What do you say there, Claudia, shaorma with whaaaaaat? Pork, arugula and quince, to be specific. ? Well, let me explain the process behind this disastrously good recipe. ? I read and reread Bourdain and among drops of swearing, I cooked one, two, three things, depending on what was in the fridge. Of course, I
So, my mouth watered at all the meats in this month’s cookbook, but I was afraid I’d go to the butcher’s and get a cleaver between my eyes if I start with: -Was this cattle fed on grass? -Yes, ma’am, is it possible? We feed only organic, eco, not sprinkled grass for export to our
Episode 2. Carmen, list the recipe! So, the recipe. American and because of that, with American quantities. Meaning: 2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, 1 tablespoon white vinegar, 1 tablespoon kosher salt, plus more to taste, 6 ounces thick-cut bacon, 1 cup Mayonnaise or store-bought mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, Freshly
Actually a garnish of 3 ingredients, but it became a salad due to my lack of inspiration. ? Yes, sometimes it happens to me too… Beetroot, washed, cleaned and sliced, placed in a tray (I prefer on baking paper), greased with olive oil and spices (salt, pepper, thyme, etc.), put in the oven over medium
The second book proposed at the cookingbookclub in March / April was Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain. I don’t know how you are, but every time I (re)read Bourdain I get incredibly hungry. :)) Problem number 2 is that I would cook all the recipes (but who else climbs the scales, whoooo ?: D),
Grease a saucepan with a little butter. You gracefully throw away leftover apples, which you can use in a cake or compote, cleaned and cut into pieces or slices, it really doesn’t matter. Sprinkle with cinnamon and possibly cardamom and, if you want, sugar. On top, cover the layer of apples with the noodles made
Well, let me see, do you remember what you put in it? ? Yesssss. ❤ Canned tuna, canned corn, grated carrot and celery cut into thin slices or cubes. With regular dressing, lemon and oil. The surprise is the homemade croutons. ? Because I wanted to buy them from the store and Chef said that
For reasons beyond my control, I started my year with fake Martini. Which wasn’t a bad option. I mean, well, it could be much worse than that. :))) The recipe is extremely complicated and requires at least higher education. ? Fake Martini: tonic water, lemon juice, green olives. Pour into a glass, mix, add some
Well, I don’t know if I told you how excited I am about my blender. Until it, I used to have two options: to buy the hummus from the shop – sometimes is ok, other times not really or to use the meat grinder – a semi-horror experience. Ever since the blender, I threw all
Chicken breast, deboned and peeled, cut into small pieces. In a bowl, mix some soy sauce, honey and grated ginger (salt and pepper to taste). Add the chicken pieces and mix well, then leave them to marinate for about an hour. Fried in a wok or pan, in hot oil (be careful not to burn
The Hungarian in me made some relatively good biscuits – the one we call pogăci – using my mother’s friend’s recipe. ? Relatively good, they had an unexpected success, people requesting them again, even though I think the dough should have grown more. :)) Well, it’s the kind of recipe that sounds very simple in
Especially for the woman in you, overcooked brownies. ❤ I almost burned them – logically – but how good they came out, you can’t even imagine !!!! ? Well, I had the recipe for many years, but this is the first time I’ve done it. Which is why I kept the cake in the oven
This year’s number two book to read & cook is Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain. I read it in its days, even though I wasn’t a Bourdain fan, and I liked it. Because it starts with questions like “what do normal people do?” and “what does a normal happy family mean?”, meaning what they
Created by a Canadian Greek, Hawaiian pizza has its fans, although many say that pineapple has nothing to do in a pizza. ? Well, tastes are not discussed, and it just so happens to be one of my favorites (because mango pizza is still not in trend. :))) On the pizza top, you add tomato
What did the author of this picture mean? ? Well, I’ll tell you a secret, but it stays between us, okay? ? This time I made the salad, I ate it, after which I remembered that I didn’t write anywhere what I put in it… as a result I had to rummage through my memory
Well, we have another special recipe from Reese’s book, Cheddar Biscuits, from Oana. ? Many recipes in the book caught my eye, especially salads, but until the strawberries’ season, we make Cheddar Biscuits. ? I also found this type of cheese in the grocery store, not exactly like the one described in the recipe, mine
Today – guest post – Carmen burns recipes in the kitchen. ? Also from Reese’s book. ? Aunt Reese, with her spoon, wrote a book about cooking. The only edible thing in the whole book is this. For me, that is. Okay, actually there’s another one, but I still don’t understand the concept of pecans.
Or as translated in Romanian, Reese’s chicken pie. ? Reese’s Chicken Pot Pie Casserole is a pie with hash browns, vegetables, chicken and puff pastry. I chose it because I thought it to be nourishing and because I had never cooked anything like it. ? In a pan greased with oil I put the layer
The first book proposed to the cookingbookclub in January/ February was Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love & Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon. So, we have as follows, two Reese’s Chicken Pot Pie Casserole, one piece Cheddar biscuits, one piece Dorothea’s Brined-and-Battered Fried Chicken. All successful
Well, they turned out so good, that I was about to eat the whole tray instantly ? :)) They are made so fast, that by the time you read this week’s articles on the blog, they are ready baked. Some puff pastry dough (fresh or thawed), cut into small rectangles and fill with a cheese
Maybe you read about the fact that this year Sibiu is the European gastronomic capital. Gastronomically, for me Sibiu means Telemea – white cheese, bread and pork, pate and saltines, plus homemade cakes. ? Plus a ton of camps and other projects, and menus, and good food. Sometimes even disastrously good. ? It’s super funny,
As I used to tell my mother, I am eating some things I can’t believe it either. :))) In addition to the usual roots (carrot, parsnip, celery), I also combined some red onions, eggplant, pumpkin, peppers and tomatoes. Cut into pieces and put in the pan, one at a time, plus oil and spices. In
When you cook with pinterest and instagram, something like today’s salad comes out. ? Surprisingly, it is really edible and eye-catching. ? Well, and what did you put in it? Some broccoli boiled and pan-fried with a little olive oil and garlic scraps. (It was spoiling in the fridge.) An avocado, sliced. Some carrots on
From my mother’s successful experiments, today we have a vegetarian product. 🙂 Grate carrots, celery, parsnips, potatoes, drain them well of juice and mix them with chopped dill, salt, pepper, egg, flour, to bind the composition. Sprinkle with flour mixed with breadcrumbs and fry in an oil bath. They are eaten hot, delivered at home.
I don’t know if the cold or her older and more beastly sister, the flu, has reached you, but our last weeks they have been with pills, mucus, fever, nausea and sitting at home horizontally. A slightly more horror experience than in other years. ? Reason why, up to the prescription, if you start to
I went through a period when everything I cooked had tarragon. Don’t ask me why, I have no explanations for disastrous behaviors… :))) Well, a classic soup from Transylvania. You would take a pork chop and boiled it super well, then combined it with vegetables and potatoes and seasoned with tomato juice and tarragon, plus
Well, this year I have a new challenge. For me and my friends. ❤ More precisely a cookingbookclub, which will combine, what else, reading and cooking with kitchen disasters. :)) In short, for a year we will read 6 books together and we will cook – I hope – interesting and appetizing things. In the
We celebrate the beginning of the new year with episode 40 from the series of personal kitchen disasters ? Who would have thought I was such a… disaster? Well, not even me. :))) Today, what else, a quick dessert with apples. ? We buy frozen puff pastry from Kaufland – find their brand of pastry
The end of this year is with stuffed cabbage, pickles, potatoes – the good ones made in a tray and cakes. ? And with the realization that so, disastrously, the kitchen has been warm and good since last year and until now. What I wish you for next year. ❤ I am not gonna tell
Boiled potatoes, finely chopped, after cooling (preferably red potatoes, because the white ones become powdery). Boiled chicken, finely chopped (chicken breast, thighs, it does not matter). Some chopped celery. Or chopped green parsley, depending on what you have around the house. Baked red peppers, also cut into small pieces. Salt and pepper. Mayonnaise and pickled
Gingerbread, turtă dulce, Lebkuchen. A variety of biscuits sweetened with honey or molasses and seasoned with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and especially cloves. It is said that in the beginning they were recommended for indigestion, to later be part of the traditional Christmas sweets. It is also true that the spices are perfect for the cold
1 cup sugar, half a packet of butter (100-125 g), 2 large eggs, half a cup of milk, 2 cups flour, 1 cup frozen blueberries, salt, baking powder and vanilla sugar. (1 cup of 250 ml) Ingredients at room temperature. It’s just that my butter was from the freezer, so I put it in the
Useful for the holidays, when you hope that this year will be the last time your friends visit you. :)) Or, even better, when you want to test his beloved love – if he drinks the glass to the end and does not run away eating the earth, is a catch, keep it, because a
I intended to make a plum tart, only to find out that I had no edible fruits, while I had already made the dough. So an apple tart came out, a really good one. :)) Three large apples, cut into cubes and put on the fire, in a saucepan (sugar is optional), until softened, at
Everything from scratch and adapted, because well, we are on the wrong continent. ? Salsa: a raw mango, more sour than lemons – the specialty of local supermarkets – combined with some canned papaya, a red pepper and some pickled jalapenos. Finely chopped, let the flavors mix. Fish: fish fillets – cod, in my case
Well, let’s me tell you, I have an extremely complicated relationship with dairy products. But some year ago I attended a course in Bucharest, where I discovered chees puffs. After several years (I told you, complicated) I started to appreciate the cheese pies from Obor. And after many more years, I didn’t turn my nose
This is some unbelievable recipe that I tried.. :)))) Do you know all those beautiful pictures on pinterest and professional blogs with cakes as if they were taken out of the magazine? Well, they’re just in magazines, right? :)))) Because in reality they look like the mixture below. ? So, at one point I looked
It is a sort of tabbouleh, because it does not have bulgur (the natives say that it must be salad with bulgur anyway and not bulgur with salad ?), although the base is all green parsley. In the Mediterranean tabbouleh, chopped parsley is mixed with green or red onions, as appropriate, some fresh mint, chopped
There is nothing better to celebrate a long autumn than a classic cherry cake. Well Claudia, cherries from where? From the freezer or a jar. ? Drained well. I had a fat-free sponge cake recipe in my notebook, after which I remembered the sponge made with oil, so I called a friend. ? Chef said
For reasons beyond my control, autumn came, it got cold (brrrr) and I got a bag of quince. I would have cooked them with some meat, but I thought it was too much effort… I would have turned them into pie, but I’m not allowed carbohydrates… To look at them, well, it worked for about
Weeeeeell, Claudia, don’t you tell us now that you know how to make brine? ? Me, only in theory, but my father knows ❤ I thought you got bored of so many cakes and it would be time to have some more proteins. :)) In this case, carp brine with the fish caught by my
To make it on a day when you have a complete lack of imagination. I had some green beans in the fridge and after I cooked it, I realized I need some more veggies, therefore I searched through the vegetable box and got a carrot, a parsnip, a red pepper and a green zucchini. I
Assuming you haven’t made all the plums jam or brandy, it’s time to celebrate the end of September with a large pot of plum dumplings (gomboți, Zwetschgenknodel, szilvasgomboc, Knedle ze śliwkami). While you say dumpling using all those versions, remove the kernel from the plums, leaving them, if possible, whole. ? If you don’t succeed,
I liked what Stephen King writes in On Writing, that good ideas can come from anywhere, and that ideas that previously had nothing to do with each other can be put together for a new outcome. What he says about writing can be applied to any field – only those who have not worked with
In high school I know I had a few hours of cooking, put in after sewing and crocheting and before those about iron components (what do you know, the real .ro woman from the 90’s couldn’t iron clothes if she didn’t know how to unscrew the iron with a screwdriver…). In theory there was a
5 minute variant. ? With one condition, well, maybe two. :)) Do not read the label and ignore the amount of sugar. ? You pay a nice visit to Auchan; in the bread/ cake section they sells brioche dough (you can also try in other networks or bakeries/ confectioneries). At home, spread the dough thin
I happened to go to the family for lunch and left with some smoked salmon. Must eat on the same day. I searched for some ideas on the internet, because my brain was having a break day, but what I liked either contained pasta (hmmmm) or other non-existent ingredients in my almost empty refrigerator. As
Well, let’s say it’s a soup because it’s not sour and it doesn’t have too many tomatoes in it. :)) (Otherwise should be “ciorbă”, the local equivalent for a sour soup). Preparing and cooking it takes less than a windows update. ? First open the refrigerator (or pantry, as appropriate). Identify some soup vegetables, e.g.
Those things came out so dubious (read: disaster) that it’s worth writing about them ? (today’s branding lesson: D). The story is simple. I bought some sheets from the supermarket, made of rice and tapioca, if I remember correctly, to do something with them. That something was the spring rolls, only the sheets are boiled,
Omg, omg, I flipped through a recipe book again and came across something with coconut flakes and corn and I automatically said, yammy, for sure this is super good and what would be so hard to make, there are just some schnitzels. ? Well, take a chicken breast out of the freezer, thaw it and
Part 1, chicken juice – some thighs, a little salt, boiled, foamed and when cooked, kept the juice (similarly it can be made from beef, bones, etc.). If you have the guts to make a larger quantity (and the needed pots), then you can continue to boil the juice without meat, cut it in half,
My general salad recipe contains variations, combinations and arrangements from the following expression: potatoes, pasta or rice (carbs) + vegetables (veggies) + meat, fish, egg, cheese, beans, chickpeas (protein) + dressing, spices. The big advantage is that it is prepared extremely quickly, especially if you have the ingredients ready to cook. ? Disaster is when
Take an avocado, wait until it ripens (yes, in our village you rarely find ripe avocado), the idea is to have it buttery greenish-yellow and not brown. ? Then we run a full lunch menu for a really hot day. ? Gazpacho – two medium tomatoes, half a red onion, a larger cucumber, half an
Inspired rom the German countryside, a cake with a shortcrust pastry and a meringue with redcurrants and almond flakes. A perfect countryside… :))) Well, from the start I have to admit that I’m not just a mess in the kitchen, I’m also a bit masochistic :)) All year long I longed to make meringue cakes,
This time we gave up the traditional schnitzels (we have a family joke on this topic) and had a delicious salad in return (seriously, it leaves my mouth watering only when I remember it). Iceberg lettuce, grated carrot, finely chopped celery, thin slices of radishes and green parsley; put in individual casseroles and kept cold
Or a kind of goulash that is not really goulash, but is close. ? I didn’t know exactly what soup to make, although I felt like a tomato soup. In the end I took a package of some pieces of meat out of the freezer, only I couldn’t find the label and from the plane
I usually prefer to make lasagna, because the chance to mess it up is lower. :)) This time I said to change and make moussaka with no meat. I half boiled some new potatoes; cut the eggplant into thicker slices and put them in the oven, in the pan, on parchment paper and seasoned with
As long as we can find cherries / sour cherries in the market. ? The process was a long and elaborate disaster. I picked the cherries with these two little hands. For some long hours, although I did not perceive the passage of time, only the roaring song of the rooster (boy, this one sings
Tell us right now, did you succeed in not altering the original recipe? Weeeell…. :)))) Inspired by our neighbors (Ukrainians, Russians or Poles, as you prefer) beet borscht can be a long soup, my case, or not, in the case of Jamie Oliver. And even a cream soup made with a blender, if you start
Chef asks me, don’t we better make a potato salad with fish? Well, what a question. :))) The recipe is inspired by Jamie Oliver and it is so good that it is worth sharing on fast forward. 😛 Some new potatoes washed well (I use a green alien as a brush) and boiled. Some fish