Couscous with merguez sausage

serves 3 - 6

Ingredients:

* 500g merguez sausages

* 275g couscous
* 1 red paprika

* 1 yellow paprika

* 1 green paprika

* 400g carrots

* 1 jar of black olives 

* 1 courgette

* Olive oil
* Lemon juice

* 2 garlic cloves

* 1 red pepper
* Provencal herbs

* Feta cheese
* Salt to taste

Preparations:

Finely cut the pepper and the garlic, or use a garlic press. Prepare a dressing from equal amounts of olive oil and lemon juice. Add the garlic and pepper and the Provencal herbs, mix well and leave alone for a few hours so that the garlic and pepper spread their taste.

Heat up a frying pan without oil and add the merguez sausages. Don't worry about the oil, the sausages produce enough fat for them to fry. Turn around every now and then. Repeat until done.

Meanwhile cut the vegetables in thick slices. and heat up a saute pan. Stir fry the carrot first until soft, then add the rest. Saute the vegetables, stirring every now and then. Meanwhile cut some Feta cheese in cubes. Not too much, it's for the taste only.

Prepare the couscous like on the package.
What I did was boil 500ml water, put it in a pot, and add the couscous, stir, close the lid and leave it for 5 minutes. After that stir again and it's ready for use.

The vegetables should be soft by now. Add the olives and stir fry for about 1 - 2 minutes more. Now add the couscous and blend well. After that take the pan from the heat and mix the Feta cheese in the couscous.

Serve while still warm, with a sausage, and pour some of the dressing on the couscous mix.

I hope you like the recipe and hopefully until soon.

Yours truly,

Mike

Smoked salmon lasagna

serves 2 - 3

Ingredients:

* 250g ricotta

* 600g spinach

* 6 big tomatoes

* 300g smoked salmon
* 100g grated cheese

* Lasagna sheets (preferable fresh)

* 2 garlic cloves

* Nutmeg
* Salt
* Pepper

Preparation:

Use some oil or butter to cover the oven dish.
Preheat the oven on 180 C.

Meanwhile finely cut the garlic. Heat up a large pan and softly simmer the garlic. Now add the spinach bit by bit and wait until it shrinks. Keep adding and stirring until everything is shrunken. Now remove from the heat and let the water leak from the spinach. Blend the ricotta with the spinach-garlic mix, and use the pepper, salt and nutmeg to taste.

Meanwhile cut the tomatoes in slices, and cover the bottom of the oven dish with the lasagna sheets. On top of the sheets, add the tomatoes, the spinach mix, and the smoked salmon slices. Repeat the same pattern until you run out. Sprinkle grated cheese on top and put in the oven for 30 minutes.

I hope you liked this dish and hopefully until soon.

Yours truly,

Mike

Pasta a la creme

serves 3 - 4

Ingredients:

* Pasta
* 125ml Creme fraiche

* Red pesto
* 400g mushrooms

* 1 leek
* 300g turkey breast

Preparation:

Cut the turkey in strips and the mushroom and the leek in slices.
Heat up a saute pan and stir fry the turkey until it stars to colour. Add the vegetables and stir fry until soft. Now add as many spoons of pesto as you like, and add the creme fraiche. Mix well and serve with the pasta once done.

I hope you like the recipe and hopefully until soon!
Yours truly,

Mike

Brie sandwich

serves 1

Ingredients:

* Brie

* Coburger Ham
* Curly lettuce
* Cucumber
* Honey
* (Honey) mustard
* Butter (if desired)
* Bread of choice

Preparation:

But butter on one side of the bread, followed by cucumber, lettuce, ham, brie, a few drops of honey and put some mustard on the other side of the bread. Close the bread to finish.
I hope you enjoy your sandwich!

Yours truly,

Mike