Salad with warm chevre cheese

Versiunea in imba romana: Salata verde cu chevre

My favorite salad! Light & healthy. Quick and easy to prepare. Ideal appetizer, even if you have guests. To be honest, I like it as main course. Sometimes I just use green baby spinach leaves.

My comfort food :)

mix of green salad, thoroughly washed and dried 
chevre cheese (goat cheese),  sliced in rounds
slices of rye bread, round 
lemon juice + olive oil + fleur de sel + freshly grounded pepper

Heat the broiler/grill of the oven. Put a little bit of olive oil on the slices of bread. Top it  with the chevre cheese. Put the mini sandwiches in the oven, under the grill, for aprox 4-5 minutes. Cheese should become a bit soft around the edges and golden colored.

Mix the salad, a little olive oil, juice of half a lemon, fleur de sel and freshly grounded black pepper. Put toast & chevre on top.

 

Deliciously perfect <3  Light & easy :)

Walnut pumpkin blondies

Versiunea in limba romana: Blondies cu dovleac si nuca

I love pumpkins so much that I decided to try so many delicious recipes. White chocolate, walnuts and pumpkin = perfect autumn dessert. These blondies are so good, that even my little kid, a chocolate hater (white or black), enjoyed every bit of it :)

1 pumpkin, around 500 g, peeled, seeded and finely chopped

300 g white chocolate, chopped + 150 g unsalted butter, chopped

250 g mascarpone cream
100 g confectioner's sugar
3 big eggs
100 g flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
5 tbsp walnuts, chopped
Prepare a rectangular tray (butter and roasting paper or flour). Heat the oven to 190 degrees C.
Melt the chocolate and butter over boiled water. mix well the mascarpone cream and the melted chocolate, then slowly add the sugar. Add the eggs, one by one, mixing well, then add the flour and the vanilla extract. Mix until you have the consistency of a cream. Pour half of the cream in the tray, spread the pumpkin and walnuts, then cover with the rest of the chocolate cream.

Bake for 25 minutes, let it cool in the tray, then cut. Serve cold. Keep it refrigerated. If the  cake starts to burn on the surface during baking (depending on the oven), you can put a loose alluminium foil on top of the tray.

 

Delicious!

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Salmon & capers pasta

Versiunea in limba romana: Pasta cu somon si capere

When my kids return from school they crave for pasta. I'm not a huge fan of pasta, but it seems they love it. Usually they prefer traditional recipes like carbonara, alla bolognese, anchoivies pasta, smoked salmon pasta, pesto, etc. One day I decided to play a little with the fridge "treasures" and I made a fast and simple recipe: pasta with salmon and capers. I put the salmon on the grill for a coupple of minutes. In the mean time I boiled the pasta "al dente" in a lot of water with a pinch of salt and some ollive oil, then I poured some ice cold water over the pasta to keep them nice and not sticky, also to stop it from cooking further. I "crushed" the salmon, making sure any bones are removed, but there were very few anyway. I mixed the salmon, pasta, olive oil, juice from half a lemon, capers and some dill. Delicious, simple and fast. Not to mention the healthy Omega 3 :) My little kid thought to add some Greek yogurt on the pasta. He felt it's necessary and he just loved it  ♥ Voted! New entry in our pasta "repertory"