Easy chocolate mousse

Sometimes you aren’t making anything and sometimes you almost live in your kitchen. Well it helps that the weather wasn’t working in our favor as well. It was raining and getting cold. Great time to experiment with different dishes. Today I manage to do 3 dishes, my daikon cake (first time ever), the chao and this easy chocolate mousse.

Can you believe I’ve never made my own chocolate mousse before? My neighbor made homemade chocolate mousse earlier and it was soooo good. I only wanted to have one spoon, but end up eating the whole bowl!! I asked her how she made it and she told me she had egg yolks in it. If there is anything I prefer not to work with is raw eggs. It’s fine when other people do (and I don’t necessarily have to know about it) but for me…well it try not to. 

So this mousse is made with only whipping cream, sugar and dark chocolate. How easy is that?

I started with melting my chocolate (180g). I normally melt it in the microwave but since I burned myself (because it got too hot), I prefer to do it this way (double boiler). It's easier to control.

The chocolate melted in no time. I took it of the stove and set it aside while I whipped the whipping cream (500ml) with some sugar till it was nice and thick.

Then I gentle fold in the melted chocolate. And to be honest…I also used my mixer just to make sure the chocolate was well incorporated. Only for a second…

I’d like to save my yoghurt and crème brûlée jars so I could reuse them and this was a perfect opportunity.

It was enough to fill up 8 jars to the rim. They are now setting in the fridge. I can’t wait till tomorrow…but I already know they will taste good…the spoon and spatula are licked clean.

I’m having movie night with my hubby now. Have a great weekend!



The next day:

It’s 2 pm right now and I just finished my first chocolate mousse jar.

I was very happy to see that it was nice and fluffy.

Although it was a bit sweeter then I thought I would be (next time I just skip the sugar), it was till very good. I think a nice citrus salad or some cherries would balance the flavors out just right.

7 more jars to go...

Easy dinner: carb, veggie and meat

An easy lunch has to be followed by an easy dinner. Well actually the easy lunch gave me plenty of time to make a killer dinner, but my body is still resting; recharging for Monday. Since very meal has to have some kind of carb, veggie and meat I went for this very very easy one pot has it all dish, which is actually typical Dutch.

We call it hutspot. It’s a dish for cold winter days, but as Summer hasn’t really came this year I thought why not. And my carrots has to be eaten before they turn bad so the choice was easily made.

I used 8 or 9 potatoes, 6-7 carrots, 3 big onions (I didn’t use all 5 since they didn’t all fit in my pot) and one long “fresh” sausage.

I pealed the potatoes, the onions and the carrots and chopped them in equal big pieces so they cook evenly. Then I added one cube of bouillon and some salt and pepper. I cooked everything till the carrots and potatoes were soft.

In the meantime I fried the sausage in a bit of oil till it was nice and golden brown. 

With a potato masher I mashed everything together. Since everything tasted good already I didn’t had to add any extra salt.

Taraaaa! There you have it; today’s easy dinner. And it was sure tasty, we all came back for seconds!

Easy lunch

If I ever said growing old is fun, I’m taken it back right now. My body is so tired. And my head is full of all the recipes I still want to make.

My life is quite simple. We both work (40 hours a week and no longer then that) and in the weekends we chill aka do nothing except for cleaning the house. The last couple of weeks we’ve been quite occupied with visits and hosting. Well basically we had something planned every weekend. This particular Saturday was quite busy. For starters I went to bed quite late on Friday and woke up quite early on Saturday. Then I was making my date cupcakes and some savory puff pastries for high tea that afternoon with my gf. I had all kinds of ideas and recipes and I ended up making 4 out of a whole lot more.

We drove down early so me and the hubby could get an eye examination. We had to wait one hour before it was our turn. By the time we were done, it was lunch time. My gf made this amazing mackerel spread and bought all kinds of jummie stuff for our homemade high tea.

Our lunch spread had: mackerel sandwiches, smoked salmon and dill sandwiches and egg/dill salad sandwich, two kinds of savory puff pastries, the date cupcakes and one super moist pineapple cake, one vegetable quiche, some homemade strawberry and rhubarb jam and I brought a jar of homemade lemon curd. My gf just printed out a recipe for lemon curd earlier with the intention to make it later. Talking about a coincided. Great minds think alike =)

Since we made our own sandwiches we arranged the crust in a jar so we could use them for dipping into the lemon curd and jam. It was sooo good!

After this huge lunch we headed over to my aunt and uncles house. They had a birthday party for their 4 year old son and invited both side of the family. I think there were a least 70-80 people. They also hired this lady who was dressed like a clown and who preformed magic tricks and could make balloon animals. The kids and adults were having a blast.

So after this very long and very busy Saturday we woke up this morning and started to clean the house.

For lunch I had a sandwich with chicken filet, mayonnaise, cucumber and tomato.

And I had two with homemade egg salad. It kept me going till 5 pm.

I’ve taken some stuff out for pho so that has to be cooked today and I also need to make dinner for tonight. It will be an easy one as well.