Long time, no porn (megapost with loads of pics and TWO RECIPES!)

First things first. Can't start this mother of all posts without some recipes!

Nom-b(e)ars

Shopping list:

1/3 cup or 100g of peanut butter 

1 teaspoon of vanilla or a few drops of vanilla extract

2 tablespoon of honey or agave syrup

250g of white or dark chocolate

1 1/2 cup of rice krispies 

What to do:

Heat the peanut butter and honey in a small pot until it starts to bubble. Stir in the vanilla. Now stir in the krispies in parts until covered. Scoop the mixture out of your pot, spread on a parchment paper and shape in to a nice flat rectangle. Use a chef knife to flatten it. Set it aside to cool. Melt the chocolate in a small pot and pour it on the peanut butter krispie brick. Throw that monster in the fridge for a hour, cut it into bite size bars and enjoy the sugar rush.

What-we-have-lying-around quiche

Since we had some pastry dough in the fridge, here's a quick and dirty summery quiche.

Shopping list:

Ready made pastry dough of any kind (make sure it's not sweet tho)

3 eggs

200ml of milk

200g of cheese

some feta

asparagus

broccoli

a handful of chopped mint and basil

175g of prosciutto

Roll your pastry out on the kitchen counter and transfer it to a pastry dish. Make sure it fit's all nice and snuggly. Press in the sides. Bake it for 10-15 minutes around 200*C. While your pastry is getting nice and crusty, steam the broccoli and asparagus. In a bowl whisk together the eggs, cheese, milk, basil and mint. Once your pastry is out of the oven, throw in the asparagus and broccoli. Pour over the egg mixture and cover it with prosciutto strips and bake for 30 minutes at 200*C.

On other news

Did we break up? Did we forgot to pay our cable bill? Did Panda move to Nepal where he will live as a goat? No! Tho Panda really want's to go to Nepal one day. We've been up to all kinds of silly shenanigans. First of all there was Telliskivi Street Food Festival we had to visit. What can we say, a whole lot of standing in lines. Luckily the weather was nice so we did our rounds trying to have a bite of everything. If bear stops resisting and finally agrees to let Panda have his own food truck, maybe you'll see us there next year serving you THE ROLL. 

We also had our wedding cherries popped (this is a porn blog after all), when Pandas old classmate got married. Wohoo! Kibe! Cute couple, cute place, FOOOOD! Be sure to visit Koluvere castle when you have a chance. Perfect place for a weekend getaway. We wanted to lock ourselves up in one of those comfy rooms and never leave but that wouldn't have been nice of us. You can call us Count Panda and Bear now. Yes you have to bow.

But that is not all. If you keep reading NOW you will get to read some more. Yauza! For the midsummer festivities we crammed ourselves inside a bus with five hundred old ladies who went to Estonian Open Air Museum. Terrified, we stayed on the bus and retreated to our friends place to have a proper FEAST. I'm not holding back on that word. By 1 pm we were so fat and lazy that we barely managed to order a cab. After having a gazillion course dinner with all kinds of tasty things (hats off to Mr. Olivers burgers!) we finished the course with some ribs (who does that) and skipped dessert (see, I'm not joking, it was a FEAST, nobody skips dessert). Thanks for Oliver & Anett & the sous-chef crew for inviting us! Be sure to check out what Anett is up to on her blog! 

Now I'll stop making clicky noises with my keyboard, so you can enjoy all the visual goodies from our past few weeks (after Bear checks my typos of course). 

Malaysian Chicken Curry In Coconut Milk

What do you need

1 cup coconut milk

3 teaspoons of curry paste

1 tablespoon chilli flakes

The juice of one lime

2 cups of Jasmine rice

400 grams of chicken fillet

1 broccoli head

200 grams of asparagus

1 red onion

1 garlic clove

2 small papricas of each color (red, orange, yellow)

A handful of basil

This portion in enough for 4 people I'd say, but somehow we always manage to eat the whole thing.

What to do next

Wash the rice in a bowl until the water becomes clear. In a large pot bring the water to a boil. Add some lemon grass and basil inside the tea infuser. Now add the rice to the boiling water and throw the infuser in there. Let it cook under a lid for 18 minutes (over low heat). Remove from heat, fluff the rice up with a fork and let it cool for 5 minutes.

Clean the paprikas and cut into circles, now the onion. Chop the garlic into small pieces. Now cut off the broccoli florets, take the asparaguses and boil both over medium heat for 5 minutes. In a large pan heat coconut oil and sauté onion and garlic for a minute. On a smaller pan do the same with the paprikas. Cut the chicken fillet to as big or small pieces as you like and cook with onion and garlic for 5 minutes, add a pinch of salt. Now stir the coconut milk in there, also add the curry paste and lime juice. Throw in the paprikas, broccoli florets, asparaguses, basil leaves and chilli flakes and let it cook over a low heat for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool for 5 minutes.
Enjoy the meal with cold ginger beer!

A little something about our weekend

Well, it sucked, ain't going to sugarcoat it. We barely saw each other because we both had work. On Sunday we went to this event called Paar Hilpu, where Panda also had to work (scroll down to see the outcome). After a while Bear got bored and went food shopping instead to make this delicious meal by the time Panda got home. Also I changed the recipe a little bit - we put 6 teaspoons of curry paste into it, yeah... definitely don't try that at home... Oh, and we've now started to hang out five times a week, instead of three. So far so good... 0 dishes thrown (though if you ever feel like it Panda, please use the ugly green ones)... No pictures of us this time, no we're still obnoxious to be around because the honeymoon phase never seems to get over, it was just a rough week. But we'll try a little harder next week. After all this isn't supposed to be some boring a## regular food blog.

Kisses,

Bear and Panda

Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus

Shopping list: 

Asparagus (get the smaller ones), one pack is enough

Good prosciutto (at least 250g if you are hungry)

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

What to do: 

Wash your asparagus and cut the tips off from root side. Throw them in a bowl and drizzle some olive oil on them. Twist some pepper and add a pinch of salt. Now give them a nice handy toss around the bowl.
Preheat the oven to 210 degrees Celsius, line the baking sheet with baking paper. Cut the prosciutto half so you have two smaller rectangles. Now wrap each asparagus sprout in prosciutto. Repeat times 213. Line them all up nicely on the baking sheet. Cook for 15 minutes and enjoy!

As a bonus, try this for a nice spicy dipping sauce. Mix one part of mayonnaise with Sriracha sauce.

And now compete who could eat more of these delicious salty goodies!

Meanwhile on BearPandaTV

We were supposed to spend the Sunday on Aegna but since we slept in, missed the boat (we wouldn't have gotten tickets anyway), we decided to head to Paljassaare instead. While bear was trying to get her feet wet and acted like she was tanning I was shooting with Magnus (pics will be up on the blog soon!). After a nice day out in the sun and a delicious omelette in Gourmet Coffee we headed back home, had a quick power-nap and made some tasty-ass-asparaguses. Also we tried Pandas super awesome food picture table for the first time. What do you think?

THE ROLL Juniors

Ingredients

100 g dried cherries

100 g chocolate marzipan candies (Kalev)

100 g Hershey's Cookies'n'Creme chocolate

4 sheets of ready-rolled puffed pastry

1 egg, lighty beaten

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius.

Line baking sheet with foil. Cut the candies and chocolate into small cubes. Line the pastry sheets with cherries, candies and chocolate and roll them! Use knife to cut slits along the tops of the rolls and brush with egg mixture. Bake for 15 minutes. Easy, breezy, well... not so beautiful, but a really quick and tasty snack. Oh! We also made one with only Hershey's chocolate and dried cherries and Panda

loved it so much he didn't left Bear any, so give it a try!

In other news

On Thursday, my birthday morning, Panda surprised me with 22 pink roses and a "Bear and Panda's Adventure Jar", filled with activities to do in case we ever get bored. I took it to Panda's place, because I was afraid that if I keep it around the house I'd look all of them at once. Great gift idea for you couples out there! So on Friday we got together at Solaris, where we got our Boost smoothies and went to sit on the stairs of Freedom Square. Took a bunch of selfies and watched the preps for Tallinn Old Town Days. Later on we fortunately, after a little waiting, found a place to sit down in Popular with Panda's friends. That leaves Saturday and Sunday, visiting Sushi Plaza, Popular (was it once or twice again?) and also a little relaxing time at Kadriorg park... yes, again. Now that you all know where we hang out the most to stalk us the following weekends, I will get back to writing my little secret book.

A kiss to all of you who have decided to stick around and support us and cheers to all the haters, there is so much more to come...

Yours truly,

Bear & Panda