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Almost guilt free tiramisu

Almost guilt free tiramisu

What is your favorite dessert? Except ice cream of course 0_o and chocolate… Cookies favourite is potato chips, is that even a dessert? he’s REALLY weird so lets just play along with him 0_o, he has denied himself chippies for last 10 months (due to 

Tasty gold

Tasty gold

Since I got my halogen oven I wanted to bake a DUCK. Yes, big, fat duck I remember my Mom was making it occasionally stuffed with apples and served with red cabbage salad. Actually my first memory about baked duck comes from early childhood – 

Chix and Chorizo Gulash

Chix and Chorizo Gulash

110 one pot tastiness

I think EASY should be my second name… as much as I love cooking, I need things to be easy, because of my short attention span, I get distracted and/or annoyed fast if I don’t get visible results in a short amount of time. That leads to some disastrous events in the kitchen. Like tossing whole dinner on Cookies head for example… never happened but was close. So no wonder I deliberately look for easy and fast meals.

The meal I made today is one of the easier dinners I’ve made lately. Also the mix of meats – chix and chorizo gives a delicate contrast and the veggies will fill you good. And don’t forget you just need 1 glass of red wine… yes, you can utilize the rest the favorite way, like I did. Small pleasures always count 0_o.

 
A Winner Dinner

A Winner Dinner

I’ve had so many things to do lately that I really didn’t even have time to explore my favorite world of food. But since I have my time off I could slow down and think what I want to make today. My inspiration comes from 

Aromatic sun-dried tomatoes and mushrooms pasta

Aromatic sun-dried tomatoes and mushrooms pasta

I was just indelicately reminded that my lazy ass didn’t post for 2 months. Yes I know… so many things to do, so little motivation to do them… Nonetheless, there is new idea. Extremely tasty, meatless – especially if you use vegetable broth. You can’t 

Back in business

Back in business

106 apple honey muffins

 

For the past few weeks I was asked numerous times, if I planned to write something for MC anytime soon, and I always answered yes, but I ending up needing some more time. Some sad, and hard things happened in the past few weeks that caused me to not be my usual cheerful self. Cookies and I wasn’t in the mood for doing anything and we just focused on being together, and mourning our beloved Kakuniu… We still do.

During those weeks I was so uninspired that I cooked bare necessities and nothing new or fancy. Yesterday, when Cookies went to work I just thought I would like to do something more than browsing through DMA on Chive (funny how much comfort it can provide).  I had already dinner prepared, so I thought maybe I'll bake something yummy… so as usual, I started looking at my pantry's shelves and thought I have everything needed for muffins. Wanted chocolate muffins but didn't have chocolate…(didn't want to go buy it either! 0_o) then decided on doing a new version with apples, cranberries and honey.

The end result gave me those soft and gooey vanilla scented muffins that made the wounded spirit cheerful for the whole evening.

 
Dads Greek Fish

Dads Greek Fish

I was asked nicely today by our friend “Tom” 😀 to post something today. I looked into my stash of pictures and found this awesome meal that I learned to do from my Dad. It’s fish under the blanket of veggies. Even if it’s called 

Unintended diletto

Unintended diletto

A couple weeks ago Cookies was moaning for pizza, but I just was a little tired of the same old ingredients over and over again. Standing over the cutting board with piece of bacon, onion and cheese I was thinking, what I can do… pizza 

Lazy kluski for lazy afternoon

Lazy kluski for lazy afternoon

105 lazy kluski

Today is the first post after succesfuly migrating magdacooks.com for our new 3 year home. If the service is on the same excellent level it’s sure that we’ll stay there with all our projects. I can absolutely recommend Namecheap.com. I never ever had such a pleasure to have a technical problem before. The customer service in Namecheap is on the level that is hard to find anywhere in the world.

So lets try to post – today something for us lazy cooks. This meal is my 4th favourite since I was a kid. My Mom was making it when she was tired of us demanding cabbage 0_o. Some like it with dry additives like bread crumbs fried with butter or sour cream, but I like it sweet and with strong aroma of cinnamon and Cookies tolerates it with cinnamon mostly… and sugar, depends on his current mood. Usually he makes faces when I propose, we eat this meal, but he knows I love it so he agrees most of the time. Unfortunately lazy kluski aren’t very diet – I even tried to prepare it with whole grain flour but to my dismay and disappointment it was LITERALLY ATROCIOUS! Or i did something wrong… Nonetheless I don’t make it too often, but I think I will just make it tomorrow – just writing about it makes me hungry 😛

Recipe is not complicated at all… just if you don’t feel like grinding cream cheese – don’t do it. Make sure though that its as smooth as possible (damn I do it all the time, who would clean grinder 0_o).

Satay Variation

Satay Variation

Yesterday, as we were debating over who is cooking so much, Cookies said, he wishes we had a good asian restaurant in the neighbourhood, cos he feels for egg rolls and sweet & sour chix… Unfortunately we don’t have even one. There are 5 or