Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Best Caesar Salad you'll ever try!

I found this recipe a few years ago and I love it so much. I hope you will love it as much!

Serve: 4

Ingredients:

For the dressing:

2 TB lemon juice
3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 raw egg
1 small clove of garlic that needs to be crushed
3 anchovies

For the salad:

Cos lettuce (you need about 4 to 6 cos lettuce leaves per person)
8 rashes of bacon (you need to fry it until crispy)
Anchovies (for those who like them on top of the salad!)
Bread croutons (you need about 6 to 8 croutons per person and you can make them in small pieces or larger if you wish - you will need to fry them in a little bit of olive oil in a pan until golden and this takes a few seconds only!)
4 free range eggs (poached)
2 chicken breasts (you need to half each fillet as it is enough per person - fry it)
Shaved parmesan

Make the dressing:

In a hand mixer put the lemon, the raw egg, the garlic and anchovies together and mix it.
Add the olive oil and mix again. The mixture has thickened a little.

Prepare the salad:

1. Cut the cos lettuce in smaller pieces. Then mix the dressing together.
2. Add the bread croutons around the place or on top.
3. Add your chicken breast on top, the poached egg, the crispy bacon, and the anchovies.
4. Top it all up with the parmesan.

You will love this recipe!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Speady Pavlova in no time

I invented this recipe one day I didn't have much to time to make a nice dessert and I had cream, strawberries and some meringue I previously made the other day.

You just need to layer the whipped cream, sliced strawberries and crumbed meringue (my husband likes it with lots of cream and me with very little so you can put as much as you like!) in a nice cup and thats it! It tastes great too...

Pasta 'Crazy' Prawns

This recipe was invented by my dad. He is a great cook! You need just a few ingredients and it takes no time to make it and impress guests! It is named that way by my dad (don't ask me why :P).

Serve: 4

Cooking and preparation time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

400 ml cream (I go light and it is the same as full cream I find!).
600g king prawns (uncooked) - about 150g per person
1 TB of tomato pasta
2 lemons
50 ml whisky
Lots of pepper

cooked thin spaguetti (type angel hair but standard spaguetti are good too)

1. In a frying pan put 2 TB of olive oil. Add all your prawns and fry them until they start changing color. Add the whisky while hot while being careful as you are going to 'flambee' them ('flambee' means when you add alcohol to something and then lit it with fire). Let the alcohol burn until there is no flame anymore. Remove just the prawns from the pan.

3. Add to the pan the tomato paste, half a lemon juice and fry a few seconds. Then add the cream and about 1 TS of pepper. Let it reduce until thicker (about 5 minutes).

4. Put the prawns back in the sauce and cook for another minute (you don't want to overcook the prawns).

Add the pasta to the pan and stir for a few seconds until the juices/sauce penetrates the pasta a little.

Ready to serve and eat! Yummm