PUFF PASTRY PIZZA ♥

PIZZA TIME! Today I made a pizza lookalike, which tastes the same and is less time consuming. Lets gets started!

Ingredients:

- Puff pastry
- Pesto
- Mini tomatoes 
- Mozzarella
- Salt 

Ingredients

* Tip : Preheat the oven to 200° so there is no time wasted :)

Step 1:

Slice the mozzerella in slices (if they were not already) and put them in the fridge for a few minutes. 

Mozzerella

 Step 2:

Slice the mini tomatoes in several thin slices, make sure the majority of the seeds are removed otherwise this will be on your pizza topping which is not the most satisfying thing. 

Sliced tomatoes

Step 3:

Fold the edges of the puff pastry about 1 cm on each side, make sure the puff pastry is defrosted which makes it a lot easier (besides that the pastry won't rip apart).

Folded puffed pastry

Step 4: 

It is time to put the topping on the pastry. In order to make a solid base put the Mozzerella first, after the Mozzerella has settled you can put as many tomato slices on top if you want. Additionally you can put pesto, basil or salt to add some extra flavours. Repeat this process to as many puffed pastry sheets as you want. 

Add some mozzerella

Add some sliced tomatoes

Optional to add pesto

Step 5:

Ready to go into the oven!

Ready to go

Step 6:

Let the pizza cool down for a minute and they are ready to be eaten.

Final result 

Bon Appétit

SALMON ROLLS ♥

Because of this rainy, cloudy season the lack of vitamins is inevitable. Therefor we need to consume certain products like salmon. That is why I decided to make a salmon rolls which are tasty and super easy to make, all you will need is:

- Salmon

- White bread

- Paturain

Ingredients

Step 1:

Remove the crust of the bread.

Crust removed 

Step 2:

Use a rolling pin to make the three seperate bread peaces attach to one another. Make sure they stick well otherwise the roll will eventually tear apart.

Dough

Step 3:

Spread the Paturain on your dough and make sure it is everywhere evenly spread. After that it is time to put the salmon slices on top. 

Spread Paturain

Add the salmon

Wrap it up

 Step 4:

Roll your dough tight into a cylinder and wrap it in allumium foil and make sure it is really tight and put it for 15 minutes in the fridge. 

Step 5:

Get the alumium roll out of the frigde and with the aid of a knife slice the roll into small segments and its ready to go!

Et voila!

PALMIERS ♥

Palmiers

 For a change a French dish. This afternoon I made 'palmiers' which is French for leaves of a palm tree. In some sort of way I can see the resemblance, but it is hard to find. You will only need 3 ingredients, and you will be finished within a quater of an hour. What you will need:

- Sugar 
- Cinnamon 
- 4 slices puff pastry 

Ingredients

 Step 1:

First of all pre-heat the oven (200°), therefor you will consume less time. Whilst waiting you can continue preparing your dish. 

Step 2:

It depends whether bought your cinnamon in powder of stick variant. If you bought the powder edition: easy peasy lemon squeezy, you can skip this step. If not, like me, you will first have to grate them till you will have about a tablespoon full of cinnamon powder. 

Cinnamon

 Step 3:

Mix 1 tablespoon of cinnamon with 3 tablespoons of sugar into a mixture. Mingle this as delicate as possible because you don't want to spill anything.

Mixture of sugar and cinnamon

Step 4:

Get the puff pastry out of the freezer and let it defrost for a minute, this will make it a lot easier. Put 4 slices of puff pastry next to each other, to form a giant square. Use a little bit of water and a rolling pin to make them stick to each other, do this really gentel, you don't want your puff pastry to be too thin this will lead to rips in your dough. 

Tip! Use a little bit of flower therefor the pastry won't stick onto your working area. Which saves you a lot of cleaning afterwards. 

Dough 

 Step 5:

Sprinkle your mixture of sugar and cinnamon subtile on the dough and use a rolling pin to gently(!) press the particles into the pastry. Repeat the same process to the other side. 

 Step 6:

When you are finished covering both sides it is time to make it look appetizing. Start off with folding the bottom and top (+/- 2 cm). Continue this process till the two sides meet, and fold it one more time. 

Fold bottom and top 2 cm

Fold it one more time

 Step 7:

Cut of the ends, and cut slices each about 1,5 cm. 

 Step 8:

Put the slices on a baking tray and put them in the oven for 6 minutes. For an even better result you must turn the slices halftime, therefor they will rise and colour evenly. 

Baking tray

Et voila!

FILLED PUFF PASTRY WITH CREAM ♥

It is Tuesday! Which means a little sweet snack to survive today, still sad weekend is over and we will have to wait another five days untill it is saturday again. Today's recipe is accessible for everyone . It is one of those recipies which everyone loves and extremely easy to make. All you need for these little delicious snacks is:

- A pastry cream mix (preferably Dr. Oetker)
- Puffed pastry
- 400 mL water

*Optional: vanilla flavour

Ingredients

Step 1:

Grab a bowl form your cupboard, and pour your pastry cream mix and 400 mL water from the tap in the bowl. Stir the pastry cream and water together for about 2 minutes and put the mixture in the refrigerator. 

*If you want to, there is a possiblity to add extra vanilla flavour which will result in a stronger vanilla taste.

Pastry cream

 Step 2:

Defrost 4 sheets (in order to make 8 snacks). Cut, with a knife, a straight line downwards the middle on each sheet. You will end up with 8 regtangles. 

Puffed pastry regtangles

 Step 3:

Fold each regtangle into a smal square.

Puffed pastry squares

(*optional) Step 4:

Decorate each square by pressing the outer part of a fork onto the puff pastry.

Step 5:

Get a baking tray and put some flower on it, so the squares will not stick. Make sure there is some space in between the squares so they won't stick to each other, and put the tray in the oven for 5-10 minutes. 

Puffed pastry on a backing tray

Right out of the oven 

 Step 6:

Get the cream out of the refrigerator and get a spoon to scoop it into a piping pag.

Pipe the pastries

Step 6:

Fill, one pastry at a time with the piping bag till the pastry is stuffed enough.

End result!

BRUSCHETTA WITH TOMATOES ♥

Today I was sitting around the house and craving for a snack, the only bites I could find around were sweets, oeps! So... I decided to make something different, why not try out a new recipe a friend once recommended, you never know right! This easy and quick, but nevertheless super delicious recipe is made super quick. Well, let's get started! All you need is:

- Olive oil

- 4 Tomatoes

- 2 cloves of garlic 

- A teaspoon full of basil

- Black pepper 

- A baguette

Ingredient 

STEP 1:

Make a little cross with your knife on the bottom of the tomatoes. Right after that, cook some water in a pan (or use a kettle; if you are don't have all the time of the world like me (J) and pour it into a pan). Therefor the skin of the tomato will detach from the fruit flesh, which makes it easier to peel of. 

Tomatoes in boiling water

Tomatoes just got out of boiling water

STEP 2:

Peel of the skin of the tomatoes, and cut each in 4 slices, just like you are opening a present. With the aid of a spoon try to get rid of the majority of the seeds. 

Peeled tomatoes with seeds removed

STEP 3:

Cut the tomatoes into little cubes, which, in the end, will fit perfectly on your slice of baguette. Put the cubes in a bowl. Besides the tomatoes add a teaspoon full of basil and a little bit of olive oil which you will need to mix well with the tomatoes. Lastly add two cloves of garlic and put those on your mixture, the mixture will extract the flavour. Cover your tapas in foil and place it into the refrigerator (for about 1 hour) to let the mixture settle down. 

Sliced tomatoes

Two cloves of garlic

 STEP 4:

Slice your baguette into several slices about 1,5 cm thick. Spread on either sides a little bit of olive oil in order to make it even tastier and crispier. Put it on a grill/oven/pan and let the magic happen!

A baguette

Grilled baguette slices

  

 STEP 5:   

Finally, after 1 hour has flew by it is time to enjoy your home-made deliciously served mini toasts. To make a grand finalé scoop some of your bruschetta with tomatoes on a toast, and serve it on a beautiful plate to your friends and family! 

Final touch!

Hmmm...

Enjoy immediatly!