learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals

This is only a simple stew I once tried, but even my little daughter liked it and my husband took some more the first time I made it (he never does that). And today I have to cook it for his family – his suggestion! If that’s not a little compliment, then I don’t know… ;-)

Yesterday I improved my lasagna by making the pasta myself. It took some time, but it was definetely worth it. I now have to find a way to roll out the pasta as thin as possible. It was already thin but still thicker than normal – so with a little mouth full of lasagna we all already felt stuffed… But it was nice to make!

I actually do this already quite a while and it’s always tasting terrific. It’s also a bit of my own recipe with all the spices, the soy sauce and honey marinating into the honey. I roast the salmon in a hot pan only a few seconds and then put it, pan and all, into the hot oven. It’s getting a nice glaze from the soy sauce-honey mix and is tasting so great! The rest of the marinade is a great sauce for some veggies (pakchoy, peppers and mushrooms) and some japanese noodles. Even my litte daughter loves it!

This is how I want to do this: read a recipe, then do exchange it a bit and personalize and memorize it. And now I have my second great dish: Lasagne! Maybe nothing really special, but it was just delicious. Everything was fresh, except the pasta, and it was so much fun to make it. It tasted like no lasagne served in a restaurant or any of the frozen or instant stuff – soooo much better! Going to make it more often like this!

Doesn’t sound too hard to have 10 recipies which always taste great and which are always suitable. But it is quite difficult – at least for me. I don’t have much time, my little daughter doesn’t eat everything and the cooking kits (those “just-add-some-meat-and-vegetables-kits”) are really great.
Anyway, I have one great recipie already, which is Quiche à la mode – so with everything that comes across in my kitchen. And it’s always tasting great. And that’s how I imagine having this done: to have 10 recipies of which I don’t have to look up all the ingredients anymore – I just know how to prepare them. Well, I’ll give it a try.