Saturday, November 24, 2012

German, Italian and Chinese fusion...

It's a brand new Saturday and since we both had no pre-planned activities going on, we decided to cook.
Brought Brownie for a walk to the sundry shop, and got some onions and an apple.

Within an hour and a half, we came up with 3 dishes. Let me present to you:

a) German sausages with caramelized onions and apples
b) Chinese-Italian spinach with garlic
c) Italian inspired tomato rice

 Hubby went back to Kuching, Sarawak and brought back a bottle of Meica German sausages. Searched for recipes online and found that most of the German sausages are accompanied by sauerkraut. Since we do not have that, we searched for some simpler recipes and found some with apples and onions.
We got the main ingredients and voila whipped up this dish. I did not follow the measurements and added some Italian herbs, beef stock, apple cider and result tasted awesome!

German sausages with caramelized onions and apples

The second dish is typically a Chinese dish, spinach with garlic. However when we were in Rome, we were also served spinach with garlic, but the spinach was rather bitter. Hubby decided to modify this dish. He first stir fry the garlic and spinach in the wok until soft (add brown sugar and salt), and then transferred them (without water) into the frying pan, and added the herbs and black pepper.



Chinese-Italian Spinach with garlic


The Italian inspired tomato rice is something like the tomato stuffed rice we made previously (see here), but this time we added mushrooms, some leftover smoked ham and of course cheddar cheese.

Italian inspired tomato rice


Now you know why both of us are growing sideways:)

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