Fusion Passion

Tomato soup with rice/Zupa pomidorowa z ryżem

2012-02-20T12:53:00.003+02:00

Materials:

tomato juice
carrots

leek

allspice
bay leaf

celery

parsley

chicken wings

water

salt and pepper

rice

butter

Preparation:

To a bit salted water put chicken wings, bay leat and allspice. Cook until water boil. Then add washed and peeled vegetables. Add tomato juice. In in a separate pot put a bit butter, salt and add washed rice, mix with butter a bit then at water and cook.

Polski

Materiały:

sok pomidorowy
marchew

por

ziele angielskie

liść laurowy

seler

pietruszka

skrzydełka kurczaka

woda

sól i pieprz

ryż

masło

Przygotowanie:

W osolonej wodzie umieścić skrzydełka z kurczaka, liść laurowy

i ziele angielskie. Gotować, aż dowrzenia. Następnie dodać oczyszczone i obrane warzywa, oraz sok pomidorowy. W osobnym garnku do masła i soli dodać umyty ryż, wymieszać z masłem, następnie ugotować.

Na koniec do zupy dodać ryż.

SMACZNEGO!

Happy Valentine Day!

2012-02-15T13:49:00.000+02:00

Tuna salad/Sałatka z tuńczyka

2012-02-05T21:48:00.003+02:00

Materials:

tuna in oil

salad
red cabbage

gherkins

capers

avocado

yellow peppers

salt and pepper

garlic powder

olive oil

lemon

Preparation:

Thoroughly wash vegetables, cut into cubes, stir, add the spices:)
Ready!

Polski

Materiały:

tuńczyk w oleju

sałata

czerwona kapusta

korniszony

kapary

awokado

żółta papryka

sól i pieprz

czosnek w proszku

oliwa z oliwek

cytryna

Przygotowanie:

Dokładnie umyć warzywa, pokroić w kostkę, wymieszać, dodać przyprawy:)
Gotowe!

Spinach soup with potato/Szpinakowa z ziemniakami

2012-01-28T16:09:00.000+02:00

Materials:

spinach

potato

carrots

leek

onion
garlic

celery

bay leaf

allspice

egg

butter

parsley
water
salt and pepper
cream

Preparation:

Wash all the vegetables, clean and cut into cubes. Put to the put with salted water. Boil. Cook spinach on the pan with butter, onion and garlic. Potato cook in salted water. Separately boil eggs, add them to the soup after cutting into small cubes. Add also cooked spinach. Serve with cream, parsley, and next to soup give smashed potatoes with browned onions.

Polski

Materialy:

szpinak

ziemniak

marchew

por

cebula
czosnek

seler

lisc laurowy

ziele angielskie

jajko

maslo

natka pietruszki
woda
sol i pieprz
smietana

Przygotowanie:

Umyc dokladnie wszystkie warzywa i pokroic w kostke. Umiesc w garnku z osolona woda. Zagotowac. Gotowac szpinak na patelni z maslem, cebula i czosnkiem. Ugotowac ziemniaki w osolonej wodzie. Oddzielnie ugotowac jajka, dodac je do zupy pokrojone w drobna kostke. Dodac także ugotowany szpinak. Podawac ze smietana, natka pietruszki, oraz ze zmiazdzonymi ziemniakami i z zasmazaną cebulka.

Pycha!

Kapuska

2012-01-20T12:25:00.000+02:00

In Turkish kitchen you can find also cabbage dish call Kapuska. It is very easy and fast meal recipe.

Materials:

cabbage

onion

garlic
tomato paste

butter
rice

salt and papper

vegetable seasoning

water

Preparation:

Wash the cabbage leaves. Cut them up finely. Put to salted water, boiled and then removed water from the pot. Clean onion and garlic, cook a bit on the butter. Add to cabbage,aslo tomato sauce and spices. Cover pot and boil over low heat. Add washed rice.

Cook still for a while.

Eat hot or cold, with bread, potatoes or dumplings.

Enjoy your meal!

Polski

W tureckiej kuchni pojawia sie takze kilka potraw przygotowanych z kapusty. Oto jeden latwy i bardzo szybki przepis.

Materialy:

kapusta
cebula
czosnek
koncentrat pomidorowy
masło
ryż
sól i pieprz
przyprawy warzywne (vegeta)
woda

Przygotowanie:

Umyc liccie kapusty. Pokroic je drobno. Wlozyc do osolonej wody, gotowac az do wrzenia, następnie oddcedzic wode z garnka. Cebule i czosnek podrumienic nieco na masle. Dodac do kapusty, takze sos pomidorowy i przyprawy. Przykryc garnek i gotować na małym ogniu. Dodac umyty ryz.
Gotowac jeszcze przez chwile, az ryz bedzie miekki
Podawac na gorąco lub zimno, z chlebem, ziemniakami lub kopytkami.

Smacznego!

Couscous with vegetables

2012-01-01T21:21:00.001+02:00

Materials:

leek

zucchini

red beans

corn

red pepper

couscous

olive oil

salt and pepper

Preparation:

Cook the couscous. Fry the leeks in a pan with olive oil.

Add pepper, then corn and red beans. At the end zuchini.

Add salt and pepper. Then mix couscous with vegetables.

Mniamm!!!

Pasta with carrot and pumpkin

2011-12-30T16:24:00.001+02:00

Materials:

pasta

onion

carrot

pumpkin

butter

salt

pepper

water

Preparation:

Wash and peel vegetables. Wipe caroot and pumpkin on a medium grater mesh. Fry onion on the pan with butter. Add carrot and pumpkin fry for around 10 min. Put a bit water to don't burn. Add spices.

In a cold, salted water cook pasta.

Then mix pasta with vegetables.

Bon appetite!

Borsch soup with mushroom croquette

2011-12-29T14:58:00.001+02:00

LOVE IT!

Borsch

Materials:

beet

carrot

parsley

onion

celery

garlic

lemon juice

allspice

marjoram

pepper

water

apple (if you wish)

Preparation:

Wash and peel the vegetables, put them to 1l of cold water.

Add allspice, bay leaf, then cook on low heat vegetable broth.

Strain vegetable and leave the water broth.

Put to the soup garlic, marjoram, lemon juice and pepper.

Mushroom croquette with cheese

Materials:

flour

milk

egg

onion

mushroom

yellow cheese

garlic

marjoram

oil

salt and pepper

Preparation:

Sift the flour into a bowl, add eggs and milk, then mix them thoroughly. Fry pancakes on a hot pan with oil. Wash mushrooms and cut into slices. Chop the onion and fry with mushrooms in the pan. Crush garlic and add with the marjoram to the mushrooms. Put mushrooms and choped cheese on pancake, wrap the edges of both sides, then roll them. Put croquettes in bread crumbs and fry in oil.

Serve them on a plate next to the hot soup.

Enjoy!!!

Noodles with poppy seeds

2011-12-28T21:28:00.000+02:00

It is my favorite christmas dessert

Materials:

noodles

orange peel

poppy seeds

cinnamon

honey

cloves

almonds

butter

milk

water

Preparation:

Noodles cook in salted water. Poppy seeds put to warm water for about one hour. After that take a water by squeezing with cloth. Then cook poppy with milk for a 30 min, squeeze again.

Grind 2-3 time in the machine.

On the pan melt the butter, add the poppy, raisins, honey and spices.

When ingredients will good mix combined and get soft add the noodles. Simmer for another 3-4 minutes.

Tartar of smoked salmon with vegetables

2011-12-27T12:27:00.000+02:00

Materials:

smoked salmon

egg

olives

paprika

cucumber

avocado

olive oil

salt

pepper

lemon

Preparation:

Cut salmon to small pieces. Boiled eggs, cut them into small cubes, add to salmon.

Wash cucumber, paprika and avocado. Cut into small cubes, olives into slices, then add to a whole salmon.
In the end add 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Mix thoroughly, then serve with lemon.

Orginal recepie: http://www.przepisy.pl/

A lot of Parmesan

2011-12-26T15:10:00.002+02:00

Penne is a great pasta, I like it a lot, even to eat without any sauce.

This time I mix it only with:

Materials:

olive oil

salt and peeper

parsley

a lot of Parmesan

ready-made pesto

water

penne

Preparation:

Boil salted water for pasta, cook to al dente.

Then to cooked penne add olive oil, parsley, parmesan and pesto.

So easy, so tasty!

Spaghetti with mushroom sauce

2011-12-21T20:06:00.002+02:00

Materials:

onion

garlic

parsley

mushrooms

pepper

salt

cream

butter

water

flour

parmesan

Preparation:

Cut onions, garlic and mushrooms into thin slices.

Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the prepared vegetables and cook for 5 minutes.

Then add water, salt and pepper.
Mix flour thoroughly with cream, then carefully pour to the boiling water.

Cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute.

Finally, add to sauce chopped parsley and pepper to taste.

Mniam!

Minced meat dishes with red lentils

2011-12-16T21:15:00.000+02:00

Turkish likes lentils a lot.
They have a lentil soup, that I like a lot, and lentil patties (Mercimek köftesi) that I made before, and today I made another one. Lentils with meat.

Materials:
1 cup red lentils
1 dry onion
garlic
olive oil
2 tomatoes
50 gr. ground beef
1 tablespoon tomato paste
salt, pepper, mint, red pepper

Preparation:
Peel onion and cut into cubes, add also garlic, and cook on the pan with olive oil. Then add to the pan meat, salt and pepper. Cook around 15 min. then add water, tomatoes, lentils, and in the end tomato paste. Cook until lentils will be soft. Served with dry mint and red pepper.

Enjoy!

Tarhana

2011-12-09T20:52:00.001+02:00

The Turkish tarhana is made from flour, yoghurt, and tomateos, fermented then dried. Turkish people drink this soup in the winter and/or when they are sick. All of us is ill, me and childen, so I got tarhana from my friends. I made it for lunch. Deniz and Melis ate it with relish.

Tarhana is cooked as a thick soup by adding cold stock, water, or milk and simmering.

I don't like the taste of this soup, it is too sour for my taste. But the children LIKE it.

Thursday dinner

2011-12-08T21:18:00.001+02:00

My favorite kitchen: Italian!
I love pasta. LOVE LOVE LOVE!
In my kitchen there are many kinds of pasta. Today I tried recipe from the box of penne, but still put something from myself:)
Came forth delicious!

20 min. for 4 people

Penne
Spinach
Green Pea
Parmesan
Cream
Onion
Garlic
Blue cheese
Olive oil or Butter
Water, salt, and pepper

Cut onion into cubes and fry in a pan with olive oil or butter. Add washed and chopped spinach, put a bit of salt and pepper and garlic. Add a water and cook for 10 min. Then put greean pea and cook more. After sometime add a blue cheese. In the end add a cream. In the meantime, boil penne in salted water to "al dente". Mix pasta with a sauce, add parmesan.

Bon Appetit!

Chicken legs with parsley and olives

2011-10-13T16:45:00.000+03:00

Fast and healty chicken!

What we nedd:

-chicken legs

-olive oil

-salt

-parsley

-olives

-butter

Rub chicken with salt, olive oil, add parsley and olives. Close with stretch. Put in the fridge for a few hours.

Grill in the oven, add some more olive oil. Cook for around 1 hour until will get gold color.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Cupcake

2011-10-11T21:08:00.001+03:00

Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 1 cup of bitter chocolate pieces
- 1 tablespoon of icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons of flour
- 3 eggs

Method:
- Melt butter and chocolates together in a pot sitting over hot water
- Get yolks of 2 eggs and the whole other egg, mix them with sugar until the mixture becomes thicker
- Add chocolate-butter mixture into the eggs. Be sure the chocolate is not too hot and won't cook the eggs.
- Add flour and mix
- Fill 2/3 of paper cups with the mixture
- Cook in preheated oven at 180degrees. If you want the center to be runny, cook for 15 mins, if you want solid cakes, cook for 30 mins.

You can serve with icing sugar on top, a scoop of vanilla ice-cream on the side.

Enjoy ;)

Purslane- Semizotu

2011-08-17T22:10:00.003+03:00

Ingredients:

1 kg purslane
1 / 2 cup olive oil
tomatoes
onions
cup of rice
sugar
salt

Preperation:

Extract and rinse the purslane. Finely chop the onion, peel and cube tomatoes. Fry onions in olive oil until pink. Add peeled tomatoes and stir for 3-4 minutes. Add salt, sugar, rice, purslane and stir throughly. Cook over low heat until rice is tender with very little water. Constantly check the water and add a small amount of hot water as rice sucks in the water in the pan. Serve warm with some fresh olive oil on top.

Flour Cookies

2011-04-08T19:50:00.001+03:00

Un Kurabiyesi- I love them. This one my husnabd made it for me:)
Thank you Dear!

Ingredients:

150g of butter
1 teaglass of icing sugar
2 water glasses of flour

Preparation:

Melted the butter, added the sugar, sifted the flour. Mixed them up. Mixed with hands afterwards, put in the molds and put in oven 180 degrees preheat for about half hour.

Delicious!

Soup with sauerkraut and beans

2011-02-25T14:58:00.000+02:00

Ingredients:

- sauerkraut
- beans
- carrot
- potato
- parsley
- tomato puree
- leek
- celery
- cream
- grainy black pepper
- bay leaf
- salt
- water
- broth
- marjoram

Preparation:

Beans put to cold water and leave for the night.
Wash and peel vegetables, cut into cubes. To the pot put water, add beans, bay leaf, grainy black pepper.
Cook until boiling. Then add vegetable and broth. Put tomato puree and marjoram. Cook until beans will be soft. Before serving add cream.

Enjoy!

Lentil patties (Mercimek köftesi)

2011-02-05T14:35:00.006+02:00

Ingredients:
Ingredients:

- red lentil
- wheat (bulgur)
- water
- salt, pepper
- cumin
- green onion
- parsley
- tomato paste
- margarine or butter
- onion
- lemon

Preparation:

Cook a bit chooped onion on butter or margarine. Add tomato paste into onion and continue to cook a bit more. Wash 2 cups of lentils. Put to pot, add 4 cups of water. Boil. After water will go away, take it from fire, add 1 cup of wheat, and leave it for 15 minutes. Chooped parsley and green onion, add spices, and mix all ingredients together. Then format the dumplings.
In the end put lemon juice.

Enjoy your meal!

Pasta with brussels sprouts

2011-02-02T20:13:00.002+02:00

Ingredients:

- penne
- brussels sprouts
- orange
- lemon
- butter
- garlic
- salt and pepper
- Parmesan
- cream

Preparation:

Pasta cook al dente in sold water. Brussels sprouts cook in steam pot for 20 minute.
Cooked brussels sprouts put into pan with butter, add lemon and orange juice, garlic and spice. Cook for a bit more. In the end add cream. Before serving, sprinkle with parmesan cheese.

Tasty!

Vegetable soup with brussels sprouts

2011-02-02T19:54:00.003+02:00

I do not like brussels sprouts much, but I bought to check if Melis likes:)

She like it in soup.

Ingredients:

- carrots
- parsley
- celery
- broccoli
- brussels sprouts
- potatoes
- leek
- corn
- water
- salt and pepper
- cream

Preparation:

Put into the pot with water, previously washed and diced vegetables. Add salt and pepper. In the end mix soup with blender. Add corn and cream. Very tasty!

Enjoy

Salad with potatoes and pickled cucumber

2011-01-20T15:49:00.001+02:00

It is very easy meal, and very good with pork chop.

Ingredients:

- potatoes
- pickled cucumbers
- chives
- dill
- yoghurt
- mayonnaise
- salt and pepper

Preperation:

Potatoes wash, clean and cook in salted water. After cook cut into cubes. Cucumbers also cut into cubes. The same with chives and dill. In the bowl mix together yoghurt and mayonnaise, add some salt and pepper.
In the end put all ingredients together and mix.

Very tasty!

Salad with tuna and avocado

2011-01-19T16:52:00.005+02:00

We didn't ate something green and healthy for sometime. I decided that I make salad.
At home I had the avocado and tuna, they super-fit to eatch other.
The problem is that now I can not eat fish from the can. So I made tuna...next to salad:)

Ingredients:

- salad
- avocado
- tuna
- red pepper
- corn
- cucumber
- cherry tomatoes
- chives
- garlic
- capers
- dill
- spices to salads
- olive oil
- balsamic sauce
- salt and pepper
- parmesan

Preparation:

Wash all vegetables thoroughly, cut into cubes, move up to the salad bowl.
Prepare the sauce and tuna, separately. To tuna add a little olive oil (unless it is already in oil), dill and capers, salt and pepper. Sauce do with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and spices to salads, add garlic. Pour the sauce to the vegetables and mix all ingredients. At the end sprinkle with parmesan cheese of the salad!

Enjoy!

Burrito

2011-01-14T14:22:00.002+02:00

Yestarday I had an appetite for Mexican food. Fast and easiest one to make was BURRITO with beef and been. I didn't make spicy one.

Ingredients:

- minced beef
- red beans
- corn
- tomatoes
- onions or chives
- garlic
- herbs de Provence
- vegetable seasoning
- olive oil
- yellow cheese
- sweet cream
- salad
- tortillas
- salt and pepper

Preperation:

On the hot pan add olive oil, onion and garlic. After sometime put meat and spices. Tomatoes wash and blender to get tomatoes juice, add to the beef. After sometime add red beens and corn. Cook for a while.
In the same time wasn and clean salad, grate yellow cheese, and warm tortillas.
Ready meet put on tortillas, add salad, a bit of cream, cheese and roll it.

Enjoy!

Penne with pepper and zucchini

2011-01-13T10:45:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

- penne pasta
- red pepper
- zucchini
- onions
- garlic
- dill
- salt and pepper
- olive oil
- parmesan

Preperation:

Cook pasta in salted water, add some olive oil, cook al dente. On the pan fry onion and garlic, cut into cubes pepper and zucchini, add to the pan. In the end add dill, salt and pepper. Mix pasta with vegetable, add parmesan.

Enjoy your meal!

Rice cake with apples and cinnamon

2011-01-10T22:43:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

- rice
- milk
- apples
- lemon
- raisins
- cinnamon
- salt
- sugar
- butter
- vanilla sugar

Preperation:

Wash 2 glasses of rice, put to the pot, add 2-3 glasses of milk with a bit of butter, 1 teaspoon sugar and a pinch of salt, coke about 30 minutes. From time to time put more milk to rice. In the same time peel 2 apples, grate, then sprinkle with lemon juice, season with vanilla sugar and cinnamon. Put hot water to half glass of raisins. Leave them like that for sometime. After rice is cooked, put to salad-bowl one part of rice, another of apples, then again rice. On top put raisins, cinnamon and vanilla sugar.
It is very tasty, not so sweet, perfect for children and pregnant woman:)

Let's say Ukrainian borscht (Barszcz Ukrainski)

2011-01-06T15:41:00.006+02:00

Ingredients :

- bay leaf

- grains allspice

- salt, pepper

- beets

- potatoes

- greens

- pea or white beans

- garlic

- onion

- sour cream

- sugar

- lemon

Preperation:

In pot put water and add bay leaf, grains allspice, salt and pepper.
Add peeled, diced, raw beets, potatoes, greens, including onion and garlic. Bring to boil, then reduce the heat. Add beens (beens should be leave in the water for night, and next day cook separately). Put a bit sugar and lemon juice. Before serving add some cream.

Pierogi with sauerkraut and mashrooms

2010-12-21T19:48:00.001+02:00

Stuffing:

- 500 gr. of sauerkraut
- 10 gr. of dried mushrooms
- onion
- oil
- salt and pepper
- vegetable or meat broth

Preperation:

Cabbage, if it is very sour squeeze lightly or wash a bit, cut to very small pices and cook, in the vegetable or meat broth. Mushrooms put to hot water and leave for sometime. Then coook separately.
Cooked mushrooms, drain and chop. Mix cabbage and mushrooms with tablespoons of oil, salt and pepper. Add chopped and browned on butter onions.

Ingredients for the dough:

- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 egg
- 3 / 4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon oil

Preperation:

All the ingredients put in a bowl, mix with robot (on the slowest speed) or hands , can of course by hand. Roll out the dough, put on minimally of flour. Cut out circles of dough, put stuffing on them with a teaspoon, stick together.

Very tasty with butter and onion!
Enjoy!

Pierogi with raspberries

2010-12-19T20:59:00.003+02:00

This weekend I made "Golabki" , and decided to make Pierogi.
Polish traditional dish. I don't know a person who doesn't like pierogi:)
I love pierogi with fruit inside, so today I made it with raspberries.

Stuffing:

- frozen raspberries
- sugar

Preperation:

Raspberries mix with sugar, use blender.

Ingredients for the dough:

- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 egg
- 3 / 4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon oil

Preperation:

All the ingredients put in a bowl, mix with robot (on the slowest speed) or hands , can of course by hand. Roll out the dough, put on minimally of flour. Cut out circles of dough, put stuffing on them with a teaspoon, stick together.
(Recepie from "Moje wypieki", dough was amazing nice, thank you!)

Omlet

2010-12-17T15:06:00.001+02:00

My beloved and only one man (for now, in 2 months this can change:) ) is a master of making omlets.
Here is his work.

Ingredients:

- eggs
- milk
- white cheese
- yellow cheese
- tomato
- pepper
- chives
- dill
- salt and spices
- butter

Preperation:

Mix eggs with milk and spices in the glass.
Put butter on hot pan, add blend.
Then add another igredients.
Cook for few minutes untill eggs will get well cooked.

Enjoy!

Dolma with meat

2010-12-16T14:25:00.001+02:00

It is recipe for meat dolma, we already have in our blog recepie for cold dolma with olive oil, here.
This time we made, with help of our friend and Melis babysitter- Meltem, meat dolma.
Here we go!

Ingredients:

- medium-sized bell pepper
- 250 gr. ground beef
- 1 cup rice
- butter or vegetable oil
- tomato paste
- parsley
- onion
- hot water
- salt
- black pepper
- dried mint and another spices
- dill

Preperation:

Wash the peppers, with the knife or hands remove the insinde.
Wash and drain the rice.
Mix thoroughly the ground beef, chopped onion, olive oil, rice,tomate paste, mint/spices, parsley, salt and pepper .
Fill the inside of peppers with the help of a teaspoon, make sure not to pinch too much because it will begin to swell the rice matures.
Stuffed bell peppers in a medium-sized pot, place it upright and close to eatch other.
Add the olive oil, tomato paste and two cups of boiling water into to the pot.
Heat to boiling over high heat, then cook on low heat. Half an hour later baked stuffed peppers with a fork.
Transfer to a serving dish, decorated with dill and serve hot.

Enjoy!

Cinnamon French pastries

2010-12-15T17:04:00.004+02:00

I took a recepies from Polish website: "Moje wypieki.
I love cinnamon, so I ate a lot of those.

Ingrediens:

- pre- rolled sheet of puff pastray
- 1/3 cup caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon

Preperation:

Combine the sugar with the cinnamon. Unfold the pastry and lightly dust work surface with flour or sugar mixture. Sprinkle some of the sugar mixture evenly on top of the sheet of puff pastry. Carefully press the sugar into the pastry. Then roll pastry. Cut to small pieces.
Bake in the 200 degrees C for 7 minutes, until golden and then turn them over with a spatula and bake for an additional 7 minutes.

Enjoy!

Vegetable salad

2010-12-13T15:19:00.002+02:00

Ingredients:

- eggs
- carrots
- parsley root
- corn
- green pea
- pickled cucumbers
- apples
- potatoes
- mayonnaise
- mustard
- salt and pepper

Preperation:

Boil the potatoes, eggs, carrots and parsley. Then cut them into pieces, the same with cucumbers, apples.
Add peas and corn. Season with salt, pepper, mix with a mayonnaise and mustard.
Very easy and amazing tasty!

Sweet - Sour chicken in Chinese

2010-12-11T23:43:00.001+02:00

Ingredients:

- breast of chicken
- olive oil
- sesame
- honey
- lemon
- soy sauce
- teryaki sauce
- chinese noodles
- carrots
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- chives
- garlic
Preperation:

Cut the chicken breast into cubes, pour olive oil, honey, lemon juice, soy sauce, sauce teryaki and sesame. Cover with foil and put in the fridge for about 2 hours or even more.
Wash vegetables, peel and cut into cubes. In hot and salted water and cook noodles.
to the preheated wok, pour the soy sauce and olive oil, add the vegetables and chicken, boil them a little and add noodles. Cook until soft.

Tasty!

Cake with plums

2010-12-02T21:34:00.004+02:00

I never baked in my life, last days I started to think to make cake. And I made it, thanks to nice baking website "Moje Wypieki".

Ingredients:

- softened butter (125 g)
- 10 tablespoons sugar
- 3 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 10 tablespoons flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- plums
- icing sugar

Preperation:

Blend all ingredients thoroughly. Pour the batter into the mold lined with baking paper, place fruits on top (skin to the bottom, open at the top). Bake at 180 º C for about 45 minutes. Before service spread some icing sugar on it.

Bon Appetit!

"Yayla corbası"- Yogurt soup

2010-11-26T15:37:00.003+02:00

I am not a fan of Turkish soups (but I am amazing fan of soups generaly), they are too thin for me.
Most of them are made on butter (as a fat) without greens.
I like soups that make me full :) with a lot od staff in it.
I have two maby three favorite Turkish soups: mercimek corbası (lentils soup), yayla corbası (yogurt soup), and Turkish tomato soup.
I already made lentils soup before, many times, and I add some my igredients there also:).
Today I decided to make yayla corbası (yogurt soup).

Igredients:

- 1.5 tbsp flour
- 1 egg
- rice or pasta
- 2 cups yogurt
- cold water
- butter
- dry mint
- salt

Preparation:
Mix all ingredients except water in a saucepan. Add water, stirring constantly. Continue stirring the soup with a wooden spoon and cook over high heat until boiling. Add rice or pasta. Turn down the bottom of boils, and continue cooking until rice/pasta is soft. Meanwhile, melt the butter and mix it with mint. Add it to soups. Add salt just before the service.

Recipe in Turkish here.

Hamburger

2010-11-24T18:10:00.003+02:00

Sometimes some pregnant women have some food caprice:)
I try to don't eat fast food much.
Yesterday I couldn't stop myself and for dinner my family had HAMBURGERS:)

Hamburgers ingredients:

- minced meat
- minced meat seasoning
- parsley
- bread crumbs
- egg
- salt and pepper
- butter and olive oil

Preperation:

Mix all of the ingredients, shape to small chops, then fry in hot pan with butter and olive oil.
Then put into bead, add tomato, cucumber and onions, also some ketchup, mayonnaise or mustard.

To my humburgers I made also some salad, very easy one:

- salad
- corn
- carrots
- olive oil
- balsamic sauce
- salt and pepper

Tasty!

Cauliflower with Corn

2010-10-29T22:23:00.001+03:00

I love soups, in Poland we have a lot of types. I like cauliflower wirh butter and crumbs, but cauliflower as a soup is very tasty and sweet, Melis wanted to add some corn.
It was very good idea!!!

Ingredients:
- cauliflower.
- carrots
- celery
- parsley
- tomato
- corn
- potatoes
- leek
- dill.
- salt
- pepper
- cream
- vegetable broth

Description:
Wash, clean, rinse, chop into smaller pieces all of vegetables, put into boiling salted water. Boil until tender. Then add vegetable broth and cook a bit more. To warm soup put cream and dill.

Chicken breast with spinach

2010-10-21T17:37:00.000+03:00

Spinach is the best with pasta, but today I tried something new.
I don't like meat much, can eat only chicken, mostly.

My idea was to put spinach in to chicken breast:)

Igredients:

- chicken breast
- spinach (frozen one, it is easier)
- butter
- salt, black pepper
- herbes de Provence
- garlic
- onion
- vegetable seasoning
- cream to soups and sauces (18 %)

Preperation:

Clean chickem breast, break to the flat parts, put some salt and black pepper. On the pan put a bit butter, add spinach, garlic, onion, herbs, seasoning and cream. Cook for a some time. After cooking leave to cool.Then put a spoon of spinach on chicken, spread on whole and roll it, can use toothpick to keep it together:). Put on hot pan, with some butter or olive oil, and cook until meat will be good.

Bon Appetit!

Goulash with buckwheat

2010-10-20T23:30:00.001+03:00

I don't like much buckwheat, we don't eat it often but it is healty, so I made it for Melis and myself:)
I mix it with meat and dill sauce.

Meat and dill sauce:
- meat
- dill
- garlic
- onion
- broth
- flour
- water
- salt and black pepper

Buckwheat:
- water
- salt
- buckwheat

Preparation:

In pan fry onions and garlic, add cleaned and cut into pieces meat, cook until meet will be soft. Then add to the meal broth and dill. In the end to make sauce a bit thicker, add mix flour with some water. Cook for a bit more.
Buckwheat put to the salted water and cook until it will be soft.

Easy and tasty!

Lazy dumplings "Leniwe"

2010-09-24T15:37:00.002+03:00

I love everything that is made from flour:)

This time reading some mom&baby magazine I found recipe for dumplings.
Melis helped me prepare Lazy dumplings. See it here!:)

Ingredients:

- white cheese
- egg

- 1 / 2 cup flour

- salt
- butter
- crumbs

Preparation:

Put cheese to the cup and smash to the pure, mix with egg yolk, flour, salt and whipped foam with the protein. Kneaded soft and slightly sticky dough, form roller, and cut off equal pieces of dough. Throw in boiling and lightly salted water . Cook until float to the surface. Take them out to the plate.

In the end add melted butter and bread crumbs.

Easy Chinese

2010-08-11T21:52:00.002+03:00

So many times I told this, but I will tell again I LOVE CHINESE AND ITALIAN FOOD, and everything what is with pasta.

This time, we kept it simple.

Ingredients:
- Soy sauce
- Sesame oil
- Olive oil
- Garlic
- Spring onions
- Sesame seeds
- Soy sprouts
- Noodles
- Chicken breast
- Veggie powder mix

Heat up the wok real good. If you do it well, things will not stick to it. We put some olive oil, soy sauce and sesame oil, mix them up and heat them. Add some chopped garlic, sesame seeds, chopped spring onions, and the soy sprouts.
Boil noodles seperately in salty water until they are cooked.
Dice the chicken and add them into the wok. Add veggie powder mix. Stir until everything is cooked.
Take the noodles from the boiling pot and include into the wok. Mix well.

This may be your Chinese for a beginner.

Enjoy;

Something with Avocado...

2010-08-02T14:46:00.001+03:00

I love avocado a lot.
But doesn't have much idea when to used it, with what?!
Ok sushi, salad..and?

Let's find an idea for avocado:)

I made base:

-avocado
-egg
-olive oil
-salt, pepper
-lemon
-garlic

Then started to add, all separately:

-capers
-picles
-tuna
-watermelon

All of them with my base taste great, and all togehter even better:)
Put this mix on bread with butter and leaf of salad... mniam!:)
Super snacks!

Croquettes with cabbage and mushrooms

2010-07-29T19:02:00.000+03:00

I know it can be strange to it croquettes in the middle of july:) because it's Christmas Food.
I made it with help of my polish friend Agnieszka.We made good job:)
It was great lunch:)

Ingredients for the dough:

- milk
- eggs
- flour
- salt
- water
- oil

Ingredients for filling:

- sauerkraut
- mushroom
- onion
- bay leaf
- pepper, salt,
- allspice
- vegeta or vegetable broth

Preperation:

Pancakes:

Ingredients for the cake mix. At pan pour a few drops of oil, distribute the dough and fry on both sides.

Stuffing:

Rinse the sauerkraut well, add a bit water and cook till soft, add spices: bay leaves, allspice, grains of pepper. Then drain, squeeze and cut into small pieces. Chop the onion and fry. Add clean and choped mushroom. Cook a bit. Add cooked cabbage. Cook about 30 minutes, add salt, pepper and vegeta. Spread stuffing the pancakes and roll up like croquettes.
In the end you can put then in to the egg and breadcrumbs and fry only.

Easy pasta

2010-07-27T12:25:00.001+03:00

I love pasta, Melis loves pasta, and I think Cato likes pasta:)
This is very easy, fast and tasty pasta recepie.

Ingredients:

- penne pasta
- carrot
- zucchini
- onions
- garlic
- vegetable broth or vegetable seasoning
- parmesan
- salt, pepper
- olive oil
- water

Preperation:

Wash vegetables, peel and cut into cubes. To the pot put a bit olive oil, add onion and carrot, cook for a moment, and then add zucchini, again cook a bit. To the vegetables add hot water, broth and pasta, salt and pepper of course. Cook unil pasta will be alDente. In the end pour the water through the filter, so pasta will stay with vegetables and parmesan...and EAT!:)

Lentil soup

2010-07-19T13:50:00.002+03:00

Mother in law visited us, so I've the chance to cook something Turkish:)
I choosed lentil soup ("Mercimek çorbası")

Ingredients:

- red lentils
- onions
- butter
- tomato paste
- chicken broth
- sweet paprika
- dried mint
- salt, pepper

Preperation:

Fry onion on oil first. Wash the lentils, then add ro onion with tomate paste and chicken broth.
Then add boiling water. Cook for a 10-15 min. After 10 minutes, mix all products in the pot (this process to separate the smaller pieces of lentils)
In the end add mint, add salt and pepper. For a service you can give also lemon and red spice pepper.

Delicious!

Warning: You can expect gas after that soup:)))

Polish pancakes with white cheese

2010-07-13T11:29:00.002+03:00

Sometime ago I put recepie about another pancakes, and I promise you that one day I will make real polish pancakes with white cheese.
It is here:)

Ingredients:

Pankcakes:
- egg
- milk
-flour
-sugar
- oil

Filling:
- white cheese
- egg yolks
- vanilla sugar
- raisins

Extras:
- cream
- powder sugar

Preparation:
In a bowl we put 1 egg with 1 cup of milk, add 1,5 cup of flour and a bit sugar. Mix everything to a smooth paste. Warmed up the oil in a frying pan and put a bit of paste. Fry pancakes on both sides until they are golden.
To separate bowl put white cheese, egg yolks, a bit vanilla sugar and raisins ( put them for 5 min. to hot water to make them softer) Mix all. Put filling on pancakes and roll them. In the end put cream and powder sugar on pancakes.

Lamb with vegetables, "Kopytka" (Potato Dumplings) and salad

2010-07-10T23:19:00.002+03:00

Very nice lunch or dinner recipe.
It was my first time to cook lamb meat, I don't like lamb much, but my husband is Turkish, so...
I tried to cook something with it :)
I made lamb for Cato and kopytka for myself, but he ate also:)

Lamb with vegetables:
- lamb meat
- onion
- garlic
- carrot
- green peas
- tomato (or tomato paste)
- vegetable seasoning (Vegeta)
- salt, black pepper
- olive oil
- water

Warm up olive oil in the pan, add chopped onions and garlic, then put meat, cook a bit around 5-10 min, stirring occasionally. After this time add hot water, green peas and cuted to small pieces carrot and tomato, can add a spoon of tomato paste. Add vegeta, salt and pepper. Cook for an hour on low heat.

Kopytka (Potato Dumplings / Polish Gnocchi)
- potatoes
- eggs
- flour
- salt

Boil the peeled potatoes in salted water until they are soft. (I used the potatoes that was cooked one day before). Then let them cool down. Mash them until there is no lumps. Add about 2 cup of flour, 1-2 eggs, and salt. Mix (the best by hand) until the ingredients are combined. Add more flour, as needed, until the mixture becomes a soft dough consistency. Put flour on a flat working surface, then the dough on it, and knead it until gets smooth and pliable. Cut a small pieces of the dough and roll in hands to middle strips. Then from them cut to small rectangles. Boil salted water in a large pot. Put the drough pieces to the water, don't cover the pot. Cook until they float to the surface. Take them out with slotted spoon.

I eat "kopytka" with sugar and cream:) Yummy!
You can also make with diffrent sauces.

Salad
- salad
- tomato
- cucumber
- chives
- parsley
- dill
- olive oil
- salt and black pepper

Mix all ingredients!:)

Pasta with broad bean pesto

2010-05-31T15:03:00.006+03:00

I know I will repeat, but I love broad bean.
Here you have very nice recepie from another web page "Kwestia smaku".
Delicious!

Ingredients:

- pasta
- broad beans
- basil leaves
- pine nuts
- olive oil
- parmesan cheese
- garlic
- salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation:

Beans cook and peel. Cook the pasta in salted water, drain, preserving 1 / 2 cup water.
Half of the cooked and peeled beans put into the blender container, add the basil and pine nuts, leaving part of the decoration. Pour 3 tablespoons of olive oil, add grated Parmesan cheese, garlic, freshly ground black pepper. Mix add enough water from pasta to obtain dense pesto. If necessary, season with salt. The second half of the beans mixed with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil. Pasta mix with pesto. Put into deep plates, add beans postponed with olive oil, garnish with basil and pine nuts.

Sorrel soup

2010-05-27T16:38:00.006+03:00

I love sorrel soup, most of my grandmother. I didn't find sorrel in Turkey, so I am bringing from Poland:)

Ingredients:

- sorrel
- carrots
- parsley
- potatoes
- cream
- hard-boiled eggs
- butter
- dill
- bay leaf
- bouillon or stock cube instant

Preperation:

To the pot with water put bay leaf, parsley and diced carrots. When water will boil add bouillon.
Cook over low heat about 20 minutes, added the potato (or you can cook them seperate)
Wash the sorrel, remove hard stems, cut and fry in butter.
When potatoes are almost tender, add sorrel and dill. Simmer for about 10 minutes.
In the end add chopped hard-boiled eggs.

Broad bean soup

2010-05-18T14:59:00.000+03:00

I love broad bean a lot!!!
In Turkey I can find it only in season...NOW! Fresh, great green broad been!
My brother-in-low made one soup with beijing salad, broad been and green beans.
Taste amazing!

Ingredients:

- broad bean
- beijing salad
- green pea
- carrots

- parsley
- stock cube
- dill
- cream
- salt and pepper

Preperation:

Wash and clean all ingredients. To the pot with water put cut in to cubes vegetables, but broad bean cook seperate with salted water.
When the vegetables start to boil add stock cube and cooked broad bean peeled from the shell. Cook a bit more add dill, salt and pepper in the end cream.

Very tasty!

Young beet soup

2010-05-04T11:06:00.001+03:00

I always plan to make beet soup, in Turkey you can find young beet,
what is much better cause they taste better then old beet:)
Today is a day to try something new, for me is a Young Beet Soup.
I found very nice and easy recipe in internet.

Ingredients:
- celery
- parsley
- carrots
- onion
- pore
- potatoes,
- a bunch of young beets with leaves
- vegetable stock cube
- salt
- pepper
- sugar
- citric acid
- sour cream
- hard-boiled egg
- flour

Preparation:

Wash vegetable, then you need to peel them. Cut greens and potatoes in cubes, onion leave whole.
Greens plus onions and stock cube, water pour over the potatoes and cook vegetables until tender.
Wash beets, cut the bulbs in small cubes, add to the already cooked vegetables and cook until beets are soft. Add spoon of sugar, pinch of citrin acid, salt and pepper and cook 5-10 minutes more.
Then 2-3 tablespoons cream mess with the flour, pouring into the hot soup and pour everything into the pot, stirring - wait until boiling. Seasoning according to taste. At the plate, we cut in quarters boiled egg, pour soup and sprinkle with dill.

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2010-04-12T14:54:00.000+03:00

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The easiest broccoli soup with fried potatoes

2010-03-29T13:54:00.001+03:00

I had cooked potatoes from the previous day, and I do not like to throw food, I decided to do a broccoli soup with fried potatoes.

ingredients:

- broccoli
- carrots
- celery
- salt and pepper
- musket
- spice vegeta
- butter

Preperation:

Wash and clean vegetables, put with water to a into the pot, add some salt and spices. Cook until vegetables will be soft.
After soup is ready, put butter on a pan, then add sliced potatoes and fry for 5 min. Serve with soup!

Delicious...

Tagliatelle with spinach and salmon

2010-03-25T20:37:00.009+02:00

I never cooked anything with fresh spinach. This time I bought fresh, beautiful one and made a cream sauce.

Ingredients:

- tagliatelle
- spinach
- salmon fillet
- onions
- garlic
- olive oil
- butter
- cream
- nutmeg
- salt and pepper

Preperation:

Boil water for pasta, with a bit salt. Cook pasta al dente. To the put a bit of olive oil and butter, add onion and garlic. After 2 min. add a bit water. Cooking, add spinach and a bit salt, pepper and nutmeg. In the end add cream. Spinach sauce mix with tagliatelle. On the pan put a bit olive oil and fry salmon fillet 2 min. on both sides. Ready salmon put on pasta.

Bon appetit!

Pasta with tuna

2010-03-23T17:06:00.002+02:00

I love Italian food, it is my favorite,
and pasta the best food ever!

Here is a recepie for pasta with tuna, my best friend Justyna made it once, long time ago for me, now it is my dinner meal too.

Ingredients:

- pasta
- canned tuna
- tomatoes
- onion
- garlic
- salt and pepper
- herbs de Provence
- parsley
- capers
- yellow chees
- olive oil

Preperation:

Boil salted water. Put pasta in it. Cook for 10-15 min.
Heat pan with olive oil, put onion and garlic, then add tuna, cook for 2-3 min, add tomatoes, salt, pepper and herbs, cook for another 5-10 min, after that add capers, and cook another 5 min.
In the end put yellow chees and parsley for decoration.

I love easy food!
Enjoy your meal!

The easiest salad ever :)

2010-03-21T22:41:00.002+02:00

with pasta.

We ate similar one in turkish shopping center. Melis likes it.

Ingredients:

- pasta
- carrot
- olive oil
- dill
- pepper and salt

Preperation:

Boil salted water. Put pasta. Wash and clean carrot, wipe on the friction of the medium mesh. When pasta will be ready put it into the bowl, add carrot, olive oil, dill, salt and pepper. It is ready!:)))

Paste for bread

2010-03-19T21:46:00.003+02:00

Very easy snack, some people made this as a salad with chicken.
I don't put chicken and we have paste to put on crispy bread.

Ingredients:

- yellow cheese
- pineapple
- corn
- garlic powder
- salt and pepper
- maayonnaise or yogurt

Preperation:

Razer cheese on medium mesh friction, cut pineapple in small pieces, clean corn.
Put everything into a bowl, add salt and papper, garlic powder, maayonnaise or yogurt, or two of them. Mix good!then place on the bread.

Enjoy your meal!

Soup with pickled cucumbers

2010-03-17T13:44:00.004+02:00

soups contd. :)

Ingredients

- pickled cucumbers
- carrots
- parsley
- celery
- por
- potatoes
- both
- water
- dill
- salt, pepper
- bay leaf
- grains allspice
- soy sauce
- cream

Preperation:

Wash vegetables, clean and cut to small pieces. Prepare a pot of water. Put the broth with leeks, bay leaf and pimento. Added the diced potatoes and another veretables. Cook until vegetables are soft.
In the meantime, wipe the friction of the large mesh cucumbers.
Decoction vegetable seasoning with salt, pepper and soy sauce. Add cucumbers along with the juice. Add the dill to taste and in the end cream.

Bon appetit!

Potato soup

2010-03-16T14:44:00.005+02:00

When you have a child sometimes you have to be creative in preparing meals:)
She or he can't eat always "Rosol" (chicken soup) or tomato soup.

This time I made potato soup, very tasty and easy!

Ingredients:

- potatoes
- carrot
- onion
- parsley
- bay leaf
- celery
- salt
- pepper
- broth
- cream
- dill
- water
- olive oil

Description of the preparation:

Wash vegetables. Peel potatoes and cook with saled water. While they cook peel carrot, celery, onion, parsley and cut to small pieces. Fry onions in olive oil on the pan. Boiled potatoes smashed, add water, broth, vegetables and spices. Cook as a soup:) In the end add cream and dill.

p.s To thicken soup can use flour with water!

Greek salad

2010-03-04T12:48:00.003+02:00

I again put on weight:(
It came the time to start preparing salads, instead potato pancakes:)

Let's start from Greek Salad

Ingredients:

- salad
- cherry tomatoes
- feta cheese
- onions
- pepper
- olives
- cucumber

Sauce:

- olive oil
- lemon juice
- vinegar
- mustard
- pepper powder
- salt and pepper
- basil (dried)
- parsley (dried)
- garlic

Preperation:

Wash all of vegetables. Cucumber and peppers cut in very small pieces. Onion cut round. Put all in a bowl (do not mix). At the very bottom put salad and cucumber. At the very top place the feta cheese and olives. In the end add sauce.

Sauce:
Chop the garlic, put to olive oil and move to aside for some time. Then remove the garlic. Add lemon juice to the olive oil and mix well. At the end add the vinegar and other spices: mustard, pepper powder, basil, salt and pepper and parsley.
Mix very thoroughly and allow to stand for at least several hours, the longer the better.

Gołąbki (Stuffed Cabbage Rolls)

2010-03-01T13:09:00.008+02:00

They are a traditional Polish dish made from cabbage leaves, pork or beef meat, chopped onions, rice and spices, most often baked and refried in a spicy or sweet-and-sour tomato sauce. More info here...

Here recepie to my Gołąbki :)

Ingredients:

- cabbage
- pork or beef meat
- rice
- onion
- garlic
- egg
- broth
- tomato paste
- parsley (fresh or dry)
- spacies: salt, pepper, basil, marjoram...(I used prepared spices to the minced meat)
- oil

Preparation:

Put cabbage to salted cold water. Cook until boiling. Take out. Remove leaves slowly to do not break them. Cool before using. Wash rice in cold water and then cook.
To the bowl put meat, add salt and peeper, fried on the pan chopped onions, egg, chopped garlic, spacies and parsley. Mix all ingredients well. After that take one cabbage leaves and put meat on it, then wrap well. In the bottom of the pot put broken cabbage leaves, then on it wraps and again broken leaves. Add broth and cook for one hour. In the end of the cooking add to the sauce tomato paste.
Gołąbki serve with bread or potatoes.

Did I tell, that I love Gołąbki?!
Oh yes, I love them a lot:)))

Pumpkin dessert

2010-02-27T14:11:00.007+02:00

In Istanbul I can find cleaned, fresh pumpkin in every corner of the street.
We love pumpin soup. This time I decides to make something sweet, like pumpkin dessert. I found a lot of nice recepies. Finaly I choose one from Kwestia Smaku, but I wasn't sure about ginger in it, even it is turkish recepie, they say:) So I changed a bit.
Hope you will like it.

Ingredients:

- pumpkin
- honey
- brown sugar
- cloves
- lemon
- cream
- walnuts

Preparation:

Put pumpkin in a pan with not much water, cook about 10 minutes or until tender. Then add honey, lemon juice, sugar and cloves (2 of them).
After cooking take pumpkin out, add cream and walnuts to the sauce and mix.
The mix sauce put again on pumpkin.

So nice dessert!

Potato pancakes

2010-02-26T13:12:00.007+02:00

I like very different kind of vegetable pancakes, for example:
this one with zucchini and carrots, known in Turkey as "müçver".
But what I like the most is our Polish potato pancakes, those with sugar and cream, or with only powder sugar. Çağatay is suprise, how can I eat vegetables with sugar?!
Yes, I can, realy can:)

and Melis can also...

What we need?

- potatoes
- eggs
- flour
- salt
- pepper
- cream (to make pancakes more fluffy)
- oil

How to prepare?

Wash potatoes and peel. Erase the friction on small holes.
Mix with flour, egg, cream, salt and pepper. Put small piece on hot frying pan with oil. Fry pancakes on both sides.

You can add chopped onions, mushrooms, and another spices and vegetables!

Enjoy your meal!

Cauliflower soup with red pepper

2010-02-25T13:28:00.004+02:00

I had a bit of cauliflower after the last soup.
So I added red pepper and some another staff and ...

Cauliflower soup with red pepper!

Ingredients:

- cauliflower
- red pepper
- carrots
- tomate
- celery
- leek
- dill.
- cream
- vegetable broth
- salt
- pepper

Description:

Wash, clean, rinse, chop into smaller pieces all of vegetables, put into boiling salted water. Boil until tender. Then add vegetable broth and cook a bit more. To warm soup put cream and dill.
In the end mix all in the blender.

Bon appetit!

Cauliflower soup

2010-02-24T13:34:00.006+02:00

It is another soup recepie for whole family:)
Now when Melis eats the same food what we eat,
I don't cook two seperate meal.
and she loves my soups.

Ingredients:

- cauliflower.
- carrots
- celery
- leek
- dill.
- salt
- pepper
- milk.
- cream
- butter
- vegetable broth

Description:

Wash, clean, rinse, chop into smaller pieces all of vegetables, put into boiling salted water, add butter. Boil until tender. Then add vegetable broth and milk and cook a bit more. To warm soup put cream and dill.
In the end mix all in the blender.

So tasty!

Valentine's Day dinner

2010-02-19T12:55:00.006+02:00

We decided on Mexican food, recepies by Tyler Ultimate (again)

We made fajitas and guacamole.

Ingredients for fajitas

Marinade (Mojo):
- orange, juiced
- limes, juiced
- olive oil
- garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- roughly chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- ground cumin
- salt

Meat:

- steak and chicken brest
- salt and pepper

Extra:

- red bell peppers, thinly sliced
- large onion, thinly sliced
- lime juice, olive oil, optional
- tortillas, warm
- guacamole, recipe down!
- good quality store bought salsa (we bought tomato and sour cream salsa)
- shredded cheese

Directions:

In a small 2 cup measuring cup, or something similar size and shape, combine all the marinade ingredients. Using an immersion blender, puree the marinade until smooth. Transfer to a re-sealable plastic bag and add the meat, seal and shake to coat. Refrigerate the beef for 2 to 4 hours to tenderize and flavor the beef.

Preheat a ridged grill pan on high heat.

Drain the marinade from the beef. Lightly oil the grill or grill pan. Season liberally with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Grill the steak over medium-high heat and cook for 4 minutes on each side and then transfer to a cutting board and let rest. Depending on the size of your grill pan you may need to cook in batches.

Once the beef is off the grill pan and resting, add the bell peppers and onions tossed with lime juice and olive oil, if using. Grill the mixture for 7 to 8 minutes until the vegetables are just barely limp.

While the peppers and onions are cooking, heat up the tortillas. Turn any free burners on a medium low flame. Place a tortilla on each flame and let it char about 30 seconds to 1 minute, flip the tortilla and repeat on the second side. Once heated and charred remove the tortilla to a clean tea towel and wrap to keep warm. Repeat until you have warmed all of your tortillas.

Thinly slice the steak against the grain on a diagonal.

Now time for guacamole:

- avocados
- limes, juiced
- small onion, chopped
- garlic clove, minced
- fresh cilantro leaves, roughly chopped
- red pepper
- kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- drizzle olive oil

Halve and pit the avocados. With a tablespoon, scoop out the flesh into a mixing bowl. Mash the avocados with a fork, leaving them still a bit chunky. Add all of the rest of the ingredients, and fold everything together.

Orginal recepie here

Fish soup for whole family

2010-02-11T18:48:00.009+02:00

I found fish head in our freezer:)
so what I could do with it? Soup!
Another fish soup recepie in our blog.
This time very easy one for whole family. Melis ate with relish!

Ingredients:

- fish head
- carrot
- parsley
- potato
- peas
- onion
- garlic
- celery
- allspice
- bay leaf
- vegetable broth
- salt, pepper
- dill
- cream

Preparation:

To the pot of water put fish head, add bay leaf, allspice, onion (half) and one clove of garlic. Boil. Take head and dirt from fish out. Then add all chopped vegetables and vegetable broth, also salt and perrer.
Cook on low heat. In the end add a dill and some cream.

Easy and very tasty!

English Cookies

2010-02-04T17:15:00.005+02:00

My new and I think last baking experience:)
Melis loved it:)

Ingredients:

P.S My cookies I did with half of each component.

-1 glass of sugar
-1 cube butter
-4 teaspoons plain yogurt
-1 teaspoon baking powder
-1 vanilla sugar
-2 glass of flour
-handful of raisins

Method of preparation:

Soft butter, sugar, yogurt, vanilla sugar and baking powder mix in a bowl of plump mass mixer. Add raisins. All ingredients mix again.

With tears small pieces of dough and lep their balls with a diameter of 4 cm. Flatten balls between your palms so that the slices were created with a diameter of no more than 5 cm.

Bake at 180 deg C about 12 minutes, the golden color.

You can add to cookies everything you want: walnuts, dry fruits, chocolate, cinnamon etc.

Here recipe in Polish

Muffins for Melis

2010-02-01T23:49:00.004+02:00

I don't like to bake and I don't know how, but for Melis I try:)

Here's the basic recipe for Melis' muffins

- 250 g flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 250 g of yogurt or butter,milk
- 100 g sugar
- 75 ml oil

I added chocolate and raisins to my muffins.

To the bowl put flour, baking powder and sugar.
In the second bowl mix eggs, yogurt and oil.
Then mix two bowls together, quickly stir, pour into a recess form and insert into oven. Warm oven at 180°C. Bake 20-25 minutes.
After baking, leave at least 5-10 minutes in the form that they can cool.

Pancakes with apples

2010-01-26T19:12:00.006+02:00

Ingredients:

-2 eggs
-1 and 1/2 cup milk
-3 tablespoons water
-1 cup sifted flour
-2 pinches salt
-oil
-apples

Preparation:

Beat eggs in the bowl. Add milk and water and beat a few times. Add remaining ingredients. Put oil to the pan. Add a tablespoon of oil and roll around covering the entire pan. Then put a mass pancake on the pan. On mass put some apple slices and cover them again with some pancake dough.
Remove from pan and place on large plate and wait until it gets cool.
Serve topped with sour cream if desired or powdered sugar.

P.S.
In Poland very famouse are "nalesniki" i "racuchy".
My pancakes with apples is simple mix of these two:)
I promise, one day I also will make "nalesniki and racuchy".

Bigos

2010-01-25T18:07:00.005+02:00

Bigos is a traditional Polish dish, made from cabbage, meat, and mushrooms.
I never made one on my own. My mom makes it very nice.
Here in Turkey, it is hard to make it, because you can't find fresh pork meat easily.
So I made a Muslim bigos without pork meat and sausages :)

Ingredients:
- cabbage
- chicken breast
- beef
- friesh mushrooms or dried mushrooms
- dried plums (pitted)
- allspice, bay leaves, pepper, salt, marjoram
- onions
- tomato paste
- butter (or olive oil)

Method:
Cut cabbage to small pices and put in the water, add the allspice and bay leaves. Start to boil the pot.
Fry the meat in butter, cut into cubes, add to cabbage.
Dice the onions, fry in oil, add it to the cabbage.
Clean the mushrooms and dice them. Add mushrooms and plums into the main pot.
Boil stew on simmer at the end of cooking, add the tomato paste, mix well, season to taste with salt and pepper and other herbs.

Mine tasted good as well, almost like Polish traditional one:)
To get the Polish porky taste of bigos, I put added some pork sausages to my portion:) I made some gnocci as side dish (bu simply boiling ready-made gnocci in water)

Bon appetit!

Pan-Fried Fish (with a side-dish)

2010-01-25T11:29:00.005+02:00

Here is a fish recipe that you can prepare in 20 minutes. Very fast, very delicious. Method is below, if you want everything to cook at the same time, start with potatoes, then the fish.

Ingredients (4 servings):
- 4 pieces of fillet of fish (with skin, no bones)
- 1 kg potatoes (a thin skin variety will be perfect)
- 200g of peas (frozen or canned)
- 2 onions
- 2 lemons
- dills
- parsley
- pickled capers
- 3 or 4 pickled gherkins
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- butter, olive oil, sunflower oil
- salt & pepper

Method:

1. The Fish:
In a big pan, pour some sunflower oil, heat up. On the skin of the fish, smear some butter, add salt & pepper. Put the skin side on the pan first. Let fry for around 15 mins. Season the other side as well with salt & pepper. Flip carefully and cook the other side for about 5 minutes on lower heat. That simple.

2. The Side-Dish:
Wash the potatoes, cut bigger ones in half. Put in boiling water and let cook for about 17-18 minutes. In a separate pot, melt a big slice of butter. Cut 4-5 very thin slices of lemon. Dice the onions and add lemons and onions to the butter. Mix until onions turn golden. Then add the peas and turn off the heat (we don't want to overcook the peas, just heat them). When potatoes are cooked, mix these two pots, add some dills and parsley, salt & pepper, butter and olive oil to taste. Smash all together, but do not smash too much, we want some greens to be visible.

3. The Sauce:
Real simple. Put capers, gherkins and some dills together and dice them, put them in a bowl. Add the cream, some olive oil, juice of half a lemon and some salt. Mix well.

4. Serving:
Put about 2 spoons of the side dish on the plate. Place the fish on top, with the (now crusty) skin facing up. Put some sauce on the top. Decorate with some dills.

Enjoy ;)

Tavada Balık (ve garnitürü)

2010-01-24T20:05:00.009+02:00

20 dakikada hazır olacak bir balık tarifi. Hem hızlı hem de çok lezzetli.

Malzemeler (4 kişilik):
- 4 büyük parça kılçıksız fileto balık (pulları alınmış, derisi üzerinde olmalı)
- 1 kilo tatlı patates (ince kabuklu)
- 200g konserve bezelye (donmuş da olabilir)
- 2 küçük soğan
- bir demet dereotu
- bir tutam maydanoz
- 2 çorba kaşığı krema
- 2 çorba kaşığı yoğurt
- Kapari
- Salatalık turşusu
- 2 limon
- tereyağı, zeytinyağı, ayçiçek yağı
- tuz ve karabiber

Yapılışı:
1. Balık:
Geniş bir tavaya ayçiçek yağı ve biraz tereyağı koyun, yağ kızmaya başlayınca balıkların derili kısımları alta gelecek şekilde yerleştirin. İlk terleştirdiğiniz anda bir süre üstünden spatula ile bastırın ki, balık kıvrılmasın. Sonra yaklaşık 15 dakika bu yüzü üstünde pişirin. Derisi güzelce kızarsın. Biraz tuz ve karabiber serpin. Çevirin ve 5 dakika da diğer yüzünü pişirin

2. Sos:
Bir çukur kapta krema ve yoğurdu karıştırın. İçine bir tutam ince kıyılmış dereotu ve ince kıyılmış salatalık turşusu ve kaparileri ekleyin. Yarım limonun suyunu sıkın ve bir tutam tuz ekleyin. İyice karıştırın.

3. Garnitür:
İnce kabuklu taze patatesleri yıkayın ve daha irice olanları ikiye kesin. Kaynayan suyun içine haşlanmak üzere bırakın. Ayrı bir tencerede bir çorba kaşığı tereyağı ve biraz zeytin yağı koyun. Çok ince kesilmiş 5 dilim limonu ekleyin. Soğanları ince doğrayın ve yağın içinde kavurun. Soğanlar kavrulduktan sonra bezelyeleri ekleyin, ateşi ve tencerenin kapağını kapatın (bu şekilde bezelyeler fazla pişmez, sadece ısınır). Patatesler yaklaşık 16-17 dakikada haşlanınca süzün ve bu limon-soğan-bezelye ile karıştırın. Biraz tereyağı, tuz, karabiber ve zeytinyağı ekleyip karışımı püre haline getirin.

4. Sunum:
Bir tabağa önce garnitürü yerleştirin, üstüne balığı derisi üstte olacak şekilde koyun ve en üste de sosunu yerleştirin.

Afiyet olsun ;)

Softest Meatballs Ever

2010-01-22T20:35:00.004+02:00

The recipe is a slightly modified version of Tyler's Ultimate. We watched this episode on TV and decided to try the next time we cook meatballs. I must say it is extraordinary soft, and really delicious.

A good meatball should be as soft as possible without crumbling down into pieces and not overcooked. This recipe delivers both.

Ingredients (for the meatballs):
- 500g minced meat (half-fat beef is best)
- 5 slices of white bread
- 1 glass of milk
- 1 big onion
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 egg
- parsley
- sunflower oil
- salt
- pepper

Ingredients (for tomato sauce):
- 4 tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 medium size onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Half glass water (boiling hot)
- virgin olive oil
- salt
- pepper

Method (the sauce):
1. Peel the skin off the tomatoes. Mesh them fine.
2. Dice the onion
3. Smash the garlic (use a pinch of salt and olive oil)
4. In a saucer pan, pour enough olive oil, when hot, add onions and garlic
5. When onions turn golden, add the tomato paste and water, mix till paste melts
6. Add meshed tomatoes.
7. Add salt & pepper to taste, mix well, cook for 2 minutes, and set aside.

Method (for the meatballs):
1. Remoeve the crust from the bread slices
2. Put bread in a deep bowl and add milk. Soak all bread in the milk, set aside
3. Dice the onion
4. Smash the garlic (use a pinch of salt and olive oil)
5. Cut a handful of parsley thin
6. In a bowl, add meat, onion, garlic, the egg and parsley
7. Take the bread out of the milk, hold in hand for a few seconds until excess milk goes away, add to the bowl with the other ingredients
8. Add salt and pepper to taste
9. Mix all well using both hands.
10. In a pan, heat enough oil.
11. Make a golf-ball sized round meatball, place on the oil slowly
12. Keep making meatballs and place them on the oil. Once the pan is full, rotate the first, then the next and so on. When 2 sides are brown and crusty, put the meatballs into a deep oven trey.
13. When you slightly cook all these meatballs and place them in the oven trey, pour the tomato sauce on top of them.
14. Cook in 230 degrees Celsius oven (preheated) for 25 minutes

Try them with spaghetti.
Enjoy ;)

Cabbage soup "Kapusniak"

2010-01-16T18:28:00.007+02:00

When we travel to Poland, I always buy sauerkraut and another food, which you can not find in Turkey.
This time I made a Kapusniak, it is a cabbage soup from sauerkraut.

Ingredients:
- 2 chicken wings
- sauerkraut
- carrot
- parsley
- celery
- potatoes
- onion
- butter;
- spices: bay leaves, allspice, grains of pepper, cumin, salt, ground pepper, marjoram, maggi.

Made:
meat and cabbage boil in two separate pots.

Cabbage need to be washed, cut the acid, then translate into the pot and pour water. To this add 1 bay leaf, 3 grains allspice and pepper and a little cumin (10 grains). Cook on low heat until soft.

In the second pot, boil broth. Meat are overlaid with water, add bay leaf, 2 grains allspice, a little salt. When the meat is a little tender, seals off the large mesh carrots, parsley and celery. For 10 min. before the end of cooking add the diced potatoes.

It is time to call broths.
Add the diced and fried in butter onion. Most importantly, a good season with salt, pepper, marjoram, maggi.

The orginal recipe is here

Chicken in tomato sauce

2010-01-15T16:53:00.004+02:00

When you are a mother of 1,5 years old baby fast dinner is very important:)
Last day I made chicken in tomato sauce.

To prepare this food you need:

-breast of chicken
-olive oil
-tomato paste
-garlic
-parsley
-herbs de Provence
-parmesan
-cream
-water

Preparation:

Wash chicken breast, dice, fry in olive oil. Add garlic. Fry for 2 mins, then add a glass of water, add tomato paste, parsley and herbs.
When sause is reduced, add grated parmesan.
Chicken in tomato sauce can go with pasta, potatoes, or rice.

I made it with pasta!
I put sauce on pasta, add again parmesan (a lot) and put in the oven for 15 min.
Then add a bit cream!

Delicious!!!

Karni Yarik

2009-12-01T12:36:00.007+02:00

To potrawa z baklazanu i miesa mielonego.
Bardzo ja lubie!
Poprosilam tesciowa o jej przygotowanie.

Skladniki:

-baklazan
-mieso mielone
-cebula
-pomidory
-czosnek
-natka pietruszki
-koperek
-oliwa z oliwek
-koncentrat pomidorowy
-pieprz, sol
-woda

Przygotwanie:

Baklazany umyc, obrac i podsmazyc na oliwie z oliwek. Uwaga!oliwa moze strzelac:)
Podczas gotowania warzyw, przygotowac farsz:
-podsmazyc pokrojona w kostke cebule.
-dodać pół łyżeczki soli i gotować, mieszając od czasu do czasu, az cebula sie zarumieni.
-dorzucic mięso i czosnek oraz przyprawy i natke pietruszki.
-gotowac 5 minut, mieszając od czasu do czasu
-dodac pokrojone pomidory.
Podsmazone bakłażany zdjac z patelni, poczekac az ostygna.
Nastepnie rozkroic baklazany lekko nozem wzdluz i wypelnic je nadzieniem.
Ponownie ulozyc na rozgrzana patelnie, dodac troche wody i koncentratu pomidorowego i dusic na malym ogniu (albo wlozyc do rozgrzanego piekarnika).
Posypujemy koperkiem.

Karni Yarik podawany jest z ryzem.

Smacznego!

P.S Jest tez odpowiednik wegerianski tej potrawy - Imam Bayildi. Ale to nastepnym razem.

Krewetki z papryka

2009-11-10T21:17:00.002+02:00

Ostatnio wzielo nas na krewetki, bardzo lubimy owoce morza, a najbardziej te pelne choresterolu ogromne krewety!:)

Tym razem przygotowalismy krewetki z warzywami, z przewaga papryki.

Skladniki:

-krewetki
-papryka czerwona
-papryka zielona
-cebula
-czosnek
-pomidory
-maslo
-przyprawy: sol, pieprz, sok z cytryny

Przygotowanie:

Krewetki oplukac, wrzucic do zaroodpornego naczynia wysmarowanego maslem. Papryke umyc, usunac gniazda i oproic w cienkie paski. Cebule obrac i drobno posiekac, a pomidory wyparzyc we wrzadku, obrac ze skorki i pokroic w kostke. Warzywa wrzucic do krewetek, dodac sol, pieprz, czosnek i sok z cytryny. Wsadzic do rozgrzanego piekarnika, w tem. 200-230 stopni i piec ok.30 min.

Niebo w gebie!

Salatka Kuskus

2009-11-10T16:35:00.005+02:00

Najlepsza "salatke z kuskus" jadam w jednej z istambulskich restauracji House Cafe.
Ostatnio sprobowalam zrobic swoja wlasna:)

Oto przepis:

Potrzebujemy:

-mala paczke kuskus
-cebule
-pieczarki
-szpinak
-szczypior
-parmesan
-przyprawy: sol, pierz, ziarenka smaku
-czosnek
-wode
-maslo

Przygotowanie:

Do wrzacej osolonej wody wrzucamy kuskus, w miedzyczasie czyscimy pieczarki i kroimy w drobna kostke, pluczemy szpinak i szczypior, cebule rowniez kroimy w kostke.
Kiedy kuskus jest gotowy, do jeszcze goracego dodajemy lyzke masla i odrobine ziarenek smaku. Na rozgrzanej patelni z dodatkiem masla podsmazamy cebule, nastepnie dodajemy pieczarki, sol, pieprz i czosnek, a po jakims czasie drobno posiekany szpinak. Kiedy uznamy ze pieczarki i szpinak sa juz gotowe dodajemy je do kuskus, nastepnie posypujemy parmesanem i gotowe!

Bardzo smaczna salatka. Polecam!

Zupa z soczewicy...czerwonej.

2009-11-06T22:07:00.004+02:00

Meltem, niania naszej coreczki Ady Melis ugotowala nam ostanio zupe, ktora sama chcialam juz od dluzszego czasu przygotowac "Merçimek çorbası", czyli turecka zupe z soczewicy.
Turcy maja jej kilka odmian, moze byc zupa z soczewicy czerwonej albo zielonej i za pewne znalazloby sie jeszcze cos:)

Meltem przygotowala z czerwonej soczewicy.

Skladniki:

- szklanka soczewicy
- szklanka ryzu
- marchew
- pol cebuli
- koncentrat pomidorowy
- sol, pieprz do samku
- oliwa
-woda
uwaga: ja dodalabym jeszcze jakas wloszczyzne i wiecej przypraw, i zrobila ja na wywarze miesnym, ale Turcy nie gotuja zup na bulionach, czy kosciach:) najczesciej na masle, rzadziej na oliwie z oliwek i nie dodaja zieleniny.

Przygotowanie:

Do garnka wlac odrobine oliwy, dorzucic pokrojona w kostke cebule i lekko podrumienic. Dodac lyzke koncentratu pomidorowego. Pomieszac. Wlac przegotowana wode.
Doprowadzic ponownie do wrzenia, wsypac ryz i soczewice. Dorzucic pokrojona w kostke marchew. Przyprawic.Pozostawic chwile na malym ogniu az marchew zmiekknie. Nastepnie zupe zmiksowac!

Afiyet olsun! Smacznego!

Niedzielny obiad

2009-10-22T15:52:00.009+03:00

Jakis czas temu przygotowalam dla mojej rodziny, prawdziwy, dwudaniowy, niedzielny obiad:)
Przygotowalam: gulasz z ziemniakami, surowke z czerwonej kapusty i tradycyjnie rosol!

Jak robie rosol znajdziecie tutaj

Czas na gulasz:

Skladniki:

- wolowina
- czerwona i zielona papryka
- cebula
- czosnek
- oliwa z oliwek
- przyprawy: sol, pieprz, tymianek, oregano, natka pietruszki...
- kostka wolowa (ja nie uzylam)
- woda

Przygotowanie:

Wolowine kroimy w kostke, podsmazamy na oliwie z oliwek, dodajemy pokrojona w paski (badz kostke) cebule i czosnek, dodajemy pol szklanki wody i dusimy. W miedzyczasie czyscimy papryki i kroimy w paski, dodajemy do miesa. Przyprawiamy! Pozostawiamy na malym ogniu az mieso bedzie miekkie.

Teraz surowka

Potrzebujemy:

-czerwona kapuste
-cebule
-jablko
-cytryne
-wode
-ocet winny
-cukier
-sol i pieprz

Przygotowanie:

Kapuste oplukac, poszatkowac, zalac wrzatkiem i pozostawic na ok 10 min. Obrac cebule, pokroic w drobna kostke, obrac jablko ze skorki i zetrzec na tarce o srednich oczkach. Z wody, soku z cytryny, soli, pieprzu i cukru przyzadzic sos. Odstawic na chwile. Kapuste wycisac z wody, dodac cebule, jablko i polac sosem, w razie potrzeby doprawic.

Melisi bardzo smakowala:)

Smacznego!

Krewetki z ziemniakami w sosie pomidorowym

2009-10-21T21:54:00.003+03:00

Przepis zapozyczony z jednej z turecko-amerykanskich:) ksiazek kucharskich.
Do dziela!

Potrzebujemy:

-pomidory (3szt)
-ziemniaki(5szt)
-krewetki(1/2 kg)
-przyprawy-koleandra, bazylia, oregano, sol, pieprz,czosnek, natka pietruszki.

Przygotowanie:

Pomidory umyc, wrzucic do garnka z goraca woda, odczekac az skorka popeka, nastepnie wyjac i obraz ze skory, pokroic na male kawalki i zmiksowac na sok. Ziemniaki obrac, pokroic na cztery, wlozyc do osolonej wody i gotowac z 10-15 min. Krewetki oplukac i podgotwac w osolonej wodzie. Natepnie wlac sos z pomidorow do rondla, dodac krewetki i ziemniaki, przyprawic i dusi na malym ogniu.
Na koniec udekorowac natka pietruszki.

Smacznego!

Crispy and Soft Chicken

2009-10-19T21:23:00.004+03:00

I love those Chinese recipes where one food is "sweet and sour" or "bitter and sour" or another combination of two different tastes.
My intention with this recipe was to create a simiar effect: A crispy chicken that was still very moist inside: A crusty skin and a soft flesh. So it took a bit of work during cooking.

Ingredients:
- Two chicken legs
- 3 tablespoons yoghurt
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 2 tablepoons of "chicken mix"
(this is a ready-made spice mixture that includes breadcrumbs, curry, sweet red pepper, salt, ginger, parsley, onion, garlic, coriander, and corn starch. You can use anything similar or mix above stuff to make your own)

Method:
- Mix yoghurt, ketchup and the spice mixture in a bowl
- Preheat the oven's grill to 230 degrees celcius
- Brush your mixture to the chicken legs making a thick layer
- Place the legs in the oven tray
- Cook until both sides become a bright orange color. This should take about 10 minutes on each side. Do not overdo it
- Take out and brush on additional mixture if crumbs fall off. Make sure you do it until the crumb layer is almost burns
- Take the tray out, place chicken legs into aluminium foil
- Change the oven mode from grill to oven (conventional heating) lower the temperature to 130 degrees
- Place your chicken legs (in the aluminium) back in the oven and cook for 1.5 hours

This should make the chicken cook so well, that the bones will seperate from the flesh with no effort, the skin will be crusty and crispy, and the meat will be moist and soft.

Enjoy ;)

Stuffed Peppers w. Olive Oil

2009-08-19T22:21:00.003+03:00

In Turkish cuisine you can find a variety of light food, made with olive oil and you can eat them cold. They are perfect for the summer time: cold and light. Some of these are modifications of different Balkan foods that found their way into Istanbul first during the Ottoman Empire times, and later travelled to every part of Turkey, especially the western coast, since the warm weather makes eating light food a necessity.

This food is called "dolma" which means "stuffed". There is a wide variety of this food in Turkey from green peppers to dried eggplants or zucchinies, from light&cold versions to heavy&hot versions.
Today we provide the recipe for stuffed pepper with olive oil, which my mom made and provided the recipe:

Ingredients:
- 20 small, green bell peppers
- 3 dried onions
- 1.5 cup of rice
- 0.5 cup olive oil
- 1 cup small raisins
- 1 cup pine nuts
- 1 tomato
- salt, pepper, redpepper
- mint flakes
- a handful of parsley
- allspice

Method:
- Scoop out the interiors of the peppers and wash
- Slice the onions thin and roast them till they are pink
- Wash the rice, and add to the onions, cook for 8-10 minutes
- Add one glass of water, lower the heat and let the rice soak the water
- Add the raisins, pine nuts, pinch of salt, pepper and red pepper, allspice
parsley, and mix well
- Put this mixture into the peppers. Do not overfill or squeeze too much
- Slice the tomatoes, use them as lid to close the peppers
- Place the peppers in a single layer in a pan, add 1.5 cup of water and cover, cook on a small fire until the water is reduced to nothing.

Serve when cool. Enjoy ;)

Gzik

2009-08-03T22:05:00.005+03:00

Gzik-this is some food from Wielkopolska (meaning Greater Poland, the west of the country). It is the food for fasting. People eat this on Fridays because it is the no-meat day. It is very simple to prepare: White cheese with cream or yogurt, salt, pepper, spring onions or a small radish, and other stuff (an egg perhaps). It is very light and good for breakfast or a late supper.

Home made "Pide"

2009-07-07T14:51:00.006+03:00

We should thank to Irem for the idea, she gave us some tips on how to do it.
I guess there is a bit of our touch and need for experimenting as well. Pide is a very popular Turkish flat bread, sometimes called as "Turkish Pizza" although I don't agree with the term. This is a simple way to make it, again using some yufka (flaked pastry).

Ingredients:

- 1 piece of yufka
- 100g minced meat
- half an onion, sliced thin
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 egg
- olive oil
- salt & pepper
- 2 tbsp yogurt

Method:

- Cut the yufka into 3 slices, like a "peace symbol"
- Mix one egg, yogurt, 1 tbsp of olive oil in a bowl. Spread about half of it on the slices, and put each slice on top of the other as you put this sauce.
- The pointy side of the pastry facing away from you, fold the two sides and roll over.
- With a sharp knife, cut it lengthwise without reaching the bottom and open up.
- In a saucer, cook the onions, garlic, pinch of salt and pepper with olive oil, add the minced meat and cook well
- Preheat your oven to 150 degrees Celsius
- Once the meat is cooked, pour it into your flat bread. Put the remaining of the yogurt sauce on the meat and on the flat bread.
- Cook in the oven for 30 minutes.

Enjoy ;)

Pizza on grain bread

2009-07-07T14:35:00.005+03:00

I love pizza, but especially when made on a thin and crispy bread and with a lot of ingredients. This month we had a lot of mozzarella and pepperoni at home, so we did not want them to go to waste, and try to make our first home-made pizza.

During a visit to our local supermarket, we bought a pack of grain flour. I was planning to make some bread at home. It sat on the shelf for a while, then we decided to use it for our pizza.

Ingredients:
- 300g. grain flour
- 1 tsp yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- half a cup of lukewarm water
- 3 tomatoes
- one onion
- 2 green peppers
- 2 leaves of fresh basil
- 4 mozzarella buns
- 10 slices of pepperoni

Method:
- Put the sugar and yeast in the lukewarm water and mix, keep for 15 mins
- Peel the skin of the tomatoes, squash with your hands in a deep bowl
- Slice the onions thin
- Mix flour, olive oil, salt with the lukewarm water with yeast. Add more flour or water as necessary to make a soft bun. Put in a bowl, cover and keep for 1 hour. Let the yeast do their work...
- In a saucer pan, fry the tomatoes, onions, a pinch of salt and another tbsp of olive oil. Let it reduce on small heat for about 15 mins.
- On a wooden board, put some flour. Take your dough and lay on it, open thin.
- Take an oven tray (i suggest Teflon), spread the dough very thin. Open some holes with a fork if you think it is too thick to speed up cooking.
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius.
- Spread the tomato sauce over the dough
- Use a grater for the cheese, spread them over the sauce
- Place thin slices of pepperoni, green pepper, basil and green olives if you like over the cheese
- Cook for about half an hour. Cooking time depends on how think your dough is. I suggest to keep it thin. If it is too thick, you may want to cook it a bit first, before putting the other ingredients on it.

Enjoy ;)

Crab Salad

2009-06-27T14:54:00.006+03:00

We love crab surimi. Every trip to the local supermarket ends with us getting one pack of these. They can be used for many purposes: use it in sushi, eat from the pack like snacks, use them in fish soup, or make a nice salad.

Ingredients:
- Crab fingers (crab surimi)
- cornichons
- red bell-pepper
- spring onions
- dills
- lettuce
- salt & pepper
- ketchup
- mayonese
- lemon
- garlic (powder or 1 clove smashed)
- olive oil

Method:
- Wash all the vegetables
- Slice the lettuce
- Dice the red bell-peppers
- Cut dills thin
- Slice the crab fingers
- In a cup, mix 3 tablespoons of ketchup and mayonese, add juice of half lemon, a pinch of salt and pepper, garlic and a drop of olive oil. This will be the salad sauce.
- This is all: Put all vegetables in a bowl, mix them well, add the sauce on top.

Enjoy;)

Bruschetta

2009-06-26T00:00:00.003+03:00

Istanbul is quite hot these days. It is around 30 degrees celcius everyday with a lot of humidity. I don't feel like eating much, so we prefer to have some light and fast dinner with salads. Today, I prepared two different types of bruschetta for supper.

In Poland we have something called zapiekanka. It is a bread (roll) with mushrooms, cheese and ketchup. I felt like I missed that, and I wanted to make something similar. Something that will make me feel home.

Ingredients:
(Zapienka)
- Mushrooms
- Onion
- Garlic
- Pepper and salt
- Butter
- Cheese
- Bread
- Ketchup

Method:
- Wash and clean the mushrooms and slice thin
- Cook mushrooms with fine chopped onion, pinch of salt & pepper in some butter
- Spread some butter on a slice of bread
- Grate the cheese
- Spread ingredients on the bread, cover with cheese and grill for 3 minutes

Ingredients:
(Bruschetta with Pepperoni)
- Pepperoni
- Tomatoes
- Fresh basil
- Pesto
- Butter
- Bread

Method:
- Clean tomatoes and dice them
- Mix tomatoes with pesto and basil and keep for 15 mins
- Spread some butter over a slice of bread
- Place pepperoni slices over the bread
- Spread the tomatoe-basil-pesto mixture on top
- Grill for 3 minutes

Enjoy ;)

Home-made Yoghurt

2009-06-11T11:50:00.005+03:00

Yoghurt is probably one of the greatest inventions attributed to the Turkish. The original use was to preserve milk during travels where refrigeration is not available. The Turkish original is Yoğurt, which comes probably from "Yoğurmak" (to knead) and "Yoğun" (meaning dense or thick).

Yoghurt is basicly fermented milk, where 2 bacteria act together (L. bulgaricus and S. thermophilus) to produce lactic acid from lactose and convert milk proteins to make a sour and dense product.
Everybody likes yoghurt, although in different forms. In Turkey, the sour and dense original is preferred, it is used as a side dish in many meals. Ayran, a sour drink by simply adding salt and water to it, is still the most common soft drink.
In Europe, more sweet and softer versions are preferred and in Asia you can see more liquid and very sweet versions in bottles.
If you want to make your own yoghurt at home, all you need is a tablespoon of natural yoghurt and a litre of milk. I use organic milk to make yoghurt for our baby, but you can use any milk. I will tell more about it below.

Ingredients:
- One litre of milk
- 1 tablespoon natural yoghurt

Method:
- Boil the milk and let it cool to 40-45 degrees (you can measure with a thermometer, but you can also check with your hand)remove any foam or cream.
- Put one spoon of yoghurt in a small cup, and mix with a fort until smooth.
- Pour a glass of your lukewarm milk into the cup and mix the yoghurt slowly with this milk.
- Pour the mixture into the bowl and mix with the remaining milk
- If you don't have any yoghurt machine, cover the pan, cover it with a blanket and leave in a warm place in your house (in winter, it can be close to a heater, in summer it can be a place where it gets warm). You only want it to stay at almost the same temperature for 6-12 hours.
- After this time passes, put the pan in the fridge, let it cool down.
- Next time you want to make yoghurt, you can use one spoon from this one.

Some points:
- You can buy a yoghurt machine, or other similar product that can keep the temperature fixed over long time.
- If your yoghurt turns to be liquid, try doing it with more than 1 spoon or keeping it longer. You can adjust the density by playing with the amount of original yoghurt (more you put it will be denser) and the time it stays warm (the longer it stays, it will be denser)
- If you mix yoghurt into milk when it is still hot, you will kill all the bacteria, so the yoghurt cannot be made. It has to be around 40-45 degrees.
- If you use skim milk, you will have light yoghurt in the end.

Your yoghurt should be consumed within 1 week. Keep it refrigerated. You can mix icing sugar, small fruits to make yourselves some desserts... You can use it as baby food (after 10 months), you can use it in many dishes. Some recipes on this blog use yoghurt.

Try it, let me know if you have any questions.

Enjoy ;)

Sałatka z kurczakiem

2009-06-10T11:28:00.003+03:00

Uwielbiam sałatki!
Ta jest bardzo prosta i za pewne już ją gdzieś w przepisach spotkaliście.

Składniki:
pierś z kurczaka
puszka ananasa w syropie
puszka kukurydzy
sałata
ser żółty
majonez
jogurt
pomarańcza
czosnek
oliwa z oliwek
przyprawy: sól, pieprz

Pierś z kurczaka płuczemy, następnie kroimy w kostkę i podrumieniamy na oliwie z oliwek. Sałatę dobrze myjemy, osłuszamy i rwiemy na małe części. Do salaterki z sałatą dorzucamy kukurydzę i ananasa, również pokrojonego w kostkę. Ser trzemy na tarce o średnich oczkach i dodajemy do reszty. Kiedy kurczak będzie gotowy dodajemy go do wcześniej przygotowanej salaterki. Czas na sos z majonezu, jogurtu, soku z pomarańczy, czosnku i przypraw.
Sosem polewamy sałatkę, odstawiamy na okolo 15 minut do lodówki a potem jemy ze smakiem!

Smacznego!

Fish Sandwich

2009-06-01T10:26:00.003+03:00

What do you do when you cannot consume all the fish you cook for lunch? We use them for a nice sandwich for the supper or the next day.

When I was a student, our university's cafeteria offered cheap fish sandwich (called "balik-ekmek" in Turkish). That was one of my favourite lunches. Simple recipe, a slice of fish, mixed with few spices and lemon juice.

Later, when I moved to Istanbul, I discovered the real "balik-ekmek" served on fisherman boats on the bosphorus. A few years ago, these were banned due to security reasons (ending an era in Istanbul's fish cuisine).

It all came back when I cooked some seabass in the oven, definitely more than we could finish. Some stayed in the fridge for a day. On Sunday evening, hungry for a quick supper and a nice movie, we made a quick sandwich and side-salad.

Ingredients:

- Previously cooked, sliced seabass (no bones please)
- salt
- 1 small bread (2 paninies would have been perfect)
- spices to taste: a pinch of pepper, red pepper, thyme are must.
- lime juice

Method:

- Simply cut the bread in two halves, open each half.
- Place the slice of fish
- Use a knife to cut the slice into small pieces
- Put a pinch of salt and other spices inside
- Put some lime juice
- Close the bread, put in a toaster until warm and flat

Simple and fast, no need to heat the fish beforehand, since it will heat up in the toaster.

Enjoy ;)

Szpinakowa dla Melci

2009-05-07T13:57:00.005+03:00

Dzisiaj z braku już pomysłów na dania obiadowe dla mojego dziecka, do włoszczyzny dodałam szpinak i kilka przypraw i tym sposobem otrzymałam SZPINAKOWĄ MELCI :)

Co potrzebujemy do owej zupy?:

marchew
pietruszka
seler
pora
żółtko
kulkę mrożonego szpinaku
bazylia
tymianek
sól i pieprz...niekoniecznie

Melcia wcinała aż jej się uszy trzęsły :)

Przygotowanie jest bardzo proste:) jak zreszta każdej zupy!
Włoszczyznę myjemy, obieramy i kroimy w kostkę. Wrzucamy do wody i doprowadzamy do wrzenia. Dodajemy szpinak i jeszcze chwile gotujemy. Oddzielnie gotujemy jajko.
Do gotowej zupy dodajemy żółtko. Miskujemy i podajemy małemu głodomorowi!

Pomidorowa ala Italiana

2009-03-31T22:30:00.004+03:00

Lubię zupe pomidorową (a kto jej nie lubi?) i tym razem trochę z nią zaszalałam.
Postanowilam wrzucić do niej więcej niż zawsze:)
Tym razem w garnku znalazły się:

kawałek czerwonego mięsa
marchew
pietruszka
cebula
por
seler
czosnek
świeże pomidory
koncentrat pomidorowy
natka pietruszki
zioła: bazylia i oregano, majeranek, tymianek, ziele angielskie, liść laurowy
sól, pieprz, cukier
oliwa z oliwek
makaron

Mięso wrzucić do garnka z zimną, osoloną wodą, z dodatkiem ziela angielskiego i liścia laurowego. Zagotować. W międzyczasie ugotować makaron. Cebulę i czosnek obrać, pory umyć i pokroić, to samo zrobić z selerem, obrać ze skóry pomidory i pokroić w kostkę. Kiedy woda z mięsem się zagotuje wyciągąnć mięso i liść laurowy, i do wody wrzucić warzywa. Dodać zioła, łyżkę oliwy z oliwek i przyprawy, oraz 3 łyżki koncentratu pomidorowego. Mięso zmiksować na małe kawałki, to samo zrobić z ugotowanymi w zupie warzywami. Można użyć do tego blendera, niewyciągając warzyw z wody, albo w mikserze (ja tak zrobiłam) ale wówczas jest z tym trochę zachodu, bo trzeba wyciągnąć warzywa z zupy. Gdzieś wyczytałam, w przepisach kuchni włoskiej, że fajnie jest dodać do pomidorówki pesto.

Niebo w gębie!!!

Artichoke in Olive Oil

2009-03-26T22:17:00.005+02:00

We continue to cook healthy, and since it is the season for this marvelous vegetable, it is high time to consume a lot of it.
Artichoke is usually very expensive, however nowadays is the season and in Istanbul you can find fresh ones lying on every greengrocer, at a more reasonable price.

This vegetable is like a sponge: It sucks up every bit of taste in the water it is cooked, so don't limit yourselves to the recipe here, you can add many more tastes to it how you like.

Ingredients:

- 4 slices of artichoke
- 1 glass (250ml) of olive oil
- 1 medium size potato
- 1 medium size carrot
- 1 large onion
- 200g of peas
- dills
- 2 lemons
- 2 teaspoons salt
- water

Method:

- Dice the potato, onion and carrot
- Place the artichokes on the bottom of a deep pan
- Get the zest from one lemon and juice both lemons
- Pour the lemon juice over the artichokes
- Put the other vegetables (except dills) on top of the artichokes
- Add salt
- Cover them with cold water, cover the pan and cook until it boils
- Once it boils, lower the heat and cook for 30 minutes more (you need to check if potatoes and peas cook, others will cook faster)
- Once it is cooked, take off the heat, wait until it cools down
- Take the artichokes on a plate, put enough vegetables on top and let them cool more.
- Refrigerate overnight. You can shrink-wrap and add a slice of lemon.
- When serving, pour a little bit of olive oil, a sour syrup (or lemon juice), decorate with dills.

This vegetable is said to work marvels for health. Read more, learn more about it.

Enjoy ;)

Angler Fish Skewer

2009-03-24T21:22:00.003+02:00

Wow, it has really been some time since my last post. Partly, it has to do with the fact that we started a new blog about our baby daughter. The second reason is that we have been busy with work and school and travelling so there was less time to cook. The third reason is that I was diagnosed with high cholestrol but don't panic. It is not because of the food I cook or eat, it is inherited. Now I will consume even more healthy food and write more healthy food.

Anyway, this is enough chit-chat. Now on with the recipe of Angler Fish Skewer.

Here we used 850g of Angler Fish. This is really a nice fish, since there are no bones in its flesh and it tastes great. You first fillet the fish, remove the skin, the center bone is easy to take out. Cut each fillet in half lenghtwise, and then chop each part into 5-6 pieces so you will have big dices to go on a skewer.

Ingredients:

- 850g angler fish, diced skewer size as above
- 1 tomato
- 2 green peppers
- olive oil
- salt
- sumac syrup (can be replaced by a lemon)

Method:

- Cut the fish as above.
- Dice the tomato
- Cut the peppers in half, get the seeds out and cut the same size with the fish
- On a bamboo skewer, place a piece of fish, then a tomato, a fish, pepper, fish, pepper, fish and tomato.
- Repeat above step until you have all the fish on the skewers.
- Place skewers in a teflon oven tray
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius
- Pour some sumac syrup over the fish. This herb is very tasty. If it is not possible for you to find, you can use one lemon's juice instead.
- Put a pinch of salt on each skewer (can make 8)
- Place some olive oil on and around the skewers.
- Cook for 20 minutes, rotate the skewers and cook for another 10 minutes

You can serve them without removing the skewers. This is enough to be main dish for 2 people or appetizers for 8 people.

Enjoy ;)

Danie z PORTULANKI

2009-03-14T20:51:00.003+02:00

Co to jest portulanka? Odpowiedź na to pytanie znajdziecie tutaj.

Turcy używają tego warzywa do robienia przekąski, najczęściej w połączeniu z jogurtem, a także w innej postaci. Mnie bardzo zasmakowała sałatka z jogurtem.

Oto przepis.

Składniki:
portulanka
jogurt naturalny
cytryna
czosnek
oliwa z oliwek
sól

Sposób przygotowania:
Portulankę umyć, opłukać tak jak sałatę. Następnie oddzielić liście od łodygi. Do głębokiej miski włożyć sitko z portulką w środku i zalać na chwilę wrzątkiem. Wyciągnąć portulkę, wylać wodę z miski i przerzucić do niej warzywo. Następnie dodać sól, sok z cytryny, oliwę z oliwek, dołączyć jogurt i na koniec czosnek. Wszystko wymieszac i GOTOWE!

Proste, prawda? A jakie smaczne!:)