Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Mushrooms sous with pasta

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.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Birthday Cake

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.
easter cake
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.
easter cake

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Another type of lunch!

Meatboals with peas and potatoes
leave your comments pls)meatballs, peas

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Vegetable soup

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

bulgarian vegetable soup

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Soup with peas

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!
soup with peas

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Easter Bunny Cake, Are you ready for Easter

Easter Bunny CakeAre 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.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

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 :)

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A surprise for his wife

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.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Chicken sous

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

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Pie

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 :)

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Cabbage soup

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.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Another cabbage pie

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.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Cookies


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!

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Spices

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 ^)

Friday, February 1, 2008

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.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Salad

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.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

PayPerPost

I had signed up for payperpostprogram and I am very excited to work with them and earn a lot of money. I heard about it from a friend of mine. She was writing posts for payperpost for about couple of months, and I was really amazed how much money she had earned. She said that there is a website which pays you for writing posts, and posting them on your website. This seemed to me a great idea, and a good way of getting paid for what you like to do. As payperpost has an affiliate program, my friend gave me her affiliate link and I had immediately registered there. As my blogs were not fitting the requirements of payperpost at that moment, I had to work on them and make them look good and fit the conditions. In couple of weeks I had submitted another blog and they had approved it. Now I am very thankful to my friend which told me about payperpost program. I think it is amazing, because it gives the chance for a lot of people to earn a lot of money, to do what is easiest for them to do, to use their heads and in the end have a lot of fun.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

An example of lunch!



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.)

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Chicken soup with peas


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!

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I love Pancakes!!!

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.