Fish Surprise Package: Simple - Healthy - Tasty: what more do we need?

Of course there could be a bigger surprise than a meal in a kitchen foil package.... But once you have opened the package and the fragrance of the fish with the vegetables and herbs comes up to your nares and reaches your olfactory system... you will know what I mean...
And it is one of the easiest and most reliable ways to obtain a perfect cooked fish.

You need the following ingredients, apart the kitchen foil:
- Filets of shark catfisch (about 120 g / person)
- 150 g Carrots / person
- 1 teaspoon mediterranean herbs / fish filet
- 1/2 small onion / package
- Extra vergin olive oil, salt and pepper

How to prepare:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 C
2. Mix 1 Tablespoon of olive oil with 1 teaspoon herbs and marinate the fish filet in these mixture until you have finished the preparation of the vegetables
3. Wash the carrots and cut them into about 5 cm long slices. Cut the onion into small cubes ore slices and mix it with the carrots
4. Cut a piece of the kitchen foil, long enough to create later on a sort of package that can contain the vegetables and the fishfilet (about 40 - 50 cm). Interfold the foil so that it is more stable (you have now a double layered kitchen foil sheet)

5. Put a good lug of olive oil on each foil sheet and put the onion-carrots on it. Season with some salt and pepper

6. Lay the marinated fish filet on the vegetable and season also with some salt and pepper

7. Drizzle the rest of your marinade over the fish and vegetables

8. Fold the foil to create a package as shown (do not make it to tight around the content but it should be kind of airtight)

9. Put the package on a oven tray and put it into the preheated oven for about 20 - 25 min. (depending on the size of you carrots)

And now it´s time to open our package: you can smell it ?

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Madeleine is not only a womens name...

...it also means a savoury, fine, biscuit-like sweet that is really delicious to accompaign your cup of tea (or of course your cup of coffee).
It´s originary from France and I think that not so many people knows them out of France... The best way to enjoy it is really some minute after it comes out of your oven and the odour is waving all over your flat...

But to bake Madeleines theres is a rub in it : you need a special madeleines baking-tin. (You should be able to get it in a good household goods store....)
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So apart the special baking-tin you need:

130 g wheat flour (if possible self raising; if you use normal flour so you have to add 1 teaspoon baking powder)

130g soft butter

130g icing sugar

2 medium to big range eggs
1 dash of vanilla paste (I like the one from NOMU or some liquid vanilla aroma)

1. Preheat your oven to 240 C (believe me it is the right temperature!)
2. Prepare your baking tin by lining it with some butter and flour
3. Mix the eggs with icing sugar

4. Add the flour and the vanilla - blend rapidly all the ingredients together

5. Put about one tablespoon of this prepared mixture in each hole of your baking-tin

6. Put the tin in your preheated oven.

7. After 4 minutes turn down the temperature to 180 C and leave your madeleines baking for another 4 minutes.

8. Now take them out of the oven and try to wait at least some minutes before you start to eat them...with some jam..or with a glass of champagne (instead of the cup of tea...)

"Kartoffelgulasch" - my daughters all time favorite

Whenever I ask my daughter what I could cook for her to make her happier the answer is:
Kartoffelgulasch (=Potatogulasch)!!!
It is not very difficult to make and I would wonder if you would not already have some of the ingredients at home. That means that you need (for about 3 - 4 persons)

1,5 kg Potatoes (you can of course also use more or less)
2 tablespoons of ground paprika
4 Debreziner sausages ( but you can also use for example Frankfurter)
300 ml of warm vegetable stock
1 medium sized onion
3 tablespoon oil (I use sun flower oil)

1. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes

2. Give the oil in a pot and heat it up on medium heat.

3. Add the prepared onions and let them turn to light brown

4. Meanwhile peel and cut the potatoes into quarters and also cut the sausages into small pieces

5. Add the potatoes to the onion and stir from time to time for about 5 minutes until all the potatoes are well mixed with onion and oil

6.  Now add the warm stock, the ground paprika and cook for about 35 minutes (depending on your potatoes the time may vary). After 10 minutes add the sausages. Stir from time to time. The meal is ready when the potatoes are soft cooked

A cup of tea and some "Chocomandos"...

Is´nt chocolate one of the best "mind lightener"..?
If you combine it with some almond paste, puff pastry and brown sugar it gets unbeatable .. you get "Chocomando"

You need a roll of puff pastry, about 250 g almond paste, 30 g plain chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon brown sugar.
1. Preheat your oven to 180 C
2. With the rolling pin make out of the almond paste a square in the size from the puff pastry
3. Get the puff pastry out of the fridge and put the almond paste on it. Spread the chocolate chips and 1/2 of the tablespoon sugar over it.
4. Roll the so prepared puff pastry beginning on the short edge and cut it into 5 mm slíces. Now put those rolls on a oven tray (armed with some parchment paper) and disperse the rest of the sugar over those rolls.

 5. Bake in the preheated oven for about 20 min.

Before you can savour your
             CHOCOMANDOS
you should let them cool down for some minutes...

Crevettes "cachées" - "Hidden" crevettes...

This year the winter lasts quite long and the desire for some sun, the seaside, tropical flowers grows day by day...
So a dish with some crevettes might bring a little bit of  a kind of "sunny seaside feeling" into those grey winter days..

 What you need:
Peeled Crevettes (about 4 pieces / Person)
1 tablespoon Gomasio, 1 teaspoon dark Soy sauce,
2 teaspoon sesam oil and a roll of puff pastry

1. Preheat the oven at 180 C
2. Prepare the marinade for the crevettes: Put the Gomasio together with the soy sauce and the sesam oil in a mortar and mix all until obtaining a smooth sauce out of the ingredients.
3. Then pour this mixture over the crevettes and let them rest for about 10 minutes.

 4. Cut the puff pastry into squares (the size depends on the size of your crevettes) and wrap each crevette into one of those squares. (the crevettes should not be too moist..)

5. Put those "Hidden" crevettes on a baking tray with parchement paper and put them in the preheated

    oven for about 18 minutes (until the puff pastry is golden brown)

Enjoy the meal with some salad and perhaps listen to some Reggae Music or .....