member blog: maddimouse
maddimouse
From
mid-west Germany
Member since
23rd Feb 2009
About
Welcome!!! I´m 35 years old, living with my boyfriend about an hours drive north of Cologne. We´ve got three cats named Agent J, Agent K and Agent Red. Guessed it? Yes, we pretty much like the movie Men In Black. And two of our cats are black, of course! I´ve always loved cooking and baking, but it´s not that I´m creating top cuisine here! I have to say, though, that I´m getting more and more into the whole thing, and I´m enjoying it a lot. What else.... I love travelling, I love trying out different food, I love going to concerts (fave band is Take That and I have no problems admitting that *lol*), reading books (preferrably archaeology or to do with food), I love doing catering (even though doing this as a job would be too stressfull me thinks!), and last but not least for now we´re MAD about coffee here! My OH is roasting his own coffee, if that´s not mad I don´t know..... I do not share Jamie´s love for chillies, unfortunately my stomach is on war with everything that is too hot, I do react with terrible stomach pain to it! What a shame! Enjoy life, see you on the forum!
maddimouse's blog posts
Fish-casserole with brussels sprouts
Thu 05 Nov 2009GENERAL BLOG
Our dinner tonight, I´ve found out it´s really easy to prepare, and once it comes to cooking it doesn´t take much effort.
I cut the brussels sprouts in halves and blanched them in salty water for three minutes, then poured them into a colander and quickly rinsed them under cold tab water. They cooled off quickly and I put them in the fridge for later.
In the evening I prepared the sauce (single cream, stock, salt, pepper and diff. herbs) and poured it into a casserole, placed two cut-through frozen fish fillets into the sauce and put the brussels sprouts on top so they were just peeking out.
200°C / 35 minutes (25 in case the fish is not frozen) and dinner was ready! Just made some mashed potatoes to go with it.
I will do dishes like this more often when I´m working late.
Will post the full recipy as soon as I´ve got the time to.
pork schnitzel, oyster mushrooms ragú and pasta
Sat 31 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
That was our dinner tonight. I love mushroom dishes and a friend of mine has given me two good handfulls so I happily changed my dinner plans. It wasn´t enough for a main dish but for a lovely bit of ragú to go with the schnitzel and pasta.
I will post the recipy on foodwise soon.
apple waffles
Fri 30 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
It still smells lovely all around our flat!
The recipy is from a lovely forumer from another forum. I´ve changed it slightly (it was meant to be extra-low-fat but I´m not too keen on using margarine and sweetener) and it turned out lovely! Shame they´re all gone now!
I will post the recipy asap!
creamy squash soup
Mon 12 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
We had this soup yesterday, one of my favourites at this time of year!
The main ingredients are curry paste, onions, garlic, squash, apples and single cream.
edit: just posted the recipy:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/foodwise/art … hp?id=3039
grapes in spicy chocolate
Mon 12 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
My OH loves these and they are very simple to make, too:
I took some dark chocolate, melt it slowly with just a tiny bit of single cream, added a tsp of ginger syrup and a bit of fresh ground black pepper.
I then bathed the grapes in chocolate, placed them on a tray with baking paper and put the tray in the fridge.
They taste best right out of the fridge! I have to say I´d prefer to have them in the summer but I had soooo many grapes (I got almost 3 kilos on saturday!) that I decided to follow this idea and simply try it.