8/13/12

Omelet "Mother-in-law"

   This recipe is from my mother-in-law. Sometimes it is difficult to prepare fast breakfast. And this one is easy and delicious. For 4 persons you'll need 3 eggs, 2 or 3 types of cheeses, bacon or sausage, greens, salt spices and a little bit of olive oil.


Grate the cheese, add chopped bacon or sausage, grated cheddar cheese, greens, salt and spices, 3 eggs.






                      Put some olive oil, not too much




                         By using large dish gently flip the omelet





8/3/12

Turkish "Patlican kebap" (Eggplant kebab)

As I mentioned before Turkish people love eggplant. And they have huge recipe base with eggplants. This one is interesting on view and takes few time to prepare it.


You'll need eggplants, minced beef, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon tomato paste, onion, garlic,  tomato and spices: oregano, basil, cumin, pepper, salt.


Make a stuffing: minced meat, chopped onion and garlic, salt, cumin, pepper, vegetable oil.


Depending on the size of the baking dish make a mix with hot water and tomato paste, spices: oregano, basil. 


        Close with aluminum foil and bake about 1 hour at 200 ° C (heat the oven before)


 

7/31/12

Pies with mushroom

For this recipe you'll need fresh mushrooms and yeast dough. Stuffing: 2-3 onions, 300-450 gr of mushrooms, coriander, cumin, salt, 2 boiled eggs, 1 s/spoon of butter. Dough: 5 g of dry yeast, 500 g flour 30 g sugar, 0.5 tsp salt, 1 egg, 80 ml of vegetable oil. I kneaded the dough with the buttermilk. Dough should be soft.


Knead the dough for at least 10 minutes and cover with plastic wrap, put for a warm place for 1-2 hours.



In a pan fry onions until golden brown, then add the chopped mushrooms. Cook until evaporated water, add salt, spices, boiled egg, 1 tbsp butter. Cool the stuffing.



                           After an hour knead the dough once and put again to rise.














Pies before baking need to stand for 10 minutes. Grease the tops with egg and bake 20-25 minutes at 180-200 ° C. 




7/27/12

Cake for my Husband (Meringue cake or "Count's Ruins)

It is a very very simple and delicious cake. I made it for my Husband's birthday. (An interesting fact is that our birthdays are at the same day, so I can say this cake is our Birthday's cake). It consists of sponge cake as base and pasted meringues by using soft cream.



So you'll need to prepare sponge cake and meringues by using these links of the posts which I posted before:

Try to make different sizes of meringues that they like really ruins.
An extra preparation for cream to paste meringues: whipped cream (200 ml cream half cup powdered sugar), chopped walnuts.

Make a cream


                                       Put some of cream on the sponge cake


                                      If you wish add some roasted walnuts


                                                 Put some of meringues


                                    Cover with cream and put again some of them


                                                Cover again with cream


                                                     Again the same process




                              You can put roasted walnuts, grated chocolate and etc.

7/26/12

Easy sponge cake

It is easy way of baking sponge cake, and it takes not too much time. Baking time is 10-12 minutes. You need glass about 250 ml.

Dough:
   1/4 glass of milk
   2 tbsp.butter
   100 grams of flour
   40 grams of potato starch
   1 tsp.of baking powder (or 1 tsp baking soda)
   2/3 glass of sugar
   1/4 tsp. salt
   3 eggs

Preheat oven to 190 C°. In saucepan, heat milk with butter almost to a boil. Beat eggs and sugar with a mixer to increase the weight of three times (it should have the consistency of thick cream). Beat about 10 minutes.


Sift flour with baking powder, starch and salt. Pour flour mixture into the beaten egg, stirring gently from the bottom up a shovel.




Add a few spoonfuls of dough in the warm milk and butter and mix well. Pour the mixture into the basic dough, mix well.


                                        Grease with oil any form for cakes




         Bake about 10-15 minutes, the finished cake will have a golden surface.




The next recipe is about how to prepare Birthday or Party cake by using sponge cake and meringues.

7/24/12

Beans with Turkish bacon (Pastirmali kuru fasulye)

Soak the beans previously by adding 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon of sugar (better to do it in the evening if you are planning to prepare next day), 2 onions cut into cubes, fry in olive oil until golden brown. Then, add the grated tomato and 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. Stir and fry for 2-3 minutes. After that, add the beans. Fry for 2-3 minutes, add the bacon and continue to fry for another 2-3 minutes. Add salt if the bacon is not salty. Pour the water content of the water covered it. Close the pressure cooker lid and put on a program designed for beans. And if you use ordinary bowl the cooking time depends on the beans - as soon as it is cooked, you can serve. But the most interesting fact if you leave it to rest for a day or two in the fridge, it sauce gets thicker and tastes better.