Winter soap

The best recipe against the grey weather outside and common cold is a hot soap. I love soaps, preferably vegetable soap with sausages. In the past my mother cooked lots of delicious vegetable soaps and since I´m responsible for myself, I never cooked a soap because I always thought it´s very difficult – but that´s the opposite. Since I tried it a few weeks ago, I often cooked soaps, because it´s very healthy, without carb and simple to do. You only need some soap greens (you can buy it as complete pack in the supermarket), frozen vegetable (I prefer peas, sprouts and cauliflower). Moreover I take some sausages called tea sausages spread because it´s important for a spicy flavor. In my mind the perfect finish, are soap noodles and parsley - it tastes very good and looks great. This well fits a roll with butter – Yummi. Here you can see the results:

What’s your favorite soap? Do you have any recipes for other soaps?

 Love, Pia <3

Meal made from leftovers

Do you know that? The refrigerator is empty and you haven´t got enough time or pleasure to go to supermarket. That was my problem yesterday and I think it´s a common problem of students.  So, I was a little bit creative and created a meal made from leftovers – I called it sausages gulag. Because my leftovers were sausages, two sorts of vegetable and a half pack of noodles. To my mind these products are often left. The other ingredients are products rather you have in your kitchen. But later I will tell you more. Have a look which ingredients I used for this simple and quick meal. Besides it´s simple for men, too and tastes similar to more difficult recipes.

Handy hint:

Before a view weeks I read an article about Ajvar. It´s a paste of pepper and eggplants and it’s from the Balkan. Ajvar is perfect to flavor sauces, because every meal with tomato sauce tastes better with this ingredient. Ajvar is a little bit spicy and has an orange color. So, try it for your next meal!

Ingredients:

1 onion

1 pepper

1 zucchini or other vegetables you like

2 sausages

Sieved tomatoes

Salt/pepper/bell pepper powder

Noodles

2-3 tbsp. crème légère

1-2 tbsp. Ajvar

Step 1: take onion, pepper, zucchini, sausages and cut all into bite-size pieces
Step 2: put these ingredients into a pan and steam the vegetable for circa five minutes

Step 3: put the sausages to the vegetables and steam it for 10 minutes – in this time you can cook the noodles

Step 4: put the sieved tomatoes and Ajvar in the pan and let it simmer – if you like, put some peas to the meal. It looks very nice

 Step 5: Put the crème légère, pepper, salt to it and let it simmer for more 10 minutes

 Step 6: Put the noodles to the sauce and infuse it for 2 minutes

Finished, it’s a perfect student meal – so if your refrigerator is empty next time, I hope you will remember this recipe.

Love, Pia <3

Christmas time is coming

As promised, yesterday I baked the first Christmas cookies of this year! Slowly my Christmas mood is coming and of course this includes cookies –but no, I didn´t hear Christmas songs in this time, it´s still too early. ;-) 

I decided to bake some vanilla crescents and nut wedges. Before baking I had to buy some baking supplies. Certainly I bought the ingredients for the cookies, but especially for the vanilla crescents, I needed a baking dish. Accidental on Saturday I was in the town and descried these wonderful brown vanilla crescents baking dishes at Tchibo. Every year, Tchibo has a lot of awesome baking supplies. I could to buy a lot, but it´s not really cheap. The dish costs about 9.95€, I think it´s ok. Here you can find the offer of Tchibo:  https://www.tchibo.de/ 

Moreover I bought these great cookie cans. I found these at Ikea. For three pieces I have paid 6.95 €.

 But back to the cookies! I found the recipes on Brigitte.de. Look here: http://www.brigitte.de/rezepte/rezepte/nussecken and http://www.brigitte.de/rezepte/rezepte/vanillekipferl

The recipes are very advisable, because the instruction is simple and you can do it easily. The only one, what resent me, it wastes a lot of time to bake cookies. I spent the whole morning with this baking action. But the result is fantastic – therefore it is worthwhile. I haven´t took pictures of all the steps. The first reason is that the instruction of Brigitte.de is very easy and the second reason is that my hands were all the time sticky with dough. So I hope you will enjoy the photos of the results!

At the beginning of December I will bake more cookies with different varieties, because cookies are a great present for the whole family and friends. 
 

Have you already baked cookies yet? And which kinds of cookies have you baked?

Love, Pia <3

Pasta addicted

Hi guys, today I cooked my favorite delicious spaghetti for lunch. The sauce is an own creation - yes, I´m very proud! In the past I always used finish sauces, but it´s not the same like self-made sauce. For sure I used cans tomatoes, but it´s a quick variety instead to use fresh tomatoes. In my mind this dish tastes like original Italy spaghetti. You must absolutely try it! Moreover it´s a very easy recipe and you don´t require more than 20 minutes. I think it´s very student friendly and a perfect dish for getting visits!

Ingredients:

Spaghetti

2 cans tomatoes

1 pepper

1/2 of a sheep´s cheese

olives

3 carrots

1 onion

1-2 pieces garlic

chilli

 

 How to make Italy spaghetti – step by step:

 

Step 1: take onion, pepper, carrots and cut all into bite-size pieces

Step 2: put these ingredients into a pan and steam the vegetable for circa five minutes

Step 3: meanwhile fill the tomatoes into add bowl and put sheep´s cheese, garlic, olives and chilli– flavor this sauce with salt, pepper and one tsp. Provençal herbs

Step 4: put the mix into the pan with the vegetable and boil up for circa 10 minutes -

at this time you can begin to cook the spaghetti

Step 5: for decoration use some herbs and parmesan

Et voilà - the result of my favorite original Italy sauce!

 

By the way, tomorrow it´s time to bake the first Christmas cookies for this year! I decided to bake vanilla crescents and nut wedges. I never baked these cookies before, so I´m very glad and exited. You may be curious! 

Love, Pia <3