Italian Style

Everytime when I make a shopping trip to Belize City, I find little "food-jewels". And in the following days I enjoy them piece by piece.

This evening we had Mozarella Cheese - I got the tomatoes and fresh basil here at the market.


To complete this Italian dish, I baked a crispy ciabatta bread.




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Nut Bun

Yesterday I was really successful in Belize City.
I got lots of little delicacies... including a small package of hazelnuts.

The price for it was off the roof. I had to pay almost $9.00 for 2 1/2 cups (€ 6,10 for 280 gram).

So I used them for a special, delicous, scrumptious, yummy... nut bun with a touch of cinnamon.

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little rarity

I found this little sweet yellow pepper at the market last Saturday.
To be sure that this will not my last one in Belize, I scraped out the seeds and hopefully in a few months I can harvest my own.


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Carrot Cake

I know, it's a little bit trite, but for Easter I had to bake a carrot cake.

I decorated the cake with self-made marzipan carrots. (Can you imagine, how difficult it is to handle marzipan when it has almost 100 °F ?)

Usually I use a recipy from an American cookbook. Unfortunately it's still hidden in the container and so I used a different recipy. My original carrot cake is a little more fluffy.

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Cereal Munchies

Today I experimented with the small number of ingredients I can get here.I baked some cookies with cereals.

To be honest - I'm not sure if I will bake them again because the consistency of the baked corn flakes is a little tough.

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Papaya - the natural meat tenderizer

The first trees we planted on our property were papaya trees.

The papaya fruit is rich in an enzyme called papain which is useful in tenderizing meat. It's perfect when you wrap the rare meat in freshly cut leaves. If you can't get them, you can also cut the fruit into little stripes and use them instead of the leaf.

tenderloin wrapped in papaya leaves

This evening I made pork tenderloin wrapped with bacon. I served it with basmati rice and fresh mushrooms.





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Mixed Nut Bread

with hazelnuts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

This healthy bread is vitamin-packed and fiber-rich.

Hazelnuts are rich in protein and unsaturated fat. Moreover, they contain significant amounts of thiamine and vitamin B6, as well as smaller amounts of other B vitamins. They are rich in vitamin E.

Pumpkin seeds are also good sources of protein, and the essential minerals iron as well as zinc, and magnesium.

Sunflower seeds are also an excellent source of dietary fiber, some amino acids, Vitamin E, B Vitamins. Additionally, they are rich in cholesterol-lowering phytosterols.

Together with the rye flour you can be sure that this bread is perfect for a healthy start in the day.

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Sour Creme Coffee Cake

...with pekan nuts and cinnamon.

I saw the recipe last week at another food blog. The cake looked so sappy and delicous that I decided to bake this cake for our Monday Club.

Unfortunately the writer of the blog used American measurements as well as German and I mixed up the amount of pecan nuts.

Instead of a cup (240 ml) I took 240 gram - almost double the amount.

But this is no problem because I love the taste of these nuts.

seafood

On Wednesday I bought some delicous shrimps. The "fishman" knows me meanwhile and suggested to buy the last two pounds he had because there will be a shrimps-shortage until end of May.

Therefore we had pasta with shrimps on Thursday and salad with shrimp today. I was lucky and got some coctail tomatoes at the market.



I made a dressing with white balsamic vinnegar and Dijon mustard.

fruit tarte

This is something typical German.

A light biscuit cake base with fruits on top.

Because my original baking pan is still hidden somewhere in the depth of our container, I used a springform pan and doubled the amount of dough. After baking the cake base I scooped it out in the middle and put the fruits on top.

Dark Oat Bread

People around here like to eat bread which is a little sweeter.

So I created the Dark Oat Bread with oat flakes, whole wheat flour and my secret bread-spice-mix.

Yesterday I baked four of these breads.