Pasta with only 3 ingredients? recipe! 15 min ready, my insights for you!

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Pasta recipe with only 3 ingredients. Easy to make and ready to serve in 15 min!

Check out my new quick and super easy to make, yummy recipe ! 

Hey guys,

even if you are not the best one in the kitchen - this one is a cooking recipe even beginners can easy learn and can impress their loved ones. I takes only 15 minutes of your precious time and you dont need to buy a lot of stuff for this wonderful dish.

This recipe is from my lovely mother-in-law and when my husband cooked it for me the first time I was really amazed how only 3 ingredients can taste that good.

One Thing, it is not for somebody who is on a diet. This one is especially during the winter months a great dish and for sure nothing that you will loose weight from. For your guilty conscience you can do a extra mile tomorrow for it. The taste is worth the extra calories. I swear.

Ingredients (2 Persons):

250 grams Linguine (my favorite for this dish are Linguine from the Italian brand "De Cecco")

200 grams of creme fraiche

200 grams of (make sure you buy "dolce", which means sweet one!) Gorgonzola 

100 grams of cooked ham 

Directions:

1. Cook linguine. 
2. During that time cut the ham into small cubes.
3. Cut the Gorgonzola (remember it hast to be a "sweet" in Italy called "dolce" one) into small cubes.
4. Melt creme fraiche in a large skillet, reduce heat to low, stir in the cheese and keep on stirring constantly till the creme fraiche and the Gorgonzola will build a creamy Sauce. The less you heat the cheese, the better. 
5. When you reached the creamy consistence add the squared ham into the Sauce and stir it again for some minutes. 
6. When ready drain the Linguine and put the Linguine to the skillet and mix it with the Sauce.
7. Remove from heat and toss with pepper to taste.

As the Italians say: Boun Appetito! Enjoy your Pasta guys ! 

Cheers,

Melaines-Insights

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Avocado Salad - 30 min ready, my insights for you!

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Avocado veggie salad recipe, quick and healthy in only 30 min ready to be served! Vegetarian! 

Hey guys,

I just love Avocados, for me they are always on the list when it comes to a healthy dish.

Beside the fact that this is definitely something for Avocado lovers - Spring is already here and as everybody knows summer will follow, this is a great quick recipe that will make you look good in your beach outfit.

Its ready to be served in 30 min and really easy to make. Please click on the link to my facebook page and instagram feed for the making of video.

As this dish is only existing out of a few ingredients, please make sure you buy high quality and use only high quality products. 

Ingredients (2 persons)

Avocados (2, I always buy 3 to have one in spare if one is after cutting not the right quality)

Red bell peppers (2)

Buffalo mozzarella (2, if you haven't eaten buffalo mozzarella before, try this one instead of the "normal" one - its really delicious)

Pine nuts (50 g)

Recipe (2 persons)

1. Preheat your oven to at least 200 celsius.
2. Put the pine nuts in a dry skillet and cook over medium
    low heat, stirring frequently, until golden in spots, about
    2 minutes. Make sure the skillet is not to hot, as the pine
    nuts are getting quick burned - also they burn after, so
    after roasting take them on a plate for cooling down. 
3. Cut the red bell peppers into squares.
4. Place the red bell pepper squares cut side down on a
    rimmed baking sheet, use parchment paper, in the oven
    - about 25 minutes. Check to make sure peppers have
    fully roasted.
    The skin should be charred and soft, and the peppers
    should look slightly collapsed. If they don't look ready, let
    them roast for a few more minutes. 
5. While your peppers are roasting you can take care 
    cutting the avocados. Start by cutting the avocado in two
    pieces. Make long one cut into the seed, all around the
    avocado. Use the knife to make a grid in the avocado 
    meat, make sure you only cut the meat not into the peel 
    or shell. Use a tablespoon to scrape along the inner steel
    of the avocado, the diced avocado pieces will easily fall 
    out. Place the pieces of avocado into a bowl.
6. After that you can cut the mozzarella in eatable pieces.
7. Now mix the mozzarella pieces, avocado pieces and pine
    nutes in a bowl.
8. Take the bell peppers out of the oven. Im always using a 
    wet kitchen towel, place this wet towel right after you 
    took them out of the oven and squeeze it on them for a
    bit. Make sure your fingers don't get burned, as they are 
    still hot. After taking away the wet towel you can start
    peeling of the skin of the peppers with a knife, which 
    should be now really easy because of the wet towel 
    technique. After peeling the skin away you can start 
    cutting the peppers into small slides.
9. Mix the slides of the peppers into the bowl with the 
    avocados, pine nuts and buffalo mozzarella. 
10. For the dressing I always use 2 spoons of native high 
     quality olive oil, some pepper & salt and the juice of
     a half lemon (which has a nice effect on the avocados,
     as the avocado doesn't get any ugly dark spots) or 
     balsamico if you like. 
11. Now its ready to be served - if you like you can serve 
     baguette with spices along. 

ENJOY!!!!!!

Cheers,

Melaines-Insights

www.melaines-insights.com

High Tea at the Mandarin Oriental in Munich, my insights for you!

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Afternoon Tea in classy atmosphere? My insights for you!

Hey guys,

as a teenager I spend many weeks of the year in the UK, what I miss about the most is Londons tea time. I love how the people are obsessed with this wonderful tradition of celebrating tea and time. 

Glad that the Mandarin Oriental is now offering High Tea in Munich, feels like being back in good old England.

They offer High Tea from Friday - Sunday (2.00 - 5.00 p.m.) in their really cozy and modern designed Lounge. Make sure you haven't eaten anything before and you take at least 1,5 hours of your time, as they offer so many fantastic freshly baked products for you to try. Reservation is a must, please see link underneath I attached for contact information.

The Afternoon Tea menue is including beside the amazing range of fresh dishes a tea of your choice. You can ask the amazing service for help, as they have a own tea sommelier which can give you perfect recommendations if your getting lost between all the fantastic choices.  

For tea enthusiasts a special recommendation, ask the tea sommelier for the JING product range. As you can see in the picture they offer you to take a look into different sorts of tea before you order. If you don't know the JING tea, it is only natural - no artificial flavors. Make sure you check out the rose or smoked tea. 

What is fitting perfectly to the High Tea is a glass of bubbly, we decided to have Rose Champagner which I think is the perfect match for celebrating High Tea. 

Links: http://www.mandarinoriental.de/munich/

Cheers,

Melaines-Insights

www.melaines-insights.com 

PASTA / 15 minutes / Ginger/Parmesan/Tomatoes/Mint

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PASTA / quick, fresh, healthy and yummy!

Recipe of good fresh Pasta in 15 minutes, Im sure you never have eaten before ! 

Ciao Tutti,

Hey guys - no I don't switch into Italian now. 

Im not even sure if this recipe is from origin Italian, it was a recipe a neighbor (non Italian, pretty German) gave me some time ago and I really kept it everywhere with me because it is so simple, healthy and EASY to make. 

So no excuses, you better take the risk or lose the chance! Lets go !

This recipe has not many ingredients, so the ingredients you shop should be a high quality standard to make the pasta sauce as good as you wish the taste to be.

Of course you can also make fresh pasta, but when it has to be a fast then I would recommend you to buy some Pasta (Linguine) from your favorite brand.

Ingredients for 2 persones:

- One portion of ginger, should be around the size of your thumb. 

- Olive Oil (no cheap one, please!).

- Pasta (Linguine) 250g. 

- Cherry Tomatoes (500g cherry tomatoes).

- 1 teaspoon freshly grounded pepper.

- 1 teaspoon of salt.

- A cup of Mint, if you don't need all of the Mint keep some for later for decorating your

   pasta. 

- 50 g freshly grated Parmesan (depends on how much you like) for the sauce, keep some
  grated Parmesan also for serving. 

Preperation:

1. Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water, stirring occasionally, until al dente; drain and transfer to a large bowl.

1. Meanwhile, heat oil in a wide heavy saucepan over medium-high. Add ginger (thinly sliced), then tomatoes (quartered), pepper and salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tomatoes burst and release their juices to form a sauce, 6–8 minutes. Add then the grated parmesan underneath and keep stirring it all together. When the parmesan is melting together with the tomato ginger sauce you can add the thinly sliced mint and mix everything together.

1. Toss pasta with tomato ginger mint parmesan sauce. Top with grated Parmesan, some fresh mint and some freshly grounded pepper.

Enjoy your dinner !!! 

Cheers Melaine,
#Melaines-Insights
www.melaines-insights.com