Simple broccoli salad

Ingredients for the salad:

One head of broccoli

2 tomatoes

1 small onion

Mayonnaise

Apple-cider vinegar

Honey or other sweetener

Salt and pepper

Olive oil

Preparation:

Wash and cut the broccoli into pieces

Boil the broccoli in water with a little salt until cooked to your taste. If you like the broccoli to still be a bit crunchy, then do that, if you like the broccoli well boiled then boil it for a bit longer.

Cut the two tomatoes into chunks

Make a dressing with two tablespoons of mayonnaise, a drizzle of olive oil, some apple cider vinegar, some salt and pepper and a pinch of sugar or a little bit of honey (or other sweetener)

When the broccoli is cooked, let it cool down and mix with the other ingredients.

Quick apple pie

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, they say, but they probably don't mean turning it into an apple pie. However, it is so delicious and so easy to make that a little treat every now and then won't harm us. This is a French style apple pie.

Ingredients:
3 or 4 hard apples

one sheet of puff pastry

about 50 grams of butter

brown sugar

cinnamon

1 egg

whipped cream (optional)

You need a pie baking mold and a frying pan

Preparation:

Peel and slice the apple into thin slices. Heat the butter in a frying pan and add about 2 or 3 tablespoons of brown sugar, (if you have a sweet tooth you use 3). If you are using sour apples you might want to put a little more sugar.

Already put the apples in the butter with sugar, so don't wait till the sugar becomes caramelised. Sprinkle some cinnamon over the apples. Mix the apples with the butter and sugar so that all pieces are covered. Keep stirring, this will take about 10 minutes till the butter and sugar start caramelising, it becomes a bit sticky.

Now put the apple mixture in the mold. Put a sheet of puff pastry on the top and prick it with a fork. Beat the egg and brush some of the egg onto the puff pastry.

Put in a preheated oven at 200 degrees and bake till the crust becomes golden brown, about 20 to 25 minutes.

Turn the pie upside down on a plate so that the apples are on top and the pastry at the bottom.

Serve (luke)warm and if you like with some cream.

Enjoy!

Quik and easy asparagus soup

Do you also love those green asparagus that you don't have to peel? But what to do with that bottom bit after you snapped the top bit to prepare for your meal? You could make this super simple asparagus soup.

Ingredients:

left over halves of asparagus after you grilled the top parts with some olive oil on a griddle pan with some herbal salt (you can of course also use the whole asparagus)

a jar with asparagus in water

half of a small to medium size onion

some pepper

some curry powder

pinch of cumin

Olive oil

Preparation:
 Put some olive oil in the pan and when hot, you add the chopped onion, the salt, pepper, cumin and the curry powder. Stir for a little and add the bottoms of the asparagus (do cut off the very bottom bit as this will be dry). Stir for a few minutes and then add some water, just covering the asparagus

and onion. After about 5 mins add content of the jar of asparagus, including the liquid. This is a bit salty so therefore you only needed a pinch of salt. Boil for another 5 minutes or so and then blend with a hand blender.

Buen Appetit.

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Avocado and orange salad.

I highly recommend you try this typical Andalusian recipe as it is surprisingly delicious, simple and healthy.



Ingredients:

• 
• one ripe avocado
• one large orange 
• extra virgin olive oil
• salt to taste
• bread (optional)

Cut the avocado and the orange into pieces, mix in a bowl and sprinkle with salt and abundant extra virgin olive oil!
Very nice to eat with fresh bread to soak up the lovely mixture of olive oil and orange with the bread.

Raw Beetroot salad

Ingredients:
beetroot
carrot
ginger
apple
onion
apple cider vinegar
coconut sugar
pinch of salt and pepper
mustard
half an orange

Preparation:
Grate a raw beetroot
grate one or two small carrots
thinly slice a quarter of an onion
grate about half an inch of fresh ginger
Grate an apple
In a glass mix about 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, half a teaspoon of honey or agave sirup and half a teaspoon of mustard plus the juice of half an orange.
Mix all ingredients and sprinkle with a little salt and pepper and then mix in the dressing
Very refreshing, delicious salad.
Buon appetit.

Balsamic artichoke hearts

Ingredients:

1 tin or glass jar of artichoke hearts,

1 clove of garlic

salt

fresh basil (about 4 leaves)

balsamic vinegar

olive oil

 

Preparation:

cut the artichoke hearts into 4 pieces

take a clean jar and add about 1 tablespoon of balsamic vinegar

add a finely chopped clove of garlic

add the chopped basil and a little bit of salt

add about 3 or 4 tablespoons of olive oil

Now you add the artichoke hearts, put the lit on the jar and gently shake the jar, so that all the artichokes are covered with the dressing

Serve as a side dish

Raw mushroom tapa

Raw mushroom tapa
Ingredients:

• Baguette style sliced bread
• Clean mushrooms, very thinly sliced.
• Garlic
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Salt
  

Preparation
Toast the sliced bread and rub each slice with a clove of fresh garlic. Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the toasted bread and then sprinkle it with a little salt. Now you add some raw slices of mushrooms on the bread and your tapa is ready to eat.

Don’t let appearances fool you; this is actually a delicious surprise for your taste buds! DO TRY THIS AT HOME! Enjoy!