20.06.2011

Mysterious Monday: Moroccan Tent


My ♥ often gets the blues on a Monday. He has to travel 1.5 hours to work and back which is boring and the reason why he has to wake up at 5. He does so much for me, keeps positive at all times and always takes me out to do fun things, so I think it's important to let him know that I appreciate him working so hard and everything he does for me, and what better way to show him then...

Building a 'Moroccan' Tent & Making him Dinner !

 Yummy Starter Bite
 The make-shift Moroccan tent
 Simple but delicious

I made a really quick and easy meal. Baked salmon poached in milk with potato gratin and peas. To start we had some of our favourite cheese, Tomme de Neuchâtel with fresh bread and thyme from the garden:

For the Poached Salmon:
2 salmon steaks (preferably bio=happy fish)  
a cup of milk
salt&pepper
Zest of 1 lemon

For the Gratin:
6 small potatos
2 small cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of cream
1/2 cup of milk
generous slice of Gruyère cheese

Peas & some butter

This is a great meal which will impress even though it is so quick and easy to prepare.  First season the salmon steaks with salt & pepper, place fat-side down in an oven-proof dish and surround fish with enough milk (but so you can still see the fish), sprinkle on the zest, cover with tinfoil and bake for about 25-30 minutes at 356°F/180 °C. Serve with fresh lemon, and a side of peas.

You can put the potatoes in 10 minutes before the salmon so look like the queen of the kitchen when it's all ready to be taken out of the oven at the same time. To make these, just thinly slice the potatoes, add to an oven-proof dish, season with salt & pepper & the garlic, then add the cream & milk and sprinkling of Gruyère cheese over the top before popping into the oven with tinfoil. Also bake at 356°F/180 °C for around 35-40 minutes, but take the foil off 10 minutes before you take them out so they get golden and crunchy. 

We also both forgot our anniversary this year, it was this month...but my   said he felt like a king so better late then never  ;-)


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