New Love
New Love As I mentioned a couple times before, I try to prepare some vegetarian meals from time to time, always looking for new ideas, cos lets be honest – I’m a carnivore and I like “my piece of meat.” Thought as scientists and Cookies …
Tag: onion
Immigration Mess
Immigration Mess Well, I was thinking what to write about this meal, but couldn’t get any idea. Then I was thinking of the origins of this meal and it happened that I found out about it in the Polish cooking magazine called Salt & Pepper. …
Veggie Salad
Veggie salad
I was always curious why the traditional polish vegetable salad is called ITALIAN? I started digging a little and actually found out that the mother of vegetable salad came from… Russia. But it still didn’t answer why Italian? Maybe one of you would know?
My Polish friends know this salad very good. It was – is served on polish tables for ages. None of the holidays or name days party could go without it. It’s easy to create, cheap and usually makes many servings. As many households, that many versions of this salad. Some add leak, some tuna, some ham or chicken – I present my version of this yummy salad. It makes really good lunch for work 😀
Ingredients:
4 medium to big carrots
2 medium to big parsley roots
½ of medium celery root
4 medium potatoes
6 medium cucumbers
3 big apples (the best sour, but I added golden delicious and it was perfect)
4 hardboiled eggs
for pea lovers – 1 can of peas
for pea haters – 1 can of corn
salt, pepper
2 tsp mustard
lemon juice (optional if salad is not sour enough to your taste)
mayonnaise
Preparations:
Boil carrots, parsley and celery root al dente. Boil potatoes and eggs. Let it cool down. Peel everything that needs to be peeled. If you like skin stuck in your teeth, don’t peel 0_o
Dice all the cooked veggies into small cubes. Peel apples and cube them alternately with sour cucumbers – if you do that apples won’t darken. Dice eggs. Spice with salt and pepper to taste. Add mustard and stir thoroughly. Move half of the salad to different container and for pea lovers add drained peas. For pea haters leftover part add can of corn. Of course if you like both you can mix and match both.
Store in the refrigerator in sealed containers. Add mayo when you want to eat it. Salad can be served for cold lunch or dinner, along with meat or just as a meal.
Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o
P.S. Cookies thoughts: It hits the spot and is rather full of taste. Recommended, though be ready to invest a little time in the actual preparations of this. Though its worth it!
Mongolian Style Beef
Mongolian Style Beef Couple weeks ago I joined Pinterest cos I saw awesome DIY ideas, that even me, a clumsy two left handed creature can do 0_o. As I spent more time on the site I found of course more categories of pins, where one …
Cookies One Pot Pork
My Contribution to Magda Cooks By: Cookies Recipe : Pork and Mushrooms in a Sour Cream Based Mushroom Flavored Sauce with Barley Cookies —-> IN. So, every once in awhile, it ends up “My Turn” to cook something. Usually as a result of my own volition, …
Dirty Rice
Dirty Rice
Before I met Cookies I thought that American cuisine is mostly hamburgers and fried chicken oh and apple pie 0_o. I know stereotypical, but I didn’t have a chance to change that thinking. I got the chance after Cookies and I created the basic social unit 0_o. He showed me that there is billions of meals that got created by different nations living in US. I have to admit that my favourite is Cajun cuisine that comes from Louisiana. For this recipe I created Cajun seasoning on my own – cos I couldn’t get it anywhere here. Even in the Kuchnie Swiata chain, that usually has everything special or weird I need. But what do I have Internet for? I asked Uncle Google and voila, there is nice recipe for Cajun spice! Even better, a couple versions of it! AWESOME!. I chose the one that I could obtain all the ingredients. It’s easy to make your own mixes, so no worries.
Ingredients for Cajun seasoning:
2 tsp salt
2 tsp garlic powder
2 1/2 tsp sweet paprika
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 ¼ tsp dried oregano
1 ¼ tsp dried thyme
Put all the ingredients into jar, mix good. every technique is good – stirring, shaking, rolling 0_o
Ingredients for Dirty Rice
3 bags or a cup of basmati rice or any other long grain
2 chicken bouillon cubes
500g ( 1 lb will do good too) ground pork
3 tbsp oil
1 small onion
1 yellow pepper
1 carrot
1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
Preparations:
Cook rice according to the users manual 0_o I hate when in recipes they tell you how to cook rice, when no way you can have exactly the same one, grrrr. The only difference is, add 1 chicken bouillon cube to the water. Set aside and let it cool, it can be leftover from the previous day.
Heat oil in the big skillet. Chop onion into tiny cubes. Toss it into skillet, fry like 30s then add meat. Let it brown good before you stir. When meat is browned, add finely chopped yellow pepper and carrot. If the bottom of the skillet is crusting, lower the heat down. Cook meat and veggies for another 5 minutes. After that time add a glass of bouillon cube, scrub the bottom gently with all the goodies 😉 and add 1 tbsp of Cajun seasoning. Stir good and cook on high heat for as long as to boil away most of the stock. Add rice and stir good again. Lower the heat and cook for another few minutes, until rice is hot.
Serve right away hot with a bottle of beer 0_o if you please.
Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o
P.S. Cookies thoughts: Totally impressed by the effort and the end result. Tasty and GOODNESS.
Coleslaw Awesomeness
Coleslaw Awesomeness I remember the first time I ate coleslaw. It was very long time ago, I went with my friend Ms. Ds to the cinema, but we decided to eat something first. She proposed KFC. Since fast food chains wasn’t present in Poland when …
“Cowboy Cutlets”
“Cowboy Cutlets” Well, unfortunately not every recipe I try is a success. Lately I found a very promising salad on BBC Foods. It included beets, potatoes, and smoked mackerel. Seemed interesting, and different at the same time, so I gave it a shot… well… …
“The Contradiction”
After my IDWTC Syndrome last week, I didn’t want to get tired quickly with something that takes time, so I chose this recipe for chix with nice sechuan bite, that I found somewhere in the internet It seemed easy to make, and in the end I found out the whole meal took exactly 18 minutes!
Actually I looked at this recipe for weeks, and was procrastinating 0_o cos it needs garlic. I know that with chinese recipes you have to be thorough with ingredients, cos you risk the food being awful, so garlic is important, BUT at the same time it is a GIANT NO in Cookies food menu, though funny shit is he will eat garlic bread without problem 0_o, wtf? He is a strange one.
Then I decided I will add some garlic powder, and everything should be fine ;-). Plus he won’t know if no one tells him 😉 right?
The recipe is not complicated at all, and like all chinese food the end result was spectacular. I completely didn’t know what to expect from it, but in the end I liked a lot! This features a nice contradiction of flavours, and textures. On one hand the spicy cayenne pepper that gives it a bite, then on the other the delicate texture of corn flour coated chicken, that gave nice juicyness to the meat, and in the end spicy-sweet onion mixed with soy sauce, and vinegar. I was nicely surprised how light the meal was. I served it with basmati rice spiced with soy sauce, and a little butter, and polish style cucumbers with sweetened yogurt.
Ingredients for 2 servings:
2 chicken breasts
1.5 tbsp corn flour
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp garlic powder (or 2 small garlic cloves)
3 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 flat tsp fructose
4 tbsp water
1 red onion
cayenne pepper
Preparations:
Cut chicken into quite big pieces – 3-4cm. Sprinkle with corn flour, and garlic powder, make sure each piece is coated good. In the wok or just a skillet heat oil, add chicken, and fry until golden brown. While chicken is frying, pour to small bowl soy sauce, vinegar, fructose and water – mix thoroughly. When chicken is done, pour soy mixture, cover and cook for 3 min. Add onion cut into feather strips and cook everything for another 2-3 min.
It can be served with soy noodles, soba or rice – I chose basmati rice, simply cos I have it in stock 0_o and since it’s not rich with vegetables serve it with a side salad.
Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o
P.S. Cookies liked it but he said: “IT WASN’T ENOUGH, WOMAN!!”
I love to stuff things into the meat 0_o
I love to stuff things into the meat 0_o LOL now I read the title again and just, well… But yeah I do, my first stuffing was nice turkey rolls I made with mushrooms and and ricotta cheese, and one day I’ll make it so …