Tonight's Dinner

Braised tomatoes in olive oil, served with cream cheese and some bread

... and, of course, the results of Fake Oreos Test #2 
Beginning with a picture

Ending with just two words: amazingly yummy! 


I will most defintely cook both of these dishes again soon! The tomatoes were really good and I didn't miss any meat (seems like I am being somewhat vegetarian at the moment :)) and well they were extremely easy to prepare - incise them, chop some shallots, put everything into a pot, pour some olive oil over the tomatoes/shallots, flavor them, put them into the preheated oven, and wait (aka the hardest part of all of that)

Trying Fake Oreos

When I went to the shops this morning, I saw that Lidl now sells this:

aka Fake Oreos :) I just had to buy and try it. 

Once you open the box, you find five packages / rolls like that - a really nice idea (although the rolls make you think that the cookies are going to be extremely small, but once you open the plastic wrap, ...

... you can see that the cookies look just like normal Oreos, same size, same color, same filling ...
 

Yet, they do not fully taste like Oreos as there is that subtle taste of Prinzenrolle-cookies, also produced by Griesson/de Beukelaer. Besides, the filling is a bit sweeter and has kind of a weird texture
The bottom line is that they are defintely not bad, but I prefer real Oreos!

By the way, I put two of the cookies and some rum in my chocolate pudding for tomorrow night - hope that it is good! Thus, test result #2 cooking with fake oreos, tomorrow night!!!!

Me ... and my dessert

Some more attempts to come up with a nice dessert

 Home-made orange jelly with peaches and kiwis

(rather pretty, fruity, and defintely nice!)

Chocolate-Pudding and Vanilla-Rum-Pudding, in a whirl :)

(very yummy, especially due to the very subtle taste of rum)

 

Brezel with Cheese

Just had some fun experimenting with gratinating Brezels with two different kinds of cheese. Firstly Parmesan cheese (which I considered more promising than it actually was) and then Gouda cheese (which was like a million times fatter and a lot more nourishing than my first try, but much better, too!)
So here you go:

Chicken Wings

Yesterday, I had chicken wings which I combined with some mixed vegetables (yellow pepper, carrots, tomatoes) and cooked in the oven. 
I merely flavored the vegetables and the chicken wings with some paprika, pepper, and salt and added some slices of a natural lemon. 
Before ...

 ... and after 40 minutes in the oven :)

I love meat

Wrap up your (minced) meat :)

really nice but rather hard to eat

 

Chicken Bouillon 

with some chicken meat and tomatoes 

Fried Chicken Filets with Potatoes and Pepper, both grilled in the oven

I love that combination: chicken, pepper, and potatoes go so well together!

Fried Chicken Breast with steamed Broccoli and Carrots

Meat Loaf with Pepper - Broccoli - Carrots 

 Chicken Drumsticks with Vegetables

ready to be cooked in the oven, very yummy!

Salad

because every meal needs some fresh side dish

Desert ...

... one of the most important parts of a great dinner :)

Apparently a German Pancake baked in the oven ...

Thanks to my American friend Vanessa for the recipe - 

never knew that pancakes were like that in Germany, but it's really nice!

Vanilla Flummery and Strawberries 

welcome, summer!  

Cinnamon flummery and apples cooked in red wine

 for the holiday season 

Fruit Salad

my favorite, with some cinnamon to make it fit for the holidays :)

 Coconut Macaroons

absolutely yummy :)

... and some coffee to go with the desert ...

trying to make a nice cake without the required equipment 

aka not pretty but pretty yummy  

Sponge Cake with Jam

Pasta

Spaghetti with zucchini, smoked salmon, and farmer cheese

very yummy, I must say - you should really try that some day!

 

... and my second try

 Pasta with fried Alaska Pollock and zucchini

I fried the Alaska pollock with some lemon juice which makes it taste much better. Was a really satisfactory dinner!

Pasta with zucchini and mushrooms

= getting rid of all the little rests in my fridge

Spinach ... a wonderful and versatile vegetable

Spinach and Mushrooms with Alaska Pollock, gratiné in the oven

Spinach and Alaska Pollock au citron

Spinach and Potatoes, Indian style

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"Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

(Harriet van Horne)

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