Cooking Fennel

Today I want to share a very good recipe with you.

I am very new at taking photos of food; esp. while I still have to cook

and then serve it when still hot.

This is a recipe my brother (he's a chef) invented (as far as i know) 

but I changed it here and there.

Fennel isn't a vegetable we use every day.. mainly because.. 

well..it tastes a bit strange.

We usually drink fennel tea when we're feeling sick,

so we're not actually keen on cooking it.

But once I tried fried fennel, I was convinced.

I had to make do today since I didn't have all ingredients 

(a nightmare for certain males)

and I will write down the original one.

 

Fried Fennel with Salmon in a caramelized Onion sauce

Serves 4

Shopping list:

2 big fennels
2 onions
butter for frying
orange juice
Pesto Genovese
Dijon or other mustard
Salt and Pepper
300g salmon

cut the fennel into small stripes 

and fry it with butter until its brown. 

Then turn the temperature down and let it cook for about 15 minutes

 cut the onions into small pieces and fry in butter for about 5 minutes,

then

deglaze it with 150 ml orange juice and let it cook (reduce) for 

about 5 minutes

deglaze it with a good bit of cream (I guess about 50ml) and 

ca.150ml milk and 150 ml water. 

(I don't use a measuring cup) just all in all enough for a sauce

1 or 2 tablespoons of Pesto (as you like it)

1 tablespoon (or more) of Dijon (I put also some sweet mustard into it)

Salt and Pepper        

Now you can put the fennel into the sauce and let it cook for a bit

cut the salmon into small pieces and put it into the sauce (just a minute or

two before serving, so it will be JUST cooked

And thats about it. I usually serve it with Pasta (usually Farfalle and in todays case

with pumpkin farfalle)

You can also fry the salmon. 

I tried smoked salmon today but didn't like it as much.

That's about it, I hope you enjoy it. 

Thanks a lot to my brother and Emily, who inspired me to cook and eventually write about it.

It's the very little things

Day 2 woot woot

Sometimes.. well sometimes you should really treat yourself.
I spend the morning with a friend, drinking an overprized yet fantastically yummy coffee,eating a homemade plum cake and just sitting and talking in the sunshine.
It was bliss. And doing this for yourself IS important, yet it is not what I meant with "the little things"

Politeness
We were at a very small coffee bar on the food market,they have few places to sit and we asked a very nice young couple if we could join them at their table and instantly talked to them about the coffee and such. It was quite nice.
They left after a while and (very suddenly) two women sat down at our table, without asking, without even saying Hello.
Why? Really. Does it hurt..? I know this sounds like yet another rant about impoliteness, our society bla bla but this isn't what I mean. It's just that not only the world would be a nicer place if we took time to recognize other people, just a smile here and then.. a good morning.. I usually feel better, more connected to the world when I do this.. and in a better mood. Even time at work flies by when you are nice to people.. and when you work in a shop.. well they spend more time and therefore usually more money if you're nice to them. And guess what.. they come back even!

Well.. don't get me startet on German sales people.

I understand if you want to keep to yourself, sometimes I do that too, most of the time actually. I put on my sunglasses and feel sort of invisible but a few times a day.. it's nice to smile at someone, a little nod.. even if most of the people think you're a nutter.

Bloggi di blog blog

Hello everyone.
So this is my very first entry. Gee I hate learning new stuff. There you go: First thing to know about me:
I'm not eager to learn new stuff.. especially rules.. to be even more specific; game rules.
Oh how I hate that!! It hurts my brain. seriously.
Learning about things that interest me like new TVs, bikes and even Tupperware; easy peasy, love it.. but gaming rules yyyrch

So here I am, learning stuff, telling you stuff. I hope I can tell you things that interest you.
For now.. it is good bye, thank you for reading this, I hope I will do this regularly.
Lots of love

Ps.: Picture was taken few years ago.. I'm a bit older now.. hence the problems with learning new stuff ;-)