Easy salmon stock made with the head, bones, and any other leftover parts of fish. Better tasting and cheaper than any bought fish stock! Salmon stock is the best thing you could possibly make with leftover salmon head and bones! Really! This salmon bone stock is just amazing! I have been cooking the fish stock for years now, with every salmon head I've ever had and I even buy frozen packages full of salmon heads and bones just to make this fish stock. They are super cheap and the resulting broth is better than any ready-made stock I could possibly buy. Not to mention that buying one packet of frozen heads and bones and some veggies costs less than buying one single jar of fish broth. And it definitely makes more than 2 cups stock! Ingredients Salmon heads and bones. And any other leftover pieces, like tail, skin scraps, or bony bits of flesh.You will need about 1 ½ kg/ 3.3 lbs, a little more or less is not important.If you happen to have leftovers from other fish sorts, just throw them in the pot as well.Whenever I have some heads, tails, or bones I freeze them until I have...
Basic recipe for juicy and tender oven-roasted whole chicken with crispy skin and lemon flavor. Learn about the right temperatures and cooking times. Roast chicken: one of the most beloved dishes in the world, probably. Definitely one of my favorite meals. And I can hardly find another dish that makes my kids happier, either a whole roasted one or just some thighs or drumsticks. We eat chicken every week in one form or another. A quick meal like these Basic Skillet Chicken Breast or something like these Baked Legs in Honey Mustard Sauce. Or cooked in some kind of sauce like the Paprikash with Dumplings or the in Garlic and Roast Pepper Sauce. Do you wash chicken before cooking? The answer is a clear NO! Do not wash it before you cook it, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever as only cooking the bird until it reaches an internal temperature of at least 73 degrees Celsius/165 degrees Fahrenheit will guarantee that all the bacteria will be killed. Washing it in your sink will only cause this bacteria to contaminate your sink and other surfaces. There has been a long debate on this issue for many years now. Many well-known chefs,...
How to make dashi broth for ramen soup with soy sauce eggs, noodles and vegetables. How to make dashi broth for ramen soup with soy sauce eggs is the last post from the Stocks and Broths series. I wanted to end with something that was completely new for me, something that I have never cooked or eaten before. I've heard of dashi many times before but never got the chance to eat it anywhere or cook it myself. Japanese restaurants are not something you would find in rural Germany, the only good sushi I get to eat is when traveling to a larger city, like Munich or Cologne. And to be able to buy Japanese ingredients to make the dashi myself, well, for that I would have to drive about 60 km to Kassel or order the stuff online. How to make? Dashi is the Japanese stock resulting when cooking kombu, which is edible kelp or seaweeds and katsuobushi or bonito flakes, which are preserved, fermented tuna flakes. Dashi is the basic stock used in Japanese cooking, the base for a large variety of Japanese soups, including miso soup or udon noodle soup. I used the first batch I've made...
Yogurt dressing for salad: the best, easiest, and healthiest dressing there is! It only takes 5 minutes. Yogurt Salad Dressing Forget all the bottled salad dressings, full of weird things that you don't actually want to eat. To make this Greek yogurt dressing takes about 5 minutes, it tastes better than any dressing you could possibly buy, it is healthy and clean, low-fat, low-sugar, and versatile. All the good "healthy words" used to describe a recipe. But don't let those healthy words worry you, this yogurt dressing for salad is so delicious, you won't even think you are being so healthy with it... You can use this basic dressing recipe for just about any kind of salad: leafy salad, cucumbers, broccoli or other veggie salad. You can even eat this as a dip, on top of hot cooked potatoes or in a chicken/vegetable wrap for instance. How to make? This is a basic recipe for a yogurt salad dressing, I start here every time I make it, but sometimes I change it slightly depending on the kind of salad I have, on my mood or whatever.You can enhance it by adding one grated garlic clove or one teaspoon horseradish, you...
Cream of asparagus soup with milk - the best asparagus soup you could make this spring. And how to make asparagus stock with the woody ends. Asparagus Soup with Milk This cream of asparagus soup with milk is THE asparagus soup this spring! Quite different from my beloved Asparagus Chicken Soup but equally delicious. And even more suitable for the asparagus season, because the asparagus really plays the main role in this recipe. We love soups! With a passion. All of us, kids included. I make different kinds of soups all the time, like I've said, at least twice a week. From our beloved Romanian Chicken Soup with Semolina Dumplings to creamy soups like this cream of asparagus soup with milk or the Creamy Mushroom Soup with Cream Cheese to loaded soups like my favorite Turkey Meatball and Vegetable Soup or the Spicy Yellow Split Lentils and Beef Soup with Vegetables. Or try the Creamy Carrot Soup with Milk. Oh, I have so many soup recipes on my blog, you should not have any difficulty at all in finding one you like! How to make? Asparagus stock: This step is optional, but really worth it, I never leave it out.It...
Homemade elderflower syrup or catching the summer flavors in a bottle: this cordial is sweet, lemony, and more aromatic than any other syrup I know. You will not believe how easy it is to make elderflower syrup yourself. All you need are a bunch of elderflowers, lemons, citric acid, sugar, and water. And if you would like something stronger, you could try making elderflower gin. I wasn’t sure about the right way of spelling sirup. Either sirup or syrup. So I googled it and found this: Syrup is an alternative form of sirup. I chose syrup now, because after looking here and there, I feel that most people use the form “syrup”. What are elderflowers? Elderflowers are the blossoms of the elder tree, also known as Sambucus nigra, Black Elder, Ellhorn, Pipe tree, Bore tree, Eller and Holler. The elder trees are small hedgerow trees and their blossoms – the elderflowers – are creamy colored, have a heavenly scent, and can be picked in June. I love the smell of the hedges every early summer and the look of these beautiful flowers. What to do with elderflowers? My great-grandmother used to make elderflower juice when I was little, a fizzy...
Oven-baked schnitzel – a simple recipe perfectly suitable for chicken, pork or turkey schnitzel. How to bake schnitzel? A simple recipe for baked schnitzel, perfect to serve as a burger or the traditional German way with fries or potato salad and lemon wedges. Great for making chicken, pork, or turkey cutlets. Another schnitzel recipe, basically the same recipe as the pork schnitzel with a pretty important difference (for me at least). Although using the same ingredients and achieving the same end result, these meat pieces are not fried in lots of oil, they are just brushed with very little oil and baked. I was a bit skeptical in the beginning, didn't really believe that I could achieve the same crispiness and nice golden color by just baking the schnitzel, but – surprise, surprise – it works!!! I would have not spotted the difference between the two kinds if someone else would have served me the two without telling me which one is fried and which one is baked. Can you bake schnitzel instead of frying? Definitely. This is an updated post from 2016. I have never fried any schnitzel ever since. I make schnitzel very often...
A basic recipe for slow-cooked lamb shoulder. You will only need the lamb, salt, and pepper. Lamb Shoulder Roast Seriously, roasting a lamb shoulder could not get any easier. This is a one-ingredient recipe, not counting the salt and pepper, which guarantees perfect results and gives you the freedom of choosing any kind of sides you can think of to go with the slow-cooked lamb shoulder. I don't even know what to write about this easy lamb shoulder recipe... It is so simple, so basic, so straightforward, that there just aren't many words I can think of writing about it. No intricate instructions, no caution words, no nothing... Just the shoulder of lamb, some salt and pepper, an oven and about 3 hours cooking time. And the results are just amazing if you ask me. Actually, although I have cooked lamb in the oven in countless ways over the years, I keep coming back to this basic recipe. I mean, it is so simple, I don't have to do anything in advance or before getting the shoulder of lamb in the oven, I just put it in and wait for it to be ready. Fall off the bone meat, tender...
An easy recipe for pre-made mini tart shells or large pie shells, which can be filled with pretty much any sweet filling you like. MINI PIE SHELLS This tart shell recipe is a must-have recipe for anyone who likes baking and entertaining. Pre-made tart shells, which can be made in advance, a perfect base for any kind of sweet filling. How about trying a white chocolate and raspberry filling, a lemon curd one or some mixed berries? Really, these pastry cases are a wonderful base for all the fillings you can think of! Not to mention, that you will impress just about anyone when serving anything in a mini pastry case! Any kind of mini tart or pie looks beautiful! PRE-MADE TART SHELLS This is another one of Yotam Ottolenghi's wonderful recipes. I could cook my way through all his books and not get tired of it. You can find this recipe in his book “Ottolenghi – The Cookbook”. The recipe is perfect, I had my doubts the first time I made them, I thought I would never manage to get the mini tart shells out of the muffin forms in one piece, but...
Learn how to fill a fondant covered cake with any kind of filling you like, including fruit or heavy cream filling. FILLING FONDANT CAKES This has always been the big question for me when I've started making fondant cakes years ago. How to be able to fill a fondant covered with a fruit and cream filling without ruining the whole ensemble? Fondant cakes are great to look at, but most of the time, not really a joy to eat. Actually, most of the time they look better than they taste. At least, that is what I thought until I discovered a way of filling the fondant cake with a good tasting filling without causing the fondant to melt. Normally, fondant-covered cakes are filled with buttercream and buttercream only, buttercream made with tons of icing sugar and butter, a drop or two of flavoring and that's it! Heavy, overly sweet and completely boring, I was never able to eat more than 3 bites from such a fondant cake slice. This method of filling the cakes will allow you using pretty much any fillings you like, fruit fillings, heavy cream, cream cheese or lemon curd fillings, whatever you...
