Quick and Easy Recipes by Ella



Fried Chicken Liver With Mash Potatoes And Vegetable Salad

Ingredients

  • 800 g. of chicken liver
  • 400 g. of potatoes
  • 50 ml. milk

The salad: tomatoes, cucumbers, green salad, leek, lemon juice

  • vegetable oil
  • salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

  1. Boil the chicken liver, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
  2. Salt and pepper them.
  3. Fry the chicken liver for 5 min.
  4. Boil the potatoes.
  5. Make mashed potatoes with the milk.

The salad:

  1. Cut the leek and salt it.
  2. Leave it for 30 min with the lemon juice.
  3. Cut the vegetables and mix them up with the leek and the oil.
  4. Serve the chicken liver with the mashed potatoes and the salad.

January 29, 2008   No Comments

White Beans With Fried Sausages

Ingredients:

  • 400 g. of sausages
  • 300 g. of white beans
  • 2 onions
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 pepper
  • 2 laurel leaves
  • tomato sauce
  • vegetable oil
  • paprika
  • salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

  1. Cut the sausages and fry them.
  2. Boil the white beans until they are ready.
  3. Grate the carrot.
  4. Cut the onions and the pepper small.
  5. Boil the vegetables in 250 g. of water, for 10 min, at medium temperature.
  6. Mix the white beans up with the vegetables and the remaining water, the tomato sauce, the laurel leaves, the paprika, the vegetable oil, the salt and the pepper.
  7. Put it in the oven, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
  8. Serve it with the sausages.

January 28, 2008   No Comments

Pasta With Vegetables And Ham

Ingredients:

  • 400 g. of pasta
  • 150 g. of sweet corn
  • 150 g. of small beans
  • 2 carrots
  • 200 g. of ham
  • 150 g. of pickle red bell peppers
  • 100 g. of mushrooms
  • mayonnaise
  • salt, pepper

Cooking procedure:

  1. Boil the pasta with salt.
  2. Drain them.
  3. Pour cold water on the pasta.
  4. Boil the mushrooms until they are ready.
  5. Cut the vegetables in small cubes.
  6. Mix them up with the pasta, the ham and the mayonnaise.
  7. Add salt and pepper.

This is one of the many leftover ham recipes that are tasty and very easy to prepare after Christmas, for example.

January 24, 2008   No Comments

Cauliflower Souffle With Cheese And Potatoes

Ingredients:

  • 1 big cauliflower
  • 200 g. of small potatoes
  • 400 g. of goat cheese
  • 150 g. cream
  • 2 eggs
  • pepper, salt

Cooking procedure:

  1. Clean the potatoes.
  2. Boil them in their skin.
  3. Leave it to chill up.
  4. Take the skin off and cut them in cubes.
  5. Detach the cauliflower’s bouquets.
  6. Boil them up to the point when they are ready to be eaten, but not too soft.
  7. Scramble the eggs.
  8. Mix up the cheese with the potatoes, the eggs, the cream, the pepper, and the salt.
  9. Take a Jena vessel; put a little bit of oil and pore the mixture.
  10. Leave it in the oven, at a medium temperature, for 20 min.

Enjoy your meal and a cool glass of iced tea.

January 23, 2008   No Comments

Cauliflower – Potatoes Soup

Ingredients:

  • 1 cauliflower
  • 3 potatoes
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 1 onion
  • 500 g. of milk
  • dill
  • salt

Cooking procedure:

  1. Detach the cauliflower’s bouquets.
  2. Cut the potatoes and the bell pepper in small cubes.
  3. Grate the carrot.
  4. Boil them, in 1 l. of water, up to the point when they are ready to be eaten.
  5. Salt the soup.
  6. Pour the milk in it and leave it to on the fire, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
  7. Cut the dill small.
  8. Put it in the soup.

January 22, 2008   No Comments

Rice And Meat Balls Soup

Ingredients:

  • 300 g. of cow and pork minced meat
  • 70 g. of rice
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tea spoon with flour
  • 100 g. of cream
  • 3 carrots
  • 2 parsley roots
  • 1 small celery
  • 1 parsnip
  • 50 g. of lovage
  • salt, pepper

How to cook the soup:

  1. Grate the vegetables.
  2. Cut the lovage small.
  3. Fry the rice for 3 min.
  4. Boil the vegetables, (without the lovage), with the rice, for 20 min, at medium temperature in 2 kg of water. Salt it.
  5. Make spherical meat balls with 20 g of rice, the meat, the salt, the pepper and 1 egg.
  6. Pass them through the flour and put them in the soup.
  7. Boil them for 10 min.
  8. Add the lovage.
  9. Scramble the egg.
  10. After 5 min. pour it in the soup.
  11. Add the cream 5 min. after the egg.

January 21, 2008   No Comments

T-Shirts For All The Family

So, you’d say that buying tee shirts is a piece of cake! What if your son is very tall and incredibly thin for his height? And if your husband’s belly cannot fit inside any regular tee shirt available in stores? Not to mention that when you finally find something that fits, it usually comes in such a horrible color, that nobody would ever wear it happily.

Well, on the website of Wholesale DirectUSA, you can find lots of wholesale t shirts models, in various colors, either with long sleeves or short sleeves, or even the so-called “spaghetti” type T-shirts for ladies.

The website has many search functionalities, such as search by type, or by size, or by color, or by recommended products.

All t shirts models have photos, available sizes and prices just below each photo. The sizes start from Small and go up to the unusual 8X, which must be so huge that I cannot even imagine how it looks like.

The variety of colors is quite impressive: aqua, black, brown, burgundy, Carolina blue, charcoal, forest green, fuchsia, gold, and many more. I bet you don’t know how green is the “Kelly Green”.

For those who are not sure what size they wear, there is a size-measurements correspondence chart, very useful and easy to read. All measurements are given in inches.

If you are in the clothes business, you can buy whole cases, but you should be aware that only one size and one color are available per case.
As of shipping time, areas close to NJ like Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Upstate NY, and MA are served within one working day, Chicago, Michigan, Ohio, Carolinas, Virginia and Atlanta within 2 days, Florida to New Orleans in three working days, Texas, Colorado, and Southern California 4 days. Northern California is the only region which takes 5 days. The shipping is not free, the shipping charges are calculated automatically when you enter your shipping data in the order.

You should also know that all shirts are pre-shrunk 100% cotton, and except for a few models, all of them are TALL and hip hop.

Ordering t shirts in bulk can be an option in case you have a house full of teenagers who change their clothes several times a day.

January 18, 2008   No Comments

Frankfurters in Bacon, With Fried Potatoes And Sweet Beet Salad

Ingredients:

  • 500 g. of bacon
  • 200 g. of frankfurters
  • 1 onion
  • 500 g. of potatoes
  • 300 g. of sweet beet
  • 2 horseradishes
  • 1 small lemon
  • vegetable oil
  • salt

Cooking Procedure

  1. Wrap the frankfurters up in bacon, one by one.
  2. Catch them with toothpicks. Add salt and pepper.
  3. Cut the onion in half. Salt and pepper it.
  4. Put it with the frankfurters wrapped in bacon, in the oven, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
  5. Cut the potatoes and fry them.

The salad:

  1. Boil the sweet beet and leave it to chill up.
  2. Grate the horseradishes.
  3. Salt and squeeze them.
  4. Mix them up with the sweet beet.
  5. Add the lemon juice.

Serve the fried potatoes with the frankfurters wrapped in bacon and the salad.

January 18, 2008   No Comments

Do You Dream To Master The Art Of Cooking?

Many successful people say that one of the keys to success is to love what you do for a living. Real life shows us that most of the people don’t like what they do, they just do it for the money. Well, if you dare to step out of routine, and if your dream is to master the art of cooking and to create masterpieces which will enchant your clients, you can enroll in a culinary school, to learn from the pros.

There are many cooking schools out there, with lots of specifics, so you’ll probably have to do some proper research before deciding which one to join. I can give you three examples: The Culinary Academy of California, The Hospitality Institute of Chicago and The California Culinary Arts School. Each school has its own, customized cooking classes, like Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts at the Culinary Academy of California. This culinary program takes 60 weeks to complete and it integrates classical and modern culinary techniques. Moreover, this class includes a module of kitchen management, thus offering the students the required skills and training for a future career at different levels within a restaurant, or a hotel, or any other cooking-related business.

But the course is not only theory. 12 weeks of on-site externship will provide the students with skills which cannot be acquired through theory only. For those of you who are interested in more details, you can take a look at this culinary course outline.

What if you cannot pay for your education? Most schools offer financial aids to their best students, or to those who qualify for a state tuition, according to local laws. Besides, there are facilities of scheduled payments, which will allow you to work and gradually pay for your classes.

What about your social life? 60 weeks is quite a big amount of time, and you wouldn’t like to live like a hermit for all this period. It is useless to worry, at least if you decide for the Culinary Academy of California. Here you’ll have access to all entertainment facilities in the bay area, you’ll meet other students, you’ll be able to join the club activities, and you’ll be able to go to trips to Nappa Valley.

Well, if your dream is to become a culinary artist, you see that education is available. All you need is hard work and a bit of talent.

Kindly brought to you by the Culinary Academy of California

January 18, 2008   No Comments

Chicken Joints On Bacon With Mushrooms And Sour Cream

Ingredients

  • 350 g. of bacon
  • 8 chicken joints
  • 400 g. of mushrooms
  • 300 g. of cream
  • parsley
  • olive oil
  • salt, pepper

How to cook it

  1. Fry the bacon for 2 min on each side.
  2. Salt and pepper the chicken joints.
  3. Fry them in olive oil until they are ready.
  4. Boil the mushrooms for 5 min.
  5. Fry them in olive oil for 3 min.
  6. Pour the cream and stir for 2 min.
  7. Cut the parsley.
  8. Put on the plate first the bacon, on top the chicken joints and on top of those the mushrooms with the parsley.

January 15, 2008   No Comments

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