Smoked Salm roles stuffed with couscous

Smoked Salm roles stuffed with couscous

 

This is a very easy, healthy, delicious and most important kids proef recipe.

Serves 5 small portions.

You will need:

1. 200gr smoked salm
2. 150gr fair trade couscous
3. 100gr of spinach
4. 30gr of  ricotta (optional for lactose intolerant)
5. 1/2 glass of milk ( soy milk for lactose intolerant)
6. 2 chopped garlic
7. 1/2 chopped onion
8. 4 sliced mushroom (the one of your preference)
9. 2 Lemmons(the juice)
10. Handful of raisins
11. Handful of parsley
12. Handful of chopped – or not – nuts (optional)
13. Salt & pepper
14. 1 tablespoon of Butter

Preparation:

1. Cook the couscous in water with a little bit of salt and pepper and other spices of your preference. It takes about 20 minutes to be ready.
2. Pour the juice of 1 1/2 Lemmon in a pot, season it with a bit of salt. Let the Salm Slices rest here for about 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Place in a cooking pot the butter, the onions and 1 garlic. Let them cook in slow fire until they become soft.        ¡ Watch out so they don’t burn !
4. When the previous mix is ready add the spinach, parsley and the other garlic. Stir until the spinach is more less soft.
5. Add the mushrooms, ricotta and the milk and let it cook for about 5 minutes without the lit of the pot.
6. Pour the liquid of the salm mix in the pot. DO NOT PLACE THE SALM IN THE POT.
7. Add the couscous and the raisins. Stew for about 5-10 minutes.
8. Add the nuts and you are ready!

Serving:

1. Separate the salm slices one by one.
2. Place a tablespoon of the previous mix on top of each slice of Salm.
3. Roll it like a shushi roll.

You can serve it with potatoes or veggies of your choice.

Enjoy !

Dinde a l´orange

– Dinde a l´orange – Turkey a l´orange – Kalkoen in sinaasappelsaus – Pavo a la naranja – 

Turkey. Probably the most famous bird of all time. I mean, we all think about it when it comes to Christmas, Thanksgiving day or New Years Eve, and if you are from the United States you are part of a whole tradition of misericord towards this emblematic bird. During the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation, every US president since 1989 in an act of “compassion”,  grants each year ONE turkey a “presidential pardon” and thus spared the bird from being slaughtered.

Is it a noble gesture or an exhibition of power? why not all turkeys? Why not an inmate in the Death Row? 

I know, I´ve said it and probably shouldn´t have.But enough jokes, let´s be serious. 😉

Whether you concur or not with my previous statement. You definitely will come to term in the fact that Turkey (dinde, Kalkoen, Pavo) is one delicious bird and it is worth experiencing many recipes with it. Not only if is a special occasion but why not on a regular night dinner.

So here it is. My World Famous Dinde a l´orange recipe:

Ingredients

1. 50gr of ground Orange skin

2. 5 chopped Garlic cloves

3. The juice of one orange

4. 1 chopped onion

5. 1 teaspoon of Caraway  (Kummel) preferably powder or grind the seeds

6. 3 teaspoons of Paprika

7. 1/2 teaspoon of ground Galanga

8. Pepper and Salt amount of your choice

9. 30gr of unsalted butter

10. 700 k/gr of turkey legs cut into big dice

Preparation

1. Preheat the wok on high heat until it is very hot, at least two minutes. It is hot enough to cook on if you see a little smoke rise from the wok, or if you flick a drop of water into the pan and it sizzles rapidly and instantly evaporates. Add the unsalted butter and rotate the wok so it coats the surface. The butter will become hot immediately and ripple across the surface.

2. Mix together in one bowl the first 8 ingredients. Place it into the Wok  and Stir fry for about 5 minutes.

3. Place the Turkey (remember it has to be cut into big dices, aprox 4cm/2inches by 4cm/2inches) into the wok, mix it with the other ingredients and stirfry for aproximately 20 minutes or until the meat is well done.

4. Serve with potatos, salad, rice, tortillas, or fruit as you would like.

Epicurean Philosophy

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He propounded an ethic of individual pleasure as the only good in life. He advocated living in such a way as to derive the greatest amount of pleasure possible during one’s lifetime, yet doing so moderately in order to avoid the suffering incurred by overindulgence in such pleasure. The emphasis was placed on pleasures of the right kind such as food and friendship.Therefore, according to Epicurus, with whom a person eats is of as important of even of greater importance than what is eaten. Epicurus laid great emphasis on developing friendships as the basis of a satisfying life.

“of all the things which wisdom has contrived which contribute to a blessed life, none is more important, more fruitful, than friendship.”

—quoted by Cicero

While the pursuit of pleasure formed the focal point of the philosophy, this was largely directed to the “static pleasures” of minimizing pain, anxiety and suffering. In fact, Epicurus referred to life as a “bitter gift”.

“When we say . . . that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice or wilful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It is not by an unbroken succession of drinking bouts and of revelry, not by sexual lust, nor the enjoyment of fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest tumults take possession of the soul.”

—Epicurus, “Letter to Menoeceus”