How to make basic & easy Granola

Granola is super easy. All you need to do is find the right mix of sweet and salty in your mix.
I followed this recipe, with a few alterations and it was a real success. I thought I would post immediately to not forget.

INGREDIENTS:

-300 grms of oats.
-100 ml or 1/2 american cup of honey.
-50 ml of sunflower oil 
(or a neutral oil)
-1/2 teaspoon of salt (very important)
-1/2 of nutmeg, cinnamon and mixed spices that are cinnamony.
-100 grms of mixed nuts.
-50 grms of dried fruit.

STEPS

1. Mix the oil, honey, spices and salt in a bowl and whisk together.
2. Add the oats and stir to coat evenly.
3. Try and see if it needs more salt. If you have put too much honey just compensate with salt. It is very important to find the balance of sweet and salty.
4. Now stick in oven to 170 degrees on baking paper both high and top for 10 minutes. 
5. Bring it out of the oven and stir the oats and put it in the oven again for another 5-10 minutes until it is toasted. 
6. Keep an eye on the oven so that it doesn't burn!  and now, it should be done. Add the dried fruit and stir and let it cool off.

Yum! seriously so good. Kenton was so impressed. The key is to find the balance of flavours, also don't put too much cinnamon but use nutmeg to tame that flavour. Wow. 

How to make Yoghurt

I never thought I could make yoghurt but it is so easy and delicious. You can do it too. To be honest, you might be better off watching some videos for this recipe as I think it is more self-explanatory for this recipe. I followed this video and this video and worked great for me. 

Here is what you need:

INGRE-DIENTS:

-1,5 litre or more of whole milk.
-another yoghurt with the bacteria or culture to make yoghurt (also called "starter").
-a thermometer

STEPS:

1. Heat up the milk in a pot and stir it as it warms up so that it doesn't burn. 

2. Bring the milk to 180 Fahrenheit degrees (or 82 degrees Celsius) and do not let it boil but maintain it here for a couple of minutes constantly stirring away, lower the temperature if you need to so that it doesn't burn.

3. Now take away from the burner, and go away for a while (I usually take a shower here) and leave the milk to cool off to 110-115 degrees (around 40-43 degree). The temperature has to drop down and you need to be able to stick your finger and it should feel like baby milk temperature.


4. Now in a separate bowl, get your old yoghurt room temperature that contains the culture necessary to make more yoghurt. Mix the old yoghurt or 3 big spoonfuls with a little bit of the milk from your pot, like one spoonful.

5. Gently mix the milk and the starter in a little separate bowl and when you are done, gently add to the pot where you have the milk at 110 degrees. Slowly add everything, and voila, you already have the beautiful bacteria in your milk. 110 degrees is the magic temperature that you need for the bacteria to activate and convert your milk into yoghurt.



6. Now put the lid on your pot and gently wrap up the pot with blankets.  Yes blankets you heard well. What you want is to keep those 110 degrees going for as many hours as you can. Stick it in the oven so that it is warm.

7. Let it work overnight (like 10 hours) and in the morning your yoghurt should be there! 

8. Now you can put some paper towel to absorb the yellow liquid that comes to the surface, whey, and now stick in the fridge for 2 or 3 hours so that it solidifies even more.

And that's it! 
Your homemade yoghurt is there! Enjoy.

And the question is: 
do you really need a thermometer? and the answer is no, not really, but I think it would help you the first times you do it, but really the trick is to add the starter/yoghurt when the milk is warm for babies.

Crepes

Happy new year friends!

A comforting recipe for these cold months ahead. Crepes a classic from all over Europe, but especially every time I go to France, it's like...duh--crepes, how amazing are they and why do I not make them, like everday of my life?

INGREDIENTS:

1. 2 large eggs
2. 3/4 cups of milk
3. 1/2 cups of water
4. 1 cup of flour
5. 3 tablespoons of melted butter
6. 1 tablespoon of sugar.
6. butter for cooating the pan


STEPS:

1. Mix all the ingredients together and then distribute evenly in a saucepan thinly.
2. When the sides gets golden turn it around.

3. Enjoy! ahhhhh they are so good with Nutella, jam, cheese and a good book.

Happy new year sweet friends and readers.

These pictures are France, Paris on the left, Strassbourgh to the right.

strawberry french toast-french toast de fresas

Una receta genial para un desayuno familiar o de varias personas. Lo hice el otro dia para unas amigas que vinieron a mi casa. Estaba muy muy buena y es muy facil.

Necesitas:

• 1 barra de pan y media.
• 6 huevos
• 3 "cups" americanos de leche.
• 1 "cup" de azucar moreno.
• 1/2 cucharadilla de vainilla.
• 1/4 cucharadilla de nuez moscada.
• 1 "cup" of nueces.
• 2 "cups" de fresas cortadas en trocitos.

1.Pon el pan en una bandeja cortado en rodajas. 

2. Mezcla la leche, el azucar y los huevos y la vainilla y la nuez moscada. 

3. Ahora pon todo el liquido por encima del pan y pon por encima las fresas y las nueces y metelos en los agujeros que quedan entre las rodajas de pan.

4. Dejalo todo reposar  por 30 minutos para que el pan absorba bien el liquido  y el pan quede mejor.

5. Y ahora pon un poquito de azucar moreno por encima de todo para que se tueste (este es un buen toque) y metelo en el horno 30 minutos, a 190 o asó por encima  y por debajo y luego bajalo a 160 o así un ratito más...se tiene que tostar por animar pero no lo quemes. 

6. Ya está, estaba buenisimo, pruebalo. Tuve que hacer muchas fotitos :)

 La mesa de desayuno con mantel bonito es mejor

yum

Easy french toast

 Thats right, french toast! I had forgotten how easy and fun french toasts are...I think I only think about french toast when I am in the US...but today I was hungry and saw a recipe of Pinterest. It's so easy....

















You only need:

• OK, in spanish: dos rebanadas de pan de molde.
• 2 huevos
• un poquito de leche
• media cucharada de azucar
• un poco de canela.
• aceite para la sarten.
• Y luego yo le puesto un platano y unas frambuesas que tenia en el cogelador de hacia como 6 meses.
• Y sirope claro!

1. Mezcla los dos huevos, un chorrito de leche, media cucharada de azucar y la canela y hunde el pan en ellas. 
2. Y ya está ponlas en la sarten hasta que esten hechas, ten cuidado de no quemarlas.
3. Echale la fruta alrededor y el sirope y hazte una tazita de té PGTips.
4. La vida de repente es mejor :)

and dont forget to listen to Fernando Ortegao Ortega in the mean time...