2 eggs
A bit of feta cheese
Six small tomatoes sliced
Green onion
Sour cream
Sprinkled with pomegranate
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A New Year’s Day vegetable omelet
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged eggs, omelet, vegetables on January 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »
mini quiche and croissant au jambon!
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged breakfast, croissant, ham, quiche on September 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Baking these little quiches is a great idea and you can freeze them for future breakfasts! Mine didn’t last long around here. The croissant ham and cheese sandwich is easy to assemble, just get super fresh croissants and insert a piece of ham and your favorite cheese, heat in mini oven for five minutes!
mini quiche
ham and cheese croissant
rustic garden tomato tart
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged basil, garlic, summer, tart, tomatoes on August 31, 2020| 1 Comment »
We have too many tomatoes this year and I was challenged to find ways to use them or let them fall to the ground and rot. This turned out to be easy and can be frozen after baking as well! Recipe:
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/tomato-lemon-tart
I did not use the lemons however but I did use all the garlic!
eggs and sweetpotato frittata
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged eggs, frittata, omelette, sweet potato on August 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »
two eggs, scrambled, add sweet potato sliced and fried in pan
add a ham slice chopped and sauteed
cherry tomatoes
green shishito pepper fried
top with homemade pesto!
Easter lamb
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged easter, garlic, lamb, mint, potatoes on April 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
We hardly ever eat lamb and this was a treat, and we are not huge followers of religious events but this one, being indoors and all provided me with an opportunity to use lamb in an old fashioned way.
I marinated the rack for two days in olive oil, chopped garlic and rosemary. I then salted and peppered it before grilling it and finishing it in the oven. On the side I served a Mediterranean parsley salad and a mint and garlic sauce. Fresh and rich at the same time!
staying in with leftovers: paleo salmon and kale salad
Posted in Recipes, tagged kale, paleo, salad, salmon on March 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »
thank you Irena for this great recipe, I used cooked leftover salmon and toasted the salmon skin until crispy as a topping, here is the original recipe:
https://irenamacri.com/recipes/fish-salad-with-cajun-salmon-kale
Shrimp Paella with Shishito peppers
Posted in Recipes, Uncategorized, tagged paella, prawns, shrimp on September 3, 2018| 1 Comment »
This was the first time I made a shrimp only paella, and served with charred shishito peppers on the side.
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salmon with lentils and green beans
Posted in Recipes, tagged dinner, green beans, lentils, salmon on May 23, 2018| 1 Comment »
Pan fry the salmon in butter and olive oil for two minutes per side, add salt and pepper, meanwhile cook the green beans in butter and a chopped shallot for five minutes, cook lentils in water with a bay leaf for 20 minutes, add a few tablespooons of home made tomato sauce when finished
Eat!
buckwheat pancakes with boozy blueberries!
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged blueberries, booze, buckwheat, pancakes on April 21, 2018| 1 Comment »
Buckwheat pancake mix, dried blueberries soaked in rum for a week, half a banana, a tangerine and maple syrup!!!!
sour cherry (visnja)bomb /drink
Posted in Recipes, tagged cherry, drinks, liquor on November 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I made sour cherry liquer again this year (see my recipe here…” finally bottling my cherry liquor”) and used the cherries to flavor a new drink I invented!
2 oz white rum
1/4 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 oz sour cherry liqueur
a squirt of fresh lemon juice
one sour cherry pickled in brandy
lemon peel
shake on ice and serve in a small martini glass
Sardine and tomato tartine
Posted in Recipes, tagged sandwich, sardines, tomato on October 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »
One tomato sliced
Can of sardines with chopped olives in olive oil
Fresh marjoram
Slice of country bread
Cream cheese
olive oil
salt and pepper
Voila!
my mozzarella plate with croatian pickled hot peppers
Posted in Recipes, tagged basil, chili, croatian, hot, mozzarella, peppers, pickled peppers, pickles, Recipes, spicy, tomatoes on April 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
easy plum tarts
Posted in food, Recipes, tagged cinnamom, dessert, easy, plums, puff pastry, quick on October 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
1 package frozen puff pastry, thawed
10-20 blue plums, halved
sugar and cinnamon mixture
half a stick of butter, melted
preheat oven to 400, cut each pastry sheet into two
place plums soaked in sugar and cinnamon on top brush with butter
bake for 20 minutes
wild salmon nicoise
Posted in Recipes, vegetables, tagged eggs, nicoise, salad, salmon on July 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
1-2 pounds grilled wild salmon filets
market greenbeans, boiled
escarole lettuce, chopped
2 soft boiled eggs
1 cucumber sliced
1 red pepper charred and sliced
2 red potoates boiled then peeled and cubed
2 radishes quartered
6 cherry tomatoes, halved
mustard vinaigrette with shallots and capers (red wine and olive oil)
instructions: arrange everything on a large deep plate and pour the dressing over it
serve (serves 2 generously)
Fish Soup or Chowder without the fish stock
Posted in Recipes, tagged fish soup chowder on March 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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Visnja’s fish soup or chowder (no fish stock)
1 roasted whole 3 pound halibut, (or any other fresh white fish) deboned
1 large white onion chopped and sautéed
1 bottle of clam juice
1 small can of chopped clams
2 cups vegetable stock
2 medium yellow potatoes cubed (1/2”)
1 fresh tomato cubed
1/2 cup canned tomatoes (or leftover sauce)
cook for 10 minutes, add fish
top with olive oil, parsley and garlic sauce (4 minced garlic cloves, 1 cup minced parsley, 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil)
Coq au Vin home style
Posted in Recipes on February 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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Coq au Vin
Coq au vin
1 large chicken, cut into 8 pieces
20 peeled pearl onions
1 pound mixed mushrooms
2 large shallots
2 bottles of red wine
1 cup chicken stock
4 slices bacon, slice into 1/2 inch strips
10 fresh thyme sprigs
parlsey for garnish
baguette
Marinate chicken pieces in two bottles of red wine overnight in refrigerator.
Brown sliced bacon and take it out of the pan. Dry the chicken with paper towels and brown in the bacon fat. Take out and place aside. Slice shallot 1/4 thick and brown in the bacon fat.
Brown the mushrooms in butter. Put the chicken back in the pan with all the leftover wine marinade, the chicken stock and all the vegetables.
Cook for two hours in the oven at 365. Thicken with 1/4 cup flour mashed with 3 tbsp butter.
Eat with toasted french bread!
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