spicy christmas sweets

400 g marzipan

grated lemon zest from one organic lemon

2 tsp freshly grated ginger

1 tbls liquorice powder

100 g white chocolate

Mix marzipan, ginger, liquorice powder and lemon zest. 

Melt the chocolate

Roll into small balls, about 1 1/2 cm

Coat in the tempered chocolate

Use liquorice powder or lemon zest as sprinkles

Keep them cool

It's important you taste along the way, I often add more of the spices, cos I love the way the taste explodes in the mouth.

asian style soup

Ingredients

4 spring onions

1 bak choi (bok/pok/pak choi/choy)

125 g rice noodles

1 red chili

400 g edamame beans

thumb size piece of ginger

sesame oil 

2 tbls soya sauce

1-2 sqirts of fish sauce

1.5 l chicken broth

1 tbls brown sugar

lemon juice from half of lemon

1-2 pieces of duck breast

Fry the scored duck breast in hot sesame oil, until it's pink inside. Cut it in smaller pieces.

Heat up the oil, fry the sliced chili ( remove seeds if you don't want to much heat)

Add spring onions and bak choi, heat for a few minutes. And then add beans and grated ginger.

Boil the noodles according to the package. Cool under water.

Heat the chicken broth, adding soya sauce, brown sugar, lemon juice and fish sauce. It's important to taste along the way and add more or less to fit your taste. 

Add the sliced duck breast to the greens and pour the broth over and bring it to a boil.

Put some noodles in a bowl and pour the soup over.

 

summer salad

A very easy salad, with a lot of taste and texture. 

1 squash, sliced on the long side with a quick peeler

Pointed cabbage, about the same amount as the squash, sliced very fine 

A lot of freshly chopped spearminth

Dressing:

Juice from one lemon

Honey, make it as sweet as you like, I didn't use much.

Salt

Freshly ground pepper 

Mix it all together

If you have acces to eldeflowers it both pretty and tasteful to sprikle some over the salad.