And just like that, we’re slowly approaching the end of the year. ๐ This month’s #cookingbookclub #disasterinthekitchen edition is dedicated to Paul Hollywood, a super famous baker, whom you can see on several tv shows on British television. I tried a few recipes from him and they almost came out, so he deserves an episode
From the beginning of this year until now, our disaster kitchen should have green walls, green furniture and green plates and a cup of coffee. And we probably have shiny green hair and green scales on the tail and most days we will only see green in front of our eyes. LOL. ๐ But who
At today’s #cookingbookclub we have Tiffany Thiessen, Kelly from Save the Bell, our favorite childhood series. ๐ Tiffany grew up and after many roles, a husband and two children, she started cooking on TV for about three seasons, after which she also wrote a cookbook and made a website, just good for inspiration. ๐ I
You know how it is, theory as theory, practice kills us. Perfectly illustrated by the theme of today’s episode. ๐ It’s time to talk about energy and plastic in our green kitchen. If you came here by chance, we’re not talking about painting the walls green or buying green dishes. ๐ Because we are concerned
I am pretty sure you will like David Lebovitz, who is the inspiration of the month at #cookingbookclub #disasterinthekitchen with number 22. He has many recipes inspired from the French cuisine, which come with beautiful and interesting stories. And he has a lot of jam recipes, mmmmm. You can find his website here, but I
In our lands, the preservation of food during the periods of surplus for the gray days is an ancient custom, which is still preserved in some households. The process has a cyclicity related to local seasons and traditions. Of course, nowadays you don’t need to put potatoes, onions and carrots in the cellar in the
Today we have to drink and celebrate. What are we celebrating? That it’s summer and holiday season, the fact that we paid our bills, we’ll find something. :)))) I found several recipes for this cocktail, all of which are a combination of rum (Bacardi and Captain Morgan), coconut flavored rum (Malibu), and pineapple juice, plus/minus
What can I say, I’m a big fan of Giada, because she has simple recipes, many with pasta and vegetables, and she cooks in a familiar Italian style. ๐ Plus the green kitchen, this month, was with more vegetables and fruits than usual, which is not too difficult in my case. The good thing is
At our house the strawberry shortcake was actually a super quick seasonal fruit cake. For it you need a special tray, round like for tarts, but deeper in the middle, so that you bake the top, turn it and have room for the cream and fruit. Lots of fruit. ๐ But if you don’t have
I have to tell you from the beginning that I replaced the dried tomatoes with normal tomatoes – I have never cooked with dried tomatoes and I still don’t feel that is the case. ๐ And instead of zucchini I put squash. ๐ In a bowl, mix sliced dried tomatoes with olive oil, salt, thyme
Welcome back to the 21st edition of #cookingbookclub directly from our green kitchen. I hope you did not put the spinach on the fire and that you stocked up on salads because this month we are learning to cook as many vegetables and fruits as possible and we are trying recipes from Giada de Laurentiis!
“I don’t eat vegetables.” I have heard this statement several times from people of different ages and I still do not understand what is it with vegetables and fruits in the diet of the natives. Because the traditional Romanian cuisine contains many recipes with vegetables and fruits. And we love potatoes with a lot of
I didn’t have time to bake a cake, but I ate Portokalopita at the mall, which is why I looked for the recipe, because at some point I will reproduce it myself. It’s like baklava, it’s just as sweet, but instead of walnut and syrup pie pastry, we have phyllo with a yogurt cream and
I went through the recipes in this collection several times, in the end I didn’t cook anything from here, although I saved a few ideas – well, that’s it. ๐ But I cooked something else, inspired by Ikea’s recipes, because that’s how creativity works in the kitchen, you read one and you cook another. Preferably
Biscotti or cantucci are Italian almond biscuits, which you have to soak in coffee or tea, otherwise you risk breaking your teeth in them. :))) The specifics of them, besides having whole almonds in them, are the fact that they are baked twice. Something that I did not understand the first time, but which in
Don’t know what to cook this month? ๐ Servus, today’s #cookingbookclub comes with the weirdest cookbook I’ve ever read: The ScrapsBook from Ikea, written in collaboration with chefs from North America. Book from which we will try – me and you – a few recipes, because it fits with the theme of this month’s green
Welcome back to the green kitchen! How are you doing with food throwing? I hope it didn’t end up in the trash and that you used the strategies from the previous article. And here’s another bonus: the money saved from things that don’t go to waste for a month, you can use it on something
Celebrate your inner woman with a decadent tart with lemon cream, a generous layer of whipped cream and mascarpone and fresh fruit garnish. ๐ Chef’s work, of course. The disaster of me just wrote the recipe. ๐ Shortcut pastry: 200g flour, 100g butter, 1 egg yolk, 30g sugar, a pinch of salt and 1 tablespoon
The initial idea was that I would cook some noodles with soup, based on David’s ideas. But since the plan at home doesn’t match the one in the supermarket, I ended up with a couple of eggplant recipes. I didn’t want to cook just one and let the second one get wilted and thrown away!
When you go to visit friends and instead of coffee you get a glass of Hugo and cake, it means that it was a successful visit, which must be repeated. ๐ Hugo is a cocktail that appeared in 2005 in South Tyrol and is slightly alcoholic. You need prosecco, elderberry syrup, soda or mineral water
Welcome to a new edition #cookingbookclub, our cooking club, where I propose a book, an author or a site every two months, according to an algorithm only known to me. Lol. :)))) We are thus stepping into year number 4 – wow !!!! – and we will have a theme this year as well, because
I don’t have a clue about your plans for this year, but the kitchen of big, small and super pink disasters in the wider world has set itself to become a little greener in 2022! That’s why we have a new series, entitled – how else? – the green kitchen, with six beautiful horses episodes,
Morning from 2022! We start the year strong, with recycled leftovers of cakes and other stuff in the fridge, to make room for the next disaster! ๐ ๐ From last year I had to try a recipe for dessert from Aunt Martha Stewart. The classic trifle is actually an English recipe and consists of a
I tried to make empanadas about a year or two ago, but it was such a big miss that I was embarrassed to show it to you. I can only tell you that the puff pastry and the vegetable sauce don’t go well together. :))) This time I studied the recipes from Martha Stewart –
Disaster no. 1: It was supposed to be Potato Galette with Smoked Salmon, but a sort of smoked salmon potato salad came out. Boiled potatoes. Smoked salmon. Some finely chopped sour cucumbers. A dressing of lemon zest with mayo. And that’s it. :)))) Disaster no. 2: the chicken salad tarts turned into a salad with
Jรณ reggelt kรญvรกnok or morning! From today until Christmas, you can try the best Transylvanian cake every day, Zserbรณ – Jerbo, Gerbeaud, Greta Garbo or a five-sheet walnut cake, as my grandmother wrote in her recipe book. The cake is named after Emil Gerbeaud, a Swiss confectioner, chocolate maker and entrepreneur of Hungarian descent, who
We end this year with the #cookingbookclub proposal number 18 (wow!!!). Martha Stewart is an institution itself, she cooks, crochets, plants and when she gets bored she posts on all the social networks and on the website. At 80! :))) You can search for shows on Youtube or on TV, read her books or choose
If you have the time and ingredients, here’s a quick chocolate cake recipe. ๐ Just right for coffee. ๐ It’s a classic cake, with a cocoa sponge and a ganache cream, plus some fruit on top for the artistic impression. ๐ We had strawberries, you use what you have. Ingredients for the sponge: 4 eggs,
Since we all come from a Traian, of course the list of recipes to try was super-ultra-mega long. ๐ Great thing, at least in my case, that I’m fussy. ๐ Bruschetta con pomodoro meaning tomato bruschetta: toast, on top of which you put chopped red tomatoes, garlic, basil, olive oil. I added some celery and
Because it is the autumn fruit season, today we have a plum cake, a disaster that is easy to make and super delicious. ๐ Basically, we have a sponge cake that we combine with some plums. If you don’t want plums, you can use pears or other seasonal fruits. For sponge cake we need 4
This month the #cookingbookclub proposal is an actor/ cookbook author about his Italian family/ producer of culinary shows on CNN and great head of cocktails at the Insta-corona division. ๐ The only and incomparable Stanley Tucci, about whom I admit that until this year I did not know much, except that he has nice roles
Meringue black cake is the cake our mother used to make for us from time to time, with a cocoa sponge and a soft meringue on top. Ingredients: 10 eggs, 10 tablespoons caster sugar, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons cocoa, 6 tablespoons oil, baking powder. For the sponge, beat 6 egg whites with 6 tablespoons
I don’t know why, but I don’t feel like cooking this time of year. Either my brain is on vacation or it’s from the heat. ๐ So today we have a recipe instead of the recipesโฆ Plus I like what Adi’s mother cooks, all those pies that look great in pictures, but I’m not allowed
Well, it should have been a sour cherry strudel. I just didn’t have the time and desire to roll out the dough, so I turned to the puff pastry supply in the freezer. It turned out to be a medium-sized, slightly burnt disaster (because of the oven, not me, lol), with some fruit and the
This month we have a local proposal again. ๐ I admit that I have no idea who the most famous Chefs in Romania are, I haven’t watched the shows and the chances of recognizing a person on the street are about zeroโฆ not that they aren’t very famous, but because I am nonstop with my
Today at coffee we have sponge cake (chec in Romanian), the best and simplest local cake, which our mother makes us since childhood. The cake I know is fluffy, white and cocoa top, with/ without nuts and that melts in your mouth. Yes, a super delicious disaster! ๐ Ingredients: 8 eggs, 8 tablespoons oil, 1
I don’t know how I ended up with a long list of vegetarian/ vegan recipes. Without bothering too much. :))))) What I tried: Moroccan couscous (with vegetables) – see the recipe here. I made Moroccan couscous before, but with chickpeas. This time the recipe is only with vegetables. A tasty disaster. ๐ Green string beans
Good idea for this soup from Ina Garten. It is basically a vegan soup, but it can be improved with sausages. And grated Parmesan cheese for fans of this product. ๐ For 3-4 servings I used half a cup of green lentils, an onion, a clove of garlic, a carrot, two stalks of celery and
String beans, boiled in salted water and rinsed with cold water and set aside. I used a bag of frozen beans, you might find it fresh at the market, in which case you break its tails beforehand, wash it and boil it, to make it edible, but to keep it crispy. ๐ Bell peppers, red
Well, this is a variation on the Moroccan couscous, only it does not have chickpeas in it, like the recipe tried last year, but a mix of seasonal vegetables. All I can say is that it is done quite quickly and the result is disastrously delicious! ๐ What vegetables do we use? I tried to
For me, salads are simply magical, because you can have n-combinations and arrangements, they are made in the blink of an eye, they are nutritious, for all whims, cravings and allergies; In addition, you can cook them in the harshest conditions, even outdoors, without too many utensils. So here’s the formula: potatoes, pasta, rice, tortillas
It’s not just the cooking itself that goes fast and easy if you follow the same simple steps. How do I plan my shopping? How do I make the most of my kitchen space? What about the freezer and the pantry? How do I stop throwing food? If you start from scratch, the first time
I go into the kitchen with a lot of energy, I’m cooking today! How to cook as fast and easy as possible? How do I organize myself and avoid accidents? And how do I make sure that I am not putting my kitchen on fire? And don’t burn the food? ๐ Cooking itself is a
I found a perfect recipe, now all I have to do is make a list of ingredients. Maybe I have them around the house, in the fridge, freezer or pantry? Or do I have to go shoppingโฆ What kind of ingredients must be in the kitchen? It is logical that in addition to the utensils,
I have a kitchen equipped with all the utensils, but what should I cook? Do I buy cookbooks? Do I search for recipes on the internet? Do I call my mother (father)? Or do I call my neighbor from the second floor? ๐ Many of us have learned to cook from our parents or grandparents,
You want to cook at home, but you don’t know if you have all the necessary utensils. What should you have in the kitchen so you can cook fast, varied and safe? Do you need to have the kitchen equipped like on a TV shows or can you make it with a pot and a
Dear disasters of the wide world, directly from our colorful studios, we launch today the first season of the Crash Course in Cooking. The season has 6 episodes and is intended for all those who want to cook from scratch, without having cooked anything before. One thing I’ve learned in recent months is that you
Real Tiramisu, made by Chef, the classic recipe. With biscuits, coffee with Amaretto or Marsala and egg cream with mascarpone and sugar, covered with a generous layer of cocoa. First mentioned in a cookbook in the Venetian region, in 1983 and invented somewhere in the 60’s and 70’s, tiramisu in Italian means “take me/ get
Hello to a new edition of cookingbookclub, number 15. Today’s proposal is Ina Garten, or Barefoot Contessa, a nice gourmet lady, born in the same year as my father. ๐ If you watch food shows, you’ve probably seen at least one recipe tried by Ina, even if you didn’t pay attention to the presenter. ๐
With wild thyme or Breckland thyme. Today in the category #cakesandcoffee we have a recipe for communion with the surrounding nature. From the hills of Dumbrฤviศa. ๐ I don’t know if you’re a tea drinker. In our family, it is one of the drinks used almost all the time, not only in the cold season
The good thing about Jamila is that she has instructions, text and video. So from the three combined you should have an approximately similar product at the end. I insist on the word “approximately” because obviously I didn’t really get what she had in the pictures. :)))))) That’s why the old cookbooks were good, with
For 8-10 pieces, we make dough from 350g lukewarm water, 570g flour, 10g yeast, 3g oil, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 egg, salt. I made half a portion and they came out approx. 5 buns of 100g each. From the water, yeast, sugar and a little flour we make the leaven and leave it to rise
Today’s recipe is a quick disaster, assuming you have some puff pastry in the fridge or freezer. If it’s in the freezer, you have to be patient to defrost it – the quickest and most effective way is to leave it in the fridge overnight. From the dough you will cut squares 12 ร 12
Whether you are preparing for Easter or Palm Sunday, today’s recipe is perfect, super fancy and easier to make than you think. ๐ Well, I passed it on to Chef, because I didn’t understand exactly how to cook the fish. :)))) Plus his oven is much smarter than mine. ๐ The recipe is from Gordon
I may have told you before, but every time my mother calls me to tell me that she had cooked something new, she found her recipes on the site at Jamila Cuisine. ๐ I know, you would expect that after so many episodes, disasters would be the first source of inspiration in the family. Still,
May March be as sweet as today’s tea. ๐ ๐ ๐ In our family disaster we drink tea quite often, but they are generally herbal teas. If they are picked with your personal hands, even the better. ๐ Burnt sugar tea or caramel tea was drunk in the camps and in the mountains, because caramel
Last year there was #321sourcesofinspiration. This year comes with #foodfriendsandlove. And Gordon Ramsay, who cooks for friends. ๐ What is Gordon telling us? That he teaches his children that if you want to live to old age and for a healthy lifestyle, you have to eat well. This also means knowing where the food comes
Well, they’re not really linguini, they’re whole spaghetti. From the pantry. ๐ But linguini is for you, to know what to buy next time you go to the store. ๐ It’s a very complicated recipe. :))) Boil pasta al dente, drain and rinse with warm water. You add olive oil, lemon juice (I put half
If you do not have a grill available and do not make a large quantity, use a frying pan. And open the window. ๐ For one portion I used half an eggplant (the one that doesn’t have too many seeds), washed and cut into thin round slices. Gordon says to mix some olive oil with
I admit, I also tried this version of pancakes, but the classic ones still seem better to me (see more ideas here). ๐ The sauce instead is worth trying with ice cream. ๐ It’s a recipe from Gordon Ramsay, which was the suggestion of the month at #cookingbookclub and sounded great in theory. In practice,