Cooking Fans

Walnut pasta

2011-12-18T21:25:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:

250 g Penne / Conchiglie Rigate / Fusilli or Farfalle Pasta
sugar
cupped hand of walnuts

Mince walnuts in mincer to get walnuts powder or wrap in paper towel and treat with meat tenderizer.
Boil pasta with app. 1-1,5 teaspoon of sugar.
Sprinkle boiled pasta with little bit of sugar and walnut powder (accordingly to preferences) and mix.
If you prefer you can serve cold.

Chicken on bottle of beer

2011-11-27T19:11:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

1 plucked chicken
1 bottle of good beer
3 cloves of garlic
1 heaped teaspoon of curry powder
½ teaspoon of powdered sweet paprika
salt, pepper
4 tablespoons of oil

Wash chicken
Mix oil with smashed clove of garlic, curry, powdered paprika, pinch of salt and pepper.
Cover chicken with oil with spices and marinate for whole night.
Put bottle of beer (not chilled - room temperature) into hot, boiled water, keep it for 5 min. Cool bottle down. Remove paper label and wash bottle.
Open the beer. Pour half of bottle into glass and put away – you will need it later.
Put 2 smashed cloves of garlic into the bottle and mix.
Place chicken on the bottle firmly so it doesn`t slip down. Tie chicken`s neck with thread so it doesn`t stick out. Make sure that the bottle isn`t pressing against chicken`s skin next to neck, so skin won`t break during baking and chicken won`t slip down.
Put the bottle with chicken firmly in ovenproof dish so it won`t fall down. Pour the rest of beer into the dish.
Put dish with chicken into oven (you may need somebody to assist you with that).
Bake in preheated oven for 60-80 mins. in 180 Celsius degrees (356 F d.).
Pour with beer occaisonally.

Stuffed eggs

2011-11-20T21:23:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

4 eggs
3-4 champignons
1 onion
mayonnaise
salt, pepper
butter
parsley

Hard-boil eggs.
Cool eggs down, cut into halves and take out yolks.
Smash yolks with fork to get consistent mass. Add 1 teaspoon of butter and mayonnaise and mix.
Chop champignons and onion and fry shortly. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Add yolk mass altogether with chopped parsley and mix.
Put staffing into the halves of eggs whites. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Optionally you can add few chopped slices of ham.

Pancakes with cottage cheese and strawberries

2011-10-02T19:13:00.002+02:00

Ingredients:

Pancakes

1,5 glass (375 ml) of flour
1 glass (250 ml) of milk
1 glass of water
3 eggs
1/3 of teaspoon of salt
1 table spoons of oil

Stuffing

250 g (9 oz) semi-skimmed cottage cheese
half of glass (125 ml) 18% cream
few teaspoons of sugar
1 yolk
alternatively 1 drop of cake flavouring

Pancakes

Mix ingredients (amount accordingly to number of pancakes you want to fry). It should be very thin – almost liquid.
Use teflon frying pan. Spread small amount of oil on the pan with a paper towel.
Fry very thin pancakes.

Stuffing

Mix ingredients to get consistent mass.

Place stuffing on a pancake and roll. Pour cream with sugar and blended strawberries on pancakes.

Carrot cake

2011-07-24T21:05:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

4-5 eggs
½ glass of sugar
½ glass of oil
1 ½ glass of flour
3 glasses of grated carrots (6-8 carrots)
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of soda
½ teaspoon of cinamon
handful of walnuts

Grate the carrots with a grater
Mix eggs, flour, sugar, oil, baking powder, soda and cinamon with mixer or food processor.
Add grated carrots and smashed walnuts and mix.
Bake 50 mins. in 80 Celsius degrees (356 F d.) in spring form (pan). Spread margarine on the springform and sprinkle with bread crumbles before baking.

Bon appetit!

Chicken Tajin

2011-07-17T12:17:00.005+02:00

Ingredients:

2 chicken breast fillets
couple of handfuls of raisins
10 dried plums
10 dates
6 dried figs
2 onions
tajin spice mixture
100 g butter
salt
pepper

Wash plums, raisins, dates, and figs. Put into hot, boiled water, cover and leave for 30 mins.
Wash chicken fillets and cut into stripes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Dice onions and fry in a frying pan on butter.
Put chicken into the frying pan and fry with onion.
Pour plums, raisins, dates, and figs with water into the chicken.
Sprinkle with 1/2 - 1 teaspoon of Tajin spice, stir and simmer for 20 mins.
Serve with traditional Moroccan couscous or alternatively with rice.

Leek Soup with Roasted Almonds

2011-04-14T22:45:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

1 leek
300 g (10,5 oz) potatoes
1 litre (0,2 galon) of vegetable boullion (1 boullion cube)
100 g (3,5 oz) almondflakes
36% cream
2 spoons of butter
salt, pepper, sugar

Peel potatoes next boil and cool down.
Bring water to the boil and put boullion cube. Dissolve and cook for 2 mins.
Cut leek (white parts) into stripes and fry on butter with cooked potatoes.
Put leek and potatoes into the boullion. Blend to get velvet consistence.
Add cream, pinch of salt, pepper and little sugar and mix.
Roast almonds with butter on a frying pan.
Serve in deep plate or bowl. Sprinkle with roasted almonds.

Tart with Chicken and Tomatoes

2011-03-15T21:15:00.003+01:00

Ingredients:

200g (7,05 oz) flour
100g (3,53 oz) butter
1 egg
250g (8,82 oz) chicken breast fillet
100g olives
cheese
250ml (1 glass) caned tomatoes
2 garlic cloves
salt, pepper, oregano, thyme, paprika (sweet and spicy)

Take flour, butter, egg and pinch of salt and knead dough.
Form a ball and put into fridge for an hour.
Roll the dough and put into a cake tin.
Make few holes in the cake with a fork. Bake in 200 Celsius (392 F) degrees for 15 mins.
Dice chicken into small dices. Fry on a frying pan for 5 mins.
Add tomatoes, olives, smashed garlic, spices and simmer for 10 mins.
Pour the sauce on the tart, sprinkle with cheese and bake 15 more mins.

Salmon on Leeks Quilt with Pistachio

2011-02-20T15:22:00.003+01:00

Ingredients:

2 leeks (with green part)
6 tbsp olive oil
1/3 teaspoon curry
60 g pistachios without shells
salt, pepper
0,5 kg salmon fillet
basil

Cut off green parts of leeks. Wash them and cut into stripes. You don`t need white parts, so you can keep them to cook sth else later.
Pour olive oil on a frying pan and add leeks into cold oil. Fry on medium fire for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle with salt. Mix.
Crush pistachios. Add half of them into the leeks. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, curry and mix.
Pour water and bring to a boil in a separate pan Add slat.
Slice salmon into app. 4-5 cm (1,6 – 1,9 inch) pieces.
Put the salmon into boiling water and boil for about 6-8 mins.
Put leeks on a plate to make ‘quilt’.
Put the salmon on the leeks quilt and sprinkle with basil.
Decorate the plate with curry and the rest of pistachios.

Coconut Curry with Chicken

2011-02-07T11:53:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:

500 g chicken breast
caned coconut milk (app. 350ml)
2 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of grated ginger
2-3 tbsp of green curry paste
1/3 teaspoon of oyster sauce (optional)
pinch of turmeric powder
salt, pepper
oil

Dice chicken into small pieces.
Fry chicken in a wok with smashed garlic and grated ginger app. 5 mins.
Add coconut milk and bring to a boil.
Boil for 5 mins. Mix.
Add pinch of turmeric powder, oyster sauce (optional) and green curry paste – gradually to get right taste. (You will find directions how to prepare green curry paste on this blog).
Add pinch of salt and pepper.

Coq au Vin

2011-01-30T19:29:00.000+01:00

few chicken legs, wings
2 onions
2 cloves garlic
200 g champignons
200 g bacon
flour
1/2 bottle red wine
50 ml Cognac
4 tablespoon butter
herbs de Provence
salt, pepper

Cut the bacon into stripes. Remove the fat. Quarter onions into chunks.
Melt the butter in a fryingpan. Cover chicken with a flour and fry on all sides.
When the chicken is browned put it in a pot. Add onions, garlic, bacon, mushrooms. Sprinkle with herbes de Provence, salt and pepper.
Warm the cognac in a saucepan. Light the cognac and flambez the chicken (pour on the burning cognac).
When the flames die, pour in the red wine. Cover the pot and bring to a boil. Mix.
Preheat the oven to 135 Celsius degrees.
Cook in the oven for app. an hour.
You can also simmer chicken instead of baking in the oven.

Tatar

2011-01-16T20:30:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:

250 g of minced beef
salt, pepper
1 yolk
1 table spoon of oil
1 onion
2 small pickles

To prepare that dish you need raw minced meat and you don`t cook it!
Dice onion and pickle finely (small dices).
Mix meat with yolk, oil, pinch of salt and pepper.
Serve meat on a plate with onion and pickle accordingly to the photo.

Bon appetit!

Chicken with Sesame

2010-12-12T16:29:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

500 g (17,64 oz) chicken breast fillet
1 onion
1 table spoon of sesame oil
1-2 table spoon of honey
2 table spoons of soya sauce
1 table spoon of lemon juice
4 table spoons of sesame seeds
salt, pepper

Cut chicken into stripes. Cover in oil, pepper and salt.
Dice onion.
Put chicken into ovenproof dish and top with onion. Cover with lid (alternatively you can wrap it in tinfoil).
Bake 25 min. in 180 Celsius degrees (356 F degrees).
Mix soya sauce, honey, lemon juice and little sauce from baking chicken. Add salt, pepper. Pour sauce on chicken and bake 5 more mins.
Serve sprinkled with roasted sesame seeds.

Pancakes with Champignons

2010-11-28T20:40:00.005+01:00

Ingredients:

Pancakes
·    flour
·    milk
·    1 egg
·    pinch if salt
·    2 table spoons of oil

Stuffing
·    champignons
·    onion
·    cheese
·    salt, pepper
·    egg
·    bread crumbs
·    sesame

Pancakes
1.    Mix ingredients (amount accordingly to number of pancakes you want to fry). It should be very thin – almost liquid.
2.    Use teflon frying pan. Spread small amount of oil on the pan with a paper towel.
3.    Fry very thin pancakes – like on photo.

Stuffing
1.    Chop onion finely and fry in a frying pan on oil.
2.    Chop champignons and add into the pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Fry few minutes.
3.    Take the vegetable from fire. Grate cheese. Add and mix with hot stuffing.
4.    Put app. 2 tablespoons of stuffing on the pancake and wrap it up.
5.    Cover in egg and bread crumbs with sesame.
6.    Fry until pancake is golden brown.

Directions how properly wrap up pancake:

Salmon in Orange Coat

2010-11-07T17:40:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:

600 g (21 oz) salmon fillet
85 g (3,2 oz) breadcrumbs
1 orange
2 spoons of oil
fresh coriander
1 small jar of mayonnaise
1 egg

Grate orange peal.
Mix breadcrumbs with the orange peal.
Chop few stalks of coriander and add to the breadcrumbs. Add oil and mix.
Remove skin and fishbone from salmon. Sprinkle with salt and white pepper. Cut into pieces.
Put tinfoil into an ovenproof bowl. Cover with oil slightly.
Coat the fish in egg and breadcrumbs and put into the bowl. Bake 15-20 mins. in 180 Celsius d. (356 F d.)
Serve with rice and sauce.

Sauce

Mix mayonnaise, fresh orange juice and few stalks of chopped coriander.

Pumpkin Soup

2010-10-31T15:38:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

1 small/medium pumpkin
1l milk (0,22 gallon)
sugar
noodle (ready from shop in a package, in Poland we use small balls noodle)

Cut and peal pumpkin.
Dice pumpkin in a small dices.
Bring 0,5 litre of water to boiling. (Small amount just on a bottom of a pan.
Put the pumpkin into the water, cover and boil 10-15 mins.
Wait until boiled pumpkin cool down.
Blend boiled pumpkin with a blender or food processor.
Boil 1 litre of milk.
Put blended pumpkin into the milk and mix. Add sugar app. 5-6 teaspoons or accordingly to preferences.
Boil noodles.
Add noodles into the soup.

Polish Apple Pie

2010-10-24T18:24:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

4 eggs
¾ of glass of sugar
2 full glasses of flour
¾ of glass of oil
2 teaspoons of baking powder
pinch of salt
5 apples (sour type)
2 drops of pie aroma
a little bit of milk

Mix eggs, sugar and oil with mixer or food processor.
Add flour gradually to the mass mentioned above and mix.
Add salt, baking powder and pie aroma and mix.
If the mass is to dense add a little bit of milk and mix.
Wash and dice apples. Put into the mass.
Cover baking tin with a margarine and sprinkle with bread crumbs.
Pour the mass into the baking tin.
Bake in preheated oven for 45-50 mins. in 180 Celsius degrees (356 F d.).

Singaporean Fish

2010-10-10T15:56:00.000+02:00

Ingredients:

2-3 cod fillets (or other fish)
3 egg whites
4 tablespoons of corn flour
4 teaspoons of white dry wine
oil
1 big onion
1 can of pineapple
lemon
1 teaspoon of curry
black pepper
salt
sugar
rice

Wash fish and cut into stripes 5 cm (2 inches) wide.
Mix egg whites, 3 tablespoons of corn flour, wine, pinch of salt and pepper to get a cake.
Cover pieces of fish in the cake.
Heat up an oil on a frying pan. Fry fish on quite big fire until it`s golden-brown. Put fried fish on paper towels.
Heat up oil on a frying pan. Cut an onion into stripes or leave rings and fry.
Add full glass of pineapple juice and bring to boiling. Add 1 teaspoon of curry spice and mix.
Squeeze out half of a lemon to get lemon juice. Mix it with 1 tablespoon of corn flour. Mix with 2 tablespoons of boiling sauce. Pour into the frying pan.
Boil app. 2 mins.
Add a pinch of sugar. Add 4 tablespoons of pineapple dices.
Put fish into the frying pan and cover in the sauce.
Serve with rice.

Fruit in Chocolate

2010-10-03T22:36:00.004+02:00

Ingredients:

grapes
2 bananas
1 kiwi
¼ of pineapple
300 g of dark chocolate

Wash and peal fruit.
Cut bananas, kiwi and pineapple into pieces.
Dissolve chocolate in a vapour bath.
Put some tinfoil on a cooking board.
Put fruit on a toothpick or thin wooden stick and cover in chocolate.
Put fruit on prepared board and wait until they cool down.
Put board into a fridge.

Green Curry With Mussels

2010-09-26T20:14:00.002+02:00

Ingredients:

app. 2 tablespoons (or more accordingly to preferences) of green curry paste (see recipe on this blog for directions how to prepare)
5-6 mussels
18% cream
salt
rice

Boil rice.
Clean mussels from a seaweed. Make sure it doesn`t contain any.
Pour 3 cm of water into one pan and prepare smaller bowl that fit the bigger pan. Boil water in a bigger pan and put smaller bowl on the pan.
Boil mussels in a vapour bath for app. 2-3 mins.
Heat cream. Don`t overheat or boil - it will set!
Add green curry paste into the cream and mix well.
Add mussels into the green curry sauce and mix.
Serve with rice.

Green Curry Paste

2010-09-26T19:52:00.002+02:00

Ingredients:

1/2 teaspoon of cumin
1/2 teaspoon of coriander
1/2 teaspoon of white pepper
4-5 cloves of garlic
1 thumb-size piece of ginger
1 stalk of lemongrass
1 shallot
1-3 green chilies
1 bunch of fresh coriander
1 tablespoon of soya sauce
1 teaspoon of shrimp paste
2 tablespoons of lime juice
3-4 tablespoons of coconut milk
1 teaspoon of sugar

1.    Ground cumin and coriander. Slice all other ingredients.
2.    Put all ingredients in a food processor (or bowl and use blender).
3.    Blend well to get a green curry paste.

Spaghetti with spinach

2010-09-12T21:17:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

app. 200g spinach
250 g spaghetti pasta
cheese
salt, pepper
1/2 teaspoon of thyme
1-2 cloves of garlic
cream (250 ml)
oil

Boil spaghetti pasta.
Grate cheese.
Chop finely spinach and fry it a little bit on oil on a frying pan.
Sprinkle with salt, pepper and thyme. Squash garlic and add it on the pan.
Add cream into the pan gradually and mix with spinach.
Put pasta and cheese into the spinach and mix well.

Vacation on Cooking Fans

2010-08-10T15:03:00.002+02:00

Sorry for not posting new recipes but I have vacation and I`m renovating my flat and moving in. Lot`s, loooot`s of work =). New delicious recipes soon.

Tortilla pancake

2010-07-04T21:59:00.002+02:00

Ingredients (for 2 tortillas):

3 spoons of flour
3 spoons of corn flour
app. ¾ glass of milk
1 egg
salt
oil

Put egg, flour, milk into a bowl and mix well.
Add pinch of salt.
It should be almost as much dense like normal pancake. Maybe a little thicker.
Fry on oil on small fire

Green Curry Banana Bread

2010-06-13T23:12:00.002+02:00

Ingredients:

2 large bananas
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon green curry paste
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

1. Heat oven to 160 C degrees (325˚F).
2. Blend together bananas, eggs, oil, buttermilk and green curry paste.
3. Mix sugar, flour and baking powder. Add to banana mixture and mix. Do not over mix.
4. Pour into a loaf pan and bake app. 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Veal Marengo

2010-06-06T17:47:00.005+02:00

Ingredients:

0,5 kg veal spatula
2 tablespoons of tomato puree
2 tablespoons of flour
3 onions shallot onion
1 big carrot
½ glass of white dry wine
½ glass of water
1 bunch thyme (or dried)
olive oil
sunflower oil
1 tablespoons of butter
1 bay leaf
salt, pepper

Clean meat and beat with wooden hammer. Dice meat in to 1 cm dices.
Sprinkle the meat with salt and pepper.
Pour olive and sunflower oil into a frying pan. When they get hot add butter and wait until it starts foaming.
Put the meat into the frying pan. Fry each side until it turns gold.
Dice carrot and onion and add into the pan.
Sprinkle with flour to make sauce denser. Add tomato puree, thyme and mix.
Pour wine and water. Bring to boil and stew in a pressure cooker app. 20 min. or in a normal pan for app. 50 min. or longer. Use a special pad so it won`t burn. Mix and check if meat is soft occasionally. Add water if necessary.
Serve with rice.

Carrot soup

2010-05-30T17:43:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

1 onion
500 g grated carrots
1 bunch of coriander
grated orange peel
juice from 1 orange
salt, sugar, cumin
toast bread
sweet paprika
oil

Chop onion and fry on a frying pan on oil.
Add grated carrots and fry for 5 mins.
Put into a bigger pan. Pour 600 ml (app. half a litre) of water. Add all, tied bunch of coriander and the orange peel. Cover and boil for 15 mins.
Cool the pan in a sink with cold water. Take the coriander out from the pan. Pour orange juice. Blend and boil again.
Add salt, sugar and cumin accordingly to your taste.
Serve in bowls with coriander.
Alternative serving with toasts with paprika.

Mussels with lemon grass and ginger

2010-05-25T23:58:00.000+02:00

Ingredients:

1 lemon grass
10 mussels
2 tea spoons of finely grated ginger
soya sauce
half of lime

Clean mussels from a seaweed. Make sure it doesn`t contain any.
Mussels will be boiled on vapour. Pour 3 cm of water into one pan and prepare smaller bowl that fit the bigger pan.
Pour a little soya sauce into the bowl. (1 tea spoon per mussel, so the sauce covers a bottom of bowl).
Cut lemon grass into smaller pieces. Put the grass and ginger into the bowl. Put mussels on it.
Bring water in a bigger pan to boil and put smaller bowl into the pan. Boil on big fire for app. 2 mins.
Serve with lime juice.

Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu

2010-05-15T13:58:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

2 chicken breast filets
salt and pepper
4 slices of ham
4 slices of Swiss cheese
1 beaten egg
1 cup of bread crumbs
4 spoons of butter

Pound the chicken breasts with a wooden meat hammer.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Put a slice of cheese and ham on each piece of breast.
Roll up the chicken tightly. Tie up each roll with thread.
Cover rolls in the beaten egg and then in the bread crumbs.
Top each roll with 1 tablespoon of butter.
Bake in a baking pan at 180°C (356°F) for app. 35 mins.
Serve with the sauce.

Chicken Cordon Bleu Sauce

2 shallots
2 spoons of butter
1/2 cup whipping cream

Put the butter in a small saucepan and melt on low fire.
Chop the shallots finely. Put into the butter and cook for 7 mins.
Add the cream mix and warm. (watch out not to boil it).

Bon appetit!

Vietnamese Chicken

2010-05-08T15:53:00.002+02:00

Ingredients:

2 chicken breast fillets
4 cloves of garlic
1 big onion
2 paprika (yellow and red)
5-6 champignons
mushroom soya sauce
salt, pepper, curry, sweet paprika powder
half of lemon
oil
rice

Dice chicken (small dices) and put into a bowl. Squeeze out half of a lemon and pour juice on the chicken. Pour soya sauce and mix. Put the bowl into fridge for at least half an hour.
Chop paprika, champignons and onion.
Pour oil on deeper frying pan or on wok. Put chopped onion and fry.
Add chicken, vegetable and spices. Fry on medium fire 10-15 mins until part of liquid vapours and meat isn`t raw.
Add finely chopped garlic. If it occurs that we put too much soya sauce you can naturalize taste with a little amount of milk.
Serve with rice.

Bon appetit!

Coconut dessert

2010-04-30T19:05:00.003+02:00

Ingredients:

1 coconut
1 package of cream flavour pudding (In Poland a kind of dessert made from milk and starch)
1 package of cream (special cream for whipping)
half a litre of milk
sugar

Wash coconut and put it into a bowl and leave it in an oven in 210 Celsius degrees for app. 5 mins. It should crack so you can open it.
Take out coconut pulp and juice. Leave some crust for decoration.
Dice coconut and blend it (watch out not to damage your blender). You can also grate it into small pieces.
Boil 1,5 glass of milk in a small pan. Mix pudding powder and 1-2 tea spoons of sugar with the rest of milk. Add coconut juice. Pour into the pan and boil until it gets thicker.
Mix coconut pieces with the pudding.
Make sure whipping cream is cold. Put bowl in which you will whip it into fridge for 5 mins. Add sugar into cream and whip it well so it sticks to bowl.
Put the pudding with coconut into glasses. Decorate with whipped cream.

Bon appetit!

Sirloin Steak Chateaubriand

2010-04-26T17:29:00.000+02:00

From François-René de Chateaubriand`s surname. It`s classic sirloin steak. It`s cut from the middle loin (beef).

Ingredients:

0,5 kg beef loin
freshly ground black pepper
salt
oil

Béarnaise sauce:

5-6 shallot onions
3 spoons of wine vinegar
5 spoons of dry white wine
pinch of tarragon
4 yolks
250 g butter
1 tea spoon of lemon juice
white pepper
salt

Prepare the sauce first. Chop onions finely and boil in a small saucepan with vinegar, wine and tarragon app. 5 mins. until the volume of liquid diminish to 2/3.
Strain the onion and pour the liquid into a saucepan again. Put the saucepan into bigger pan with boiling water (water bath). Add yolks gradually and whisk it so it won`t boil. Add butter gradually and whisk until sauce get denser. Add salt, white pepper and lemon juice. Keep worm until serving.
Wash a loin, clean, dry and slice into quite thick slices. Fry on grill frying pan, on oil app. 5 min each side. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Serve with the Béarnaise sauce.

Bon appetit!

Chicken salad

2010-04-18T18:01:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

1 can of corn
1 can of pineapple
1 chicken’s breast
app. 130g of mayonnaise
salt, pepper

Wash and boil chicken`s breast in water for app. 50 mins.
When boiled and cool slice into small pieces. (You can separate meat manually).
Mix meat with corn and pineapple.
Add mayonnaise and mix.
Add salt and pepper and mix.

Bon appetit!

Chicken pieces with spices

2010-04-10T17:46:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

2 chicken breast fillets (1 breast)
salt, pepper
½ tea spoon of sweet paprika
½-1 tea spoon of curry
½ tea spoon ginger-garlic paste
flour
3 eggs
bread crumbles
oil

Wash chicken fillets and dice into small dices.
Sprinkle with salt and black pepper.
Add ginger-garlic paste and mix. (You can use garlic and ginger separately).
Sprinkle with paprika and curry and mix (you can add pinch of chilli). (For big portion use little bit more spices).
Cover each piece of meat consecutively in flour, egg and bread crumbles.
Fry on hot oil on a frying pan on low fire.
Serve with sauce/dressing.

Bon appetit!

Lasagne

2010-04-03T18:29:00.000+02:00

Ingredients:

9 pieces of lasagne pasta (slices)
500g minced meat (the best one is pork and calf)
1 onion
tomatoes in can
4 champignons
1 red paprika
60 ml (1/4 glass) Cabernet Sauvignon dry
1 spoon basil, 1 tea spoon oregano, 1/3 tea spoon sweet paprika
salt, pepper
1 calve of garlic
cheese
50g butter
3 spoons of flour
1 glass of milk
3 spoons oil

Make Béchamel sauce:
1.    Dissolve butter in a small pan.
2.    When the butter is liquid add slowly flour (mix all the time), it should get thicker.
3.    Add milk and mix well at the end.

1.    Blanch pasta (put slices into boiled, hot water for few mins.)
2.    Dice onion, and paprika, slice champignons.
3.    Make sauce similar like Bolognese: fry onion on oil. Add minced meat and fry a little app. - 5 mins. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour wine and boil meat for next 2-3 mins. Add tomatoes into frying pan and cut them into smaller pieces. Add herbs and garlic.
4.    Put champignons and paprika into sauce. Mix and simmer for 5 mins.
5.    Spread a little Béchamel sauce on a bottom of ovenproof dish and put layers. First put pasta slices on the bottom, cover them with Béchamel sauce, put meat sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese. And again: pasta, Béchamel, meat sauce and cheese. Put pasta at the end, spread some Béchamel on it and sprinkle with grated cheese. (3 layers of pasta and 2 layers of meat).
6.    Bake in an oven in 180 Celsius degrees for app. 30 mins. Check if the pasta slices are soft.

Bon appetit!

Muffins with chocolate

2010-03-28T15:04:00.005+02:00

Ingredients (For app. 12 muffins):

2 glasses of flour1 spoon of baking powder
3-4 spoons of sugar
pinch of salt
1-2 eggs
1 glass of milk
1/3 glass of oil
dessert chocolate

1.    Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
2.    Mix milk, eggs and oil in another bowl.
3.    Chop a chocolate into small pieces. Add into the liquid ingredients.
4.    Pour liquid ingredients into the dry ones and mix. Not too well so they won’t be to sticky and wet.
5.    Put mixture into paper forms to 2/3 of their height.
6.    Bake in an oven in 200 Celsius degrees for app. 20 min. Check with wooden stick. When the wooden stick comes out from cake and is clean it’s ready.
7.    Leave until they cool down.

Bon appetit!

Chicken with white wine and mustard

2010-03-20T16:05:00.004+01:00

Ingredients:

300 g pasta (Penne or Fusilli)
250 ml cream 30%
200 g 2 chicken breast fillets
1 onion
1 spoon of French mustard
1/3 of glass of white wine (Chardonnay)
1 spoon of butter
1 tea spoon of marjoram, ½ tea spoon thyme and rosemary
salt, pepper
oil

1. Dice chicken and onion.
2. Boil pasta 13-14 min. with tea spoon of salt. When it`s ready temper with cold water.
3. Heat oil. Fry chicken on a frying pan. Add chopped onion and pour wine. When it starts boiling sprinkle with salt, freshly ground pepper and herbs. Mix.
4. Pour cream into pan (into chicken). Boil on low fire for app. 2-3 min., mix all the time. Not too long so the cream won`t curdle.
5. Take sauce from fire. Add mustard and mix.
6. Serve pasta with the sauce. You can garnish with parsley leaf.

Bon appetit!

Chicken Nasi Goreng

2010-03-13T18:17:00.004+01:00

Ingredients:

2 bags of basmati rice
2 chicken breast fillets
3-4 eggs
100 g cocktail shrimp
½ green, ½ red, ½ yellow paprika
1 green hot chilli (green bird’s-eye)
1 big onion
2 tea spoons of cumin
2 coriander seeds powder
2-3 cloves of garlic
2 tea spoons of oyster sauce
2 tea spoons of soya sauce
1/2 lemon
1 tea spoon of sesame oil
oil

1. Boil rice. When the rice is ready temper it by pouring cold water over it.
2. Put chicken`s breast into a pan and boil in water with lemon juice for app. 20 mins.
3. Prepare vegetable. Sice paprika into thin stripes, dice onion well into small dices. Remove seeds from chilli and chop it.
4. Take the chicken breast out of water. Temper it by pouring cold water over it. It should be uncooked inside. Cut chicken into thin slices.
5. Put eggs into a bowl and mix well.
6. Heat an oil in a wok (or alternatively frying pan) very well. Fry following ingredients shortly but intensively. First fry onion. Mix all the time. Add paprika. Then add garlic (squeeze it into the wok). Add the chicken and shrimp. Add eggs and mix everything.
7. Sprinkle with cumin and coriander.
8. Put rice into wok (or if you use frying pan put everything into the pan with rice.) mix well.
9. Add soya sauce, oyster sauce and sesame oil. Add chilli and mix.

Bon appetit!

Calamari stuffed with nuts and raisins in tomato sauce

2010-03-07T18:17:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

20 cleared and gutted calamari (or calamari rings)
4 slices of toast bread
6 tomatoes (can be canned)
1 onion
80 g nuts
80 g raisins
80g sliced ham
80g bacon
small bunch of parsley
3 tea spoons of marjoram
salt, pepper
oil
1 glass of milk

1. Remove a crust from a toast bread and put slices into milk and let it soak.
2. Remove a peel from tomatoes (if you don’t use caned tomatoes).
3. Dice tomatoes into small dices. Put into a bowl 2 of them. Keep the rest.
4. Dice onion into very small dices.
5. Dice bacon and ham the same.
6. Crush nuts and chop raisins into small pieces.
7. Drain off slices of brad.
8. Chop parsley.
9. Put all these ingredients into the bowl. Mix well. Sprinkle with salt and freshly ground pepper. Mix again.
10. Rinse calamari and dry well.
11. Put the stuffing into each calamari.

12. Take the rest of tomatoes and fry them in a frying pan.
13. Add half a glass of water, ¼ of glass of Chardonnay dry and some more nuts and raisins into the frying pan and mix.
14. Sprinkle with marjoram, salt and freshly ground pepper and simmer the sauce for app. 15 mins.
15.When the sauce is ready put calamari into it and simmer for 4-5 mins. Don`t exceed this time because than they will became ‘rubber’.
16. Serve with the sauce and basmati rice. You can decorate the rice with caviar.

You can also use calamari rings, but than you need to put the stuffing into rings and put each ring into flour, egg and breadcrumbs and fry in hot oil also 4-5 mins. Serve with sauce.

Bon appetit!

Chocolate cake

2010-02-28T16:20:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

150g margarine
100g sugar (half of glass)
5 eggs
150g dark chocolate
salt
baking powder – half of small tea spoon
200g ground almonds
2 spoons of corn starch or potato flour
1 spoon of flour
2 spoons of vodka

1. Dice margarine, put yolks, sugar and vodka. Mix into uniform mass with a mixer.
2. Dissolve dark chocolate in ‘water bath’ (Put metal bowl on a pan with boiling water. Put pieces of chocolate in the bowl and it will dissolve. Keep low fire.)
3. Mix 1) with 2) with a mixer.
4. Put ground almonds, flour and corn starch or potato flour into chocolate mass (3) and mix with mixer.
5. Whisk egg whites with pinch of salt and baking powder. At the end add 2-3 spoons of sugar.
6. Add egg whites foam into chocolate mass and mix with a spoon.
7. Bake 50-60 mins. in 180 Celsius degrees in spring form (pan). Spread margarine on the springform and sprinkle with bread crumbles before baking.

Bon appetit!

Ráchal Cigányosan Gypsy-Style Serbian Fish

2010-02-27T18:52:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

2 big carp or catfish fillets
2 to 3 spoonfuls of oil
250 g smoked bacon
1.5 kg potatoes
2 sliced onions
5 to 6 spoons lecsó
paprika, pepper, salt
1 cup of cream (optional)

1. Boil the potatoes (not too long since they will be baked later).
2. Clean and cut the fish....
3. Grease the pan with oil.
4. Slice potatoes and put them in the pan.
5. Put the fish on potatoes and sprinkle with with salt, pepper and paprika
6. Put onions on the fish and top with thin slices of bacon.
7. Pour lecsó on the top layer.
8. Pour cream on top if you want.
9. Bake in oven in 180 Celsius degrees for app. 30 mins.

Bon appetit!

Cottage cheese with salmon and caviar

2010-02-26T17:46:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

1 red onion
100g chopped salmon
100g cottage/curd/cream cheese
100g red or black caviar
chopped dill
pepper
vinegar

Cut onion into halves and separate layers. Put the separated layers into boiled water with little vinegar for 2 mins and after that dry them. Mix a cottage cheese with a salmon and put in onion`s layers. Decorate with caviar and dill. Sprinkle with freshly ground pepper. Serve chilled.

Bon appetit!

Tortilla with chicken

2010-02-25T17:52:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

1 package of tortilla pancakes (You can use ready tortilla pancakes from a shop) =)
2 chicken fillets (breast)
red, green, yellow paprika
caned beans
caned corn
salt, pepper, sweet paprika powder
1 dice of garlic (like a consommé dice)
oil

Sauce:

200 ml (2/3 of a glass) of cram 12-18% or natural... yoghurt
3-4 garlic cloves
3 spoons of mayonnaise
salt, pepper

Sauce:
1. Put cream or yoghurt into a bowl.
2. Crush cloves of garlic with a garlic squeezer and add into the cream.
3. Add mayonnaise and mix.
4. Add pinch of salt and pepper.

1. Wash chicken fillets and cut into small dices.
2. Sprinkle meat with salt, pepper and sweet paprika powder and fry on hot oil.
3. Dice paprika and add into a frying pan when chicken is already white.
4. Put beans and corn (app. 2/3 of a can) into the frying pan.
5. Sprinkle with 1 dice of garlic spice. Mix well, cover and simmer app. 10 mins.
6. Put chicken with vegetable into the tortilla pancakes, pour some sauce into it and roll.

Bon appetit!

Chicken with pineapple and mandarin orange

2010-02-24T20:43:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:

2 chicken fillets (1 breast)
2,5 glasses of water
1 dice of chicken consommé (bouillon)
1 can of a pineapple (app.600 g)
¾ of can of mandarin orange (app. 300 g)
2 teaspoons of curry powder
½ glass of cream 18% fat
salt, sugar

1. Dissolve consommé dice in water and boil all chicken fillets in it for 15 mins.
2. Take the chicken out of water and cool it. Keep bouillon.
3. Dice the chicken.
4. Put curry, pineapple juice (from the can) and diced chicken into 1 glass of bouillon. Cook for 3-4 mins on a low fire.
5. Cut pineapple and put with mandarin into the chicken. Pour ½ glass of cream and mix.
6. Cook for 1 min.
7. Add salt and sugar if necessary.
Serve with rice.

Bon appetit!

Shrimp Curry

2010-02-23T17:55:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

600g tiger shrimp
2 tablespoons of ghee (or butter)
1 tablespoon of a white mustard seeds
2 onions
6 cloves of garlic
a ginger root app. 25g (you can use 1 big spoon of a ginger–garlic paste instead of garlic and ginger separately)
coriander powder 1 teaspoon
cumin seeds 1 teaspoon
turmeric 1 teaspoon
half of red chilli paprika
4 medium tomatoes
150 ml coconut cream (or milk)
salt

1. Remove a shell, legs and a head from the shrimp and remove an intestine (on the back).
(You can also buy cleared and cooked shrimp).
2. Dissolve ghee in a bowl, add white mustard seeds and cumin wait till seed start splutter.
3. Cut onions finely and fry on the hot ghee or butter.
4. Mix onion and ginger with blender (or use ginger-garlic paste), add into the onion and fry little bit more.
5. Add coriander, turmeric and chilli. Pour 150 ml (3/5 of a glass) of water. Mix well and simmer.
6. Cut tomatoes into small dices (or use tomatoes from a can) and put into the frying pan. Fry 5 mins.
6. Add the coconut cream, mix and boil for another 2 mins on low fire.
7. Sift everything through a sieve. Boil for 2 mins.
8. Add salt.
9. Put the shrimp into sauce and boil for a while (not too long cause they will become hard)

Bon appétit!

Snails in butter

2010-02-22T20:44:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

app. 25 snails in a can
150 g butter
3-5 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of Dijon mustard
1 chopped parsley (app. 1 spoon)
2 tablespoons of ground almonds withoun peel
salt, pepper

shells for baking snails – you can buy in special shops or in an online shop

1. Heat an oven to 180 Celcius degrees - 356 Fahrenheit degrees.
2. Crush garlic, grind almonds.
3. Mix butter with garlic, almonds powder, mustard and parsley.
4. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
5. Put the butter into each shell, put snails into the shells and add a little more butter into each shell. Bake for app. 10 mins. Serve with baguette or bread.

Bon appetit!

Kashmir Curry

2010-02-21T15:03:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

1,2 kg minced mutton (you can use minced beef instead)
150g chickpea (Cicer arietinum) (also garbanzo bean, Indian pea, ceci bean, bengal gram, Kabuli chana, konda kadalai, kadale kaalu, sanaga pappu, shimbra, Kadala) flour (you can use normal flour instead)
4 spoons of garam masala
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 stick or app. 1 spoon of cinnamon
10 cardamom seeds
3 bay leaves
10 cloves
1 spoon of galic-ginger paste (fifty-fifty ginger + garlic mix with blender and add little oil)
1 beef consommé
½ glass of oil
salt, pepper
200 ml natural yoghurt
several twigs of coriander

1. Knead mutton meat with flour
2. Add 4 spoons of garam masala and half of yoghurt. Mix well.
3. Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper and mix.
4. Shape meat pieces (cylinders) with wet hands
5. Dissolve consommé in 2 glasses of boiling water
6. Mash cinnamon, cardamom (without peel), bay leaves, cloves, chilli in a mortar or with mill
7. Pour oil into frying pan and add mashed spices. Fry app. 2 mins.
8. Put meat balls into oil and fry app. 3 mins. each side.
9. Put ginger-garlic paste into frying pan.
10. Fry another 2 mins. Next add yoghurt and half of consommé.
11. Simmer on low fire 15 mins. Serve with coriander.

Bon appetit!

Gulash with lemon, apple and coriander

2010-02-20T11:44:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

800 g pork loin (or other meat if you find it suitable)
1 consommé olive oil and herbs
1 spice minidice Garlic
2 large boiled potatoes (puree)
1 tea spoon of sugar
oil
1 bunch of chopped coriander
1 diced lemon in marinade (add 1 kg of sugar to 1 liter of water and boil lemon until it`s soft, app. 10 mins.)
2 celeries cut in columns
1 green apple grated with peel
1 red onion (cut in small dices)
salt, pepper

1. Consommé olive oil and herbs dissolve in 1 litre of water. Mix and boil for 1 min.
2. Put celeries into consommé. Boil for 10 mins. Watch out not to overcook it!
3. Heat oil in frying pan and put onion. Fry for a while.
4. Cut pork loin into dices and put on the pan with onion. Fry app. 10 mins. Mix systematically.
5. Put potato puree and grated apple into one bowl. Mix together.
6. Put lemon and sugar from marinade into pan with pork loin.
7. When celery is ready strain it and put into meat. Mix well.
8. Add 1 spice minidice Garlic and mix.
9. Add salt and pepper.
10. Add half of coriander. Mix well.
11. Put potato puree on a plate and top with goulash.
12. Decorate with the rest of coriander.

Bon appetit!

Kiwi dessert

2010-02-18T20:43:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

6 fully grown kiwis
100g dark chocolate
100g maskarpone cheese
1 package of cream (special cream for whipping)
sugar 1 teaspoon
caramel sauce or honey

The best way of serving is in the transparent glasses so you can see layers.

1. Cut kiwi in halfs and take pulp with teaspoon. Put it in a bowl and mix with a blender.
2. Mix all kiwis and put them for a while to fridge.
3. Dissolve dark chocolate in ‘water bath’ (Put metal bowl or lid on a pan with boiling water. Put pieces of chocolate in the bowl/lid and it will dissolve. Keep low fire.)
4. Add sugar into cream and whip cream well so it sticks to bowl.
5. Put maskarpone into small bowl and mix with 2 spoons of whipped cream.
6. Put maskarpone into glass, next kiwi puree and the top layer – whipped cream.
7. Decorate dessert with caramel souce or honey and dissolved chocolate.

Bon appetit!

Chicken curry with mozzarella and tomatoes

2010-02-17T21:40:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

5 tomatoes or caned tomatoes
1-2 onions
2 chicken breast fillets (1 breast)
50-100g mozzarella
1 clove of garlic
salt, pepper, sugar
oil
basil, rosemary, curry
rice

1. Blanch tomatoes with boiled water, remove a peel or take caned tomatoes. Heat an oil on a frying pan and fry thickly diced onion. Add tomatoes, crush garlic into the pan. Sprinkle with 2 teaspoons of rosemary, 1 spoon of basil, pepper, pinch of salt and sugar. Simmer app 20 mins.
2. Dice chicken and fry separately.
3. Boil rice with app. 1 heaped teaspoon of curry.
4. Mix sauce and chicken. Add diced mozzarella and heat on low fire so mozzarella dissolves.

Bon appetit!

Manna From Heaven

2010-02-16T23:18:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:

milk - app. half a litre
semolina - app. one teaspoon per 100 ml (half a glass) of milk
sugar - 2-3 teaspoons
cocoa powder - 1 tsp
Baileys/ chocolate liqueur
whipped cream
caramel sauce

Heat milk in a saucepan. Mix cocoa powder with little amount of water in a glass (carefully so there are no lumps). Pour some milk from the pen into the glass and mix well with cocoa. Pour it back into the pen. Add sugar and mix together. Now sprinkle semolina into milk while mixing it all the time so there are no lumps (one teaspoon per 100 ml of milk). Be aware not to add too much, because it will be too dense. It should be liquid since it becomes more dense when it gets colder. Boil 3-5 mins. Pour it into bowls and let get colder. Pour some Baileys/chocolate liqueur over it and decorate with whipped cream and caramel sauce.
Tip: You can use 1-2 tsp`s of cinnamon instead of cocoa, and coconut milk instead of liqueur.

Bon appetit!

Aloo Mutter (Potatoes and Peas curry) - a famous Hindu dish

2010-02-13T12:48:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

6 potates (cut into dices)
1 cup green peas
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 medium onions (finely chopped)
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste (you can make it yourself - half garlic and half ginger mix with blender)
2 dried bay leaf
2 tsp Cumin seeds
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp papryka powder
1 large tomato (chopped)
2 green chillies (chopped)
1/4 cup coriander leaves (chopped)
salt (to taste)
water

Heat oil in a pan, till it is completely hot. Add 1-2 cumin seeds to check if they splutter. If the seeds splutter, add the rest of the seeds to the oil, along with the bay leaves. Wait, till the seeds turn brown in color. Lower the fire, and add the finely chopped onions. Saute the onions, till they turn brown. When the onions start to turn brown, add ginger garlic paste and green chillies, and continue to saute for 5 mins. Ensure, that the onions don't burn in the process. Once the onions are brown,add the potatoes into the mixture, and mix well. Add the turmeric to the mixture, and a pinch of salt, and mix well. Splutter, about 3-4 spoons of water to the mixture, and cover it with a lid.

Allow the potatoes to be cooked for about 5-7 mins, while checking and churning in between, to prevent the potatoes from burning, or sticking to the pan. Then add the green peas to the mixture, and cover it again. Allow further 5 mins, while checking the potatoes, if the are cooked completely.

Once the potatoes are ready, remove the cover. Add Coriander powder, cumin powder and papryka powder and mix well for 2-3 mins. Then add garam masala powder, and tomatoes, and continue to mix for 3-4 mins. Now add 2-3 cups of water, just to create a consistent gravy. Make sure, not to add too much water. Allow the water to sizzle for 3-4 mins. Now add salt to taste.
Serve with rice or bread. Garnish with coriander leaves. Try adding cardamon powder, cloves, frozen peas and carrot into rice while boiling.

Bon appetit!

Eggplant with stuffing

2010-02-12T18:59:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

2 small eggplants
1 tomato
1 onion
1 paprika
100g minced meat (pork and calf)
100g grated cheese
salt, pepper, basil, sugar
oil

Fry finely diced onion on an oil on a frying pan. Add and cook meat when the onion is ready.
Dice paprika and tomato, put into the meat and simmer app. 5-10 mins. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, add basil and small pinch of sugar if you want. You can add little dry red wine.
Wash an eggplant and cut in half (along it), remove a pulp – you can add a little into stuffing. Sprinkle the eggplant with salt to remove bitter taste. Remove eggplant’s juice with paper when it appears on surface. Put the stuffing into the eggplant. Bake in 180 Celsius degrees app. 30 mins.

Bon appetit!

French cake with tuna salad

2010-02-11T18:19:00.000+01:00

Ingredients:

French cake (frozen from shop)

tuna salad:

tuna
1 red paprika
1 can of corn
mayonnaise app. 2 spoons
pepper
salt

Dice paprika. Mix tuna, paprika and corn in a bowl. Add mayonnaise and spices.
Cut French cake into app. 10x10 cm squares and bake according to directions on package (without salad!!!). You can make different shapes of cake like on examples on attached photos. Put salad into baked cake app. 2-3 spoons.

Bon appétit!

Onion Pizza

2010-02-10T18:28:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:

flour
water
yeast
salt
onion

dough:
Mix yeast with water (app. half a glass). Add and mix a little salt with flour. Pour gradually water with yeast into flour and mix.

The same like pizza but use only onion.

Bon apetit!

Grilled chicken with lime and coriander

2010-02-09T17:32:00.006+01:00

(you can use frying pan)

Ingredients:

1 chicken breast (2 fillets)

marinade:

1 lime juice and grated limo peel
2 teaspoons of grated ginger
4 spoons of chopped coriander
2-3 spoons of oil
1 diced eggplant
1 diced zucchini4 champignons
garlic

1. Mix lime juice with ginger, coriander and limo peel. Add oil and mix to get a marinde. Cut chicken breast into slices and pour it with the marinade. Leave it for at least 15 mins.
2. Mix eggplant, zucchini and champignons in a bowl. Add 2 spoons of oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper.
3. Fry vegetable on a frying pen or a barbacue.
4. Put vegetable on a plate and fry chicken on the same pan (or barbacue).
5. Add one garlic clove into the rest of marinade (you get nice sauce).
6. Serve chicken with rice sprinkled with sesame an with grilled vegetable.

Bon appetit!

Pork loin in a cheese sauce a la` Mat

2010-02-08T19:06:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

500g pork loin or spatula
salt, pepper
app. half a glass of flour
oil
1/4 of glass of a leek
60 ml (1/4 glass) Chardonnay dry
1 cube vegetable consommé
1 spoon oregano
2 small spoons rosemary
150g processed cheese3 champignons

Add sufficient pinch of salt and pepper to pork loin. Cover slightly in flour both sides and fry in oil (app. 3 min each side). Dissolve consommé cube in one glass of boiling water. Add some (not too much) sliced leek into the consommé and boil 2 mins. Pour Chardonnay into the meat and fry a little. Pour the consommé into the meat. Add oregano and rosemary. Cover and stew for 35 mins. (At the end) put cheese into a glass, dissolve in a small amount of water or consommé and pour into the pan. Serve with a purée (mashed potatoes with a nutmeg powder and small amount of milk or water).

Bon appetit!

Home-made Pizza Farmezano

2010-02-08T18:38:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

dough:

flour
water
yeast
salt

1 red paprika
3 champignons
few slices of ham
1 onion
cheese
tomato purée
oregano

dough:
Mix yeast with water (app. half a glass). Add and mix a little salt with flour. Pour gradually water with yeast into flour and mix.

Put dough into baking tin (it shouldn`t be too thick). Mix a little tomato purée with app. 2 tea spoons of oregano and cover the dough. Put grated cheese on the dough add the vegetable and ham. Sprinkle with some oregano. Bake in 180 Celsius degrees for app. 25 mins.

Bon appetit!

Chicken confit - with ginger, coriander and caraway

2010-02-06T10:13:00.001+01:00

Ingredients

2 big onions
1 clove of garlic
100 g grated ginger
1 spoon of caraway seeds
1 bunch of fresh coriander
2 chicken breasts
1 lime
oil

1. Cut onions, put into food processor or use mixer. Add garlic, ginger, caraway and mix into pulp.
2. Put it into a bowl and flatten on a bottom with spoon. Add chopped coriander.
3. Spice the meat with salt, pepper and sprinkle with grated limo peel.
4. Squeeze the limo on meat.
5. Put meat into the bowl with the pulp and pour app. 1 glass of oil, and half litre of water. Cover and boil on small fire for 30 mins.

Bon appetit!

Pasta with chicken

2010-01-31T19:29:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

250g chicken breast
350g pasta (Penne or Fusilli)
400ml cream 18% fat (can be less) or yoghurt
1 paprika
4 champignons
1 courgette (zucchini)
90g basil pesto
oil

Sauce
Dice chicken into small pieces. Fry on oil app. 5 mins. Slice vegetable and put into frying pen. Stew for app. 15 mins. Boil pasta. Heat cream a little bit but not too much so it won`t set. Add pesto into the cream and mix. When the chicken with vegetable is ready mix with cream.
Put some sauce on pasa and that`s it!

Bon apetit!

Chinese vegetable

2010-01-27T19:59:00.003+01:00

Ingredients:

frozen Chinese vegetable
250g chicken breast
pepper, salt
a little soya sauce
ginger, curry, why don’t you experiment? =)

Fry chicken and next vegetable. Mix everything, add spices and stew a little and that’s it.
You can make it without chicken and it will be also delicious.

Bon Appetit!

Omelette a la Matt

2010-01-23T16:29:00.002+01:00

Ingredients:

app. 6 heaped spoons of flour
1 egg
app.1 glass of milk
salt
oil
blackcurrant/raspberries jam or peaches in can or Nutella

Add a pinch of salt to egg white and mix it to get foam. You use it later.
Put 6 heaped spoons of flour, the yolk and pour the milk (gradually) into a bowl. Mix together.
Add more milk if it’s too thick. Add the foam at the end and mix slowly.
SECRET – It mustn`t be thin, it should be thick but not too much. The best way to check it is to tilt bowl app. 75 degrees (almost horizontally) and check if it`s pouring. It should pour slowly. In this recipe technique of frying is the most important. Pour the mix on frying pen and cook on the smallest fire for. app.10 minutes until it`s set (nor liquid) on the surface. Turn omelette round the pan every 1 min so it`s cooked equally on all surface. When it`s set change the side. Increase fire (not too much only a little) and cook app. 2-3mins. That`s it!!

It`s best with blackcurrant or raspberries jam but you can use also peaches in can or Nutella.

Bon appetit!

Spaghetti Bolognesse

2010-01-23T16:03:00.004+01:00

Ingredients:

300g pasta spaghetti
250g minced meat (the best one is pork and calf mixed together)
1 onion,
3 champignons,
salt, pepper, 1 spoon basil
1 calve garlic
few olives
tomatoes in can
60 ml (1/4 glass) Cabernet Sauvignon
3 spoons oil
cheese

Cut onion and fry on oil. Add minced meat and fry a little app. 5 mins. Put tomatoes into frying pan and cut them into smaller pieces. Add spices, wine, olives and cut champignons. Mix everything. Stew on a small fire for app. 15 mins. Add garlic but only for last 5 mins.

Boil pasta Spaghetti app. 8 mins. When the pasta is ready drain it off, pour some cold water into it and drain again so it doesn`t stick together. Put pasta on a plate, pour some sauce over it and cover with grated cheese.

Bon apetit!

Spaghetti carbonara

2010-01-20T16:53:00.005+01:00

Ingredients:

app. half a package of Tagliatelle (ribbon-shaped) pasta
1 egg
2 onions
bacon
250g cheese
pepper
salt
1 spoon basil
oil

1. Boil pasta in a salted water so it`s ‘al dente’.
2. In the meantime, cut an onion and a bacon into stripes. Fry it on an oil. Sprinkle salt, pepper and basil on it.
3. When the pasta is ready drain it off. Add fried onion with bacon into pasta and mix together.
4. Cut cheese into small cubes. Put it into the pasta.
5. Mix egg and pour into the pasta and mix on very small fire until cheese is dissolved.

Bon apetit!

Measurements

2010-01-20T16:45:00.001+01:00

For the measurements (g, kg, litre, Celcius degrees) comparison please visit:

www.beyond.fr/food/convert.html

Royal Shrimp – shashliks

2010-01-20T16:28:00.010+01:00

Ingredients:

0,5 kg very large shrimp (royal shrimp)
1 jar of small pickled onions
2 red paprikas
Vegeta Mix for fish

Marinade:

100 ml oil
4 large cloves of garlic

Sauce:

1 red onion
4 large cloves of garlic (you can use the marinade)
4 spoons of vegetable paste (I didn`t have it and it`s delicious... even without it =) )
1/2 glass Chardonnay dry
few drops of Tabasco sauce
oil

Sauce: Fry onion with garlic and add other ingredients, stew app. 3 mins

Marinate the shrimp for app. 2 hours. Skewer shrimp on sticks. Separate shrimp with pieces of paprika and onions. Sprinkle everything with Vegeta (or other brand). You can grill it or bake it in the oven 180 Celcius degrees for app. 15 mins (not too long cause the shrimp will be too hard). Pour sauce over shashliks when they`re ready.

Bon apetit!

Cod fillet

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Ingredients:

1 lemon
a clove of garlic
1 teaspoon of paprika
1 teaspoon of caraway
1 teaspoon of estragon
700g cod fillet (without skin and fishbone)
vegetable consommé (bullion) 1 cube
100g flour
3 spoons of chopped coriander
1 chopped chilli paprika (or few drops of Tabasco sauce)

It`s a very easy recipe, but it takes time since the fish must be marinated at least one hour before cooking.
1. Prepere marinade. Pour lemon juice into a bowl, add garlic, paprika, caraway and estragon.
2. Cut fillet into stripes 3 cm wide and put into the marinade. Put it into a fridge for about one hour.
3. Boil 250 ml of water, put consommé. Mix and boil for 1 min.
4. Pour 2 spoons of oil on a frying pan and heat. Cover the prepared fish with flour and fry on quite big fire (0,5 min. each side).
5. Pour consommé into the pan, add coriander and chopped paprika chilli or Tabasco (only few drops!). Cover, diminish fire and stew for 3 mins.

Bon appetit!

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Measurements

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Royal Shrimp – shashliks

Cod fillet

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www.beyond.fr/food/convert.html