Posts from — November 2007

Pancakes ingredients (for about 12 pancakes)

• 1 l. of cow milk
• 4 eggs
• 500 g. of flour
• vegetable oil

Pancakes Preparation

1. Scramble the eggs. Add bit by bit flour and stir until you have a cream.
2. Start putting 6 spoons of milk. Stir. Flour. Stir. Milk. At the end, you will obtain a thick liquid.
3. Moist a pan with oil, using a napkin. Leave it to warm up for 2 min.
4. Pour the composition with a big spoon and extend it on the entire surface.
5. After 2 min, turn the pancake on the other side.

Ingredients for the full course

• 12 pancakes
• 300 g. of minced meat
• 1 onion
• 1 tomato
• 1 pepper
• vegetable oil
• salt

1. Cut the onion small. Boil it for 5 min. Keep the remaining water.
2. Fry the onion with the minced meat in vegetable oil, at medium temperature, for 3 min. Add a cup of the remaining water and stir for 5 min.
3. Fill the pancakes with the mixture.
4. Cut the tomato and the pepper in cubes and put them on top of the pancakes.
5. Put them in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.

Serve hot. Optionally, add sour cream or Remoulade sauce on top.

Special tips from the chef:

• For vegetarians: replace the minced meat with mushrooms.
• A little variation: the same recipe can be done with cheese. Add parsley.

Necessary ingredients (for two)

• 200 g. of rice
• 1 leek
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 carrot
• 2 tomatoes
• 100 g. of mushrooms
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

How to cook it:

1. Grate the carrot.
2. Cut the rest of the vegetables in small cubes.
3. Boil the rice.
4. Fry the vegetables in olive oil until they are ready, but not soft. Add salt and pepper.
5. Mix up the rice with the vegetables and boil them for 5 min.

Ingredients for two persons

• 600 g. of pork tongue
• 250 g. of olives
• 2 onions

• Sauce ingredients:

• 1 lemon
• 3 spoons of flour
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

How To Cook The Pork Tongues:

1. Cut the pork tongues in medium pieces.
2. Boil the pork tongues for 10 min., at medium temperature, and throw away the water. Continue to boil them in clean boiled water until they are ready.
3. Boil the olives, for 5 min., at medium temperature, and throw away the water.
4. Continue to boil them in clean boiled water until they are ready.
5. Mix up the pork tongues with the olives and add the pepper. You can use one of those handy kitchen gadgets almost all of us have in our houses. Keep the remaining water in order to use it for the sauce.
6. Cut small the onions. Salt them.
7. Fry them in vegetable oil for 2 min., and then pour 5 spoons of the remaining water from the pork tongues and the olives. Stir for 2 min. Add a spoon of flour, stir, and add quickly 3 spoons of the remaining water.
8. Repeat the operation for the other two spoons with flour.
9. Slice the lemon.
10. Pour the sauce on top of the mixture and boil them together with the lemon slices, at medium temperature, for 2 min.

This is a desert that reminds me of childhood, as my grandmother used to cook it for us all the time. Add some 1950s Candy and you’re traveling back in the good old times.

This is what you need for two persons:

• 200 g. of rice
• 150 g. of cow milk
• jam

This is how to prepare it:

1. Boil the rice until is soft. Throw away the remaining water.
2. Pour the warm milk on top and stir.
3. Mix up with the jam.

Serve cold.

The same recipe can be done with semolina.

How many times did you feel like having a light, delicious dessert, but you never had time to prepare those complicated cookies and sweets you can get in a restaurant? Well, I have a recipe which has at least two qualities: it is delicious and fast. Try it and please let me know how you liked it.

Ingredients for two:

• 400 g. of very thin pasta
• 400 g. of whey cheese
• 2 eggs
• 250 g. of currant
• 100 g. of sugar

How To Cook It:

1. Boil the pasta; take them up and clean it with cold water.
2. Grate the whey cheese and mix it up with the eggs, the currant and the sugar.
3. Mix up the pasta with the rest of the ingredients.
4. Take a Jena vessel; put a little bit of oil and pour the composition.
5. Leave it in the oven, at a medium temperature, for 20 min.

You can serve it hot, but it is also good when it gets cold. For variation, try to put on it some quince jelly, Maple Syrup or some sour cream. You’ll love it.

Ingredients for two persons:

• 350 g. of potatoes
• 4 eggs
• 200 g. of pressed cheese
• 2 onions
• 1 pepper
• 100 g. of sour cream
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure:

1. Boil 3 eggs for 5 min. Slice them.
2. Slice the onion and boil it for 3 min. Then, fry it in olive oil with the sliced pepper for 3 min. Salt them.
3. Grate the pressed cheese.
4. Slice the potatoes 1 cm thick. Fry them for 3 min on each side. Salt them. Add pepper.
5. Put 1 row of potatoes on a pan with olive oil in it.
6. The second row will be the onion and the pepper.
7. The third row, the eggs. Put pressed cheese on top.
8. Repeat the alignment until you finish all ingredients.
9. Put the pan in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.
10. Mix up the sour cream with the remaining egg. Add salt and pepper.
11. Take out the pan from the oven; pour the mixture on top and put it back. Leave it in the oven for 10 min.