Archive for March, 2009
March 15th, 2009
A low-budget healthy and hearty meal that fills you up.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup red or green pepper, diced
- 1/2 cup carrots, diced
- 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1/3 cup of 2% milk
- 2 1/2 cups of cooked chicken, cubed
- 1 can of peas
- black pepper, to taste
- 4 cups pasta
Instructions
- On medium high heat, stirfry pepper, carrots in oil until tender crisp. Reduct heat to medium.
- Stir in soup and milk.
- Add chicken, peas, and black pepper. Heat through, stirring occasionally.
- Serve over pasta.
Makes 4 servings.
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March 10th, 2009
Folded crepe - the inside contents include ground beef
This is a simple, quick, and delicious filling for Russian crepes.
Ingredients
- 1 lb extra lean ground beef (“washed”)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp sweet & spicy sauce
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- black pepper
Instructions
- Sauté onions in vegetable oil (2 min).
- Add beef and black pepper; stir on high heat until most of the water has evaporated.
- Add mixture of sauce and corn starch to thicken.
- Serve in crepes.
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March 10th, 2009
This recipe was made from a combination of various leek and potato recipes that we came across. Since we wanted a meat component, we added the basa fillets, which turns out to be a great addition to the soup. The longer you cook the soup, the better. This is definitely a must-have on a cold winter’s day.
Ingredients
- 2 basa fillets, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 2 leeks, chopped
- 6 small potatoes, diced
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 300 mL 2% milk
- 500 mL low sodium chicken broth
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 onion, chopped
- pinch of black pepper
Instructions
- In chicken broth, boil potatoes till tender (~ 30 min). Then add milk.
- Sauté onion and garlic in butter (~ 3 min).
- Add leeks; simmer (~3 min).
- Add fish and pepper; simmer (~10 min).
- Once potatoes are mashed, combine mixture; stir well until desired consistency. Serve.
Makes 6 servings.
Tags: basa, fish, leek, potato, soup
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March 9th, 2009
Ingredients
Stack of crepes
- 4 cups of white flower
- 4/5 cups of milk
- 1 table spoon of sugar (without a top)
- 1 tea spoon of salt
- 2 table spoons of butter
- 2 eggs
- 10-12g of yeast
Instructions
Preparing the mixture
- Get a bowl for approximately 4 liters of water [the dough will rise so you want the extra space].
- Put the flour in to the bowl preferably through a thinner [this will allow the flower to get more oxygen].
- In the same bowl put sugar, salt and the yeast.
- In a second bowl pour milk and button. The milk must be warm but not boiling enough for the butter to melt.
- Pour the milk with butter in to the bowl with the flour+ break both eggs in to the mix.
- Mix the contents well eliminating any pockets of dry flour.
- Cover the bowl with a towel [not a iron pan or a plate – the mix needs to absorb oxygen] and put in a warm area for approximately 1.5 – 2 hours.
- The mix should increase in size by approximately 2/3.
- Add additional 1/2 a cup of milk to the mix [heated to approximately 50 degrees in Celsius]. Pour the milk using a thin flow while slurring the mixture.
- If the mix is ready begin cooking.
- If you want to have thinner crapes add more milk to the mix.
Making the crepes
- Melt a block of butter in a separate cup/bowl.
- Get a pan or two [two would make the cooking much quicker].
- Heat both pans to a sizzling state.
- Using a potato/onion slice a half and put it on a fork [this will be used as a brush to apply butter on to the pan].
- Pour the mix on to the pan and start baking.
- When the crape is done and stacked in the main plate quickly smear a touch of butter on top so that the following crapes don’t get stuck together.
- Cover your results to keep the warmth.
And that’s it.
Enjoy!
Makes approximately 25-30 crepes.
Tags: cooking, crepes, eggs, flower, frying, milk, pan, prepare, russian, stack, yeast, Блины
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March 4th, 2009
While setting up this page I found many interesting expressions referencing the general nature of cooking. Here’s something pleasant:
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Tags: art, cooking, expression, poetry
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March 4th, 2009
This site is all about sharing one of my favourite hobbies — you guessed it — cooking! Come join Max and I in our succulent adventures…
Tags: begining, first, intro, introduction, post
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