The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
W.S.C.
Ingredients: – 250 g tagliatelle; – 50-60 g butter; – 70 g grated Parmesan; – coffee cup of pasta broth.
Method: 1 Cook tagliatelle Al dente, spare one coffee cup of broth. 2 Melt butter in the skillet, slowly mix in grated Parmesan. Add pasta broth and cook for another minute while slowly mixing until smooth. 3 Add tagliatelle to the sauce and mix well. 4 Sprinkle with black pepper or some more grated Parmesan and serve!
“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.” ― Gustave Flaubert, November
Directions: 1 Mix minced chicken with rice, salt and black pepper. 2 De-seed red bell peppers. 3 Stuff well red bell peppers with the meat mixture. 4 Transfer the stuffed peppers to the large pot with the tops from bell peppers. Add tomato passata and water to cover the bell peppers. 5 Cook at medium heat for 40 minutes. 6 Serve with a half a soup ladle of broth
Method: 1 Cook pasta al dente in salted water; drain water 2 Pesto: combine basil leaves, cashew nuts, garlic cloves, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and mash with a blender until smooth 3 Combine pesto sauce with pasta, carefully mix and serve
Salmon ingredients (2 servings): – 200g salmon – 1 red bell pepper – 100ml cream 33% – salt to taste – 0.5 tbsp sunflower oil
Knedlíky ingredients: – 500g boiled potatoes – 150g flour – 50g wholemeal floor – 2 eggs – 1/2 tsp salt Method: 1 Salmon 1.1 Preheat 0.5 tbsp sunflower oil in the skillet 1.2 Fry salmon (fully defrosted) one side until golden 1.3 Turn the salmon over, add salt, add chopped red bell pepper – fry salmon until golden 1.4 Add cream and cook for another 3-4minutes 2 Knedlíky 2.1 Mix boiled potatoes, flour and salt: mix until smooth. 2.2 Form two sausages 5cm diameter. 2.3 Put the sausages in the boiling water, covering the sausages. Boil for 20 minutes at medium heat. 3 Serve salmon with Knedlíky and dill
Filling ingredients: – 150g sour cream – 2 small onions – 100g smoked salmon – 1 red bell pepper – chopped parsley for serving Directions: 1 Preheat the oven to 200C 2 Mix dough ingredients and knead the dough for 3-4 minutes 3 Roll out the dough into an oval, 3-4mm height 4 Put the dough on the baking paper and bake at 200C for 8 min 5 Chop onion, paprika and salmon 6 Spread the sour cream over the baked dough base, then add chopped onion, paprika and salmon slices 7 Bake Flammkuchenfor 10 minutes at 200C 8 Serve with chopped parsley
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. – Pablo Neruda
Meatballs ingredients: – 500g minced chicken meat – 3 eggs – 5-6 tbsp wheat flour – 2/3 tsp salt Other soup ingredients (for the large pot of soup): – 7 medium potatoes – 6 medium carrots – 100g soup noodles – 1 tsp salt
Method: 1 Boil water in a large pot, add 1 tsp salt 2 While water is boiling, mix minced chicken meat, eggs, flour and salt: form meatballs – 1 tbsp for a meatball, dip the meatball in flour and put in the boiling water 3 Cut potatoes and carrots and add to the pot 4 Cook the soup for 25 minutes, then add soup noodles and cook until soup noodles are ready.
Ingredients: – 3 bell peppers – 400g chicken breast – 2 tsp sour cream – 50g cheese – salt/pepper Method: 1 Preheat the oven to 180C 2 Deseed the bell peppers, cut in half and put into the baking form 3 Chop chicken breast, mix with sour cream, salt and pepper; transfer into the bell pepper halves 4 Grate the cheese on the bell pepper halves 5 Bake for 25-30 minutes 6 Serve with rice
We had our breakfasts – whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn’t matter, you must have your breakfast.
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone.
Khachapuri batter ingredients (2 servings): – 2 eggs – 100g grated Ciacotta (or Suluguni or butter cheese) – 100ml Kefir – 100g wheat flour – 1 tsp salt – 1 bunch of chopped parsley – 20g butter for frying
Directions: 1 Combine all Khachapuri batter ingredients in a bowl and mix well 2 Preheat a non-sticking skillet at the medium heat: melt 20 g butter 3 Pour the batter uniformly on the skillet, cook for about 4 min one side (until golden), then flip (I flipped with two spatulas), cook for another 2 min 4 Serve lazy Khachapuri with fresh tomatoes
Potatoes ingredients: – 1 kg potatoes – 3 clothes grated garlic – 1 tsp paprika – 2/3 tsp salt – 1/2 tsp black pepper – 2 tbsp olive oil
Tuna sauce ingredients: – 1 can tuna – 1 chopped red onion – 2 tsp mayonnaise – 1 tbsp lemon 🍋 juice – 2 tbsp cream cheese Method: 1 Preheat the oven to 180C 2 Boil potatoes for 3 minutes, drain water and left them cool down for 5 minutes 3 Mix semi-boiled potatoes with grated garlic, paprika, salt, black pepper and olive oil 4 Transfer the potatoes pieces on the baking paper and bake 30min at 180C 5 Tuna sauce: mix tuna, cut onion, mayonnaise, lemon juice, cream cheese and mash with a blender 6 Serve with fresh tomatoes and cucumbers ! Enjoy !
Ingredients (for 2 servings): – 1 small Red kuri squash – 120g Camembert – the crema di balsamico and olive oil for serving – salt, pepper
Method: 1 Divide squash into 4 parts and bake for 40min at 180C 2 Sprinkle with salt, pepper, cover each squash piece with camembert slices and bake for another 10 min 3 Sprinkle with crema di balsamico & olive oil and serve!
Method: 1 Grate Parmesan into a bowl and put in the fridge 2 Cut salmon into 1.5cm cubes 3 Chop garlic into slices 4 Simultaneously start boiling water for pasta and cooking salmon 5 Boil pasta in the salty water until ready, drain the water 6 Cook salmon for 5 min in olive oil, medium heat; add 33% cream and cook for another 5 min; add garlic slice and cook for another minute 7 Put the pasta in the frying pan with salmon for 1 min, carefully mix and transfer to the serving plates 8 Serve Paccheri with black pepper, grated Parmesan and chopped greens !
Goulash ingredients: – 400g beef – 5 onions – 1.5 tbsp paprika – salt and pepper to taste – sunflower oil for frying onion – 3 tbsp flour for the sauce
Knedlíky ingredients: – 500g potatoes – 150g flour – 50g semolina – 2 eggs – 1/2 tsp salt Method: 1 Goulash 1.1 Cut beef in 2-3cm pieces 1.2 Chop onion and fry for 4 min in sunflower oil 1.3 Add beef and cook for 1.5 hours, add water when needed 1.4 Add 3 tbsp flour, mix well and cook for another 30 minutes, add water when needed 2 Knedlíky 2.1 Mix boiled potatoes, flour, semolina and salt: mix well 2.2 Form two sausages 5cm diameter 2.3 Put the sausages in the boiling water, covering the sausages, boil for 20 minutes at medium heat 3 Serve Goulash with Knedlíky and dill!
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Aubergine stripes ingredients: – 2 aubergines – olive oil for baking aubergines – chopped parsley for serving
Filling ingredients: – 150g (baked) walnuts – 2-3 garlic cloves – 1/2 tsp salt – 1/4 tsp black pepper – 1 bunch dill – 1/4 cup warm water
Method: 1 Preheat the oven to 200C (400F) 2 Slice aubergines lengthways into 4mm thick stripes, put on the baking paper and brush well with olive oil 3 Add walnuts halves over the aubergines: bake them together for 25min at 200C (400F) 4 Combine and blend the filling ingredients (including baked walnuts) until smooth: put 1tsp of the filling on each aubergine stripe and roll the stripes up 5 Serve cold with chopped parsley !
Method: 1 Peel and cut vegetables and put aside 2 Mix meatballs ingredients and form meatballs with hands, dip each meatball in flour and put on the plate 3 Boil 1.5-2l water, add 1 tsp salt and meatballs: cook for 20min, medium heat 4 Add vegetables to the soup and cook for another 20min, medium heat 5 Serve with chopped parsley !
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
Method: 1 Preheat the oven to 220C 2 Filling: combine all filling ingredients and mix well with the hands 3 Dough: combine all dough ingredients in a bowl: knead the dough 4 Divide dough into 8 equal pieces and form a ball out of each of them 5 Roll out each ball into a 8-10cm diameter circle: put 1 tsp filling in the centre of each circle 6 Lift up ends of each circle to the centre to form Fatayers with your fingers 7 Put the Fatayers on the baking paper (sprinkle with Provence herbs or pepper or a little of olive oil): bake for 18 minutes at 220C 8 Serve with a cup of black coffee or black tea !
Chicken nuggets ingredients: – 350g chicken breast – 2 red bell peppers – 200g canned pineapple (weight without juice) – 2 eggs for batter – 1 tsp chilli 🌶 pepper powder for batter – 1/2 tsp salt for batter – sunflower oil for frying
Pineapples-red bell pepper sauce – 3-4 tbsp all-purpose flour for batter – 1 tbsp liquid honey for the sauce – pineapple juice from the can with pineapples for the sauce – 3 garlic clothes Method: 1 Chop chicken breast in 1.5 cm cubes 2 Combine and mix well eggs, salt, chilli pepper powder in 1 plate and put flour in another plate for dipping 3 Preheat two skillets (skillet 1 for chicken nuggets, skillet 2 for the sauce) and add some sunflower oil 4 Dip each chicken breast piece once in eggs mixture, once in flour, again in eggs mixture, again in flour – transfer to skillet 1 and fry for 4-5 minutes until golden 5 Fry red bell pepper stripes and pineapple pieces in skillet 2 for 4-5 minutes 6 Transfer chicken nuggets to red bell peppers and pineapples, add pineapple juice and cook for 6-7 minutes 7 Add chopped garlic and honey: cook for another 2 minutes 8 Serve with chopped dill or parsley!
Pancakes batter ingredients (7-8 pancakes): – 115 g fresh spinach – 2 eggs – 300ml milk – 200g all purpose flour – 2 tsp sugar – 1/4 tsp salt – 1/3 tbsp sunflower oil for frying
Serving ingredients: – 150 g smoked salmon – 100 g cream cheese – fresh dill
Method: 1 Wash and dry spinach leaves. 2 Put in blender all pancakes batter ingredients: mash until smooth. 3 Preheat a skillet, add 1/3 tbsp sunflower oil (needed only in the beginning). 4 For each pancake pour 1 ladle of batter on the skillet. Fry at medium heat until bubbling, turn the pancake over and cook until golden. 5 Serve pancakes with soft cheese, smoked salmon and fresh dill.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Jane Austen
Ingredients (4-6 servings): – 320g salmon – 1 head broccoli – 6 medium carrots – 8 medium potatoes – chopped dill for serving – salt to taste Method: 1 Peel and cut/chop vegetables 2 Cut salmon in pieces 3 Put chopped vegetables and salmon in the saucepan, add water to cover the vegetables and salmon pieces, add salt to taste 4 Cook for 20-25 minutes after boiling, serve with fresh chopped dill!
Method: 1 Combine chopped turkey breast, chopped pineapples, egg, grated cheese, flour, grated garlic and salt/pepper: mix until smooth 2 Preheat the skillet, add sunflower oil: pour 1tbsp of batter for each pancake-to-be. Fry 5-6 min each side or until golden, medium heat 3 Switch to minimum heat and cook pancakes under the lid for 10 min 4 For the sauce combine and mix sour cream, chopped garlic, chopped parsley/dill 5 Serve!
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