Meat Balls, Pirjoale

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.

Ribs

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.

Meatballs with sous

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 :)

Another type of lunch!

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.

Rotatui)) Ratatui

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)

The New Year Party

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

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

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 :)

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

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.

Beef sous with cream!

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!