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

Vanilla poached pears

Pears are a fruit with its own distinct flavor and soft structure.
Today a desert with pears poached in white wine with vanilla. Served in a chocolate almond dip.



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Ingredients:

• Pears, vanilla pods, honey, white wine, cardamom,
• Chocolate, vanilla sugar, almonds

Peanut soup

A recipe of peanut soup. It appealed to me because they also used bananas as an ingredient.
Chicken, peanuts, bananas and some red pepper, doesn't that sounds good?!
With the chicken broth you can make the soup thinner or thicker as you like.

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Ingredients:

• Chicken, water, peanuts, banana, peanut butter, sereh(lemon grass), onion, spring onion, red pepper, bean sprouts, ginger syrup, salt, pepper

Whole roasted cauliflower

 A marinated and oven roasted cauliflower.  It looks amazing, like cutting a full roasted chicken.
The marinade tastes delicious. And you could also use the marinade as a dip with chips or vegetables.

The only drawback is that is has to go in the oven for a long time. Maybe next time I will just cut the cauliflower in smaller pieces and cook it in the oven with the marinade, potatoes and mince.

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Ingredients:

• Cauliflower, Greek  yoghurt, curry powder, red pepper powder, red pepper, garlic, lemon, salt, pepper

 

Raspberry cheesecupcakes

Cupcakes made of cheesecake with raspberryjam.
There are more more savoury dishes on this blog than sweet dishes, but once in a while I try to bake.
A simple recipe with nice fluffy cupcakes.

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 Ingredients:

•  Cream cheese, eggs, sugar, vanilla aroma
• Biscuits, cinnamon, butter, sugar

Skittle shots

Taste the rainbow? How about a rainbow with a hit!
You can create a sweet colourful vodka by mixing Skittles with vodka. The skittles dissolve almost whole and add the flavour.
On other websites they filter with a coffee filter. I didn't do that and got a little more white sugarfoam.

The downside is that it's still vodka and very strong. So mix it up!

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Jalapeño poppers

Today at the supermarket they sold Jalapeño peppers.
I haven't seen those earlier, so time to try them out!
How hot they can taste is someting I learned the hard way. The seeds and inside of the pepper are super hot.
But when proper cleaned the outside tastes like a spicy bell pepper.

They're filled with cream cheese and oven baked. The bacon stuffed pepper tasted the best.
And it felt a bit like Russian roulette when eating them. Because if one wasn't cleaned properly then it would be super hot. But lucky enough that didn't happen.

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Ingredients:

• Jalapeño peppers, cream cheese, lemon juice, cumin, currypowder, salt, pepper, breadcrums, bacon, cheddar