I had to really think about how I’ll cook this month between wanting to save some money, eating healthy to avoid getting sick and cooking big for the Advent sundays so my solution is to switch between extravagant main dish salads, inexpensive everyday-food and some cool ideas for Sunday/Christmas dinners. Thought I’d share my results :) PM or comment if you want a recipe!
Salads (the original names in the cookbook are very creative so I’ll just list main ingredients)
Brussel sprouts, Jerusalem artichokes, apples, grains, dates
Couscous, brussel sprouts, radicchio, beans, chorizo, feta cheese
Meat from chicken thighs, arugula, leek, dried fruit, lentils, Parma ham
Red cabbage with bacon & goat cheese
Red beets, white radish, watercress, oranges, pistachios, feta cheese
Clementines, avocado, arugula, radicchio, ricotta
Butternut squash, pecans, purslane, frisee salad, pears, blue cheese
Kale, brussel sprouts, cranberries, almonds, bacon, pecorino cheese, honey mustard dressing
Cooked chicken, green beans, artichokes, tuna, anchovies, capers
Savoy cabbage, cellery root, carrot, pastrami, mustard dressing
Pointed cabbage, prosciutto, parmesan cheese
Everyday food (German names can’t be translated properly, sorry, pls google)
Ethiopian fish curry with pan bread
Semmelknödel + mushrooms + creme fraiche sauce
Himmel & Erde (contains apples, mashed potatoes, blood sausage and oven baked onions)
Pasta with chicken-fennel-bolognese
Stir fry with artichokes, smoked tofu and zucchini + oven baked rosemary potatoes
Pasta + butternut squash + dried tomatoes + parmesan cheese
Mashed potatoes + spinach + fried eggs
Pasta with savoy cabbage, smoked tofu and some kind of white sauce
Almond crusted fish + green salad + baguette
Pide with cheese or ricotta filling
Cornflake-crumbed schnitzel (I cannot find a translation for ‘Pute’, it’s basically domesticated turkey) + green salad
Köttbullar (I’ll use chicken minced meat) with some kind of carbohydrate side dish
Soup with cucumber, broccoli, peas and feta cheese
Soup with red lentils, spinach, yogurt and fried onions
Soup with parnsips, curry and kale stalks
Shepherd’s pie (I like Jamie Oliver’s recipe, he uses sausage instead of minced meat)
Lasagna with savoy cabbage or kale and salsiccia
Turnips + apples + fried sausages
Prussian fish soup (white wine, cod, cream, leek, cellery root and carrot, I’ll also add potatoes)
Advent Sunday/Christmas dinners
Wild boar goulash with apples and Spätzle
Chestnut soup with fried chili onions (as a starter)
Lamb stew with pumpkin and quince jelly
Raclette (New Year’s Eve food)
Leg of venison in prune sauce
Duck breast in orange sauce
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