Ratatouille

Ratatouille is a simple French vegetable dish.
And it surprised me how much flavor it has. Nice soft textures with a hint of herbs.

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Ingredients:

• Eggplant, courgette, red bell pepper, tomato, onion, garlic, herbes de provence, oil, salt, pepper
• Potato's 
• Pork chop

Boeuf bourguignon

 Boeuf bourguignon, a French wine beef stew.
 A stew which looks like Stoofvlees, but has more flavour.

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Ingredients:

• Beef, bacon, red wine, garlic, onion, carrot, celery, tomato puree, bay leaves, mushrooms, beef bouillon, Corn starch, oil, peper, salt
• Potatos
• Green beans

Pizza Napoletana

An other easy tasty dish. Pizza Napoletana.
A simple pizza with mozzarella, basil and anchovy.


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Ingredients:

• Pizza dough
• Tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, anchovy, olives

Avocado pasta

An easy colorful tasty dish. Avocado pasta.
If you want to try something different instead of bolognese sauce, mash up some avocados. It will leave a smooth creamy texture.

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Ingredients:

• Spaghetti,  avocado, shrimps, lemon juice, pine nuts, salt, pepper, (parsley as garnish)

Speckknödel in broth

Knödel are a kind of bread or potato dumplings. Today they were made of bread and pork.
Because of the cubed bread, you would have thought that the dumplings could fall apart when boiling. But they satay well together.
The knödel have their own structure and taste a bit chewy in a good way.

The broth was made of beef marrow.

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Ingredients:

• Bread, onion, lard, parsley, eggs, milk, flour, salt, pepper
• Beef bone marrow, onion, bay leaves, salt, pepper, parsley

Blackberry fruit roll ups (fruit leather)

People don't often make their own candy.
This time it's healty candy, made out of fruit.

Put the fruit in a blender with some honey, then put it on a baking tray and leave it in the oven for many (4+) hours on low heat. Let all the juice vaporate.
There will only be fruit left. Roll it up for a healthy snack.
Why eat beef jerky if you can eat fruit jerky.

The only disadvantage about blackberries is the amount of seeds. With mango, strawberries or raspberries you will have a smooth texture.

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Ingredients:

• Blackberries, honey

Spanish eggs

A dish full of flavor. Spanish eggs is a chorizo-tomato recipe. Topped with eggs and baked in the oven.

Every bite has its own texture, tomato, chorizo, potato, bean.
As a finishing touch does the red pepper add an extra spicy hit.

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Ingredients:

• Eggs, Chorizo, diced tomato, diced potatoes, cannellini beans, onion, garlic, red pepper, parsley, oragano, cayenne pepper, bell pepper powder

Smörgåstårta (Sandwich cake)

It almost looks like a cake, but its sandwich.
A Smörgåstårta is a Scandinavian dish made of stacked  bread with delicious filling, decorated with a cream cheese and vegetables.
It looks great on a sunday afternoon lunch.

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Ingredients:

• Bread
• Cucumber, eggs, parsley, pepper, salt
• Smoked salmon, dill, mustard
• Lettuce, radish, mayonnaise, grey shrimps, parsley
• Cream cheese, sour cream

Krapfen (berliner bol)

A sweet pastry from Germany. Its like a jam-filled doughnut.
When the krapfen turned nice and brown in the fryer, the inside wasn't cooked enough. So they went in the oven to get proper cooked.
They are a delicious sweet treat.



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Ingredients:

• Flour, fine sugar, yeast, vanilla sugar, eggs, butter, milk, jam, oil for frying