Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards
Vladimir Nabokov
Ingredients (for 2 servings): – 2 ripe avocados – 6 slices of rye bread (it is really tastier with rye bread) – 125g cream cheese (e.g., Almette) – 4 sprigs of green onions – 2 tsp of lemon juice – 1/3 tsp salt – 1/4 tsp black pepper
Method: 1 Mash avocado pulp in a bowl with salt, pepper, lemon juice and cream cheese 2 Prepare 6 triangle slices of rye bread and toast them 3 Put the avocado mixture on the toasts 4 Serve with chopped green onions and enjoy !
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Ingredients (for 2 servings): – 2 large sweet potatoes – 1 onion – 400ml water or chicken broth – 60ml cream 33% – 10 leaves fresh baby spinach for serving – 30g almond petals for serving – 1/2 tsp salt – 1/2 tsp pepper
Method: 1 Cut sweet potatoes into ~2x2x2cm pieces 2 Cut onion into ~0.5×0.5×0.5cm pieces 3 Boil sweet potatoes in chicken broth for 10 minutes (add as much chicken broth as required to cover the sweet potatoes pieces) 4 Add onion to the broth and boil for another 5 minutes, then remove the saucepan from the oven 5 Blender the soup, add salt and pepper 6 Stir in cream and serve with fresh baby spinach, almond petals and black pepper !
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Ingredients (for 2 servings): – 1 onion – 1/2 large or 1 small red paprika – 3 garlic cloves – 200 g tomato sauce with 100% tomatoes, no salt (either homemade or store-bought) – 1 teaspoon salt – 1 teaspoon sugar – 1 teaspoon vinegar – 4 eggs – 1 tablespoon olive oil – a bunch of fresh chives for serving !
Method: 1 Cut onion and paprika into small (~0.5cm) pieces and chop garlic 2 Preheat frying pan with olive oil for 0.5-1 minute 3 Put onion and paprika on the frying pan and stew for 5 minutes at medium heat 4 Add chopped garlic to onion and paprika and stew for another 1 minute 5 Add tomato sauce to other vegetables in the frying pan and stew for another 5 minutes, slightly stirring the mixture 6 Add sugar, salt and vinegar to the frying pan an mix well 7 Carefully pour eggs into the vegetables mixture: make it symmetric, it looks nice 😉 8 Let the eggs cook in the frying pan for about 10-15 minutes until the whites are firm 9 Serve Shakshouka with a pita or a piece of rye bread and enjoy it some Sunday morning !
Les paroles d’amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent le goût des lèvres dont elles sortent.
– Guy de Maupassant
Ingredients (for 2 servings): – 4 slices of whole grain rye bread (it’s way tastier with rye bread than with wheat one !) – 100g soft goat cheese – 25g dried cranberries – 1/3 cup chopped walnuts – 20g miner’s lettuce for serving
Method: 1 Put soft goat cheese on the rye bread slices 2 Put dried cranberries and chopped walnuts over the goat cheese 3 Serve with miner’s lettuce and enjoy it some Sunday morning when spring is about to come and everything is about to change … and with a nice book 😉
When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one’s ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.
Ingredients (for 2 servings): – 4 slices wholegrain bread – 2 large avocados – 50 g miner’s lettuce – salt and pepper – 1/2 tablespoon olive oil for frying eggs
Method: 1 Mash avocado with salt and pepper and put on toasts from whole grain bread 2 Cook eggs on olive oil and put on the toasts over avocado puree 3 Serve with fresh miner’s lettuce and enjoy !
“…Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight…”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight…
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Dough ingredients: – 1 cup (1cup=250ml) wheat flour – 1/4 cup warm water – 3 tbsp olive oil – 1/2 tsp salt
Filling ingredients: – 200g fresh baby spinach – 1 small onion – 1/4 cup walnuts – 3 tbsp lemon juice – 2 tsp olive oil – 1/2 tsp salt – 1/4 tsp pepper
Method: 1 Preheat the oven at 220C 2 Combine flour+salt+warm water in a bowl: knead a dough for 3-5 minutes 3 Make a filling: combine finely chopped spinach + onion + walnuts + oil + salt +pepper 4 Divide dough into 8 equal pieces and form balls out of them 5 Roll out each ball into a 8-10cm diameter circle: put 2 teaspoons of a filling in the middle of each circle 6 Lift up ends of each circle to the center to form with your fingers rhombuses-like Fatayers, like on the photo 😉 7 Put the Fatayers on a baking paper: bake for 15 minutes at 220C 8 Serve with a vegetable soup or black coffee !
“La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles”
– Gustav Flaubert
Soup ingredients (for 2 large servings): – 600g parsnips – 250g potatoes – 1 small onion – 200ml milk or 33% cream – 1 tsp salt Beetroot chips ingredients: – 1 large beetroot
Method: 1 Let’s first make beetroot chips: 1.1 Preheat the oven to 160C 1.2 Peel one beet root and cut 1mm width slices of it 1.3 Put beet root slices on a baking paper and bake them 30 minutes at 180C 2 Peel vegetables for soup, cut them at ~2cm cubes and boil 15 minutes in salty water 3 Leave 100-200ml vegetable broth with vegetables, add milk/cream and puree vegetables with milk/cream in a blender 4 Garnish the soup with root beet chips and black pepper 5 Enjoy !
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
Ingredients (for 2 servings): – 3 small avocado – 150g cream cheese (e.g., Almette cheese) – multigrain bread (at best, home-made but in any case multigrain!) – 6 cherry tomatoes – parsley/dill for serving – 1 tsp salt
Method: 1 Mash avocado pulp, cheese, black pepper and salt 2 Butter avocado-cheese mixture on multigrain bread 3 Decorate with parsley and cherry tomatoes
Далече от брегов Невы, Теперь я вижу пред собою Кавказа гордые главы. Над их вершинами крутыми, На скате каменных стремнин, Питаюсь чувствами немыми И чудной прелестью картин Природы дикой и угрюмой;
Method: 1 Wash aubergine, dry it and cut into 1cm width strips 2 Bake aubergine strips on a backing paper for 20 minutes at 180C 3 Mix in a bowl chopped garlic+chopped walnuts+cheese+chopped parsley+salt+pepper 4 Put a teaspoon of walnuts-cheese-etc. mixture on each aubergine strip and roll it [optionally in sesame] 5 Serve with cherry tomatoes and fresh parsley !
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