Kitty's Corner

Burning Love - or "Brændende kærlighed" in Danish - is a very simple traditional Danish dish, that are usually containing too much fat for my likings. But it's simple and fast - so I've modified the dish a bit, so it's less fattening.

So - here goes: ZRS ~ Zaphira's Recipe Service ~ proudly presents:

Zaphira's Burning Love

For two servings you'll need:

Half a kilo potatoes
2-3 carrots
100 ml low fat milk
Salt

1 large onion
150 grams of bacon
1 large sausage or two small ones

Peel the potatoes and cut them into smaller pieces. Peel the carrots and slice them. Boil them in the same cooking pot for about 20 minutes, until the potatoes are tender (?)

While the potatoes are boiling, peel the onion and chop it. Chop the bacon into bitefriendly bits. I buy a whole piece of bacon and remove the top row of fat - then it's not going to swim in grease. Cut the sausage into smaller bits as well, and fry it all on a pan.


When the potatoes are ready, drain them from water. Put them into a bowl, add the milk and mash them with a mixer. Add salt.


Serve and enjoy.


Easy dinner - it tastes good and it takes half a hour to cook it.

I've never posted a recipe with fish, and that's a shame because I like fish.

So - here goes: ZRS ~ Zaphira's Recipe Service ~ proudly presents:

Zaphira's Super Easy Pasta with Salmon

(Approximately 2 servings, depending on how hungry you are)

You'll need:

200 gram of pasta (I use half whole grain pasta, half ordinary pasta)
6-8 plum tomatoes
100-150 gram Salmon (both fresh and smoked goes)
A large spoonful of fresh cream cheese
A splash of milk
Salt

(Looks really easy already, don't you think??)

Boil the pasta. While it boils I usually peel the tomatoes. If you don't mind the "skin", then don't peel them. I put them in a bowl, splash boiling water over them, take them up after a minute, and the skin peels right off. Easy! Cut them into smaller chunks.

Cut the salmon into bite-friendly pieces.

Drain the pasta when boiled. Leave it in the pot. Ad a large spoonful of fresh cream cheese - I use Philadelphia Light, but use which ever one you have. Ad a splash of milk and stir until the cheese is melted.



Instead of cheese and milk you can use cream, but be aware that it ads calories as well.

Ad the tomatoes, the salmon and a pinch of salt and heat it up.



Stir carefully, and serve. I've grated cheese over it - but that is optional. :yum:




It's really easy and delicious - and it tastes even better the day after.

We often have morning meetings at work. And when we invite people to come to meetings in the mornings we always serve breakfast. We have a small kitchen with an oven and a microwave, and we have a fridge too, so all it takes is a bit of planning.

My boss had bought some buns for a morning meeting the other day. She had bought two bags of buns, because of a special offer at the baker's.

But let's take a closer look at that "special offer":



The white label tells the original price: 18.95 DKK - that's approximately 2.5 Eur, but that's irrelevant right now. The yellow label shows the "good offer": Two bags for 38 DKK. That means that if you buy two bags, you'll pay 0.10 DKK more than if you've bought two individual bags.

But hey, further down on the yellow label there's another noticeable thing. It says that the regular price is 25 DKK, and not 18.95 DKK. You know what that is? That's cheating! Selling things at regular prices, and camouflaging them and make it look like an offer - that's bad style. Shame on you, Føtex, for cheating your costumers!

It's been a while since I posted a recipe, so I think it's time for another one of my own.

I made these ones up - I wanted them simple, with only a few ingredients in them, but still good tasting. I think I made it!

ZRS (Zaphira's Recipe Service) proudly presents:

Zaphira's Delicious Marzipan Muffins
(makes 10)

Ingredients
2 eggs
200 grams white sugar (one and a half cup)
100 gram marzipan, grated (3.5 Oz.)
100 ml yoghurt (3.4 fl. Oz.)
200 gram flour (one and a half cup)
2 teaspoons baking powder
A handful of granulated sugar

How to do it?

Grate the marzipan. Put it in the fridge the day before you want to bake - it's much easier to grate it when it's really cold.

Whip the eggs thoroughly with the sugar.

Ad the marzipan and stir with a spoon.

Ad the yoghurt and stir again.

Mix the flour and the baking powder, and fold it into the rest of the dough.

Fill into muffin tins and sprinkle with granulated sugar.



Bake by 180 C (356 F) for 15 minutes.


My muffin tins might look fancy, but even though they are made of silicon, it gives me hell cleaning them. The muffins don't stick to them, but there's dough in all the little grooves. It takes forever to clean them. My next tins will be groove-less.



Here's the baked muffin:




Enjoy!