Baked Sweet Potatoes

As it turns out, I have a full time job now and not that much time to sit down and write my recipes. Don't get me wrong, I still cook a lot, I just don't have time to prepare the recipes… Anyways, I decided that I should at least be publishing one of these every week. But this weekend I was really lazy, luckily, I still have some backlog of recipes that have the photographic evidence ready and just need me to write down. Hence, this recipe. This weekend has been awfully cold over here, so cold  that it makes you want to crawl under a blanket and consume delicious carbohydrates like there is no tomorrow… The carbo-hangover is something future you will have to deal, you will just have to enjoy!

So, no more excuses, it's time to treat yourself to my Stuffed, baked sweet potatoes.

Look at that deliciousness!!!

Let's Talk Pizza!

I have taken a long time to put this recipe in the blog, for 2 reasons mainly: 1) I wanted to come up with the best simple recipe for it 2) I am lazy as fuck… Hahaha… There are some challenges that every aspiring pizza maker must overcome (like not overdoing the sauce and go thinner on their dough) but they are easy. The point is that home made pizza, even if it is not perfect or authentic (whatever that means) it will taste considerably better than your usual take out and  will be infinitely superior to your frozen pizza. So, don’t be afraid, it will be easy and don't be lazy, it will take you little to no time.

Get your ass off the couch and get ready. Once the pizzas are done, you can sit back and relax and continue binge watching Netflix, but this time, with awesome pizzas to keep you company and making your belly feel all fuzzy and amazing!

So, here is my master Pizza Recipe, from here you can derive to whatever you want, red sauce, white sauce, cream, you can use the same dough to make Focaccia and some beautiful Panini with it, and once you understand how kneading and proving the dough is all about you will be able to get your incursion into basic bread making. Holy fuck, I'm initiating into a world of yummy thing. You are welcome!

Seriously, how awesome does that look?

A treat for the little German inside you. Brezeln (German soft Pretzels)

I know, I know… The tittle sounds wrong, but the taste of these awesome German soft pretzels is so right.

So, the other day I was talking about food with my newly acquired German roommates, while reminiscing about my old times in Germany, I remembered that a good friend of mine gave me his grandma's Brezeln recipe, and it had been a while since I last made them, so I told them, roomies, prepare yourselves for some kick ass Brezeln. Baking them yourself is not a common thing in Germany, or in any other country, I mean, you can always find them cheap and good on the streets or bakeries or even supermarkets. But when you are exiled in a tiny town in Spain, without the access to many of the culinary treats you are used to, well, you do what you have to do.

The day came, and we ended up having Germans over for dinner on Sunday, and they loved them. So, they should be good judges on the authenticity of the taste and texture of this awesome bread. But you will be the ultimate judge. So prepare your taste buds for my German Brezeln. Butter or senf (German mustard) for serving, marmalade or Nutella, try all combinations, get yourself full of delicious starch and fall into a food coma afterwards. Thank me later.

Btw, you can save yourself the trouble of actually making the pretty knots that make up a pretzel and make some rolls, this go awesomely with burgers or any type of sandwich… just saying….

Just look at those bad boys!!!

Special for the Sweet Tooth. Oreo Cheesecake

It is no secret that I am not an avid baker, there is something very structured and strict about baking that I really don't enjoy, well, at least that is true for proper baking. Adding the fact that I rarely crave sweets we get to the fact that Minoru Baking is something that happens once in a blue moon. However, when it happens, I try to go to the simple things and the things that don't require the strictness and rigidity that baking usually does.

A few weeks ago, one of my friends turned 27, he enjoys sweets as crazy and I would say any kind of desert is his kind of dish,  so to celebrate him I decided to make my Oreo® Cheesecake. We actually ended up eating the cake without him, but that is another story.

So, if you have never baked, and you would like to try something simple as fuck that would wow all the people around you, this is for you. Enjoy, thank me later.

Look at that ridiculously good looking slice!