Pasta with Tuna-Tomatosauce

This is one of my favorite pasta recipes. As I love tuna AND tomatoes and of course pasta it's just the perfect "light"  alternative to a tuna-sauce with cream.

Ingredients:

canned whole tomatoes
tomato paste
canned tuna in olive oil
onions
garlic
fresh basil
salt
freshly ground pepper
short pasta (or your favorite)

Let's get started:

First you cut the onions and mince the garlic.
In a pan sautee them in the tuna can olive oil  until they are translucent.
Then add the tuna and cook on medium heat for abou 1 1/2 minutes.
Then add the canned tomatoes (including the juices in the can).
With your fingers crush the tomatoes a little bit, so there are still a couple bigger parts in the sauce. (You have to do that BEFORE mixing them with the rest or you will burn your hand REALLY bad)
Then add tomato paste (the amount - like all the ingredients, depends on how you like the taste).
Let it cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes or until you feel it's getting a little thicker.
Just before the end mince the basil leaves and add them to the sauce.
Then spice with salt and pepper as you wish.
When your pasta is cooked take the pan off the heat and toss the pasta directly in the pan.
Serve in the pan and if you wish with a little grated parmesan cheese.
If stored in the fridge properly can be eaten the next day too.

Enjoy (=

Grilled Sandwich all' Antonella

So this is my favorite grilled sandwich in the world! It's soooo yummy and pretty easy to make. There it goes:

Ingredients:

ham
gouda cheese
mozzarella cheese (shredded)
cheddar
peppers (green or red or whatever you like best)
sour cream
salt
pepper
garlic powder
oregano
white bread/sandwich bread




Cut ham and peppers in small pieces.
Cut the gouda and the cheddar into cubes.
Add shredded mozzarella cheese.
Mix it all up with sourcream and spice with salt, freshly ground pepper, garlic powder and a bit oregano.

Toast the slices of white bread and put them on a baking sheet.
Top the toasted slices with the mixture and sprinkle a little oregano on it.
Put in the oven on high temperature. (Use the grill option if you have one)





  Wait until all the cheese has melted properly and VOILAAAAA (=

You can also exchange the ham with peperoni. Hope you enjoyed the recipe (=

Just wanted to share..

..this cute gift wrapping (=

Weekly Meal Plan DIY

As we have a hungry toddler at home I wanted to start organizing our weekly meals. What was important to me? I wanted to do my grocery shopping only once a week and be able to buy (almost) everything at the beginning of the week. I wanted to have the option of switching meals from day to day and of course I wanted it to look pretty (=. So after a lot of internet research I came up with this:

HOW TO:

For the outside use a common frame in your desired design (the bigger the easier to fit everything on it).

Then choose two different papers you like (patterned, plain, newspaper, - what ever fits into your kitchen).

After assembling the papers (I used gluestrip to glue it to the back of the frame) design your title. I used alphabet stickers but you can also use a stamp or if you have a pretty handwriting (I don't ^^) just write the title down.

You will need 14 clothespins, 7 for each side. Write one day of the week on each pin. Then glue them on to the board. I used Patafix (UHU) to glue them on to the board but you can use whatever is strong enough to hold the clothespins.

For the boxes I used empty crayon boxes and covered them in gift wrap paper. I also used Patafix for those.

MEAL CARDS:
I wrote down our favorite family meals on the computer and printed them out. What is so special about the meal cards is, that on the backside of each meal you can find all the ingredients you will need to prepare the meal. 

After cutting them I let them run through the laminator so they were more solid, but if you don't have a laminator it doesnt really matter.




So every sunday evening I sit down with my family and we decide what we will eat for the next week. Then after choosing the cards I turn them around and add all the ingredients I need to my shopping list. On monday morning we go grocery shopping and then we're usually good for the week. Not only have I now way more time for other stuff, but we are saving a lot of money too with just buying what we need.

I also have a couple cards like: "Restaurant", "Take Away", "Away", ect..

Oh and for the right side you do the same with desserts. Or if you wish you could make one side for lunch and one side for dinner.

I hope you enjoyed my post.
Have fun crafting (=

Potato Cream Soup

Potato Cream Soup

This recipe is a really easy one. I came up with it by myself and I just love it because it's so simple and yet delicious. I think it's more of a wintersoup but I just had to think about this yummy soup yesterday and so I thought I'd post the recipe for you guys!

Ingredients:   Potatoes
                    Sour Cream
                    Leek
                    Beef Brew Powder

First of all you peel the potaoes, cut them into medium pieces. Then cut the leek and with a little olive oil sautee the leek and add the potatoes. Fill the pot with water.Then add some beef brew powder to the water and cook the potatoes in it. When they are done use a handmixer to blend it. Turn the heat down and add the sour cream. I usually use a lot of sour cream because I just love the taste of it. But if you dont like it that much just use more potatoes instead. Then continue adding brew powder until you have the flavour you like. Then use the handmixer again until the soup gets "foamy". Grind a little black pepper over each bowl of soup and serve.
I sometimes like to cut a couple slices of nice dark bread into small pieces and throw them in the pan with butter for a couple minutes until they are crunchy and scatter them over the soup.
I hope you guys like the recipe!
Bon appetit (=

The perfect Garlic Bread

Hi!

This is my new Blog where I hope to share some great recipes with you.

I'm new to this kind of thing so I'm just gonna start with not much fuzz (=

There it goes!

As I am a total addict to Pinterest I was searching for the perfect garlic bread recipe. What I actually found after days of searching was a recipe for "Pizza Factory Breadsticks" ( http://purplechocolathome.blogspot.com/2011/09/pizza-factory-breadsticks.html )

I was amazed by how fluffy they looked so I checked out the recipe.

It wasnt exactly what I had in mind, because I was actually looking for a loaf of garlic bread, so I changed a couple details and here goes the perfect recipe for the perfect garlic bread:

1 1/2 packets of dry yeast

2 tbsp powdered sugar

1 1/2 CUPS warm water

4 CUPS all purpose flour

1 tsp salt

1tbsp olive oil (the better the oil the better the taste)

1 CUP unsalted butter

1 tsp salt

4 garlic cloves

1 tsp freshly ground pepper

1 tbsp Oregano (the dried kind you get in a glass tin)

2 tbsp parmesan cheese grated

How to:

First you put the yeast, the water and the sugar in your mixing bowl in your Kitchen Aid (or other electric mixer) and let it disolve for like 1 minute.

Then add the flour, the salt and the olive oil and beat with the dough-paddle of your Kitchen Aid  (o.o.e.m.) on low speed until the a dough forms and peels of on the sides of the bowl. Continue kneading it for about 6 minutes. If its too sticky, just add a little more flour if its too dry add a little more olive oil.

Then put the dough in a floured bowl, cover with a dishtowel and let rest for about 45 minutes or until it has doubled in size.

Then cut it into two pieces and form two loafs and put on the bakingsheet (dont forget to put a baking paper under the loafs).

Cover again and let rest until size has doubled again. (About 30 minutes)

Preheat the oven to 190 C° or 375 F°

While the bread is rising melt the butter in the microwave.

Peel the garlic cloves and squeeze through the garlic crusher and into the butter.

Add salt, pepper and oregano.

When loafs have risen, cut diagonal lines in the loafs so the bread can breath while its in the oven.

With a brush generously spread 1/3 of the butter mixture on the loafs (its good, when part of it flows in the cuts you made before).

Put the bread in the oven and bake for 16 minutes (or until golden brown).

In the meantime add the parmesan cheese to the rest of the butter mixture and combine well. A paste will form.

When the bread is ready, take it out and with a nice deepen the cuts you made before and then with the brush add the paste in the cuts. The bread is still hot from the oven and will melt all the yummy garlicky paste.

We just had it for dinner with different italian salamis and prosciutto and sundried tomatoes, artichokes and olives. Parmesan and othe italian cheese. It was like heaven.
You can also eat it with a nice BBQ maybe?
Or you can make a really nice dip and use it for dipping!