2020-05-20

Hunter's Toast


Preparation:

You'll need:
  • a casserole dish

Ingredients (for 2 toasts - as a snack this is enough, if it's a full meal, you should double the ingredients).

  • 2 slices of large white bread (for toast)
  • 2 small steaks of pork collar (150 up to 180 g together)
  • ½ small onion
  • 200 g fresh Chanterelle
  • 50 - 60 g Gruyere cheese (or half/half with Edamer)
  • 80 - 100 g Creme Fraiche
  • 50 mL chicken broth
  • Some parsley (around ¼ - ½ a bunch)
  • 1 table spoon flour

Preparation

Toast the bread, chop the onion, pluck the parsley leaves, grease the casserole dish. Clean the chanterelle, put them on the side.
Quick fry the steaks in oil until medium brown, put on the side. Fry the onion in oil on medium heat until it starts to get translucent, add the chanterelle, fry until all extra water has evaporated.
This will take some time, in the meantime, if necessary, grate the cheese (large flakes) and preheat the oven to 200 ℃.
Now sprinkle flour over the mushrooms, sauté a short time, deglaze with 50 mL chicken broth, add Creme Fraîche (80-100 g) and parsley.
Season with salt and pepper, let it slightly cook until mushroom topping is not liquid anymore (otherwise the toasted bread will get too wet).
Put the bread in the casserole dish, place steaks on top and spread the mushrooms on them. Sprinkle cheese over that and bake in oven for 5 to 10 minutes.

2020-05-06

Toast Hawaii



Here's a quick one... The famous German classic.

Ingredients (for 2-3 persons)

  • 6-8 slices large white bread (for toast).
  • 6-8 slices of pineapple
  • Suitable amount of ham and salami (around 250 grams altogether)
    The original is only with ham, but I like to add a small amound of Salami for stronger taste.
  • Cheese (like cave cheese), that goes well for grilling - around 250 to 300 grams.
  • Some butter, paprika (instead of paprika I use cayenne pepper ;-)

Preparation

One could toast the slices of bread a bit, if one likes them really cross, or if one grills them on a solid baking tray, not the grill kind.
Butter the slices of bread, then spread the ham and the salami (that's important, so that the pineapple slices don't leak juice into the bread). Then put one slice of pineapple on each toast and cover it well with cheese. Put a good deal of paprika/cayenne on the cheese and grill the toasts in the preheated oven at aroud 190℃ for several minutes, until the cheese gets brown.