Mustardsoup

Serves 3 - 4

Ingredients

* 250 gram smoked bacon

* 40 grams butter

* 1 onion

* 30 to 60 grams flour

* black pepper

* 500ml milk

* 500ml stock or water (I used beef stock)

* 3 table spoons of coarse mustard

* 1 leek

Preparation

Slice the bacon in cubes, cut the onion finely and slice the leek in thin rings. Melt the butter in a pot and add the bacon and the onion. Put the heat on low as not to burn the onion and let the bacon slowly cook until crisp. Add the flour and stir until smooth. Let the mix cook so that the flour does not change colour. Carefully add the water/stock and milk to the mix and let it boil until the soup is lightly bounded. Now add the mustard and the black pepper according taste. Stir until smooth and boil slowly for a few minutes more. Before serving add the leek and cook for one minute more.

The soup is now ready to be served.

Enjoy!

Mike & Leda

Spicy tuna sandwich

serves 4 to 6

Ingredients:

* 1 red paprika
* 1 yellow paprika
* 1 green paprika
* 1 chinese cabbage
* 1 madam jeanette pepper/chili
* 1 leek
* 1 vegetable stock cube
* soy sauce
* turmeric powder
* garlic powder
* 3 cans of tuna
* crusty bread rolls (or rice depends on your taste)

Additional:

* 1 carrot

Preparation:

Let the water leak from the tuna cans. Chop all vegetables in small strips and the leek in small (half) rings. Remove the seeds from the pepper. I recommend you to use gloves as this pepper can be a nuisance when you accidentally touch your eyes or anything. Finely cut the pepper.
Heat up a wok and once it reached temperature, pour in some oil. Put in all vegetables including the pepper. Stir fry until the vegetables have shrunk a little and the cabbage looks glassy. Now crumble 1 vegetable stock cube over the vegetables and stir well. Add the tuna, be sure to mix it well with the vegetables. Now put in a spoon of garlic powder and turmeric powder. Now put in a dash of soy sauce. Mix everything well once more and let it cook for another minute.

When it's done you can put it on a sandwich, personally I love to use crusty bread rolls (also known as pistolets) with it. However if you prefer to eat this with rice, you can do so too!

This recipe is also one that a colleague of mine taught me.
I hope you enjoyed it and I certainly hope you'll return for more!
Yours truly,

Mike