Crab cakes with marinated mushroom salad

5 portions

Marinated Mushrooms.

Take any mushroom you can find, about 250 grams, wash them and cut them in small pieces.

100 ml water

100 ml vinegar

Some sugar, salt and pepper

Add some spices like juniper berries, coriander seeds, bay leaves, pepper corns and some cloves of garlic.

Boil this and add the mushrooms, then slowly simmer for 5 minutes

(if it is to vinegary add some more sugar).

Cool down and put in the fridge for eat least 2 day’s.

Or for long term storage put the mixture in pickle jars

For the Crab cakes,

Take about 500 gram crab meat and pick all the bones out.

Mix with chopped fresh dill and parsley (or any herb you like)

1 large spoon of mayonnaise

1 or 2 hands of breadcrumbs

Season it with salt and pepper and put in the fridge for about 1 hour.

Shape the crab into patties and pan fry them till golden brown.

Heat them trough in the oven for about 5 minutes.

Mix some salad with the pickled mushrooms and serve.

Pickled vegetable and bulgur salad

This is a healthy vegetarian dish, I made two different Dishes, but they are the same, one for individual portion and one for sharing.

For the marinated vegetables

2 ea carrots cut in Batons

8 pc mini corn, cut in quarters

5 ea asparagus, cut in quarters

1 ea courgette, cut in Batons

Cook these vegetables for 1 minute, cool down and add to the dressing.

For the dressing,

50 ml rice vinegar,

1 small diced onion,

½ clove chopped garlic,

Little chopped lemon grass, some salt, pepper and a little sugar.

Leave this marinated for eat least 3 hours in the fridge.

Cook 200 grams bulgur in water with salt and a piece of lemon grass for about 20 minutes (follow cooking instructions)

Cool down the Bulgur, and mix with the marinated vegetables and any kind of choped herbs, (to your liking)

Pickled vegetable and bulgur salad

Sardines with egg and tym

This as such a simple, nice and great tasting dish.

I use this dish when I make tapas, just one of many dishes.

U can use salted sardines or you buy fresh sardines

In case you buy the salted sardines, then you only have to boil some eggs, (Perfect eggs = 8 minutes in boiling water)

If you buy fresh sardines, take out the intestine then flour them lightly and pan fry till they crispy.

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Bert

Rack of lamb with lentil and spinach puree

2 ea Racks of lambs.

Pan sear the racks on both sides and put in a oven set to 110 C. slowly let the lamb cook till the inside temperature reaches 45-50 C. take out of the oven and let it rest for about 10 minutes.

For the lentil and spinach puree,

100 gr. lentils

500 gr. spinach

1 diced onion

1 clove garlic,

Salt and pepper

Cook lentils with ½ of the chopped onion and the garlic till the lentils are cooked; this should take about 30 minutes, drain this. Wash and sauté the other ½ chopped onion and fry with the spinach. Add the lentils. Then put the lentils and spinach in a blender and puree this till it has a nice and smooth texture.

Duck breast with pickled cucumber salad

For the salad

2 large cucumber, peeled

½ red onion

½ red pepper

½ yellow pepper

Slice this finely,

Marinate for the salad

50 ml rice vinegar

50 ml water

1 table spoon of sugar

Salt and pepper to taste

Marinate this for about then minutes.

Fry the Duck breast till the proper temperature and let it rest for about 10 minutes before you slice it.

Fried Chillies

Hi Readers,

Something easy today!!

Fry sliced onion and then add chopped chillies, how more spicy you like it, how more chilies you add.Fry this slowly for about 10 minutes.

You can use this as a side dish for any one whom like spicy food, without making everything to spicy.