Diet vegetable soup - recipe (with step-by-step photos)

Ingredients:

• 500 milliliters of tomato juice
• 3 carrots
• 2 spoons with olive oil
• 1 medium parsnip
• 1 onion
• a few tomatoes
• a few leaves of cabbage
• a few leaves of lovage
• a few basil leaves
• pepper
• salt

Boil the vegetables.

When ready, mash them and add the pepper, the salt, the tomato juice, the olive oil and the basil and put it back on the fire.

 Let it boil for a few minutes. Remove from the fire and add the chopped lovage .

For the croutons:

Crush a small clove of garlic and mix it with some olive oil.

Chop a few slices of bread and then mix the bread cubes with the garlic / oil mixture.

Put it in the oven at 200 Celsius degrees until brown.

Now, pour the soup in a bowl, add the croutons et ... voila, you have your diet soup.

Enjoy!

Vegetable puree - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 600 grams of celery
• 200 grams of parsnip
• 150 grams of carrots
• 150 grams of zucchini
• 50 grams of butter
• garlic
• salt
• pepper

Chop the vegetables and boil them.

Keep half of the water in which the vegetables boiled, or less, if you want the final product to be thicker.

Mash the vegetables and their soup with a plunger to make a puree. Add the butter, the garlic, salt and pepper and mix some more.

Enjoy it with a few croutons or as it is!

Our vegetable garden at the end of July

Apart from flowers, who occupy most of the garden, we also have a small vegetable garden (there are some berries here and there, as well :)

Summer salad - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 150 grams of cherry tomatoes
• 2 bell peppers
• 2 spring onions
• half of a cucumber
• 200 grams of chicken breast
• 150 grams of feta cheese
• olive oil
• pepper
• salt

Cut all the vegetables and mix them in a bowl.

Add the meat prepared as you wish, and the cheese. (First we boiled the meat for about 20 minutes and then we fried it).

Add the pepper, the salt and the olive oil.
 

Enjoy!

Carp with vegetables - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 1 carp
• 1 onion
• 2 green onions
• 15 grams of butter
• 2 carrots
• 1 bell pepper
• 2 tomatoes
• 150 grams of tomato juice
• 30 grams of water
• mushrooms
• garlic
• laurel
• thyme 

Grease a ceramic oven dish with the butter and add the chopped  vegetables and the tomato juice.

Add the water and the carp on top of the vegetables. Add the laurel and the thyme.
Cover the tray with an aluminum sheet, and put it in the oven for 30 - 40 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.

You can also add the vegetables inside the fish.

Remove the aluminum sheet and let the fish in the oven for another 5 - 10 minutes.

Bon Appetit!

Lamb stew - recipe (including photos)

Recently we cooked lamb stew and it was delicious.

Ingredients:

• 500 gr of lamb,
• 4 tomatoes,
• 2 bell peppers,
• tomato juice,
• 1 zucchini,
• parsley,
• garlic,
• salt,
• pepper
• laurel (leaves) 

First you have to boil the lamb for 2 hours over a slow fire.

Then, chop all the vegetables and let them boil together with the lamb for half of hour:

Pour the tomato juice:

After you turn off the fire, chop the the garlic and the parsley, put them over the stew and leave it covered for 10 minutes:

Bon appetit!