Archive for January, 2010

31
January

Vegetable cream

Ingredients:

500 g. green vegetables (spinach, cabbage, etc)
2 onions
250 ml. vegetable soup
1 yogurt
50 ml. sour cream
4 spoons of oil
salt and pepper
croutons (toasted bread)

How to prepare: Boil the vegetables.
Chop the onions small and fry them in oil.
Chop the boiled vegetables and add then in the pan with the onions. Let them stew a few minutes.
Mix everything with the mixer (or blender), add the yogurt, sour cream, vegetable soup, salt and pepper.
Serve with croutons.

29
January

Polenta with mushrooms

Ingredients:

200 g. cornmeal (cornflour)
750 ml de water
100 g. salted cheese
50 g. raced cheese
200 g. tomato juice
300 g. fresh mushrooms
2 cloves of garlic
2 spoons of oil
30 g. butter
salt and pepper

How to prepare: Boil the cornmeal in salted water.
After it’s done, mix it with the cheese and butter.
Spread the polenta on baking paper.

Wash the mushrooms and cut them in slices; peel the garlic (do not chop it).
Fry the mushrooms in butter with the whole garlic and some rosemary.
Let it stew a few minutes, then take out the garlic and add the tomato juice, salt and pepper.

Serve the polenta with the mushroom sauce on top.

27
January

Chocolate and coconut cake

Ingredients:

3 eggschocolate and coconut cake
100 g. sugar
250 g. flour
5 spoons of cocoa
200 ml peanut oil
one pack of yeast
some salt
5 spoons of races coconut

How to bake: Beat the eggs with sugar, add the flour, cocoa, yeast and mix well. Add some salt and 3 spoons of coconut and mix again.
Place the dough in a cake form with baking paper.
Add the rest of the coconut on top and bake the cake in the oven.
Decorate with whipped cream and/or fruit pieces.

25
January

Pancakes with cheese and spinach cream

Ingredients:

150 g. cheese creampancakes with cheese and spinach cream
100 g. spinach
100 g. tomato juice
100 g. flour
1 egg
1 yolk
250 ml. milk
peel from an orange
raced cheese
basil
butter
1 spoon of olive oil
1 spoon of oil
salt

How to prepare: Beat th egg and yolk with flour and some salt. Add the milk, the simple oil and raced orange peel. Mix well, then let the dough rest for 15 minutes.

Boil the spinach, chop it and let it cool, then mix it with the cheese cream.

Grease a pan with oil and fry the pancakes.
Fill them with the cream and fold the in half.
Place them in a tray greased with butter, add the tomato juice on top, the cheese race, basil and bake in the oven for 20  minutes.

23
January

Peasant’s pizza

Ingredients:

one pizza dough peasant's pizza
200 g. ewe cheese
200 g. cow cheese
200 ml. sour cream
2 eggs
dill
parsley
salt and pepper

How to prepare: Spread the dough and let it rest.
Mix the cheeses with the sour cream, salt and pepper, chopped dill and parsley and eggs. Pour the mixture over the pizza dough.
Bake the pizza in the oven until crisp.

21
January

Dobos cake

Ingredients:

for the dough:

7 eggsdobos
150 g sugar
100 g flour
a peak of salt
vanilla essence (or vanilla sugar)

for the cream:

4 eggs
150 g sugar
150 g chocolate
200 g butter

for the caramel:

200 g. sugar
1 spoon of water
lemon juice

How to prepare:
Dough: Separate the yolks from the whites. Beat the yolks with the sugar and vanilla. Separately, beat the whites as foam and then mix them with the yolks. Add the flour and mix well.
Take 2-3 spoons from the dough and bake the cake layers one at a time, on baking paper, on the bottom of a round cake form, for max.  5 minutes each.
Let the cake layers cool, and set the best one aside for the cake top.

Cream: Beat the eggs with the sugar, then put the mixture on fire.
Add the chocolate and let it melt. Mix until the mixture thickens.
Beat the butter until creamy, then add it in the chocolate cream and mix well.

Caramel: Put the sugar, water and lemon juice on fire. Mix continuously until the sugar melts and the mixture becomes yellowish.
Pour the caramel over the cake layer set aside earlier. Cut the cake layer in slices, as you’ll cut the cake for serving later, and let it cool (until the caramel hardens).

Now, put the cake together.
Grease the first cake layer with cream, add the second layer on top, add cream again, and so on until you reach the last cake layer. Add cream over it, then add on top the cake layer with caramel.
Keep the dobos cake in the fridge until serving.

19
January

Ladyfingers with coffee

Ingredients:

5-6 ladyfingersladyfingers with coffee
1/2 glass of rum
3 small cups of strong coffee
1 yogurt
cocoa

How to prepare: Cut the ladyfingers in half and place them in dessert bowls.
Pour the rum over them and 1 cup of coffee.
Mix the yogurt with the other 2 cups of coffee and pour it over the ladyfingers.
Sprinkle cocoa over and serve.

17
January

Peach or apricot skewers

Ingredients:

some peaches or apricotspeach or apricot skewers

powdered sugar (or vanilla sugar)

How to prepare: Wash the fruit and take the stones out. Cut them in thick slices and stick them in the skewers.
Powder with sugar and grill them until crisp.

15
January

Pizza with potatoes

Ingredients:

one pizza dough pizza with potatoes

cheese

4 spoons of olive oil

chopped rosemary

6 potatoes

salt

How to prepare: Spread the dough and let it sit.
Peel the potatoes and cut them in thin slices. Fry them in a pan with oil, rosemary and salt.
Grease the dough with 1 spoon of olive oil and place the potatoes on top. Add the cheese and bake for 20 minutes.

13
January

Stuffed onions

Ingredients:

1 kg. onionsstuffed onion
3 carrots
2 cloves of garlic|
150 g. beans
parsley
tomato juice
1/2 glass of oil
1 spoon of flour
1 spoon of caraway
salt and pepper

How to cook:
Boil the beans, then mash them. Cut the top from each onion and take out the middle, then boil them in hot water.
Peel the carrots and garlic and grate them. Chop the parsley.
Mix the carrots with the beans and parsley, garlic and tomato juice. Add salt and pepper and stuff the onions with the mixture.
Place the onions in a tray and cover them with the “lid” you cut earlier. Add  some water in the tray and bake them for 40-45 minutes.

For the sauce: Chop the middle of the onions you took out earlier. Fry it in oil and a little water. Add tomato juice in the pan and a spoon of flour and let the sauce boil until it thickens. Add the caraway, salt and pepper and some parsley.
Pour the sauce over the onions a few minutes before you take out the tray from the oven.

 
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