat.

Boil the lid in a small pot with boiling water, and dry it.

Chocolate, semi sweet or bitter, any kinds but no filling or nuts 200 g 
Peanuts butter or almond butter, hazel nuts butter, ( I recommend organic) 2 Tbsp
Sunflower seed oil or coconuts oil 1/4cup

Soy milk or milk 3Tbsp

Maple syrup or honey 1Tbsp

Cococa powder 1 Tbsp
*Use good chocolate as much as you have -  if you have sensitive taste buds.

Chop the chocolate.As thin as you can is the best.
If you have a larger baking tray than your cutting board, put the baking tray under the cutting board.It works to catch the chocolate chunks out side of the board.

Boil the water in a pot.
 In a heatproof bowl that fits over the pot, put chopped chocolate and everything. Change the heat into medium.

When the chocolate started to melt, change the heat in low, occasionally mix with spatula or wooden spoon, be careful for the temperature goes too high. It will spread the chocolate and oil.

When you felt the temperature went too high, remove the bowl immediately from the heat. 

When it shines, time to put your nut butter. Combine them together and remove it from the heat.

Additional: when you melt the chocolate, add vanilla beans or some liquor will make the spread fancy up.
Put the spread in your favourite airtight jar.

Sorry..bunny...

On the edge of chocolate is slight separate. If you like it to be perfect, you shouldn't bring it like this.
Otherwise if you are laid back and easy going, it works fine.

Love vintage jars.

Use your leftover Jam

I like Jam.

Sometimes I make my own, when summer comes.

 A bottle of jam, it is too much amount if I use it only toasts for myself.

Maybe put it in yogurt?

Here is another two ideas.

You can make a nice soda.

Only two ingredients:

1 or less table spoon of jam 

 a glass of sparkling water

Melt the jam : mixing with a bit of hot water.

Put in the jam, sparkling water and mix them together, put ice in.

Berries or cherry jam are the best. If you want it more fancy, add a hint of lemon zest and juice. Put mint leaves on the top, here you have perfect summer drink!

Adding liqur in it, you can make beautiful cocktail.

Pork tenderloin with fruits sauce sounds difficult? Using jam, super easy.

Just fry the pork with white wine and salt + pepper, once the meat have been done, remove from the pan.

Keep the pan on the stove with super low heat, put 2 table spoon of jam in remaining gravy and let them combine.

If you want serious gravy sauce, put 2 tsp flour and 1/2 tsp mustard, will be a bit tricky when you combine them into the gravy.I will write it about in the future.

..and done! I used cherry Jam. Might be nice with berry jams or orange marmalade too.

Mangiare cacciatore

From the last post, here I will introduce a dish using the tomato sauce.

Chicken cacciatore inspired meal.

Chicken cacciatore is hunter style chicken, usually with garlic,onion, bell peppers and tomato, wine.

I used one more veggetable, zucchini for the colour(actually it stayed in my fridge for few days that's why).

First,here is a bit out of subject, about buying meats.

I will recommend you to buy meats from butcheries, the meats taste much, much better than at supermarkets. Don't worry about it will cost a bit higher than at super markets -  the taste will make you really happy and you will appreciate about what you are eating.

Second, the recipe..

Checken thights with born and skin about 100-120g

Salt+Pepper

Flour about 3 Tbsp

Olive oil about 2Tbsp

Garlic 1clove

Onion 1/4 diced small

Yellow or red pepper 1/3 diced small

Zucchini (optional) 1 inch, diced small

Tomato sauce(see the last post) half of the recipe

White wine about 30ml

Bay leave 1

Salt+Pepper the chicken and dust with flour.

Pan fry the chicken with oil until both surface gets golden, remove the meat from the pan, keep the oil.

Put onion in the pan and stair it until it become transparent.

Put other vegetables, stir it few minutes and put Tomato sauce and white wine, bay leave and move them into a small pot.

Put the chicken in the pot, braise for 30 min, finish with salt and pepper.

Third, the photos..

Dust,salt and pepper the chicken.

 Chopping with drinking.Don't drink too much..

Nice colouration.

 This wine.Too smooth to drink..I didn't get drunk, though.

Mangiare!

I served with millet with beans this time, I felt the cacciatore is too rich for the millet ,it is better fitting with pasta.