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  • Oven baked omelet with Asparagus

    Oven baked omelet with Asparagus

    Ok, the story goes as follows… I wanted to eat an omelete and I already had one in mind with nice sausage mix. It was already late at night and I was really tired for anything complicated. In the process though I realised that if I didn’t cook some asparagus that I had then I would be forced to throw them away…

    Then, I found out on a recipe book that I have about a really nice oven baked recipe that they are doing –according to a book and this site (Greek)  – in Crete, Greece. Apparently, looking a bit online, one of the typical omelet’s in Crete is to mix the various greens that they have at the time, like asparagus and vegetables, creating a green omelet.

    I didn’t knew that… and unfortunately didn’t had all the ingredients.

     

    Either way, I didn’t mind because of two main reasons!

    1.  I was hungry
    2.  It looked really nice and I had to try it

    So, I added some of my ingredients, using the basic traditional idea…and it worked!

    INGREDIENTS

    • 3 eggs
    • 1 small bunch of asparagus chopped in small pieces
    • 3-4 baby courgettes chopped (That was my addition)
    • 250gr of feta cheese (I didn’t had Feta cheese at that point so I just used some Parmesan. It worked!)
    • 1 onion chopped (yeap, my addition that also… I like onions..)
    • Salt, Pepper,
    • Olive Oil!
    • A bit of milk

    AND THAT’S WHAT I DID!

    METHOD

    In a frying pan, add the olive oil and then in medium heat add the chopped onions, courgettes and asparagus and stir them slowly. In the meantime open the oven in 200c to pre-heat it.

    Beat the eggs with the milk. After 5-10 minutes the greens should be ready , a bit brownish. Add the cheese and stir again. Then add the mixture with the eggs to the pan and immediately remove it from the fire. Put it inside the preheated oven as it is in the pan and leave it there for 10-15 minutes.

    You will notice the omelet to grow thick and you can remove it when you like it. I usually wait to become a bit brown on the edges. Add some parsley if you want…sprinkle it on top. I just love how nice oven baked omelets taste without being so heavy in the stomach when you fry them.

    Well…enjoy!

     

     

     

  • Oven Baked pork stakes with tomato and Paprika

    Oven Baked pork stakes with tomato and Paprika

    The following is a recipe that i was told by i a friend and i can see is a really popular way to make pork.

    Well there are many ways too cook a steak and I always try to mix things up some times in order to create different kind . The following is a nice recipe for cooking pork steaks in the oven while keeping them soft and tender.

    Even if frying stakes are a little bit more tasty I believe, when you do them in the oven is healthier and it can be really tastefull if you get it ready. The biggest problem is to manage and keep the juices in..i think, but we have a sollution for that!

    So for the following recipe…we will need..

     OVEN BAKED PORK STAKES WITH TOMATO

    INGREDIENTS

    • 2-3 medium sized pork stakes
    • 1 tomato sliced
    • 1 red or green pepper sliced also
    • 1 chilli pepper chopped
    • 1 onion chopped
    • 2 garlic cloves sliced
    • Olive Oil
    • Salt , Pepper
    • Paprika

    METHOD

    Put the pork stakes in the Oven pan and add as much as salt and pepper you want. Add a lot of paprika on all the sides of your stake. I found out recently how nice paprika goes with the stake, so personally I add as much as I can.

    Add olive oil all over the stakes and a little bit of water if you feel it’s necessary so they won’t be dry. On top of the stake add 2-3 slices of the chilli pepper. Then throw all over the pan the chopped onions and garlic.

    Put one or two slices of pepper in each of your stake and add one more slice of tomato on top of each stake. The juices from the tomatoes as you cook the stakes will fall down to your stake keeping it juicy and adding to the taste. Cooking it for around 45 minutes depending on how you like your stakes.