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You have to like peppers, yes!

1 big red pepper chopped in cubes
4 small gherkins, chopped in thin slices
2 boiled eggs, chopped
2 big boiled potatoes cut in small cubes
1 slice of ham, cut in small bits
1 avocado, cut in cubes

Mix everything together. No need for vinaigrette or anything, just pepper and salt. Yum!

For 4:
300g of firm tofu
2 tb spoons of kecap manis (indonesian sugared soy sauce with spices, esp. anise)
1 tb sp of mushroom flavored soysauce (or plain one)
1 tb sp oyster sauce
1 tea sp of sesame oil
1 tb sp of peanut oil
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 tb sp of chopped ginger
1 onion in small rings
1 choï sam (chinese vegetable. if you dont have you can use broccoli, spinach…) in big slices
1 mini pak choï (chinese cabbage)
450g of fresh rice noodles
2 more tb sp of peanut oil

Cut the tofu in small cubes.
Mix the kecap manis, soy sauce and oyster sauce and pour on the tofu. Leave the marinade for 15 min. Then take the tofu bits off the marinade and keep both marinade and tofu aside.
In a wok (or a large saucepan), heat the oils and at medium heat, cook the onion, ginger and garlic. Keep aside.
Stir fry the vegetables until they soften. Keep aside.
Pour the noodles in the saucepan with the rest of the marinade and cook for a few minutes. Then add the vegetables and the onion mix.
Then put the noodles in 4 bowls.
Add the rest of the oil in the sauce pan and heat the tofu until brown on 2 sides.
Serve on top of the noodles.

Yummilicious!

For 2 persons:

2 breasts of chicken

1 tablespoon of honey
1 tiny stuff (what is the english word for that?) of crushed garlic
same quantity of chopped ginger
2 tablespoon of soy sauce
1 coffeespoon of oyster sauce
a few drops of sesame oil
1 coffeespoon of mirin (japanese cooking sake, if you don’t have any, just skip it)
a little cumin
a little dried basil
a little paprika

Leave the chicken cut in small pieces in the marinade for an hour or more, then put it on a dish in the oven for 15 minutes.

For 2 persons:

2 chicken breasts
2 big onions
loads of vegetable (about 2x the quantitie of chicken): can be carrots, brocoli, peppers, zucchini, whatever you like…
1 can of tomato
garlic
fish sauce (nuoc mam)
sugar
rice vinegar

Cut the onions in slices and fry them in a saucepan.
Chop the vegetables and the chicken in little pieces.
Add it to the onions with the can of tomatos.
Mash the garlic into it.
Use the nuoc mam instead of salt. Add sugar and vinegar until you get a good sweet and sour sauce (about 2 tablespoon each). Vinegar smells strong when added but it fades while cooking, dont worry.
Serve with rice.
And, voilà! Very easy, tasty.

Tip: you can use any meat leftovers too (not only chicken).
If you have guests home and are slightly broke, you can use less meat (like one chicken breasts for too) and more vegetables. ;)

Really easy!

Ingredients:
250g of mascarpone
3 eggs
2-3 table spoon of sugar
ladyfingers (about 10)
one cup of strong coffee (cold)
cocoa powder (sugar free plain cocoa)
Optional: Amaretto (almond italian liquor)

Pour like a tablespoon of amaretto (if you use it) in the coffee. Then dip the ladyfingers in this mix, quickly, so they are fully impregnated with coffee but not drenched. In a square dish, dispose the biscuits so they cover the whole bottom of it in an equal layer.

Then, put the egg yolk apart from the white (we’re going to use them both).

Soften the mascarpone in a bowl by stirring it with a spoon. Then mix it with the egg yolk and sugar (I usually add only a little sugar, because the ladyfingers and liquor are already sweet).

Beat the egg white until stiff. Fold the egg white into the mascarpone cream.

Cover the layer of ladyfinger with this cream, put it into the fridge for a whole day.

Dust it with cocoa when you’re about to serve.

And voilà!