stuffed Zucchini

                          stuffed Zucchini

 Stuffed Zucchini  are a nice change every once in a while. Easy to prepare and then
just put in the oven. No-sweat-dinner. I like those dinners.

This is what you need:

- 2 Zucchini, cut in half

- 1 small onion, diced

-  1/2 lbs ground meat 

- 1 1/2 TBSP Tomato 

- Paprika, salt and Pepper, marjoram 

For the sauce you need:

- 1/2 can Tomato Paste

- 1 cup Broth

- 1 TBSP Flour

- 1 TBSP Butter

- Salt and Pepper

This is how you do it:

Cut the Zucchini in half and steam it for 3 min., remove with a spoon some of the flesh inside after it cooled down a bit. Place the halves it in a Casserole. Cut the Zucchini flesh and the onion and saute it in a pan with some olive oil. Now add the meat and cook it until its brown and season it with Paprika, salt and Pepper and marjoram. Spoon the filling into the Zucchini and top it with some cheese. In a 350 degree oven, bake it for 15 min.. You can also make the meat raw with some egg and breadcrumbs and add it to the zucchini. 

In the meantime, you can make the Sauce. Melt the Butter in a pot and add the flour. Cook it for like 1 min.. Then add the Tomato Paste and the broth and stir well to combine. Once it starts bubbling up, it gets thicker. If it's to thick for you, add more broth. Season with salt and Pepper and serve it with the Zucchini or stuffed Bell peppers (thats where I also have the sauce recipe in) 

You can serve it with rice, mashed potatoes or pasta. 

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Lamp chops

                             Lamb chops

I found another recipe for Lamb chops. I had a Lamb rack and didn't really know what to do with
it. 

So I cut it into pieces and had some nice Lamb chops. This time I made them on my electric grill.
You might just use a big frying pan. After making this I was like: wow. I love you. LoL.


This is what you need:

- Lamb rack to cut into slices or Lamb chops

- Salt and Pepper

- 1 stack of fresh Rosemary

- 2 Garlic gloves, smashed

- Butter or Ghee 


This is how you do it:

Heat the electric grill or the pan nice and hot. Salt and Pepper the meat from all sides. 
Melt the Butter and add the Rosemary stack and the garlic and let the butter infuse it a bit.
Watch out that you don't burn it. Move it around a lot.

Now place the meat in and sear it from all sides for around 2 min on each side. (I do the same with 
my Beef Steaks btw. amazing) 

I like to serve the drippings as a little sauce and the Garlic with it. My husband isn't to crazy about 
it. Good, more for me ha ha ha. 

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Pho - 30 min soup for the quick appetite

                                  Pho

This viatnamese soup is very popular, and, good. But not everyone has a good viatnamese
Restaurant around the corner. Or, the 10 hrs to cook the broth.
I found in one of those thousand recipes a really good and fast one. To satisfy your appetite.
The other ingredients like the Thai Basil, however, is another story. I used regular Basil what is
not the same, but out of desperation. I just couldn't get in my sleepy little town some Thai Basil.

The other ingredients are thin sliced beef (what cooks in the hot broth as soon as it touches
the plate). Soy beans, green onions, Pepperoni (whom likes), rice noodles and lime. Here I am just going to write the recipe for the Broth. The rest is not really something you can do home style.
Just buy it lol.


This is what you need:

- 1 TBSP black peppercorn

- 1 TBSP Coriander seed

- 4 Star anise

- 4 x 2-3 inches spring onion

- 2 inch piece fresh and sliced Ginger

- 4 Cups hot water

- 8 Cups chicken broth (or vegetable broth if you are vegetarian)

- 1/4 cup Fish sauce


This is how you do it:

In a hot large soup pot put in the black peppercorn, Coriander Seed and the star anise and cook it for 2 min.. Then add the sliced Ginger and green onion and cook it for another 2 min. (no oil, no nothing).

Now add the 4 cups hot water and the 8 cups chicken broth and simmer covered for 5 min.. Remove all the solids with a colander and add the Fish sauce. Simmer covered for another 3 min..

Done. 

Told ya, it was quick and easy. And tastes almost as good as from a Restaurant. 

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