Spaghetti with prawns & rocket (Spaghetti con gamberetti e rucola)

You can try this dish the hard way (the one made by Jamie Oliver) or the easy (and cheaper way, changed by us), but we'd like to show you both of them.

The ingredients of the more difficult one:

Cook your spaghetti in a large pan of salted boiling water . Meanwhile, heat 3 large tbsp of extra virgin olive oil in a large frying pan and add the garlic and chilli. As the garlic begins to colour, add the prawns and sauté them for a minute. Add the white wine and the tomato purée and simmer for a couple of minutes. When the pasta is ready, drain it. add the spaghetti to the sauce, squeeze in the lemon juice, add half the chopped rocket, adding a little of the reserved cooking water if you want to loosen the sauce a bit, and correct the seasoning. Divide between 4 plates and sprinkle with the grated lemon zest and the rest of the rocket leaves.

link to the recipe of Jamie

• 455 g dried spaghetti
• sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• extra virgin olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
• 1-2 dried red chillies, crumbled
• 400 g peeled raw prawns, fromsustainable sources, ask your fishmonger
• 1 small wineglass white wine
• 2 heaped tablespoons sun-sried tomato puree, or 6 sun-dried tomatoes blitzed in a blender
• juice and zest of 1 lemon
• 2 handfuls rocket, roughly chopped
  
  
  
  
  The ingredients:
  • 455 g dried spaghetti
  • sea salt, and onions
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
  • 400 g peeled raw prawns, fromsustainable sources, ask your fishmonger 
  • a bottle of tomato sauce 
  • juice and zest of 1 lemon
  • As much of rocket as you want,
    tomatoes 
  Follow the recipe of Jamie but Cook your spagetti, meanwhile heat 3 large tbsp of extra virgin olive oil and add the garlic and onions. Add the whole bottle of tomato sauce. Add the rocket and the tomatoes and mix it with the spagetti. Ready!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Grilled red tub gurnard (rode Poon) with couscous and saffron

A recipe for 2!

In for a light delicious meal that takes hardly any time to prepare? Ask for a filleted gurnard without the fish bones and skin. Grill the fish on each side (not necessarily on a real grill, a pan is ok), mix white vinegar, soja and oil and marinade the fish.  

skin the tomatoes and remove the seeds, then cut them in pieces. Meanwhile cook the couscous. Drain the couscous and mix it with the saffron, basil and tomatoes. Add the marinade to the couscous. Serve with a bit of basil oil.

-> add a bit of salad

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp basil oil
• 1 tbsp sojasauce
• 1 tbsp balsamico
• 2 tbsp white vinegar
• 2 red tub gurnards
• 200 g couscous
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 dreads of saffron
• 2 tbsp basil
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Long time no see! 

We have been very busy (again) with our test week at school, so we have saved our recipes for now!

Each 1st january, the whole family shows up at our home to celebrate the new year and every single person brings his own dish. (And that means a LOT of food, since our family counts 50 persons at the moment). My father and I really like to make pesto, and these three different recipes are the best we ever tasted. Despite the accident we had with the garlic (we put 8 cloves of garlic in one pesto), all three of them tasted delicious. 

Corianderpesto with walnuts 

Throw the coriander, garlic, walnuts, pine nuts and Amsterdamer Cheese into a food processor. For a good roasted taste, roast the walnuts and pine nuts first. 

(extra) If you like you can grate the rind of the lemon into the food processor. Cut the lemon in half, and squeeze the juice into the food processor. 

Process the ingredients until well-blended, adding it the olive oil a little at a time while blending. Add more coriander to get a good green colour if necessary. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Ingredients:

• 4 cloves of garlic, peeled
• salt
• black pepper
• 50 g Amsterdamer Cheese
• • 50 g Coriander leaves
  • 50 g pine nuts (pijnboompitten;) )
• 30 g walnuts
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• tabasco (for extra spicy flavour) /lemon

Tomatopesto!! 

Fry an onion in a pan with oil, and add the tomato puree, add pepper and salt and Roast the pine nuts, slice the garlic and blend it with everything.  

Ingredients:

• 1 clove of garlic, peeled
• salt
• black pepper
• 1 small can of tomato puree
• • 75 g dried tomatoes
  • 50 g pine nuts (pijnboompitten;) )
• the leaves of 10 branches of basil
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 50 g Parmesan, grated

This easy, beautiful basil pesto recipe is absolutely bursting with fresh herby flavor:
Roast the pine nuts, slice the garlic and blend it with all the other ingredients. It's that easy!
Ingredients:

• 1 clove of garlic, peeled
• salt
• black pepper
• a large bunch of fresh basil, leaves picked (50 g)
• 50 g pine nuts (pijnboompitten;) )
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 50 g Parmesan, grated

It's almost Christmas Time, that means enjoying great food with your friends and family. We will help you to make easy yet delicious food at the best time of the year! Enjoy!

This is a mini recipe, supereasy flavoured butter or oil. You could use it with bread, fish, chicken, lamb, basically your typical Christmas roast. Or use it to bake your greens in, like cabbage or spinach, potatoes, carrots, parsnips etc! Play around with different flavours, they keep in the fridge for weeks!

Flavoured butter or oil

• Herbs, you could use thyme, rosemary, parsley, chive or basil.
• Butter or olive oil
• Garlic
• Pinch of salt and pepper(you could use chilli, for a nice kick)
• Use spices if you want, like curry madras, paprika powder, old spice, cumin etc.

Mix the herbs, the garlic and the salt and pepper first, then add your cold butter or olive oil and mix that as well.

Really easy!

With a spoon or spatula, scrape the butter out of your food processor and lay it on some baking paper and roll it. This way, you’ll end up with a lovely role of flavoured butter. You could use it with bread, fish, chicken, lamb. Or use it to bake your greens in, like cabbage or spinach.

 

Let's talk Family Meals! There must be a dish that you've learned to prepare in your childhood, or something that your grandmother cooks each year. What is your favourite family meal?

 

My family meal is called:

 

Lasagne with salmon, spinach and a creamy tomato sauce

For this recipe for four, you will need:
- lasagne sheets (a whole pack)
- A bottle of passata
- 1 Alpro Soya cream (this stuff is awesome, it doesn't get you fat but it tastes perfectly like normal cream)
- One packet of frozen salmon
- One bag of fresh spinach (be carefull, you can't reheat spinach, you will regret it)
- basil, parsley, salt and pepper
- one clove of garlic
- mozzarella cheese and grated cheese
- sliced tomatoes
- Optional: olives

 

-          Grease a baking tray with olive oil (that way the lasagne won’t stick to the tray).

-          Then slice the almost defrosted salmon in thin pieces, so you can lay a few on each layer. Mix the passata with the cream, salt and pepper, garlic, basil and parsley.

-          Gather your spinach, the sauce, the salmon, grated cheese and the lasagne and start with your first layer.

 

-          Use a little bit of cream on the base of the baking tray before layering the first lasagne sheets.

 

-          First add the sauce, then the salmon and the spinach. If you want to, you could use some grated cheese, it will make the layers super creamy and sticky. Now just repeat every layer until you have one layer left. On this layer you put, some left over sauce, some sliced tomatoes(with just a pinch of salt and pepper on top), mozzarella, grated cheese, perhaps some olive and extra basil.

 

( If you remember to put enough sauce in every layer, you will end up with the most creamy, soft, water mouthing lasagne ever!)

 

-          Now it’s ready for the oven! The first 20 minutes on a high setting and the last 25 to 30 minutes on a lower setting. You can feel the lasagne with a fork or a spatula, check if it’s super soft. When it looks golden, you are done!

 

You can serve it with a simple rocket salad, dressed with lemon, olive oil and salt and pepper. If you remember to put enough sauce in every layer, you will end up with the most creamy, soft, water mouthing lasagne ever!

I hope you all love it!
Love,
Iris

Let's talk Family Meals! There must be a dish that you've learned to prepare in your childhood, or something that your grandmother likes to make each year. What are your family meals?

In my case, the family meal is called:

Grilled Salmon with Tagliatelle, sugarsnaps and cream sauce

what you will need: (5 persons dinner)

 -500 g of salmon, sliced into pieces
-salt and pepper/ or like I like to season it, with a bit of fish spices.
-150 g of sugar snaps
-2 shallots
-2 dl dry white wine
-2 dl fish bouillon
-3 dl of cream (kook room)
(-3 tablespoons of cold butter)
-500 g of tagliatelle
-maizena

Slice the shallots into very little pieces
Put the (sliced) salmon on a plate, covered with aluminiumfoil and (a lot of!!) oil
Season the salmon
Cook the sugarsnaps approximately 5 minutes in water. (Don't forget to add salt!)
Fry the shallots in a pan until they look soft
Add the white wine to the Shallots
Let the wine concentrate a bit.
Add the Fish bouillon
Let the sauce concentrate some more.
Add the cream, lower the fire
If you'd like to, you can add butter to the sauce.
Add some maizena (mixed with water)
Bake the salmon approximately 8 minutes in the oven at 180°C, if possible, set your oven to 'grill'
Cook the Tagliatelle, and just cook the pasta as long as it says on packing..

Drain the Pasta

Time to serve! I hope you enjoy this meal as much as I and my family do!

x Eline

Good Evening Foodies!
Our chapter about Fast Food is almost finished, and a part of our chapter is about the local stores and the different kinds of food that are provided at schools or universities. We felt the "urgent" need to test a few of the stores in our school's neighborhood, and, after two minutes of walking, the first shop popped up. The Lidl is so close to our school that many pupils go there, when they haven't got much time. However, since the Jumbo and Albert Heijn provide "frikandelbroodjes" and a bigger variety of products, almost every child walks or cycles a few minutes longer to find the other stores.

After a few minutes, we decided to really test out the stores and in order to do that, we bought our selves a delicious bag of crispy Doritos. 

they tasted very well.