Sweet Tangerine Lassi

It is currently very hot here where I live and so I decided to make a little refreshing drink inspired on the Indian Lassi.

Ingredients:

- 50 ml of liquid yogurt

- 500 ml of cold water

- 175 grams of tangerines (bought on syrup)

- 5 spoons of sugar

- 10 ice cubes

Pour the yogurt in the blender. Mix it so you become a smooth yogurt. Pour the 500 ml of cold water to it, and mix it up. Now you have a very liquid smooth yogurt.

Remove the tangerines from the syrup in the can and put them into the blender. Mix it up and you become an nice pink colored mixture. Add the 5 spoons of sugar and mix it a again.

Finally you put the ice cubes into the blender and mix it for the final time. Just to make it even a little more cold, you put the serving can in the fridge.

Bell pepper soup

Ingredients:

- 3 bell peppers

- Olive oil

- Water

- Bread

- Spices

Cut up the bell peppers into pieces and drizzle some olive oil over them. Heat the bell peppers and wait until they sizzle. Stir it up. Add water and stir it up again. If you want to give it more flavor you add spices.

To have the right consistency you add bread. Cut up pieces of bread and mix them into the soup so it sucks up the water. The more bread you add, the thicker the soup will be. After bringing it to the boil for 5 minutes, you put it in the blender and blend it smooth.

Since it is fun to play with color you can make an intense red, and make it hot. A yellow/orange one and make it sweet by adding some carrots or so and a minty green one. Only your imagination is the limit.

I like to serve mine simple and in the middle of the soup I add some Boursin.

Banana Bread

I am getting more interested in the American Cuisine since a good friend of mine is American and she brought me back a book about American Diners.

One of the classics I heard about but actually never ate it when I've been to the USA was banana bread. Here you find the recipe I used but look around and you'll find many of them.

Ingredients:

dry ingredients:

- 10 spoons of flour

- 5 spoons of sugar

- 1/2 tea spoon of salt

- 3/4 tea spoon of baking soda

wet ingredients:

- 4 bananas that are so ripe that the outside is brown instead of yellow

- 2 eggs

- 10 ml of melted butter of sunflower oil

- 1 tea spoon of vanilla extract

Mix the dry and the wet ingredients in separate bowls. When you got two smooth mixtures, you add the wet to the dry mixture. Pour the final mix in a cake shape.

Preheat the oven on 200 degrees Celsius and when the oven is hot put the final mix in for 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes. To see if it ready poke a little hole in the middle with something metal of a small diameter. It should come out almost clean.

The banana bread is according to what I read from moist to dry so depending on what you like you might need to add more flour.