Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Caramelized Sole Fish

fish with caramelized onions

 For a better result chill overnight!

Prepartion time: 30 minutes
Serves 5

Ingredients


1 large onion, cut into julienne slices
9 tbsp olive oil ( reserve 3 for the salad)
250 ml red wine vinegar
50 g raisins
500 g sole fillets, cut crosswise into pieces about 5 cm wide*
1 tbsp plain flour
1/8 cup pine nuts
1 bunch of rocket leaves
1/3 cup orange juice

Directions

  1. In a preheated frying pan, heat 1/3 of the oil. Add the onion slices with a little of salt and pepper. Caramelize the onion slices by cooking them on a very low heat for 20 mns until soft and richly browned.
  2. Add the red wine vinegar and the raisins to the onions. Heat to boiling, and boil for 2 minutes.
  3. Transfer the mixture to a bowl.
  4. Aside, season the flour with salt and black pepper and coat the fish pieces with the flour mixture.
  5. Heat the remaining oil in the same pan, and cook the fish over medium heat until browned, 2-3 minutes.
  6. Spread the sole in the baking dish, and cover them with the vinegar mixture
  7. Sprinkle with roasted pine nuts, cover tightly and leave to marinate in the refrigerator from 12 to 24 hours.
  8. Mix the orange juice with 3 tbsp olive oil, salt and black pepper to taste
  9. Pour over rocket leaves
  10. Serve the fish on a bed of rocket leaves salad  
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Vegetable Fish rolls with Tomato Basil Sauce

vegetable fish rolls

 An easy dish for an elegant dinner

 

Preparation Time: 40 minutes

 

Ingredients

  • 1 zucchini
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 stick celery
  • 4 fish fillets
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp canola oil 
 
For the marinade

1/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp dried basil

For the sauce

  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp freshly crushed garlic
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • 4 large tomatoes(peeled, seeded and chopped)
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh basil leaves

Directions

Mix the marinade ingredients, pour over the fish fillet, cover and refrigerate for 1 hour minimum.

  1. Preheat a large skillet or grilling pan.
  2. Cut vegetables into 10 cm thin strips
  3. Place fillets and season with black pepper and salt
  4. Divide vegetable strips amongst fillets, and roll up around vegetables.
  5. Secure with toothpicks.
  6. Pour canola oil over moderately heated skillet, cook the fish on high heat for 2 mns, turning them over.
  7. Then reduce the heat and cover, and allow to grill until cooked through for approximately 15 minutes.

To make the sauce:

  1. Melt butter in a saucepan, add onions and garlic, and cook stirring until the onions are soft.
  2. Add wine, tomatoes, tomato paste, and salt and black pepper to taste.
  3. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until the sauce slightly thickens. 
  4. Add basil, and stir well.
  5. Spoon sauce over fish rolls 
You can serve it on a bed of steamed, long grain, white rice

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Tandoori Fish

 

tandoori fish

  A quick, delicious and spicy recipe for all fish lover to enjoy!

Ingredients

1/2 cup yogurt
1 tsp mild chili pepper
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp coriander
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp garam masala
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp tomato purée
4 tbsp lime juice
700 g fish fillet, cut into 4 pieces

Directions

Mix together the yogurt, chili powder, paprika, cumin, coriander, turmeric, garam, masala, garlic, tomato purée, and lime jice.
Place the fish in a large, non metallic dish.
Pour over the marinade and turn to cover.
Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight, turning occasionally.
Preheat the grill to high. Place the marinated fish in an oven tray.
Place under the grill and cook for 8 minutes or until the fish is cooked through, turning once.
You can serve the fish with Raita

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Free Colors & Shapes Exercise (1)

English: Color the squares in blue, rectangles in green, triangles in purple, circles in red, ovals in yellow and triangles in pink.

French: colorie les carrés en bleu, les rectangles en vert, les cercles en rouge, les ovales en jaune et les triangles en rose.

Colors and shapes exercise for children

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English: Follow the code to color the image

French:  Colorie ce dessin en respectant le code.

color the shapes

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 English: Color the small balls in red and the big balls in green

French: Colorie les grands ballons en vert et les petits en rouge

big and small exercise

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Coloring Exercise (1)



English: Follow the code to color the image
French: Colorie le dessin en suivant le code



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English: Color the image following the same order to give Mr. owl 2 identical wings
French: Colorie ce hibou pour qu il ait 2 ailes identiques

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English: Color the rainbow using the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple
French: Colorie cet arc-en-ciel en utilisant les couleurs suivantes: rouge, orange, jaune, vert, bleu et mauve.

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Free Printable Summer Game: Fruits and Vegetables Cards

Those cards are a free gift from How To Be Super Mom to all of  your mothers. Now your kids can learn the difference between fruits and vegetables and learn to differentiate them. There are many ways to play this game:
1- Ask your child to make one pile of fruits and one pile of vegetables
2- Ask your child to find the convenient plant or tree, and ask him where does this fruit grow on? This way he will learn if they grow on trees, on plants or underground.
3- Ask him what do we use to make a salad, and he will pick the right ingredients. Or "make me a fruit salad"
4- Place a long line of fruits and one veggie and let him find the intruder

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fruits and vegetables

fruits and vegetables

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Vegetable Beef Rolls

vegetable beef rolls



Preparation time: 30 minutes
Makes 20

Ingredients


500g beef fillet, 8 cm in diameter
3 tbsps olive oil
1 1/2 tbsps horseradish cream
1 1/2 tbsps wholegrain mustard
1 zucchini, cut into fine strips
1 small carrot, cut into fine strips
1 small red pepper, cut into thin strips
60 g snow peas, cut into thin strips

Directions


  1. Preheat the oven to moderately hot 200 C.
  2. Trim the beef of excess fat and sinew and brush with a little of the oil
  3. Heat a heavy-based frying pan over high heat and brown each side of the beef fillet quickly, to seal in the juices.
  4. Transfer to a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes
  5. Remove and set aside to cool
  6. Slice the cooled beef very thinly
  7. Combine the horseradish cream and the mustard, then spread a little over each slice of beef.
  8. heat the remaining oil in a pan and cook the zucchini, carrot, pepper and snow peas quickly over high heat, and then allow to cool.
  9. Place a small bunch of the cooked vegetable strips on the end of each beef slice and roll up.
  10. Arrange on a platter and serve

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