21 Jan 2014
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Salmon Quiche

A light quiche made without any sour cream. A white roux is ligating all ingredients. Thanks to the deep-frozen flake pastry it’s done easily and suitable for a small household because the pastry sheets can be removed piecewise. Fennel gives this recipe a fancy flavour and savoured with a glass of wine it’s a really delicious evening meal.

Salmon Quiche
Serves 4
Flaky pastry with salmon and fennel
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Prep Time
25 min
Cook Time
25 min
Total Time
50 min
Prep Time
25 min
Cook Time
25 min
Total Time
50 min
Ingredients
  1. 2 sheets deep frozen flaky pastry (about 6x6 inches)
  2. 2 tbsp butter
  3. 2 tbsp wheat flour
  4. 2 cups milk
  5. 17 oz salmon (fresh or deep-frozen)
  6. 2 tbsp cooking-oil
  7. salt, pepper
  8. 2 fennel bulbs
  9. 1 bunch dill
  10. 4 eggs
Preparations
  1. Butter four mini tart moulds
  2. Preheat oven at 390°F
  3. Remove pastry sheets, cut in halves and unfreeze. Roll out on a lightly floured baking sheet ao that they're a bit bigger than the moulds. Place one square into each mould and press edges down.
  4. Melt butter in a cooking pan and sweat flour in it. Deglaze with milk, boil up and cook for a minute. Then let it cool down.
  5. Wash salmon (unfreeze before if necessary), pat dry and cut in dices. Heat one tablespoon of cooking oil in a frying pan and fry salmon dices for about 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper.
  6. Wash fennel bulbs and cut into thin slices. Remove salmon from pan, put aside and add further oil. Fry the fennel slices appr. 3 minutes.
  7. Pluck points of dill, stir in cold sauce with three eggs and flavour then.
  8. Scatter fennel and salmon in tart moulds and pour sauce on top. Whisk the last egg and spread on pastry edges.
  9. Bake in preheated oven at 390°F for 20-25 minutes.
Notes
  1. You may also bake the quiche in a normal sized tart mould. Then the flaky pastry sheets don't need to be cut in halfes. Just roll them out to cover bottom and sides of your mould.
Bastelesel http://www.bastelesel.de/
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19 Jan 2014
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Bookholder – Amendment

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For the time being owls are most popular at least in Germany and I love these wise birds too. That’s why I chose them for decorating my first bookholder. The gift wrapping paper was still enough and I painted the ridge and the holder’s sides in a fitting color. While doing this I thought that a bookmark would be nice to prevent pages from turning. So for my second bookholder which is decorated with a gorgeous napkin I made a seperate wooden owl. I simply cut out a single owl, drew the outlines on a piece of plywood and sawed it. After chamfering the edges the wood has to be primed with white color. Then I fixed the owl with glue and colored the sides and back. With a thumbtack and a satin ribbon I attached the owl to the back of my bookholder.
If there’s no book on it I simply place my wooden owl on the ridge making a nice triplet with the two other ones on the board.

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17 Jan 2014
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Bookholder

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The list of material was already posted on Wednesday. Now the first thing that should be done before assembling our bookends is sawing the 4.5inches board to obtain two triangles. I didn’t find any MDF-board but only a plywood board mesuring o.01 square feet but that’s ok too.
If you want to change the top of your bookholder you should do that first because then you can still fix it to your workbench or table for sawing. Next step is the sizing of the small ridge at the bottom of your board. This border prevents books from slipping down.
For a wooden plug I made a fitting hole at the long side of each triangle. Placing them at the sides of your board allows you to mark the plugs’ position and to drill the holes.The bottom should also be fixed with paste. Now there are only the edges to be chamfered and you may start painting your bookholder. I’ll probably try decoupage with my first one but in any case this is a chance to let your or your child’s imagination run wild.

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15 Jan 2014
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Useful

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To be honest – these bookholders were made by kids 6-10 years old in a workshop with one of my workmates. They had to be helped by assembling them but design and finish was planned by the kids.
I personally didn’t build one myself but will do that within the next days. For all who want to make them too and buy the necessary stuff I’ll write down all you need:
A wooden board or a plywood mesuring 12×8 inches about o.5inches thick,
a border of 12 x 0.5 inches and 0.5inches thick too,
a further wooden board  of 4.5×4.5inches to be sawn diagonally and giving two triangles. We got MDF boards for the last so that our bookends had clean white sides.
Besides you need acrylic paint in requested color to paint the boards.
Our bookends were assembled by nailing them but they could as well be fixed with wooden plugs and woodglue.
They were a Christmas gift for Mom’s kitchen but I think they’re too useful and are a really nice gift the whole year round.
Further pictures to be seen already hereafter but the final instruction on Friday at the latest.

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13 Jan 2014
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Special Sub

A lovely party-food or a nice snack served with a fresh salad – everybody will like these special subs.
They should be prepared at least 2-3 hours before serving so that the cream cheese may connect with the bread. It’s then very easy to cut it into thin slices. A delicious alternation to traditional baguette and herb butter which doesn’t even aks for knives at your buffet.

Special Subs
Fresh baguette filled with cream cheese.
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Prep Time
20 min
Total Time
3 hr 20 min
Prep Time
20 min
Total Time
3 hr 20 min
Ingredients
  1. 2 mid-sized French Loafs
  2. 0.8lb boiled ham
  3. 2tsp mustard
  4. 5oz Crème fraîche
  5. 7oz cream cheese
  6. 4 spring onions
  7. 3 boiled eggs
  8. salt, pepper and paprika
Preparation
  1. aluminium foil to wrap bread
  2. Cut both loafs in halves lengthwise and hollow out breadcrumbs.
Filling
  1. Dice bacon and puree. Add cream cheese, crème fraîche, mustard and puree again.
  2. Wash spring onions, cut them into halves and then into thin slices. Peel the eggs, dice them and givem the cheese cream together with spring onion slices. Flavour with salt, pepper and paprika.
Finishing
  1. Spread cheese cream on halves and put them together afterwards. Cut bread vertically, wrap in aluminium foil and put in your refrigerator for at least 2-3 hours.
  2. Then remove foil, cut loaf into 0.5inch slices and serve on a plate.
Notes
  1. I took a part of the breadcrumbs for a veggy sub - 3 tbsp breadcrumbs, 3.5oz horseradish cream cheese, 3.5oz crème fraîche, 2 spring onions, pepper, salt and 1 hard-boiled egg to be filled in a holed loaf.
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Bastelesel http://www.bastelesel.de/
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