It´s been a while.
I´ve been quite busy with University stuff... But now it´s the semester break, three heavenly months without classes, just me, work and food. Yay!
My first week off was well spent: I went to a very nice restaurant with my dear friend Mire. They offered an amazing set menue for a fixed price which included a course of wagyu, japanese beef, better known as kobe beef. It was good, I can tell you that much. In taste much closer to wild game than to ordinary german cow. Mmmmh. The other courses were amazing too. I loved the dessert, variations of coffee. Thanks for that supernice evening Mire!!
We didn´t dare to take pictures because it was such a nice restaurant so you´ll just have to trust my words, sorry.
Anyhow. I also got to cook. Last tuesday was my nameday so... Nah, I´m not catholic so actually I shouldn´t care about this particular "holiday" but it brings back pleasant memories from my childhood were my grandma´s italian-catholic neighbor who had the same name as me, Anna, used to bring me supernice presents just for being called "Anna". And I had time so:



I made Turkey-rolls filled with creamcheese with herbs in puff pastry and for dessert we had Clafoutis (which is basically fruit baked in light dough) and homemade ice-cream.
Sounds tricky and highclass? It´s not.

IngrediencesTurkey Rolls:
2 pieces of Turkey
Creamcheese
Herbs
Puff pastry (I´m too lazy to make my own...)

Clafoutis:
1 Egg
20g Butter
40g Sugar
60g Flour
100ml Milk
Baking Powder
Fruits (I used Raspberries & Blackberries)

Icecream:
Icecream machine (my sister got us one two weeks ago)
200ml Milk
125ml Cream
Vanilla
2 large Eggyolks
60g Sugar

How to

Turkey Rolls:Mix herbs with creamcheese, smear on turkey, roll turkey. Put turkey on puff pastry, cover with more puff pastry. Put into the oven for 35-45 minutes at 180°C.

It really is as easy as that. You can maybe add some salt and pepper but I found that the creamcheese was tasty enough.

Ice Cream:While the turkey was getting ready I had the ice cream machine running. It´s so nice to have one. For this simple icecream you mix the eggyolks and the sugar with the vanilla until it´s all white and foamy. Add the cream.
Heat the milk in a pot, don´t cook it, it just needs to dissolve the sugar that is added when the milk is warm.
Slowly add the egg-sugar-foam.
Let it all cool, then put it into the freezer for 20 minutes. Just don´t forget it, it just needs to cool.
Mix once again then let the icecream machine do it´s job for 35-40 minutes.

Clafoutis:

Melt the butter and mix it with the egg, sugar, milk and vanilla sugar. Carefully add the flour and the baking powder.

Put the fruits into some kind of buttered pie pan, pour the mix over it and then let it sit in the oven for about 35 minutes at 180°C.

To butter cake pans and the like I usually use a little plastic bag like a glove, grab some butter with it and when I´m done I just throw it away. Not an important trick but one that, I happen to know, is not known to all mankind....

Mmmmh, doesn´t that look great, even in that crappy picture?