Asparagus, pine nut and tomato salad

Here is the salad of the week! Like I said before, I am trying out new salads! This one was a good side dish.
Here's what you need:

• a big bowl full of mixed salad greens, enough to serve 4
• 2 tomatoes, cut into nice slices
• 2 tbsps of roasted pine nuts
• a package of asparagus
• salt and pepper

Step one:
Fill up your serving bowl with your lettuce.

Step two:
Cut your asparagus into bite size pieces. Put them into a frying pan and cover with water. Boil them. Once they are done, remove the water and spray the pan with oil. Add a little bit of salt and pepper and fry them up nicely.

Step three:

Place your pine nuts in a small frying pan and toast them a little bit. You can the pine nuts in the picture above. Pine nuts are expensive...so enjoy them. haha

Step four: Dressing

Mix together 1 tsp on lemon juice, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tsp of whole grain mustard, 2 tbsps balsamic vinegar with some salt and pepper. Voila.

Step five:

Add the pine nuts, asparagus and tomatoes to your mixed greens. Pour your dressing over top and you have yourself a salad!

xoxo -Britt

Stir-fried tomatoes and herbs on crispy fish

Hello everyone! It is the start of another new week! Yay. I hope every ones Monday has been a good one so far. I have taken the day pretty easy. Coffee, comfy clothes, a good book and baking. It was a super cold weekend here! Like -25 and one night it was -30 something. Um..no thank you. I hope this week it warms up a tad.
      
            Dan and I decided to make 3 new recipes every week in 2012. It's one of our resolutions. It is always fun to try new foods! Sometimes you love it, and sometimes you really don't! This recipe was definitely a LOVE! I don't mean to brag..but this fish is restaurant worthy. :) Here's what you will need to make this yourself:

-1 cup all purpose flour
-6 tilapia fillets
-4 tbsps oil
-3 garlic cloves, chopped fine
-4 ripe tomatoes, quartered
-1 tbsp fish sauce
-1 tbsp dried dill weed
-handful of chopped cilantro
-12 fresh basil leaves
-salt and pepper
Serve it with jasmine rice. :)

Step one:
Take your flour and put it in a large ziploc bag. Add some salt and pepper generously. Now add your tilapia, and make sure it is all covered in the flour.

Step two:
Heat up 2 tbsps of your oil in a frying pan and then add your fish. Fry your fish on high for 5 to 7 minutes. (Make sure it is fully cooked) Add more oil when it's necessary.

Step three:
As the fish is cooking, start your tomatoes in another frying pan. Heat up 1 tbsp of oil over high heat. Add the garlic and fry for a few minutes until the garlic is golden brown. Add your tomatoes and the fish sauce. I know it is stinky...but I promise this tastes good! Add the dill, basil and cilantro. Cook for about 10 minutes on medium heat. Add some salt and peppa for taste.

Serve your fish warm with the tomatoes and herbs on top!

Enjoy!
J'éspere que tout le monde passe une super belle soirée avec vos familles et vos amis!
xo

Tomato Soup with Veggies

This week has been a flurry, cold week. SO I made alot of soup :) This was my first soup of the week. Easy, and yummy. This is the recipe:

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• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup chopped carrot
• 1/4 cup chopped celery
• 2 (28 ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
• 3 1/2 cups vegetable broth
• 1 tablespoon vegetarian Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 4 drops hot pepper sauce
• 1 can of corn

 Instead of using the crushed tomatoes I used tomato chunks. We used our own canned tomatoes so that's the way they were..chunky! I liked the soup with the chunky tomatoes..so do as you wish:) The only thing that takes time in this recipe is the chopping. Soup is such an easy meal!

Step one:

Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Saute onion and garlic until onion is tender.

Step two:

Add carrot and celery; cook for 5 to 7 minutes until tender, stirring frequently. Stir in tomatoes, broth, Worcestershire sauce, salt, thyme, corn, pepper and hot pepper sauce. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 20 minutes, stirring frequently.

Enjoy!

xo