Beef filet and oven baked tomatos

Today we had beef filet and oven baked tomatos. The tomatos were deskinned, quatered and deseaded. They were put on a plate sprinkled with olive oil, custard sugar, pepper and salt. Some garlic and rosmary were added. Everything was put for around 1.5 hrs. to the oven at 100 deg. celsius.
The beef was pan fried at strong heat (two minutes each side). Afterwards the beef was put for 45 minutes to the oven at 100 deg. celsius.
The sauce is made with sherry, mushrooms, green pepper and cream.

Tom Yum Kung Soup

Tom Yam Kung Soup is a thai sour, spicy soup with prawns and straw mushrooms. The recipe in short is: de-shell and devein the prawns. Keep the shells and heads. Heat oil in a huge pot and roast the prawn shells and heads. Add 1L of water and add lime leaves, lemon grass and chilies. Boil for 5-6 minutes. Drain the stock through a sieve into another pot. Add mushrooms, tomatos and prawns. Add finely chopped coriander, sliced spring onion, sliced chili, fish sauce and lime juice.

Amaebi Miso Soup

Today I tried a new variant of miso soup. I de-shelled and deveined some fresh tiger prawn. They were coated in some cornstarch and afterwards slightly boiled in salt water for 2 minutes. The prawns are arranged in a small bowl together with some carrot decoration, wakame seaweed and sliced spring onion. The miso soup is poured carefully over the prawns.

Again - vegetable soup

Today I prepared again vegetable soup. Some frozen vegetable soup stock was still in the freezer. Together with some fresh potatos, carrots, mushrooms, and pies a very nice vegetable soup. Helen added some egg noodles. I had some sliced, smoked sausage added, that gives a nice salty, smokey flavour. As garnish some finely sliced spring onion.