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TODAY AT “CHEZ BELLA” – Sauteed Seabass & Potato Salat

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Today, I satisfied my craving for fresh fish by sharing 2 lbs of fillet with Bella.
Normally, this amount of fish fillet would easily serve four, but since we only had a small amount of potato salad with it, and we both only have one meal per day, the portion was not really that excessive…….. and of course, Bella agreed 🙂
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Remove skin and bones from 2,5 lbs sea bass.
That should leave you with 2 lbs of clean fillet, wich serves four generous portions.
Season the fillets with kosher salt, sriracha, lemon juice and garlic paste to taste.
Dredge in a a/p flour and bread crumb mixture of 50/50 %, shake off excess flour.
Saute in 2 tblsp olive oil until golden on both sides, discard oil, add 2 oz of butter, saute another minute.
To serve, plate the fish, sprinkle with chopped cilantro, drizzle with the hot butter.
Serve with potato salad or side dish of your choice.
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: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

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: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

: Sauteed Sea Bass & Potato Salad

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Caramelized Banana & Chocolate Burrito With Strawberry Preserve

Fish & Chips

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While preparing crepes is a snap, both time-wise and on difficulty level, defrosting a large flour tortilla is even easier and faster 🙂
Also, the taste and texture are a bit more rustic, so it fits perfectly with the other ingredients for this dish.
Usually, this is a bit substantial for a dessert, (having stuffed the large tortillas to capacity with Nutella and bananas), so for most folks, it is more suitable as a light (sinful) lunch or a large snack.
Of course, you can use smaller tortillas and less stuffing if you prefer to serve this as a dessert. Also, use any fruit or fruit combination)
But, whatever size or filling you choose, this is a wonderfully delicious, economical and easy to prepare dish, which I am sure you will enjoy. 🙂
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Caramelized Banana & Chocolate Burrito With Strawberry Preserve

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Preparation :
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: peel 5 ea bananas

: cut into 1/2 inch pieces

: caramelize 1/3 cup sugar

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: when caramelized to a golden brown, add 1/2 cup water (CAREFUL!!! this will splatter), simmer while stirring until the lumps have dissolved and the sauce is smooth

: add the bananas, stir until coated, remove from heat

: spread the lightly heated tortillas (just to make them pliable) generously with Nutella

: add bananas

: fold as shown, dredge in sugar

: bake at 350F until caramelized, drizzle with strawberry preservepreserve

: Caramelized Banana & Chocolate Burrito With Strawberry Preserve

: Caramelized Banana & Chocolate Burrito With Strawberry Preserve

: Caramelized Banana & Chocolate Burrito With Strawberry Preserve

: Caramelized Banana & Chocolate Burrito With Strawberry Preserve

: Caramelized Banana & Chocolate Burrito With Strawberry Preserve

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Escargot Catalan

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While “Escargots à la Bourguignonne” (Snails in Garlic–Herb Butter) is my favorite snail-dish, “Escargot Catalan” is a close second. (As long as there is enough garlic, herbs and a proper red wine in the sauce).
This dish not only serves as a perfect appetizer or snack, but it can also stand on its own feet as a main course, accompanied by sauteed potatoes, rice, or hearty, crusty bread to mop up the wonderful sauce. 🙂
It also serves perfectly as a family/friends meal, in a large bowl in the center of the table, from where everybody can help themselves to seconds (or thirds), the wonderful meal enriched with good wine and lively conversation. 🙂
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Escargot Catalan

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Preparation :
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: 1 can 24 ea snails ; 2 ea stalks scallions, sliced ; 1 ea medium size sliced onion ; 1/2 cup sliced mild to hot chilies

: 1n 1/3 cup EVO saute all ingredients until the onions are translucent, add 1/2 tblsp garlic paste, saute another minute, add 1 tblsp chopped oregano and kosher salt and chili flakes to taste

: add 3 cups red wine and 1/3 cup pernod (optional), simmer slowly until liquid has reduced by half

: add 1/3 cup chopped cilantro and 1/3 cup chopped parsley, remove from heat, check/adjust seasoning, serve with reis, sauteed potatoes or rustic bread ; serves 1 main course or 4 appetizer

: Escargot Catalan

: Escargot Catalan

: Escargot Catalan

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Easy Does it # 39 – “Tuna Salad”

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Pls don´t miss the link at the bottom of this page for a truly “different” cooking tutorial ……
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Easy Does it # 39 – “Tuna Salad”

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This salad is probably ? the first “Main Course Salad” that ever hit a restaurant table, way back then.
In the meantime, it has been re-invented/improved a million times, with the ingredients changing from year to year, season to season, cook to cook, household to household, country to country, and restaurant to restaurant.
Probably, the only constant were always salad greens, onions, and tuna, otherwise, the imagination for tuna salad knows no bounds 🙂 Other typical ingredients are (among a million others), anchovies, potatoes, eggs, artichokes, herbs, asparagus, etc, etc.
While I have to admit that my desire to create a “new” version of tuna salad has occasionally got the better of me, my favorite version is still this simple one featured here on this page. 🙂
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Easy Does it # 39 – “Tuna Salad”

mix everything with 1/3 cup herb vinaigrette

check/adjust seasoning

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Preparation :
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: 1 cup sliced iceberg,1 cup cooked white beans, 1 cup canned tuna, 1 ea diced avocado, 3 ea med chilies, whole; 5 ea red radishes, thinly sliced; 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped; 1 ea medium size red onion, julienned

: season chilies with salt and granulated garlic to taste, saute in 1/2 tblsp olive oil until slightly browned

: mix everything with 1/3 cup herb vinaigrette

: check/adjust seasoning

: Easy Does it # 39 – “Tuna Salad”

: Easy Does it # 39 – “Tuna Salad”

: Easy Does it # 39 – “Tuna Salad”

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And now, one for the road, not to be missed :
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Paris Hilton cooks Lasagna at her own “Cooking Show”
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I am torn between being sad, amused, disgusted and/or outraged about the fact that some folks (many ? !!!) find this to be an actual tutorial to learn cooking.
It is without a doubt a tutorial for various bad traits – but cooking is definitely not one of them 🙂 😦
This episode is one of the worst examples of how bad “cooking shows” have actually become. Most are shameful, ridiculous, bad, stupid and, flat-out, pure garbage.
My only hope is that this particular one is supposed to be satire and not to be taken seriously, but, judging from the ladies behavior and the general state of mind of the kind of people who watch crap like this, chances are that it is meant to be taken seriously:-(
God help us all !
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Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

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Traditional Tandoor (This is NOT Hans) 🙂

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Modern Tandoor

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Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

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When I was a chef it was essential for me to teach my cooks, then later my students at Le Cordon Bleu, recipes of dishes which were as authentic to their classic origin as possible.
Especially during my many years as a teacher and program chair at Le Cordon Bleu Miami, I taught meticulously what I had learned many decades ago back in the Black Forest of Germany – Classic French Cuisine.

I also taught classic German Cuisine and many other cuisines from around the world which I had enjoyed, studied and learned during my many years as Executive Chef living and working in dozens of countries. (Cuisines of China, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Fillipines, Italy, Spain, India, Brazil, Sweden, and many more.
While I am only an expert of French, German and Italian cuisine, I do have good knowledge and personal experience of the cuisines of the aforementioned countries and I was therefore able to teach international cuisine with authority. Unlike many (most ?) “teachers” and “chefs” nowadays, who will read a recipe, practice (maybe) a bit, then “teach” what they just read on sometimes questionable (at best) sources. Mostly, even the folks who write the syllabus for a class have only the “experience” of reading about things, never having cooked it, eaten it or visited the country of origin of a dish.
While this might work for certain professions, it is certainly a disaster for our beloved trade.
No wonder real food becomes more and more the stuff only wealthy people can enjoy in the few excellent restaurants left in most places, while the rest of us is being served mediocre fare for unreal prices.
However, even at that time, while trying to teach original, and classic recipes and methods from specific cuisines, I tried to teach tips and tricks which might not be original, but are more practical, economical and sometimes even result in better food (Not often, but sometimes) 🙂
But one MUST ALWAYS POINT OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL AND THE VARIATION !
In a restaurant, the Guests should also be informed about the difference, which, in my humble opinion, MUST be made clear in the name of the dish on the menu, for example:

” Pesto” – basil, olive oil, garlic, PINE NUTS, pecorino, parmigiano reggiano.
” Walnut Pesto” – same ingredients, same method, but replace the PINE NUTS with WALNUTS.
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” Wiener Schnitzel” – thin, breaded, VEAL cutlet
” Pork Schnitzel Wiener Art” – same ingredients, same method, but replace the VEAL with PORK.
” Turkey Schnitzel Wiener Art” – same ingredients, same method, but replace the VEAL with TURKEY.

Wow, this became a long entry to what I want to clarify here – ChefsOpinion is a blog that celebrates real food that tastes good, looks good and is simple enough that the average beginner of home-cooking, as well as a top professional and everybody in between can find inspiration, tips and other useful information to be able to prepare wonderful food at home, be it a simple soup or salad, an elaborate roast or stew, or whatever I feel like cooking at the moment and share with you, be it classic/original or not.
At this stage of my life, I don´t find it necessary to prove that I can cook, that I was a decent professional or that I have mastered “original and /or classical dishes from around the World in my more than 50 years of being a cook.
My goal at this time is to remind old chefs from around the Globe about the food we once studied, cooked, taught and enjoyed, and to help the “youngens” to be able to enjoy the same food even now, when some of it is not “IN” anymore and one has a hard time to find well-loved, classic dishes in restaurants, where one now finds mostly second-class food, tasteless and pointless, but dressed to the hilt to impress the folks who don´t know better.
To this end, I try to simplify many dishes while keeping the original flavor and texture as close to the real thing as possible, simply to give everybody the chance to prepare certain dishes at home, which they otherwise would find too difficult, expensive, complicated and daunting to try.
A typical example of this philosophy is the dish on this page. Just google the word TANDOORI, or CURRY, or GOULASH and you will know what I mean. Or choose the word of a dish and add the word ORIGINAL or CLASSIC before it.
The result are usually thousands of recipes, seldom the actual CLASSIC recipe (The definition of ORIGINAL or CLASSIC is a whole different chapter) 🙂 , while most others range from slightly off to downright nasty and ridiculous. 😦
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How to make Tandoori chicken without a Tandoor

Tandoori Chicken is one of the most popular dishes from northern India. It is grilled chicken rubbed with a blended spice marinade, identifiable by its red coloring. Tandoori is Indian style of BBQ. The marinade has garlic, salt, coriander, tamarind, cumin, ginger, lentils, and oil.
Tandoor is an Indian style oven, which one cannot buy in an appliance store like you can with a traditional grill or oven. Basically, the tandoor is made entirely of clay and is 3-4 feet tall. Charcoal is placed at the bottom of the tandoor and allowed to burn for several hours. Then the meat is placed on long skewers and cooked inside till roasted. Tandoor is also used to make, among other dishes, naan, kebabs, and tandoori rotis.
It is not practical to build your own tandoor. In fact, most homes in India do not have one. Indian restaurants generally special order tandoors (from restaurant equipment sellers) which can cost upwards of thousands of dollars
So, if you want to enjoy tandoori chicken at home, what do you do?
Here is a very simple tandoori chicken recipe that does not require any special equipment. The chicken retains its juices and is fully cooked while keeping a nice crispy bite on the outside. It has only 2 ingredients, but the cooking technique is very important. Once you follow this recipe, you will realize how simple and delicious this recipe is!

Tandoori Chicken Recipe
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Prep Time: 5 mins (24 hours); Cook Time: 45 mins

(Serves 4 )

4 ea skin less chicken legs,

8 tablespoons tandoori paste (see picture below for brand example)

Thoroughly rub the tandoori paste into the chicken.
Place in a bowl, cover and refrigerate 24 hours

When ready to cook, preheat broiler on low. Once the temperature is attained, place the chicken pieces on a rack with a drip pan under it.

Broil on low for 30 minutes, turning the chicken once. Then turn the broiler to high and cook for another 15 minutes, turning once so that the chicken is crisp on both sides. You will see that the marinade will start to dry up and the chicken will start getting a crust.

Remove from oven and transfer to a plate. Serve immediately with naan, sliced onions, quartered lemons, chopped cilantro and mint chutney or condiments of your choice (or follow the suggestion on this page)

Click here for Indian Tomato Chutney Recipe

Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

steamed rice, tomato chutney, curried chickpeas, spicy cucumber salad – this alone would be a great meal

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Preparation :
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: from 4 ea large chicken legs remove the skin

: deeply score the chicken on both sides

: sample of commercial tondoori mixture

: marinade the chicken overnight

: 1 medium de-seeded cucumber, cut into cubes, 2 tblsp chopped cilantro, 1 tblsp garlic paste, 3 oz greek yogurt, 1 tsp chili sauce, i pinch garam masala, jice of 1 ea lime, kosher salt to taste

: cucumber salat

: saute 1 ea medum size julienne onions in 4 oz butter

: add 1/2 tsp garlig paste, 1/4 tsp grated ginger, 1 tsp madras curry powder, 1 tsp kurkuma, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 174 cup cilantro, saute 1 minute, add 16 oz cooked chick peas and 2 tblsp water and kosher salt to taste, simmer one minute

: fresh steamed rice

: steamed rice,tomato chutney, curried chick peas, spicy cucumber salad – this alone would be a great meal

: Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

: Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

: Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

: Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

: Hans’ Delicious Tandoori Chicken

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Cannellini Beans & Ravioli, Gratinated In Chilli/Tomato Cream

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Traditionally, in Southern Germany (Swabia and Bavaria), we serve our classic Ravioli (Maultaschen) in beef broth, with potato salad on the side. Then, if there are leftovers, we saute them the next day in butter with onions and eggs, accompanied by leaf salad.
Since I moved back to Germany, I have Maultaschen three to four times a month. They are easy to prepare at home and even available frozen in most supermarkets, nowadays the majority of brands a VERY good quality. ( I usually make my own, since I love a bit of veal liver in my stuffing – the ones on these pages are homemade). Alas, I buy them just as often ready made. 🙂
This time, when I was ready to reheat or saute the leftover Maultaschen from the previous day, I did not feel to go with the usual suspect of a recipe, so I came up with this wonderful variation. It is so good and delicious that it is now one of my standard recipe for leftover Maultaschen (and other types of ravioli)
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Cannellini Beans & Ravioli, Gratinated In Chilli/Tomato Cream

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: saute 1 ea large,juliennednion in 4 oz salted butter until translucent

: add 1 tsp garlic paste, saute 1 minute

: add 2 tblsp tomatopaste, saute another minute

: add 1 1/2 cup heavy cream, kosher salt and sriracha sauce to taste

: simmer until sauce has nape texture

: add 12 oz cooked cannellini beans

: simmer another minute, check/adjust seasoning

: cut 4 ea ravioli/maultaschen into thick slices

: spread the sliced ravioli/maultaschen slices atop the beans, sprinkle with freshly-grated Parmigiano Reggiano

: drizzle with 2 tblsp EVO, gratinate until golden brown, ca 20 minutes at 360 F ; serves 2 – 4 main course

: Cannellini Beans & Ravioli, Gratinated In Chilli/Tomato Cream

: Cannellini Beans & Ravioli, Gratinated In Chilli/Tomato Cream

: Cannellini Beans & Ravioli, Gratinated In Chilli/Tomato Cream

: Cannellini Beans & Ravioli, Gratinated In Chilli/Tomato Cream

: Cannellini Beans & Ravioli, Gratinated In Chilli/Tomato Cream

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Stir-Fried Chili Black Tigers With Cucumber Salsa On Iceberg Hearts In Lime Vinaigrette, Tzatziki

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Now that I am back in Germany, seafood is much harder to come by for me than back in Miami, and the variety does not even come close. At least, some of the folks who complained in the past about too much seafood on ChefsOpinion can now be more entertained with a wider variety of meat dishes, since the variety of dishes prepared with meat is so much larger here than there 🙂
However, just like I lusted over the past few Decades for familiar meat dishes from my original home, I now miss the seafood that was so readily available to me on my travels through the Caribbean, South East Asia, South America, the Orient, Alaska, Florida and so many other places along or close to the coasts´ of the World, especially at my other home Florida, where one can always count on ones friendly ?? neighborhood Asian market with their endless fresh/ live seafood selections.
So now, every so often, I will still splurge on a big portion of good-quality seafood for Bella and me, to make sure we don´t lose our touch with that part of happy eating. 🙂
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Stir-Fried Chili Black Tigers With Cucumber Salsa On Iceberg Hearts In Lime Vinaigrette, Tzatziki

Tzatziki

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Bellas Portion
Initial portion I should say, of course she got more of my tigers (and lettuce with tzatziki, which she loves) 🙂
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: after removing the cooked shrimp, I added a bit of chicken stock to deglaze the pan with the shells

: to serve, she got another tiger on top of the shells

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Preparation :
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: 16 oz headless fresh black tigers

: peel (tail on), remove black vein,

: season with sweet Thai chili sauce, garlic paste, kosher salt to taste

: stir-fry in 2 tblsp very hot peanut oil until tigers are nearly cooked through, remove tigers, drizzle with lemon or lime juice (finish Bellas portion according to the instruction below)

: for the salsa, mix 1/2 cup diced cucumbers with 1 tblsp chopped onions, 1 tblsp cilantro, chili flakes, garlic paste, kosher salt and lime or lemon juice to taste

: spread some iceberg hearts on a serving plate

: drizzle with Lime Vinaigrette, to with the tigers ; Serves one mein course or 3 appetizers

: Stir-Fried Chili Black Tigers With Cucumber Salsa On Iceberg Hearts In Lime Vinaigrette, Tzatziki

: Stir-Fried Chili Black Tigers With Cucumber Salsa On Iceberg Hearts In Lime Vinaigrette, Tzatziki

: Stir-Fried Chili Black Tigers With Cucumber Salsa On Iceberg Hearts In Lime Vinaigrette, Tzatziki

: Stir-Fried Chili Black Tigers With Cucumber Salsa On Iceberg Hearts In Lime Vinaigrette, Tzatziki

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: to serve, she got another tiger on top of the shells

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Red Wine-Braised Veal Shank Slice, With Tagliatelle & Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche On A Crispy Noodle Pillow

Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche

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While traditional Osso Bucco is one of my favorite meat dishes, this version of braised sliced veal shanks is, in my humble opinion, far superior.
First, the crispy noodle pillow adds great texture to the soft texture of the meat.
Second, the marinated onions add great umami to the normally quite one-dimensional flavor of an original osso buco.
Third, and most importantly, the hoisin sauce, soy sauce, ginger, star anise and red wine (instead of white wine) make a great improvement to the regular, traditional seasoning of osso buco.
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Pls note, this is in no way a negative judgment of a great osso buco, but rather a testament to the fact that I love my food on the spicy, flavorful side. Let me live, please ………. 🙂
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Red Wine-Braised Veal Shank Slices With Tagliatelle & Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche On A Crispy Noodle Pillow

Crispy Noodle Pillow

Red Wine-Braised Veal Shank Slices With Tagliatelle & Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche On A Crispy Noodle Pillow

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Yucatan-style marinated onions are one of my go-to condiments to (almost) everything. (Sandwiches, roasts, braises, bbq´s, veggies, potatoes, salads, etc, you name it – I slap on a few Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche. 🙂
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: Cut red onions into fine slices, add apple cider vinegar, bay leaves, grd gloves, Mexican oregano, cumin, galic paste, kosher salt and chili flakes

: mix well, marinade overnightt

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: 2 thick slices of veal shank

: carrots, celery root, carrots, onions, red wine,

: hoi sin sauce, dark soy sauce, sriracha

: gloves, star anis, bay leaves, oregano, parsley, chives

: dredge the veal in a/p flour seasoned with black pepper and kosher salt to taste, saute the veal and the veggies with garlic paste and grated ginger in peanut oil until the veggies have caramelized and the veal has browned

: add 1 qt of red wine, kosher salt, the seasoning sauces and the dried herbs to taste

: add 1/2 qt of tomato passata

: bring to a simmer, cook until meat is tender but NOT falling apart

: Red Wine-Braised Veal Shank Slices With Tagliatelle & Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche On A Crispy Noodle Pillow

: saute 1 1/2 cup cooked, dry noodles in 2 tblsp clarified butter, season with white pepper and kosher salt to taste, when crispy, repeat on other side

: Crispy Noodle Pillow

: top with osso buco

: nape with sauce, top with pickled onions and pickled chilies (optional)

: Red Wine-Braised Veal Shank Slice, With Tagliatelle & Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche On A Crispy Noodle Pillow

: Red Wine-Braised Veal Shank Slice, With Tagliatelle & Yucatan Cebolla En Escabeche On A Crispy Noodle Pillow

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Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

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Today I tried out my new waffle iron.
I am happy to report that the Iron functions as it should, that I still can prepare delicious waffles and that both Bella and I are still big fans of freshly baked waffles with caramelized fresh fruit.
Simple and quick, yet soooo satisfying 🙂
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Belgian Waffles Recipe :
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2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
3-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 large eggs, separated
1-1/2 cups whole milk
1 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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In a bowl, combine flour, sugar and baking powder. In another bowl, lightly beat egg yolks. Add milk, butter and vanilla; mix well. Stir into dry ingredients just until combined. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold into batter.
Bake in a preheated waffle iron according to manufacturer’s directions until golden brown. Serve with fruits or syrup of your choice

Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

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: prepare the batter according to the recipe above

: pre-heat your waffle iron (the hotter the iron, the crispier/dark the waffles),lightly brush the iron with butter, add the batter (not to much, to avoid overflow), bake until cooked through

: filet 1 ea orange per person Reserve the orange-carcasse

: add fruits of your choice

: melt and slightly brown 2 oz unsalted butter

: add the fruits and sugar to taste

: saute until the fruits are lightly caramelized

: add the juice from the orange-carcasse, cook until slightly thickened

: spread-out the waffls on a heated serving platter, top with the fruit and sauce, sprinkle generously with castor-sugar

: Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

: Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

: Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

: Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

: Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

: Breakfast of Champions # 74 – Belgian Waffles With Caramelized Fruit

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Schwäbishe Späzlepfanne Mit Pfifferlingen (Swabian Pasta & Chanterelle Mushrooms)

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There are three Chanterelle dishes for which I would leave just about any dish in the World behind (At least for a day or two 🙂 ) :

“Chanterelles in Cream with Bread Dumplings” (Pfifferlinge in Sahnesauce mit Semmelknödel)
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“Chanterelles with Lamb´s Lettuce and Crispy Bacon” (Pfifferlinge mit Feldsalat und Knusprigem Speck)
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“Chanterelles with Spatzle” (Schwäbishe Späzlepfanne Mit Pfifferlingen), as featured on this page 🙂