Moldavian Cuisine

Romantic super...

2008-11-22T11:46:00.000-08:00

This was a great evening. For some time we decided to eat some fresh fish, buying it from the local store. Each evening trying a new one, different fish.

So as you see in the picture I made different stuff. First is the fish. In some previous recipe I described how I fry it - with no egg or flour. Just putting some spices and greens.
Simply boiled the rice adding just salt. I didn't want to complicate it too much.
And a salad - the salad is made of the main ingredient the Chinese cabbage, some red thing smelling of crab, corn and mayonnaise.
We had a bottle of wine in the fridge - it was "Buchet Moldavii" (Moldavia Buchet) something like Martini tastes. It was a great evening.

Macaronis, chicken, mushrooms, salad - super

2008-11-22T11:36:00.000-08:00

Hey this is grate. This is what my boyfriend loves best. In this food there are present all the desired elements: his favorite macaronis, mushrooms, salad and meat.

This is all just simple. First of all the meat. This is chicken - I boil it and than fry. If you fry it from the beginning you waste a lot of time. It is more efficient to boil it until it is almost ready. Than simple fry it with spices.

The mushrooms it is better to boil them first and than also fry. I added onions and tomatoes. So this is a mushroom sous.

Macaronis are made also easily. No special souses I used. Just hard macaronis boiled.

A salad from tomatoes with onions. It was a great super. :)

Examples of Lunch!

2008-11-22T11:21:00.000-08:00

Here is another section of examples of Lunch. Here you can find links on other examples of lunch.

The first picture represents mushed potatoes, fried fish with some amazing spices and salad.
Mushed potatoes I think is not very difficult to make. The fish was fried with no egg or flour. I just salted it, added pepper and some greens so it got the color. The salad is made of tomatoes, yellow sweet bulgarian pepper, onion, cucumbers and mayonnaise.

This one contains my favorite eggplants. If you make them in a proper way this can be the most tasteful things in the world.
First of all you have to cut the eggplants and put them into water for abut 10 min. Than fry them adding salt and garlic. Very tasty in the end. There are many recipes with eggplants, I love them.
You can also see in the picture some potatoes. These potatoes were made in the oven. All I did is cut the potatoes and put them in the oven in a covered tan. Typical spices like pepper.
Instead of salad it was just cucumbers. Very tasty and no need of meat.

This one is more difficult I think. More than that I invented the recipe myself :)
This is rice with vegetables: corn and eggplants again.
You have to prepare it separately. Boil the rice and fry the eggplants with some onions so that it still keeps its form. Than add the rice on the tan with the eggplants and mix adding spices and the add the corn at the end.
Instead of salad you can see some pickled cucumbers.

This is how I cook. I hope you like it:)

Red Soup

2008-11-22T11:02:00.000-08:00

Red soup made from all sort of veggies.
I love all kind of soups. I think it is very healthy and you should each day eat a soup. That way you can maintain your stomach healthy. You can make it from meat, or even no meat, just vegetables.

This is how I make my red soup. The meat can be any type, but if you don't want any meat, just follow the simple recipe. The main thing is the beet.

Ingredients:
beet
cabbage
potato
carrot
onion
tomatoes

The beet should go first. When ready add tomatoes, potatoes.
Fry the carrot and onions and add after potatoes are ready. Add spices and other stuff what you think is good. I like to add basil to all my soups. I like the smell. As it is cold now, I add garlic in the soup. The natural garlic helps you to maintain your health during cold times.

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2008-10-22T01:17:00.000-07:00

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Placinte)

2008-09-07T23:33:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted anything for a long time, I hope you excuse me.
I was cooking a lot, but didn't have time for posting all those pictures.

Yesterday I found in the local market the puff dough that I haven't seen a lot. It is different from the others, because it is made of pieces of dough like paper. I decided to take one, and bake something nice. So...

the ingredients are:
500 gr of curd
1 package of puff dough
4 eggs
salt

The method of preparing:
First of all you have to mix the curd with 3 eggs. This should be done for obtaining a more liquid curd. Maybe you can add some milk or anything else. You just have to make it more liquid.
Than take 2-3 sheets of dough and put on the the curd. Than again 2-3 sheets and again curd and so on. In the end cover everything with one egg.
Put in the hot oven for 20 min. Don't keep it too long, because it may become too dry. Follow the pictures.

Pizza

2008-07-07T03:06:00.000-07:00

Even though I am one of the persons that hate fast food, i like pizza. I can eat pizza all the time. It is very hard for me to find a tasty pizza in my own town, there are just couple places and I get bored of them. That's why when I go somewhere I search for a new experience of pizza.

I make pizza at home like once a month. I love to spend a lot of time on it. This is how a make it.

The dough: follow the pictures. One egg mix with 2 cups of flour, add salt, some milk.

Add margarine and yeast as you see in the picture.

This is how the dough should look.

Than prepare the dough for the pizza in the following way. Put some tomatoes paste.

This is pizza before baking. Put on it anything you want. Any meat, salami, vegetables, eggs, mushrooms, olives, cheese etc.

This is a well done pizza! it was very tasty.

Banana Pie

2008-07-07T03:02:00.000-07:00

This is a banana pie, which is not a traditional food from Moldova. But anyway I liked it a lot. This is a typical pie and covered with banana.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 cup of flour
1 cup of sugar
soda
milk

two bananas

Firstly prepare the pie and then mix the bananas in a blender and just cover the pie. it tastes amazing. I loved it a lot.

Pancakes with raisins

2008-06-07T05:56:00.000-07:00

Pancakes with raisins are really tasty. I never thought that they can have such a taste. The secret is that raisins become very sweet inside of the pancakes.
Normally for pancakes you need two eggs, 1.5 cup of flour, milk. Mix everything and add raisins when you turn it on the pan already.

Placinte

2008-06-07T05:41:00.000-07:00

Once again i have made these wonderful curd cakes. For me it is much more interesting the process itself of baking, than just the taste. I love to spend a have of the day on cooking placinte.
This time there were typically traditionally with curd and fennel.
The ingredients are:
flour
yeast
2 eggs
150 gr of margarine
any kind of dairy product like milk
curd
fennel

Method of preparing:
Make the dough. Mix the 3-4 cups of flour, with the eggs, margarine and yeast. Leave the dough for 2 hours.
Than prepare the curd, add the fennel and a lot of salt. The cakes can be any form you want as you see in the picture. In order to obtain a beautiful color, cover them with eggs. Put in the oven for 30 min.

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2008-05-30T12:56:00.000-07:00

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Zama

2008-05-30T12:42:00.000-07:00

I have already told once how to cook this kind of soup. This is a traditional moldavian/romanian soup. The main thing about it is the colors. My grand mother used to do zama from doves sometimes. She had a lot of doves in under the roof of the house.
Normally zama is made of chicken meat, or any other bird meat.

Ingredients:
Meat
home made noodles
carrot
onions

Method of preparing

Firstly boil the meat and prepare the bullion. Than add the onions and carrots. Than add the noodles, which as being homemade, can also be bought from the shop. The traditional zama doesn't contain potatoes. Put you my put them.

This is how it looks.

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2008-05-17T02:39:00.000-07:00

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Two colors Cookies

2008-05-09T01:15:00.000-07:00

These cookies we were making with my mother, when I was little. When we had parties at school I was always bringing them at school.
I like this recipe of two colors cookies, because they look really nice and cute.
So the ingredients are:
2 eggs
2 cups of sugar
3 cups of flour
1 cup of milk
cacao
margarine 200gr
Method of preparing:
take two bowls and do exactly what you see in the pictures. Firstly poot in each bowl one egg, one cup of sugar, and in one add some cacao.

Mix everything as you see in the picture, so that one is has brown color, and the other yellow, than add 100 gr of margarine in each bowl.
Than add 1.5 coup of flour in each bowl, and make the dough. So you have to obtain two different colors dough.

Than do what you see in the picture, and make a roulette from these two parts of dough.
Cut into small pieces like cookies, and put in the oven for 20 min approximately.
This is what you should get in the end. It is very tasty. Cacao gives them a special taste.

Placinte in two minutes

2008-05-09T01:07:00.000-07:00

These "placinte" i made very quick actually. This is a recipe for lazy people) or those that don't have a lot of time. All you have to do is buy puff dough and curd.
Easily cut the dough into small pieces and put the curd inside. You can make them any forms.
How I baked them? I actually didn't bake, i fried them. I put the on a pan with no oil and covered for couple of minutes until they obtained this color.
I like what i obtained.

Coltunasi - Dumplings

2008-05-06T12:10:00.000-07:00

Coltunasi are traditional food in Moldova. At least I suppose so. And not "russian pelmeni" with meat, but coltunasi - dumplings with potatoes.
They can be also with cheese, with potatoes and mushrooms, with cherry.
I prefer those dumplings with cheese and potatoes.
Here is how they look like when they are ready. I like to eat the dumplings adding cream. They are pretty caloric thats why you shouldn't eat them too often.

Meat Balls, Pirjoale

2008-05-03T13:36:00.001-07:00

Meat balls are very famous in this region. They can be any size, like big or small, but they have different names. They can be also from different meat, like beef, pork, chicken or even fish. And they can be fried or boiled.
The following recipe of meat balls is an independent recipe and doesn't need a sous, like for small meat balls.

The ingredients are:
Minced meat
1 egg
onions
150 gr of bread
spices
garlic (maybe)

Method of preparing: if you are on a diet you can use chicken meat, and don't fry them on oil. But i used beef as you see in the picture. You have to prepare everything< cut the onions, put the bread in some water and put everything in a bowl as you see in the picture.

Than mix everything, and make these meat balls into such forms like you see in the picture.
Put them on the pan, and fry until they are ready.

Pancakes

2008-05-03T13:30:00.000-07:00

This is how my pancakes look! once again i made them
I love pancakes, everyone loves pancakes!

Zama

2008-05-03T13:18:00.001-07:00

Zama (zeama) is a traditional romanian soup, made in both Moldova and Romania regions. This is a very old tradition and I never met any soup like that in other cultures.
The soup is a very healthy variant of soup, it doesn't actually contain much fat, because it is made of bird meat.
My variant of zama is from chicken. If you add special spices than you will get the specific taste of zama.

The ingredients are:
chicken meat
vermicelli
onions
carrot
lovage
spices
potatoes (traditionally are not used)

Method of preparing:
Normally first prepare the meat. Cut the onions and the carrot into very small pieces and fry them, than add in the soup. Than when it is ready, after 40 min, add the vermicelli, normally they should be home made, but you can by them. This should be little vermicelli, small pieces. If you want to put some potatoes than add them before adding vermicelli. At the end add the lovage, this type of greens that gives a specific taste. There are actually spices from Maggi which have the same smell, you can try.
I hope you like it!

Plov, Pilaf

2008-04-06T08:13:00.000-07:00

This is not a traditional Moldavian Cuisine for sure. It comes from Uzbekistan if i'm not wrong. Plov is very tasty and healthy. Even if it is very spread and a lot of people cook it everyday, it has a special technology of cooking. And only good cookers can make a real Plov.

The ingredients are:
Meat, traditionally it is pork or beef, I use chicken sometime
rice
onions
carrots
spices

Method of preparing:
Firstly fry the meat, until it is almost ready. As you see in the first picture, after you fried the meat, add the onions and carrots.

When everything obtains a brown color, add Curry spice. That way everything will become yellow, the traditional color of Plov

Than add the rice. I chose the Chinese prolonged rice as you can see in the picture. The secret is that you add the rice, which has to cover the meat with 1 cm, and that add some water, which will cover the rice up to 2 cm. And cover it, and don't mix until it gets ready.

This is how it looks in the end. There are special spices for Plov/Pilaf, normally caucasian + garlic.

This is what I got in the end) Enjoy)

Ribs

2008-04-05T07:59:00.000-07:00

Check out how I once cooked the beef ribs. This was a spontaneous decision. We just saw some nice ribs in the market and decided to prepare them. I never did anything like that before. In the end I liked the result. I didn't search for a a certain recipe, as usual cooked as my intuition told me.
These are the ribs that we bought . There is enough meet on them, the main goal is to make the meet be very soft and easy to eat.

In fact that was so hard to cook, I just fried them for some time, and when it was almost ready I added the tomato paste, and I was rolling the ribs in it.
I also added some spices, you have to pay attention to the color that I obtained. I actually was not expecting to obtain such a sous and color. Here s what i got in the end, very delicious ribs.

Amazing loveley pacakes with curd, cheese

2008-04-03T05:52:00.000-07:00

Pancakes are great, especially the following recipe.
My pancakes are the best, they look the prettiest, especially with different stuff in it, like curd, or gem, whatever, they look great.
Actually my grandmother taught me this recipe. Both of my grannies do such pancakes, the other granny puts them in the oven for some minutes and they melt in your mouth :)

The ingredients for the pancakes.
2 eggs
milk
1.5 cup of flour
sugar
soda

That is a picture of the curd with raisins, I've also added some sugar.

this is how you should put curd inside the pancakes, and roll over. Than some margarine on them. The pancakes will be amazing, trust me.

Mushrooms sous with pasta

2008-04-01T05:41:00.000-07:00

Probably mushrooms with pasta are not typical for Moldova, I'm sure of that, this is a typical food for Italy. But I like to cook it. healthy pasta is always good.

It's a pity I forgot how these mushrooms are called. I just bought them in the shop. I like their taste. I heard one thing about mushrooms, and I don't know if that is true. i heard that after cutting the mushrooms, taking out of the ground you have to eat them in 12 hours, otherwise they become toxic. i don't know if that is true. I still love them.

So the sous is very simple to make, because it has a few ingredients, not much.
Mushrooms, onions and cream.

The preparing of the sous is easy. You have to cut the mushrooms, but not into too small pieces, and fry them on the pan, for 5-7 minutes. They should become smaller and obtain a brown color.

Than add the onions and fry them all together, adding spices. After 6 minutes, you may add some cream, just a little and wait for 3 minutes more.

In order to make the sous more thick you may add some flour. I put a spoon of flour and added some water in the cup and mixed very well than add into the sous. That will be enough to make it more thick.

Boil the pasta, don't forget about it :)
this is what happens in the end.

Birthday Cake

2008-03-29T07:26:00.000-07:00

This cake I did for the birthday of my mother, couple of months ago. It took me some time, because I had to prepare different parts of it, apart. There are two moments that you have to remember when making this cake: the slice of cake and the jelly.
The cake itself is easy to make. I used the classical method: 3 eggs an a cup of flour. You have to add some sugar, milk, and you may add some cacao if you want.

You have to make three types of different colors of jelly apart. Than when its done, you have to cut them into small pieces just like it looks in the picture. 1 L of cream mixed with sugar and non colored jelly. Than put all the small pieces into that cream and leave it for couple of ours to freeze. than put the jelly on the slice of the cake.

Another type of lunch!

2008-03-26T07:23:00.000-07:00

Meatboals with peas and potatoes
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Vegetable soup

2008-03-25T07:09:00.000-07:00

I remember once eating this kind of soup in Bulgaria. But considering that all the ingredients also grow here in Moldova, than I guess this soup will be characteristic to Moldova too.
The ingredients are:
Chicken meat
cabbage
potatoes
Bulgarian pepper
carrots
onions

Soup with peas

2008-03-23T07:02:00.001-07:00

The soup is considered to be a light one. This soup with peas is I remember since kindergarten, school, and so on. Because it doesn't cost much to make it.
The ingredients are:
Chicken meat
potatoes
yellow peas
carrot
onions
spices

Method of preparing:
firstly put boil the peas for about 1.5 - 2 hours. It takes a lot of time, they have to become like almost porridge. That add the meat. And as usual fry the onions with carrot and add to your soup. At the end add the potatoes and spices. Bon apetite!

Easter Bunny Cake, Are you ready for Easter

2008-03-16T06:07:00.000-07:00

Are you ready for Easter Holidays? Besides religious thing, special habits, cooking represent an essential part of Easter Holidays.
One of the traditions is baking an Easter Bunny Cake. This cake can be different, and everyone is making it using his own imagination.
The ingredients can be anything you want, this can be any time of cake. I prefer the one of 3 eggs and a cup of flour. Thats a typical cake for me, and you can put in it anything you want.

This is my type of a cake. You just have to make the necessary form for bunny ears and color the cake. The decorating part can be easily made by special stuff which you can by in the shop.

For example this one, contains all the stuff for coloring and even more for Easter Bunny Cakes
There is even more stuff for Easter, which can be even like presents for your relatives and friends.

Here are some more Easter Bunny Cake stuff, they look really nice and colorful.

Meatballs with sous

2008-03-15T06:35:00.000-07:00

Unlike cutlets, meatballs from meat, fish or vegetable stuffing, taken in the coating of flour (wheat or rice), not bread crumbs. After their fried or simmer in the sauce. For the sauce is most often take the meat broth, tomatoes, onions, add to taste sour Than take the meatballs out, and grill the onions and carrots for couple of minutes.or add berries, such as prunes. Meatballs get tastier if they produce not just a homogenous stuffing, such as beef, but with the addition of grains - mostly rice, slices vegetables (tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage), nuts, dried fruits, etc. These additives attach great makes mincemeat hence cooked and meat balls faster than cutlets. Preparation streets in sauce, or simply supply of ready-cooked separately with cities sauce - another difference from the streets cutlets and snapshots. Tradition cook meat balls (kyufte) in the sauce comes from the kitchens nomadic peoples.
This is a very tasty sous and as usual it doesn't need to many ingredients. The meatballs are probably more russian food or maybe even ukrainian. I'm note sure, but people here in Moldova also eat meatballs.
My method of preparing of meatballs:
Firstly I grill them just a little, in order to keep the round form, because in water they may fall into small pieces and it won't be good. Just like in the first picture.

Than take the meatballs out, and grill the onions and carrots for couple of minutes. Add the meatball and spices just like you see it in the picture.
Than add some water and tomato paste. It will be very delicious. You should obtain something like what you seen in the picture :)

A surprise for his wife

2008-03-11T09:35:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine, wanted to buy to his wife new stuff for kitchen. He went to some shops and finally found what he wanted. These were special equipment for baking, and making desserts. He didn’t want his wife to find out about it, so he didn’t take money from his credit card, but took a payday loan. I asked him how he did it and if he succeeded with that. He said it was very easy and didn’t take much time at all. John just completed an application form online, and he was offered a payday loan immediately. He borrowed exactly the sum of money he needed. He said some friend of him told about this opportunity and he considers it really helpful and there are no administrative costs for taking a loan. payday loans
Well the present that he bought to his wife, the equipment, was really great. His wife was so happy, because she likes cooking, especially baking a lot. She wasn’t even dreaming of that. And the most important was that it was a surprise. John really succeeded in making a surprise for the international women’s day. So that’s how you can make a surprise, by taking a payday loan.

Chicken sous

2008-03-08T06:15:00.000-08:00

I love chicken because it you don't need a lot of time to cook it. It can be ready in 30 min. And another advantage is that the level of fat is lower than in pork for example, so it is healthier. That is why the 60% of what I cook are made of chicken.
here is another recipe of a chicken sous with cream, not with tomatoes.
The ingredients are:
500 gr of chicken meat
onions
carrots
cream
spices

Method of preparing:
Chop everything and fry firstly put the chicken on the pan. Than after 15 min, you can put the carrots and keep them for 3 min. After it add the onions and spices just like it is in the picture.

So in 5 min onions and carrots are ready, and you just have to add some water. After 10 min add the cream and in 2 min it is ready.

Enjoy

Pie

2008-02-28T13:12:00.000-08:00

This pie is easy to make and doesn't cost much, because you can add any gem you want and that way give the pie a specific taste.

The ingredients are:
5 eggs
2,5 cups of flour
0.5 cup of milk
1,5 cup of sugar
any gem

Method of preparing:
mix everything and put it in the oven for 30 min.
Enjoy :)

Cabbage soup

2008-02-14T03:37:00.000-08:00

This is moldavian soup with salted, marinated cabbage. The analogue of it in Russia is Schee (Щи), which is a traditional russian soup.

The ingredients are:
meat, pork of beef
onions, carrots,
cabbage
paste from tomatoes
potatoes
spices

The method of preparing:
Boil the meat until it's ready. But before it you have to prepare the cabbage for some days previously. Chop the cabbage and put a lot of salt and some water to cover it, and leave it like that for 3 days. That you can put it in the soup. That fry some onion and carrots chopped and add in the soup too. Than potatoes and spices. And in 20 min it is ready.

Another cabbage pie

2008-02-12T03:29:00.000-08:00

I love cabbage because it is very healthy. At university when i'm having a lunch I usually order a soup with chicken and a simple cabbage salad and that is enough for me.
That is why I like to bake cabbage pie. As usually it is very simple, is it was described earlier here

It just differes the form, but the taste is the same. But you have to take care because cabbage may be a not so easy product for your stomach. So if your stomach is "easily offended" than you should better not eat it.

Cookies

2008-02-10T13:17:00.000-08:00

Chocolate cookies and vanilla cookies are my favorite. I love everything that contains chocolate, although I don't like too sweet things.
The following recipe I found not long ago, but I used to cook most like that cookies when I was little. They taste really great. These cookies are different, because (1) I almost didn't use sugar, (2) I used coffee instead of cacao.
The ingredients are:
margarine 150 gr
300 gr of flour
2 eggs
sugar, coffee

The method of preparing:
mix everything and make any forms you want. 30 min in the oven
Bon appetitte!

Spices

2008-02-02T09:58:00.000-08:00

For me spices are very important in cooking. I have a tone of them. And every time when shopping I buy some new spices. Especially I like asian spices, caucasian, indian etc.

What do you think of spices? and what spices can you advise to me? maybe you also got some secrets ^)

Another type of lunch!

2008-02-01T09:51:00.000-08:00

I have shown some examples of lunch which I have prepared, this is another one.
These are two pieces of chicken fillet with marinated green tomatoes, some macaroni's, and souses.
Method of preparing:
Take these two pieces of chicken, add some spices, then put them into an egg and then into flour. Then just fry them. After chicken becomes like the one from the picture.

Salad

2008-01-30T09:46:00.000-08:00

This is a salad from 3 types of vegetables and vegetarian oil. Chop the cabbage, onion, and carrot into tiny pieces. Add the oil. This is very healthy and tasty.

PayPerPost

2008-01-23T11:56:00.000-08:00

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An example of lunch!

2008-01-20T07:48:00.000-08:00

This is a chicken with macaroni and green peas. I've also added some ketchup and mayonnaise.

Another example of lunch may serve the following picture. That is puree of potatoes, an egg with sausage made in the microwave oven, and a cabbage salad(of you want i can describe the recipe of it, very tasty and healthy.)

Chicken soup with peas

2008-01-19T07:39:00.000-08:00

This is a very light chicken soup, I would say that it's a diet soup.
The ingredients are:
Chicken
potatoes
carrot, onions
frozen green peas(like the ones in the picture)

The Method of preparing:
As usual boil the chicken, and when it is ready add in the water the potatoes. During this time fry the onions and the carrot, which should be chopped into small pieces. Add them into the soup. Then take 150 gr of green peas and put them in the soup too. After 10 min add spices and it's done.
Enjoy!

I love Pancakes!!!

2008-01-16T05:07:00.000-08:00

I love pancakes! Everyone loves them. Even though being caloric enough, a lot of people still like to eat them in the morning. In order to make the cooking process more easier you have to follow some recipes. I have described one the recipe for Russian pancakes. Here it is.

But there are also other things which can help you in cooking pancakes. You can find different recipes, or special kitchen gadgets which will help you preparing the pancakes, because this is not an easy process. Nowadays there are different pans made specially for pancakes.
Here are some useful books,
kitchen pancakes gadgets,
delicious adds for pancakes.

Cabbage Pie

2008-01-12T06:08:00.001-08:00

I love cabbage so much that I am ready to use it everywhere. Cabbage is great, very healthy and has a lot of vitamins. One of my favorite stuff is cabbage pie.
You just have to buy some dough and prepare the cabbage.

I forgot to mention that the cabbage should be fried with onions and mushrooms. Which gives it a super special taste. Put it in the oven for 25 min or even less, it depends.

In the end this is what I got. Very tasty cabbage pie) Enjoy

Rotatui)) Ratatui

2008-01-12T06:01:00.001-08:00

This was a lot of fun, when I didn't know what else to cook, and I saw a package with frozen vegetables and it was written on the Rotatui. I never cooked that before, but it was perfect and very delicious. In fact I have changed the original recipe; The original one is only from vegetables and paste from tomatoes.
The ingredients:
Chicken meat
Onions
Vegetables
spices - garlic, salt, curry

The Method of Preparing:
Fry the meat, and than add the onions. Fry everything until it will obtain a nice brown color, add curry spice. And than add the vegetables.
In order to complete this wonderful stuff I've added some paste from tomatoes and other spice. And made some potatoes in the oven.
Great Super Rotatui (Ratatui)

Kitchen Sinks

2008-01-08T01:48:00.001-08:00

Every woman needs different kitchen sinks and gadgets in order to prepare great food. This equipment helps you do make your kitchen more various, to use more difficult recipes, which you cannot make without them. Here I have chosen some of kitchen sinks for you.

I'm sure that these kitchen sins and gadgets will help every person to start cooking better.

The New Year Party

2008-01-06T02:37:00.000-08:00

Here is a pitcture of the party food at the New Year. I was cooking for more than two days, and I was helped by one of my friends, named Victoria. The Party was great. Everyone liked the food.

The New Year Party

2007-12-30T12:16:00.000-08:00

The New Year Party is going to start in about 20 hours. But the preparations had already started.
I will post pictures with all the food for the party which I will have to make myself tomorrow.There will be tones of photos, everything will be described.
Yet I had prepared beef chops, as you can see in the picture.
And also a cherry cake with chocolate.

Cirnaciori with vegetables

2007-12-17T10:52:00.000-08:00

As I mentioned in my earlier posts, cirnaciori, mititei and other stuff are Moldavian traditional food. People used to make them for a long time. And they are very very delicious. That's why I like to cook them, because there is now need these days to make them by yourself. You can by the in the market.
The super was consisting of cirnaciori, potatoes and vegetables.

The vegetables as you can see, are frozen. You can buy them in every market. All you have to do is to boil them for 10 min. Which I did for the first time in my life.

The Cirnaciori are also frozen, i cooked them in the microwave oven for 12 min. There is a red stuff on them, which surprised my, never seen something like that. They are probably using something additionally in order to make them look more attractive.
In the end this is what I got. That's a very colorful picture. You can see some broccoli there. But in Moldova we don't have this American tradition to eat broccoli. And we don't raise it.

Recently done

2007-12-17T10:45:00.000-08:00

How mush does a kg of the highest quality pork costs in you country? Here in Moldova it is about 80 lei (less than 8$).
What you can see in the picture is what I recently made for super. This is a a slice of pork, fried in egg and flour, with a lot of spices which I like. Also a piece of omelet and paste of tomatoes. It was very delicious, especially when add the Soy Sous. Even though not very healthy :)

Bakery - pie with walnuts

2007-12-17T10:35:00.000-08:00

I've made this pie this evening. It is a universal pie, because you can make it with anything you want, any fruits, gem, whatever. This time I've made it with walnuts.

The ingredients are:
6 eggs
2 glasses of flour
1 glass of milk or cream, non-sweet yogurt
1 glass of sugar or 1,5
soda 1 spoon

The method of preparing:
Mix the eggs for 10 min. Than add the sugar and also mix it a lot. That the flour and milk + soda. Mix it until it will have air bubbles. Add the chopped walnuts. Put it in the oven for about 30 min. In the end you should get what you can see in the picture.

Pancakes

2007-12-08T09:59:00.000-08:00

Here in Moldova, we don't like fat pancakes. Like in Russia, or USA for example. Since childhood I remember only thin pancakes. In my opinion they are tastier, easier to eat and healthier. You don't get fat from eating 3-4 thin pancakes, than eating fat pancakes.
The following picture represents my own pancakes. As you may notice they look different from the ones in the first picture.

The ingredients are:
1 l of milk
300-400gr of flour (but depends)
2 eggs
sugar
soda
oil

Mix everything and fry:) The best pancakes.

Sausages on potatoes

2007-12-08T09:48:00.000-08:00

These days I was really tired, and didn't have enough time to cook something normal.
But it is good when you have some ready products, which can be bought in the super market.
The sausage you see in the picture, is a traditional moldavian sausage. Our grandparents were making these stuff at home. And what is good to mention that these sausages can be very different, like bloody, fatter, bigger, different meat.

These are different types of sausages. But the next one is the one I bought in the super market. It's a beef one made off.
I just cut the potatoes, put the sausage on them. And put it in the oven for 30 min. It was really great.

Soleanca

2007-12-08T09:11:00.000-08:00

This is a type of traditional soup, which is very easy to cook.
It will take you not more than 15 min, to prepare it.

The Ingredients are:
all sort of salami and sausages. About 300-400 gr of different sausages.
onions
carrot
olives
lemon

Method of preparing:
Chop the onion and carrots and fry them all together for 5 min. Than add the chopped sausages, as it is shown in th picture. Fry it for some more minutes. And than add it into a bowl with water. Until it starts boiling. After it add some olives, like 10 for example. And when you put this soup into the plate, you should add a piece of lemon.

Felul 2 - Potatoes with chicken hearts and mushrooms, in the oven

2007-12-07T09:23:00.000-08:00

This is my own recipe of potatoes with chicken hearts and mushrooms, made in the oven. But although it is made from traditional ingredients that are used in Moldova. It took me about 40 min. But in the end, it became very tasty and gentle taste. So here it is...

The ingredients are:
8 huge potatoes
1kg of chicken hearts
300 gr of mushrooms
1 onion
spices
mayonnaise

The method of preparing:
Cut the potatoes as it is shown in the pictures and put the in the pan. Than add some spices. The second level should be of chicken hearts, there is no need to chop them. Just put them the way they are. Than cover it with onions.
Another slice should be of mushrooms, follow the pictures. Also add spices.
And again cover it with potatoes. The last step is the mayonnaise.
What is important that there is no need to add any water in it. The hearts will eliminate their own sous and that will be enough. Put it in the oven for 30-40 min.

Some more pictures of bakery - placinte

2007-12-06T09:44:00.000-08:00

I like to do them, and every weekend i bake such stuff. Really beautiful looking.

Chicken in cheese sous

2007-11-30T07:59:00.000-08:00

This is all about chicken and cheese.
Method of preparing:
Take some chicken and cut into pieces. Prepare a sous in the following way:
flour, cream, spices, and a lot of cheese. Mix everything very good. Each piece of chicken put into this sous and than on a plate. Put it into the microwave oven, or simple oven. For 30 min or 40 min. It depends on the capacity of the oven.
Enjoy.

About Moldvavian Cuisine

2007-11-09T12:18:00.000-08:00

I found today a very nice description of Moldavian Cuisine, by a tourist who had the opportunity to taste all those tasty things in Moldova, in a local family who invited him. Taken from here.

"The food consisted of lots of cheeses, small breads, whole small fishes on bread with cheese, smoked fish with Moldovan pevo(beer), a variety of very nice Moldovan, Ukrainian, and Romanian wines, stuffed peppers with sour cream, salads of chopped vegetables, dumplings stuffed and served with garlic sauce, homemade liquors of different berries and fruits. ... We ate this amazing pork to which the likes I have never tasted again I inquired to how this meat tasted so good, and the reply was, they feed their animals in Moldova better food than America and the marinating process is also very important. I will try to get this recipe in order to attempt it one day myself and share....My stay in Moldova was surreal, exciting, and made wonderful by the type of people who live there. If you ever have the fortune to stay in a Moldovan’s Home, you are very lucky and will be well fed by way of very delicious food. There is a minimal American influence, which I really enjoyed, the culture is unique. The hospitality was amazing and is highly recommended by me"

I think it is very beautiful, the person described his impressions about being in Moldova. And I'm sure that everyone else would feel the same.

"Ghiveci" - traditional autumn salad

2007-11-08T04:05:00.000-08:00

"Ghiveci" is known in Moldova since old times, because it is made of vegetables which are grown here, are common for this area. This salad is a very healthy one, it contains a lot of vitamins, and it cost is really cheap. Comparing to other recipes, it doesn't suppose meat. That is why it is a vegetarian recipe.

The ingredients are:
2 eggplants
tomatoes
paste of tomatoes
carrot
onions
green pepper
garlic

The method of preparing:
Cut the eggplants into small cubes as it is shown in th picture. Then put them on the pan and fry with oil. The eggplants should change their color, and become brown.

When done, add the onions cut into small pieces and the green pepper. The pepper needs only 10 min, together with the onions to prepare. During this time, you have to cut the tomatoes. When the pepper is ready, put the tomatoes and the paste of tomatoes, about one spoon of paste. And add some water. Cover it, and let some 5 min more.

The result should be one from the picture. In the end add some garlic and spices (salt, black pepper, bay leaf). I assure you that is one of the tastiest thing in the world, and you should definetly try it.

Meat Loaf

2007-11-08T03:20:00.000-08:00

This recipe is my own. But anyway it was inspired by the national traditions of preparing and combining different foods. The meat loaf is a hard to make one. It takes a lot of time and involves many ingredients.
My own meat loaf was made in the following way.

The ingredients are:
beef heart
cabbage
onions
tomatoes
cheese
dough

The method of preparing:

Prepare the dough and all the other elements separably.
The heart, or any other meat, and boil it until it's ready. Cut it into small pieces and put apart.
The cabbage should be fried with onions until it will also be ready for eating. Normally add some spices into it.
When everything is ready, you have to try to put it all together.
The dough, rolled on the table. Put some paste of tomatoes on it, just like on a pizza. Then put the cabbage and the meat, over it put some cheese, tomatoes, spices. And enroll it with the dough. You can put also another level of ingredients if you are making a huge meat loaf. It depends.
Take a look at it, how it should look in the picture.
Put it in the oven for 25 min. Enjoy!

Felul 2 - potatoes with beef and mushrooms

2007-11-07T11:23:00.000-08:00

This type of traditional food is a very taste one. Beef represents an essential part of Cuisine of Moldova. Together with potatoes, they represent a great combination with a very healthy and delicious taste. So here are the ingredients which are a very simple list. The quantity of every ingredient depends on how many persons are you cooking for.

The ingredients are:
beef
potatoes
mushrooms
carrot
onions
spices

The method of preparing:
Cut the beef into small pieces and fry it in the pan. The when it becomes a little bit fried, add the chopped carrot and onions. Fry them all together. After the onions get a specific golden color add some water and brew it for about 45min-1 hour. It depends on the beef, during this time try to taste it, and if it is almost ready do the following. The chopped potatoes into small pieces, add to the beef. The about 20 min let it brewing. When everything is ready add the mushrooms, which should also be chopped into tiny pieces. The mushrooms don't take a lot of time to prepare - about 3-5 min.
The last thing you have to do is add the spices. I usually add the bay leaf, salt, black pepper, garlic, and some Caucasian mixes are really good (i advise everyone).

Enjoy this wonderful recipe, and look how it should looks in reality.

Red Soup - krasnii borshi - красный борщ

2007-10-28T11:57:00.000-07:00

This is a great and hard to prepare soup.
The main elements represent the beetroot and the cabbage. But if you succeed in cooking it, you will be a very happy person.

The ingridients are:
Meat, 250 gr, it can be chicken or beef, or pork
1 beetroot
4 potatoes
250 gr of cabbage
1 carrot
1 onion
tomatoes

The Method of Preparing:
Cut the meat into small pieces. Put it in the pan. Cook until it is already done. Than add the peeled beetroot and wait for 10 min. After it add the peeled cabbage.
When the cabbage is ready add the potatoes and tomatoes. In the end you have to peel the carrot and the onion and fry them a little bit, than add into the soup.
Add some spices not too much, very important is the black pepper and lour leafs.
The soup should be served with cream. Just as it is shown in the picture.

Felul 2 - Marinated Turkey with Mamaliga

2007-10-20T11:39:00.000-07:00

Mamaliga is actually the most traditional romanian food that you may ever find. Because people used to grow corn since long time ago. It is cheap, but very healthy and tasty. Even though corn is grown also in US, but they don't make Mamaliga from it. Which is their minus probably, because they just don't know what they miss.

Method of preparing:
Ok, let me tell you how it is prepared. You have to buy in the market the Corn Flour. It is very easy to prepare. You put some water, and wait till it will be boiling. Than add this Corn Flour, little, than some more, and until it will become as a porridge. It will take about 2-3 min. Leave for couple of min, and it will become hard. Here is a picture.

Ok, lets continue with the main food of this super. It is the turkey. It's not a simple turkey, it should be marinated. Doesn't matter which part of this bird you take. I took a wing, for example. Turkeys have really big wings. Marinate with mayonnaise, all sort of spices, maybe some wine, whatever you like. Here is a picture. I put it into white paper, which is used for baking.

The you have to enroll it like it is shown in the picture and put it into the grill for not less than 45 min. Turn it sometimes from one side to another.

This is how it look after 45 min.

Than add some cheese over it, and put together with the porridge. Don' forget about the garlic in the end. Mamaliga, no matter if it is served with meat or fish, always should have garlic.
This is how i looks in the end. Enjoy!

Beef sous with cream!

2007-09-23T09:28:00.000-07:00

This is a unique recipe of preparing beef. In the end you will get a very tasty beef sous.

The ingridients are:
0,5 kg of beef
1 big onion
1 big carrot
200gr of cream

Method of preparing:
Take the beef and cut it into small piecies. Put them on the hot pan with some oil. Fry them for couple of minutes. Than cut the carrot and the onion into small pieces. Fry this one for some minutes more until it will become roasted. Than add a little bit of cream, like couple of spoons. This is a secret especially for making meat very gentle in just 10 minutes. After it add some water which will cover everything, and cook it for 15 min.

In the end add the rest of cream, add spices. You can choose any spices you like, but don't forget that this shouldn't be too spicy, because it has cream in it. One of the very important ingriedients should be the garlic. Don't forget about it. Enjoy!

"Placinte cu Brinza" modern version of baked pies with curd

2007-09-21T10:02:00.000-07:00

The modern version is very easy and costs less money. All you have to do is by the fluffy dough and 0.5 kg of curd. You can see it in the pictures.

Method of preparing:
Unfreeze the dough. Than cut it into pieces not bigger than your palm. Than you have to prepare the curd. Put it into a bowl and add salt. The traditional "placinte" are very salty, and have a lot of dill. So if you add these two elements you will get the perfect "placinte."

After you put the curd inside the dough as it is shown in the picture, put it in the oven for about 20 min.

Aluatul:
- 1 kg de faina (eu am folosit 300 de gr de manitoba ai 700 de 00, dar fiecare poate folosi faina alba normala pe care o foloseate de obicei)
- 200 gr zahar tos
- 4 oua
- 25 gr drojdie proaspata
- 200 ml lapte
- 150 gr unt topit
Umplutura :
- circa 1 kg branza (eu am folosit ricotta de vaca, proaspata cumparata azi dimineaaa de la piaaa, din pacate nu scrie pe bon cat cantarea exact ai un alt fel de branza tot de vaca proaspata care aici se numeate tomini piemontezi, cred ca an total o fi fost un chilogram, ami pare rau dar acum ami dau seama ca nu am cantarit-o)
- 3 oua
- 100 gr stafide
- esenaa de vanilie
- 4 linguri pline cu varf de zahar pudra (mama mi-a zis: dupa gust, la care am anceput sa-i zic: metoda comunista de uniformizare a gusturilor e subiectiv de tot “dupa gust” ca ce e dulce pentru ea pentru mine poate nu fi suficient de dulce ai invers, aaa ca eu zic ca fiecare sa guste ai sa decida cat zahar merge, mai ales ca depinde foarte mult ai de ce fel de branza folosiai)
- coaja rasa de la o portocala.

"Shuba" - Шуба

2007-09-20T11:05:00.000-07:00

This is a traditional russian food, but because of the fact that Moldavian, Russian and Ukranian cuisine have a lot in common, Shuba became something common for this territory.

The ingridients are:
1 herring
1 carrot
1 onion
4 potatoes
1 beetroot
3 eggs
mayonese

The method of preparing:

Put the carrot, the potatoes, the beetroot and the eggs in a bowl and cook them until they will be done. It depends, for example it will take 20 minutes to cook the beetroot and the potatoes, and 10 min for the eggs.
Cut everything into small piecies like you can see in the picture.

Firstly you put the small pieces of herring. Than cover them with circles of onions and pieces of carrot. Than should follow a layer of potatoes. Than arrange on it the eggs. Cover everything with a tiny layer of herring and onions.

One of the last elements is the beetroot. It should be peeled. Arrange it upon everything in a little more bigger size layer than the rest of ingridients.

At the end put some oil apun it and mayonese. Exactly how it looks in the picture.

This is how it should look from one side.

Special Equipment

2007-08-22T09:24:00.000-07:00

Ranging from cake pans, can openers, colanders, eggrings, poachers and holders, food dishes and proportioner , food pans and food containers to other kitchen utensils, such as food scales, food scoops and fryer baskets and accessories, the Moldavian cuisine needs a diverse cooking equipment set in order to produce the most sophisticated Moldavian dishes. You should consider insulated food carriers if you are transporting the food and a full set of kitchen linens and uniforms if you wish to look like a pro. Here are a few other items that will come handy while cooking Moldavian food: juicers, kitchen knives, kitchen slicers, and kitchen thermometers, measuring cups and measuring spoons, miscellaneous utensils, mixing bowls and skimmers and strainers. Essential utensils like serving spoons, spatulas, forks, turners, scrapers and tongs should also be part of your cooking “arsenal”.

Preparation Methods for Moldovan Cooking

2007-08-21T09:20:00.000-07:00

Moldavian cuisine uses elements from very various cooking traditions burrowed from their neighbors and developed from their own traditional dishes. While there are no specific or unique preparation methods for Moldavian cooking, we should point out that attention to details is important in the Moldavian cuisine. Using the right amount of spices for example is essential- either for spicing up the taste or for coloring the dish. The diversity of the vegetables and cereals found in Moldavia is also noticed in the delicious dishes belonging to their cuisine. The visual attractiveness of the dish is also important, and a balance between colors and proportions differentiates. Each traditional dish has a special cooking method, which is more or less general in all of Moldavian regions. Meat is one of the main elements of most Moldavian dishes and cure and smoked hams are often parts of delicious dishes.

Moldavian Cuisine

2007-08-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

Moldavia is a small country situated in Eastern Europe and it borders Romania to the west and Ukraine to the North, South and East. Moldova is a rich country with fertile soil; the favorable natural and climatic situation favors to the growth of grapes, fruits and numerous vegetables which bring a unique flavor in Moldavian cuisine. Moldavian cuisine maintained some influences along with time passing by; you can find some Greek elements, like placinte or invartite, Mediterranean characteristics such as yeast, vegetable oils, spicy sauces, preparing food with wine; Turkish influences are shown by the tendency to prepare mutton meat; and all these influences improved the Moldavian cuisine. Traditional cuisine of Moldavia is based on crop such as corn, Wheat, rice, potatoes and other cereals; as for meat people from Moldavia prefer poultry, Pork and Beef meat; fish is very rarely used in Moldavian cuisine.

By Geographic Area and Style:

This north eastern region of Romania has had Russia as a neighbor and occupier throughout its history, and Russian influences are often noticed. The traditional bors is a creamy soup made out of tomatoes, and although it is not solely prepared in Moldova, it is most popular here. Other dishes like “parjoale” - dumplings containing Veal meat, onions and garlic are also very popular in this region. Other interesting dishes, such as “poale-n brau” are relatively unknown in the other Romanian regions and are mostly appreciated in Moldova. Moldavian cuisine is also famous for its precise and clear taste. The use of cream, or light sources prepared with a little bit of flour is characteristic for most of the dishes in Moldova.

People from Moldavia prepare many dishes using corn. The traditional Moldavian dish called mamaliga is made of water, salt and corn flour. The corn is also used in soups and garnishes, it is boiled and baked. The vegetables play an important role in Moldavian cuisine. Garnishes and independent dishes are prepared from them. Vegetables are often boiled, baked, stuffed, stewed and salted, and rarely fried. The most appreciated vegetables in Moldavian cuisine are green beans, Lentil, tomatoes, sweet pepper, eggplants, vegetable marrows, potatoes, onions and garlic. People from Moldavia also consume a lot of milk products like yoghurt, milk cream, cheese in various forms and animal products such as eggs. In the eastern side of Moldavia, cabbage pies is the most common dish, cabbage pies are prepared after a Slavic method of salting and souring.