Dinner idea

I love pancakes. I love to eat them with different kinds of jam and sometimes I even add some whipped cream with the jam. The only thing I don’t like too much is to make them. It’s easy but it takes time. You have to be by the stove the whole time to either flip the pancakes or put new batter in the pan.

That’s why I like the ovenbaked pancake! It “cooks itself” and it tastes like…….a pancake. I make my oven pancake with bacon because that makes the dish delicious.

For the pancake today I started with the bacon. I fried it in a pan until it was cooked through. -Don’t put uncooked bacon directly in the pancake batter! That just gives you soft bacon pieces that are rather bland in flavour.  I then mixed 4 eggs with flour and milk. I can’t give you any measurements (other than the eggs) because I didn’t use a recepy but the texture should be like a thicker white sauce.

I added the fried bacon to the batter and put the whole thing in an oven tin. I baked the pancake at 200 C for 30 minutes in the middle of the oven.

Serve with lingonberry jam.

Beef idea

I almost never eat a whole piece of beef, I prefer it minced. I think a whole beef almost tastes like blood and that`s why I have to cook it all the way through. In a restaurant I always order my beef well done otherwise I can`t eat it. And I don`t like a big steak because it`s to meaty. What I do like is a minute steak. It`s thin and easy to cook.

Today I made minute steak and potatoes. I fried the steak until it was done and after that I put it in an oven tin. I poured cream as well in the tin in order to get a sauce. On a baking paper I put potatoes, peppers and tomatoes and I cooked the whole thing in the oven. The beef came out soft after having been first fried and then slowly cooked in cream and the sauce that “made itself”was tasty.

Tasty!

Almond candy

I like all sorts of candy. What I don`t like is all the sugar it contains. I sometimes feel sick when I eat too much of it. That`s why I`m excited that I`ve found a recepy for a healthier candy, almond candy. I like almonds but they don`t taste much as they are. This recepy makes them tasty and there`s not much sugar involved.

You don`t have to bake the almonds for a long time in this recepy and that means you don`t remove all the nutrients from the nut. Almonds are healthy and they are filled with protein, vitamin B and E and magnesium. I know it would be better to eat them without a sugar but sugar almonds are better than no almonds.

Ingredients:

1,5 tablespoons golden syrup

1 tablespoon sugar

A pinch of salt

100 gr sweet almonds

Oven 175 C

Mix syrup, sugar and salt in a saucepan on low heat. Don`t let the mixture boil. The heat is only suppose to help in blending the ingredients. Add the almonds and coat them in the melted sugar.

Place the almonds on a baking paper. Make sure they`re not in one big lump. Spread them evenly on the paper. Put the paper on a oven tray.  Bake for 8 minutes in the middle of the oven.

Tasty!

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Easy baking

I made the easiest cookies today. I had bought puff pastry because I like it and I thought I would do something with it. The one you buy is tasty and I would never do it myself. The amount of time it takes is not for someone as lazy as me. You have to roll the dough and put butter in it, let it cool and then roll it again for I don`t know how many times.

I put apple sauce and cinnamon on the puff pastry. I rolled it together and brushed beaten egg on top. I also put pearl sugar on it.

I baked it for 20 minutes at 200 C in the middle of the oven.

It was tasty!

Bacon

I think that bacon makes food delicious. The salty flavour gives almost all food a richer taste. Pasta goes especially well with bacon. I like vegetarian pasta sauces but bacon sauces I like even more. And to serve a bacon sauce with fresh pasta is my favourite meal. I don`t make my own pasta because I`m too lazy and also because I think the ones you can buy are tasty.

This is an oven cooked pasta dish. Like I said I`m lazy and this is easy to make. I make a sauce with vegetables and bacon. In this sauce there`s peppers, fresh tomatoes, tinned tomatoes, bacon, onions, milk and cream. I fry the fresh vegetables and bacon for a while and then I add the tinned tomatoes, milk and cream. I also add salt and pepper.

I put the fresh pasta in an oven tin and pour the sauce on top of it. I put some cheese on it and cook at 200 C in the middle of the oven until the cheese has melted.

Fish

I should eat fish more often. I don`t know how to make fish tasty and that`s why I seldom cook fish dishes. I think  fish needs a good sauce and there`s the problem. With meat you can just make a sauce out of the meat juices in the pan but with fish you need more. There are many ready made sauces but I often don`t like them. And then there`s the fish itself. I don`t like them all. My least favourite is salmon. Almost everyone likes it but I find the taste over welming. Whatever you do with salmon it just taste salmon.

This fish dish started as a sauce for baked potatoes. We had it with potatoes, butter and salt. Because I`m lazy I thought that baked potatoes required too much of an effort to eat (I said I was lazy). Then I began frying potato pieces to go with the sauce and that`s what I do now. To make it even easier I cook the potatoes in the oven while I make the sauce.

I can`t give you the amounts of the ingredients cause I don`t use a recepy but here`s what I put in the sauce.

Creme fraiche

Tinned tuna in water

Tomato purèe

Red onion in small pieces

Dried dill

Salt and pepper

I mix it all in a bowl and serve with fried potatoes.

Flap jack

I don`t know what to think about flap jacks. When I make them nothing goes as it should. This time I couldn`t cut them in pieces after they had been in the oven. They fell apart when I did. I had to put the warm mixture in cupcake papers to make some kind of cakes out of it.

Anyway they are the easiest snacks you can make. You just put the ingredients in a pan to mix them together and then it all goes in the oven in a tin.

Ingredients

150 gr butter

0,5 dl golden syrup

1 dl sugar

5 dl oatmeal

0,5 teaspoon salt

1 dl dried fruits

Oven: 175 C

Melt the butter, syrup and sugar in a pan. When it has melted add the rest of the ingredients and stir.

Put the mixture in a tin and bake for 15-20 min in the bottom half of the oven.

 

Fast food

I write fast food and I mean food that takes little time to make. This was fast food. It`s not the healthiest food but I think you could treat yourself to it from time to time. I like bacon and french fries together and that`s what it is. It`s bacon and french fries along with peppers and tomatoes. I cook it in the oven.

In the oven tin there`s eggs mixed with milk, salt and pepper and I cook it at the bottom of the oven. The french fries are cooked in the middle of the oven.