Cooking Lab - Rosemary & Salami Garlic Bread

A quick snack ... but very very delicious. 

My lazy light finger-food, an all-time favorite :)


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This is one of my original concoction recipes :) It is incredibly easy, tasty and elegant at the same time. Take the simple garlic bread and jazzed it up with rosemary & salami. An all-time favorite snack/finger-food. 

Ingredients:

- Fresh crushed garlic 2 cloves 
- Butter 2 T/S 
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2 T/S 
- Fresh Rosemary 5g 
- Salami 30g 
- Toast Bread x 4 slices

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180C.

2. Butter the toast and make sure the edges are evenly spread.

3. Place the crushed garlic, rosemary and salami pieces on the buttered toast.

4. Drizzle the Extra Virgin Olive Oil on top.

5. Bake in the Oven for 5 minutes.

6. Remove the crusty edges (optional)

7. Slice into 4 squares (for children); or slice into 2 ribbons (canapé style).

8. Serve with fresh garden side salad.

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Cooking Lab - Croque Madame w Wakame Salad

Having a Croque Madame as part of a lazy Sunday brunch.

Making a super healthy Wakame salad on the side to balance out the rich buttery, cheesy flavor.


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Dreamy béchamel and egg yolk. Dreadful for the heart, fantastic in the mouth.

This is one marvelous sandwich!

How can one not be tempted by this simple hot ham and Gruyere cheese sandwich? Walked past the Bakery and that golden egg yolk stopped me in my tracks. Saute in deep butter until golden brown. A totally scrumptiously addictive sandwich.

Warm it up in the oven !~~ Watch the bubbling melting cheese ....  ^^

Cooking Lab - Camembert Chicken Sausage Dinner w Whole Bean Salad & Kale Chips

Dinner doesn't get any easier and gourmet than this - and yes, I am opting a quick lazy dinner preparation. 

A couple of friends are coming over for dinner and do our annual Christmas gift exchange. As the host for this year - I left really to the last minutes. So it was rush rush, go, go go!

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Simple, yet a perfect cool Summer night meal - Camembert & sautéed Onion Chicken sausages with beans salad. Served with olive bread & Kale chips!

    

Camembert Cheese & Sautéed Onion Free Range Chicken Sausages $7.99/420g

(In rich Camembert cheese melded together with sautéed onions) from Woolworth's Gold Gourmet Selections 

 

While I was having trouble to come up with a dinner theme tonight- there was free tastings at Woolies to introduce their new gold gourmet range sausages. - Problem solved!!

There was a wide range of gourmet artisan sausages. All sounded fancy and schmancy!

I picked the chicken range because no one really can fault chicken sausages. 

1. Grill/cook sausages until golden.

Watch for the oozing Camembert cheese!

Too perfect!! Delicious and different.

Now got a main - need to think up the sides to go with it.

Last year, they went all out for the annual Christmas dinner, to reciprocate I can't just serve loose garden salad leaves and mash....that would be seen not trying at all ..... (even though I am not really ...)

Got to show some effort - hence the Superfood Kale Chips as one of the sides!

See the previous Cooking Lab for recipe instructions!!

This was such a big hit, my guests were health conscious and absolutely adored this! They munched away almost half of the Kale chips before I can save some for the main meal... 

Rustic Kalamata Olive baguette $3.00

Freshly baked soft baguette, perfect with dips or as Brushetta.

Whole Bean Salad - Sweet Potato, mixed beans, corn kernel, apple cider vinegar & extra virgin olive oil, salt & pepper.

Ta-ta!!! Not too bad an effort. I hope*

My take on the 1 meat and 3 veggies dinner solution.

The chicken sausages tasted divine with the salty Kale chips and the olive bread. The tangy beans salad balanced flavor. 

Quick, simple and yet stunning. Judging by the clean plates....I think I passed.

Next time - I seriously will put more effort into it ( ..I think I said that the year before :)

Cooking Lab - Smoked Salmon Bruschetta

Got a gorgeous loaf of bread from Bourke Street Bakery. Love the soft, fresh  bread.  

The idea of pairing rich, buttery soft Smoked Salmon with good-fatty Avocardo is simply magical.

Simple fillings can turn a plain sandwich into gourmet with the right type of bread. 

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Smoked Salmon w Avocardo & Blue Cheese Sourdough Bruschetta.

  

The rustic self-serve bread display at Bourke Street Bakey @ Neutral Bay. So inviting and the satisfaction of choosing your kind of sourdough.

I got the polenta, thyme and Fetta sourdough $6.00. 

Chewy and soft and scattered with Fetta pieces... This got to be my new favourite!

With such a superb bread, anything and everything will be right! 

Let's see what I've got in the fridge....

Ingredients:

- Smoked Salmon 1kg $19.99. 

Always a good start... :)

- Avcardo

- Blue Cheese

- Cherry Tomatoes

Instruction:

1. Place thinly sliced smoked salmons onto the sourdough.

2. Scattered some blue cheese pieces on top.

3. Layered it with Avocardo.

4. Serve with cherry tomatoes and cracked pepper. 

A very easy, delicious snack. Totally content!~