ASPARAGUS&MELON&DATE SALAD IN PARMESANO BASKET

 Just a salad.

Easy, or?

Only when you master the art of combining a salad with the right balance between the 4 basic tastes -sweetness, saltiness, sourness and bitterness - 

a whole new world opens up to you.

It's time for Revolution...

Serves 1 (just double the amount for 1 more)

Ingredients:

40g or 1/2 cup grated Parmesan

Handful of mixed baby salad 

2 asparagus 

2 dates/ chopped

1 tbsp good olive oil

1/2 tbsp cherry vinegar

2 slices of melon /peeled and chopped

pinch of sea salt

Preheat oven to 200C /400F.

(You can do the parmesan basket also on the pan)

Spread thin circle of grated parmesan evenly on the baking paper. Bake 4-6 minutes in oven until golden brown. Let parmesan cool 1/2 minute and then carefully remove it from the paper. Drape it over a bowl or water glass. Shape it into a cup form.and let it cool. Then remove it from the bowl and voila, you have a parmesan basket.

Snap of the woody ends of asparagus. Cook them 1-2 minutes in salty water. Cut asparagus into smaller pieces.

Fill the basket with salad, asparagus, melon and dates.

Add olive oil and cherry vinegar and pinch of salt.

This recipe is linked to Foodie Friends Friday

Pain au Chocolat and Berry Melon

I woke up early Sunday morning and made a surprise birthday breakfast for my husband. Warm Pain au Chocolat directly from oven, healthy Berry Melon and a glass of fresh orange juice. He was very happy when I woke him up with a yummy breakfast in bed. Even the weather was smiling and late summer morning sun was shining in the blue sky :).

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In The Blue Sky We And A Bee


Berry Melon

Servings: 2

1 Melon
your favorite berries
powdered/confectioners' sugar

This is really easy, healthy summery dessert. And it looks wonderful.
Take a little melon and cut it in half. Remove the seeds in the middle. Add your favorite berries in the middle and serve with powdered sugar.

Pain au Chocolat

This is recipe from one of my favorite chefs, swedish Leila Lindholm.
8 pieces

250g Puff pastry
50g Nutella
25g Dark chocolate (70%)
75g Marzipan
1 Orange zest
1 Egg
Flaked Almonds
Powdered Sugar

Preheat oven to 175 C.
Cut the puff pastry in half and then both halves in 4 rectangular parts.
Add Nutella across one of the short ends of the rectangle.
Chop the chocolate in big pieces, grate the marzipan and add it together with orange zest over the Nutella cream.
Roll up dough tightly, enclosing chocolate.
Brush the tops with beaten egg and add some almond flakes on the top.
Bake in the middle of oven 20 minutes until golden.
Before serving add powder sugar.

Delicious!!!