My homemade tomato-sauce

Ingredients:


4 kg tomatoes (dark red)
6 big onions
garlic as much as you like (4 -6 cloves)
4 Tsp. olive oil
fresh rosemary
2 Tsp. Pizza or pasta herbs
1 Tsp. of sugar
1 Tsp. of balsamic vinegar
200 gram of tomato puree
salt and pepper  (I take about 4 Tsp. of salt and 2 Tsp. of pepper)
(depends on your taste) 


Put tomatoes for 1 minute in boiling water and take skin off. Cut onions and garlic and fry for 2 minutes in the hot olive oil. Add sugar and fry another 2 minutes Then add the tomato puree and fry at low heat another 3 minutes . Please cut all the peeled tomatoes in little cubes and add to the onion, garlic mix in the cooking pot. It is neccessary to take a very big pot!!. Now you put in herbs, fresh rosemary, pasta herbs and salt and pepper. After 1 hour cooking at low heat add the balsamic vinegar and hot chilli powder or fresh chilli if you like. 
Please cook again for another 2-3 hours while stirring frequently. 

After the cooking time it will smell great. Fill the hot tomato sauce into jars und put on lid straight away and let them get cold upside down. 

You can also puree the sauce, if you do not like the little pieces in it.

You can keep the jars 2-3 months in a cool dark place. 

Salmon and hake with roast potatoes

Recipe:


Salmon and hake
olive oil
garlic
rosemary
fresh ginger
flour
lemon
fleur du sel (sea salt) and fresh grounded pepper


Put fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper on the fish and leave for 5 minutes. Then turn the pieces in flour and fry gently in olive oil  for about 5 minutes. Now take the fish out of the pan and place it in an oven proof dish. Cover with the cut ginger slices and the rosemary and the garlic as well as a few drops of olive oil and put in oven for 10 minutes at a medium temperature. Now the fish should be ready to serve with a fresh salad and roast potaoes. 

I make a dip to go with the fish: Mayonaise, joghurt, chive, parsley, salt and pepper.

"Süsses Laible" - sweet breakfast bread

Recipe:

500 g plain flour

70 g sugar

250 ml warm milk

40 g fresh yeast (1 packet of dry yeast)

1 tsp salt

125 g unsalted butter

3 eggs

Stir together the milk, yeast and sugar. Let it stand in a warm place until bubbly (10 minutes).

 Meanwhile heat butter in a little pan carefully and let it cool down again. 

Mix together flour, yeast dough, melted butter, salt and 2 eggs. 

Now you knead the dough for about 10 minutes on a floured surface or with your kitchen machine.

Now let it rise in a warm place until it is double the size.

Knead the dough once more with little flour and put into the shape you want it to be.

Transfer the dough on to your buttered baking pan and leave for another 30 minutes.

Cover the sweet bread with stirred egg or milk to get a nice light brown colour. 

Now you can bake it at a medium temperature for about 45 - 50 minutes. 

Blumenkohlsalat - Cauliflower salad

Recipe:

1 small cauliflower
1 bunch of radish
chive
1 lemon
mustard
salt pepper 
sunflower oil 


Cut the raw cauliflower pieces in thin slices. Slice as well the radish. Add the small cut chive. 
Mix a sauce of lemon juice, mustard (french), oil, salt and pepper and mix with the cauliflower and radish. 

Cauliflower salad

Nudelsalat - Pasta salad

Recipe:


500 g of cooked pasta (please take enough salt to boil)
200 g of ham
200 g of cheese (cheddar or suisse gruyere)
2 hard boiled eggs
2 apples
1/2 cucumber   better 5 gurkins
2 spring onions (if you like)
1 cup mayonaise
vinegar
1 cup of petit pois (little peas)
Salt, pepper, fresh! herbs (chive, parsley or basilic) (optional)
1 tsp of curry


Cut all ingredients in fine cubes and add it with mayonaise, vinegar and spices to the cold  pasta. Leave it in
 fridge for about 1 hour. Taste it and if it is to dry add little more vinegar or little milk. More spice, you decide how you like it!