Salmon en Papillote

Student life means mostly living on the edge and that involves that we (every student included let's be honest) are eating really bad. It's not strange that when we go back home our friends cannot recognize us because of all the extra weight we have gained.

The main mistake we have in our minds is that eating healthy is expensive and that eating a 2€ pizza will full us more than anything else. But we just want you to thing a little bit farder; it's not but to eat unhealthy or processed food sometimes but if you want to have a healthy life and end college without diabetes or cholesterol you better start fixing your diet.

The recipe we are showing you this week is easy to do and healthy! You won't get any pan dirty or need any extra cooking skills.

Check the easiest and tastiest way we cook salmon, the healthy fish full with omega 3 good for your heart and so :P

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RECIPE

Salmon en Papillote

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 slice of salmon per person
• 1 red pepper
• 1 green pepper
• 1 onion
• 2 carrots
• a tablespoon of olive oil
• 1 lemon
• Foil paper

DIRECTIONS:

First we put the foil paper on the oven tray but don't cut it! We will do it once it's all done. Meanwhile we prepare all the stuff we will cook, make sure you preheat the oven at 200ºC (if it's with fan make it 180ºC).

We start cutting in large pieces the ingredients, the peppers and onions; we peel also the carrots and cut them in smaller pieces as carrot is harder to get softer.

Once everything is cut we lay it on the foil paper as it was a bed for our salmon. 

Then we lay the salmon on the veggies and put lemon slices on it.

We finish all of it with the oil and a touch of salt and black pepper.

When everything is done we close carefully the food with more foil paper (that's why we didn't cut it before) and make sure there is no exit for the oil or water to scape.

We bake it in the oven for 20 minutes at least.

And it's ready to be eaten :)

We hope you enjoy this salmon and eat more healthier; just think that's good for your future ;)

Your cool team :)

Easy - Cheap - Fast Doughnuts

Doughnuts....

Like really, Doughnuts are amazingly delicious <3 I could eat so many doughnuts at once ^^

Yep, this would be me... :P

In Germany there is a more famous kind of doughnuts called Berlinas

This kind of doughnuts are more like the old doughnuts with no holes and filled with ham. They are really tasty but from my point of view the ham or cream are changing too much the "doughnuts" essence. My fave ones are the "Simpson" doughnuts with the strawberry flavored glacé  :P

Dukin' Doughnuts gets the best ones :)

Where I live there is no bakery or shop that sells this kind of doughnuts, they all sell the "berlinas" and they don't calm my carve of this delightful dessert :9 That's why last weekend with some friends of ours we decided to make ourselves doughnuts but since we were in some kind of "movies marathon" we didn't have the time to prepare all the ingredients and make them the "right way". So we decided to give it a chance to some fast doughnuts and make another day the "true" doughnuts. 

The ones we made didn't have the strawberry flavor just because we couldn't find any extract of it at the supermarket and we thought that "rum" or "cookie" flavor would match that well at least for a first time doughnuts. So this ones are with lemon glacé... and actually they didn't feel like real doughnuts once we tried them but once in your mouth you could tell they were soooo TASTY ^^

The good stuff of this recipe is that you can get 8 doughnuts for less than 3-4€ like REALLY! 

Give them a try, in less than some minutes you will get them done and except for the glacé the rest is already done :D Isn't that cool??

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RECIPE

Fast Doughnuts

Ingredients: 

- One roll of dough (bread dough) 

// We bought one which came in a can for 8 small breads so we came up with 8 doughnuts; if you want to make your own dough late on we will make it the entire way, but as said this is a fast way to make them an easy way to not complicate yourself... We are students don't judge us

- One egg white

- Icing sugar

- Lemon drops (can be extract or from an actually lemon)

- Vegetable oil (to fry)

Extra ingredients:

- Sweet deco :) (Sprinkles, sugar with color, chocolate sprinkles... even bacon :O ) 

- Food coloring

Directions:

Separate the pieces of dough (if it doesn't come separated cut them in a way it will be the same width for all the doughnuts)

Here you can see the can we used with the dough already cut

Mash the dough so it gets thinner and wider. Then with a knife or a mold cut the interior circle. (We did it with a knife, we forgot the cutter at our place :( )

The original dough came this big

So you will have to mash it to make it lower

Then cut the interior circle

 Time to fry! Yes doughnuts are fried... Many of my friends got surprised when I told them we needed to fry them, and even there are some variants which allow you to bake them, doughnuts are fried. Nevertheless, if we baked this dough we would came up with little breads so you have to change the original ingredients of the dough.

Before frying make sure the oil is really hot and don't get burned!

You will see they will grow up a bit and turn brown. Make sure both sides are done correctly and try to get them the same brown shade so the interior dough will get the same done :)

Then take out and put them on a plate with kitchen paper so it absorbs the extra oil.

Cool right ?? :D

Well now it's time to make the glacé. 

Icing sugar and egg white ready for action

 First separate the egg white and put it into a bowl

Add to the egg white some icing sugar and some lemon drops 

not enough sugar

Wanted texture

There is no specific amount of icing sugar I can tell you to mix with the egg white. If you see the mix is not white (like in the second photo) you have not enough sugar. If the mix is too liquid you will need to add extra sugar; if the contrary you need one icing more liquid just add a few drops of lemon juice or water in the case you will add extra flavor later. 

Just take in mind that a single drop can change the whole texture and if you later add essence it will make you a more liquid mix. 

Now that you have your mix as you want it's time to give a bath ...

Put the mix just on the top if you want to add sprinkles later, if not just cover all the doughnut <3

You can add some sprinkles for extra fun :D

And here you have a easy fast and CHEAP way to have doughnuts :)

So, tell me, do you like doughnuts? Which is your favourtie flavor??


I hope you enjoyed it and give it a try ;)


Your cool team :)

PS: Sorry for the quality of the pictures, they were taken from our phones :(