Chicken stomachs with rice

Introduction

They were on sale and it is pure muscle, no fat ...

Materials

Chicken stomachs
Rice
Garlic
Onion
Black pepper
Soya sauce
Olive oil

Procedure

1. Wash and soak the chicken stomachs in soya sauce
2. Peel and cut the garlic and the onion
3. Heat some olive oil and fry the garlic and the onion
4. Add the chicken stomachs, mix, cover the frying pan with a top and let it cook till the chicken stomachs turn white
5. Add rice and 3 times its volume water, spice with black pepper and salt and cook till the rice is ready.

Results

Discussion

Very quick, easy and tasty enough. The last time I cooked this was September 2004 in Clearwater Beach, FL ... one of the two times I cooked there. The main problem was ''You haven't put enough salt ...'' ... Nowadays, life is spicy enough even without any salt ...

Rice with chicken

Introduction

Classics

Materials

White chicken meat
Rice
Black pepper
Olive oil
Garlic
Pineapple
Soya sauce

Procedure

1. Fry the garlic cloves in olive oil
2. Fry the white chicken meat pieces
3. Add water and boil for about 20 minutes
4. Take the meat out of the broth and place it in a baking pan
5. Add rice and 3 times its volume chicken broth
6. Spread black pepper all over the rice
7. Put the pineapple slices on top of the rice
8. Cook in the oven for 30-40 minutes or till the rice becomes soft enough and the water has been absorbed by the rice and or evaporated
9. Bake with fire coming from the top of the oven for 10 minutes
10. Spice with some soya sauce

Results

Discussion

Again I ate too much while cooking and I will try it tomorrow ...

Bon Appetit!

Banica

Introduction

A banica is a banica ...

Materials

Pie pastry

Cheese

Yogurt ... because the cheese was not enough

Oil

Butter

Eggs

Procedure

1. Mix the cheese, the yogurt and a spoon of oil

2. Place few layers of pie pastry in a baking pan covered with some oil

3. Place part of the cheese mixture

4. Repeat 2 and 3 till you finish the pie pastry and or the cheese mixture

5. Cut with knife

6. Beat the eggs with some warm water

7. Pour the eggs-water mixture over the banica and let it soak for some time

8. Heat oil and butter and pour it over the banica

9. Bake for about half an hour

10. Take it out from the oven

11. Spread some water on top of the banica ... wet your hand and shake it several times over the banica

12. Wrap in a cotton cloth and let it cool down

Results

Discussion

40 min walking one direction and I can have boza ... mmm ... we'll see.

Bon Appétit!

Keks

Introduction

Let's skip the forep ... the introduction!

Materials

everything form the photo below and 6 eggs

Procedure

1. Beat the eggs together with the sweatener, the vanille powder and the honey ... everything one spoon.

2. Add the flour and mix and beat till you get a homogenous mixture

3. In the meantime heat the liquid from one pineapple can

4. Add the pineapple juice to the eggs-fluor mixture and mix well

5. Add 6 spoons of olive oil and mix

6. Add mandarine peel ... or lemon, or orange peel ... and mix

7. Add slices of chocolate bars and mix

8. Place pieces of mandarine and pine appla in a cake baking form covered with oil

9. Spread some sugar on top of the fruits

10. Pour the keks mixture

11. Bake as slowly as possible, first the fire from the bottom, then from the top.

Results

Make sure the following doesn't happen

Don't judge a book by its cover ...

Discussion

I planned to pour some chocolate-cream mixture on top of the keks. However, the misluck with the baking ... pfuuu ... next time it will be better!

Bon Appétit!

References

memmories, immagination, stolen ideas ;)

Modified musaka

Introduction

I really, really wanted, needed, was longing for eating bahur and I walked all the grocery stores in Valencia and finally found something made of pork large intestines stuffed with meat. However, it was far far far far far far ... thousand times far ... far away away away away from bahur, nothing in commen and not really good compared to bahur. It was not even good enough for sandwiches. It is called sobrasada artesana and contains large intestine, pork meat, hot pepper and some stabilizers ... which makes it good enough for a musaka. Then for a muska you need potatoes, however, I was too lazy to carry a bag of potatoes that day and instead I bought a package of root vegetables and together with leftovers from the last bag of potatoes it was enough for a musaka ... so let start with

Materials

The bahur-not-like thing ... usually you need mince
Root vegetables ... usually you need only the carrots
Potatoes ... usually you need much more
Tomatoe puree ... it is in the original Bulgarian ... or it's not, maybe originally people use tomatoes ... whatever
Salt
Pepper
Oregano ... it is not in the original recipe
Savory ... I am not sure, I think it's used for the Bulgarian musaka
Yogurt
Eggs
Flour (optional some people uset, others do not)
Bakers soda (optional)
Vegetable and or olive oil

Procedure

1. Cut the root vegetables
2. Heat some oil and fry the vegetables on a light fire, heat or whatever you use
3. Cut the meat-source, add it to the vegetables, mix and let everything fry together
4. Peel and cut the potatoes
5. Add the potatoes to the meat and the vegetables and mix
4. Add the spices and the tomatoe puree and mix
5. Add water enough to cover everything
6. Cook till the potatoes are soft enough
7. In the meantime mix yogurt, eggs, salt, red pepper, flour and bakers soda.
8. When the potatoes are soft enough pour the meat-vegetables-potatoes mixture into a bakers pan
9. Spread the yougurt-eggs mixture on top of the meat-vegetables-potatoes mixture.
10. Bake for 10-15 minutes in the oven or till the eggs white becomes solid ... well don't expect to see anything what you see when you fry eggs ...

Results

Discussion

I will eat it tomorrow because while making it I ate more than enough sandwiches, chocolate etc etc ... of course I tried it and it tastes promising ...

Bon Appétit!

References

for musaka and for a modified one I don't need literature sources anymore

Soup

Introduction

It's not much different than the previous one (http://nadi4ka.blogspot.com/2010/12/soup.html) but still ...

Materials

Chickpea
Root vegetables
Tuna fish
Tomato puree
Dill
Oregano
Savory
Black pepper
Red chilly pepper
Bay leaf
Baker's soda

Procedure

1. Soak the chickpea in water containing baker's soda overnight
2. Wash and cut the vegetables
3. Boil in water
4. Add all the spices, the tuna fish and the tomato puree and boil till it is ready

Results

Discussion

Very healthy and tasty!

Bon Appétit!

Sheep's milk yogurt

Introduction

Let's have a healthy breakfast tomorrow ...

Materials

1l           Sheep's milk
1 spoon Bulgarian yogurt or another source of L. bulgaricus and S. lactis
1 spoon Yogurt containing Bifidobacterium

Procedure

1. Heat the milk to 37 C, if it comes from the store; if it comes from the sheep you can probably teach me how to make yogurt but just in case first heat the milk to above 70 degrees and then let it cool down to 37 C
2. Mix the yogurts with some of the milk
3. Add the mixture to the rest of the milk
4. Wrap the milk container in a cloth or other material that will make it cool down slower

Results

more results in 14-16 hours ... and here they are

After 6-8 hours in the fridge at 4 C mixed with bisquits and sugar ... life is good!!!

This time it's so tick I can even cut it with a knife! Great!



Discussion

I love it!!! Aromatic, tick and healthy!

Bon Appetit!

Roasted chicken

Introduction

I am hungry ...

Materials

Chicken
White wine in a bottle
Chilly pepper
Red pepper
Black pepper
Salt
Butter
Sunflower oil
Olive oil
Potatoes

Procedure

1. Place the chicken on the bottle, so, the bottle goes in from one side of the chicken and goes out from the other side
2. Put slices of butter under the skin of the chicken and in the bottle of wine
3. Spread sunflower oil and olive oik all over the chicken
4. Spred the spices all over the chicken
5. Place the bottle with the chicken in a vertical position in a baking pan containing peeled and sliced potatoes and some water.
6. Put in the oven and turn the oven on from the bottom
7. Forget about its existence for one hour
8. Place the bottle with chicken in a horizontal position and some water
9. After 20-30 minutes switch on the oven from the top and bake for 20 minutes more and from time to time pour some of the potatoe sauce over the chicken

Results

Discussion

Maybe because the bottle of wine is much ticker and bigger than a beer bottle the wine didn't start boiling and it was not perfusnig the chicken as the beer (http://nadi4ka.blogspot.com/2010/10/roasted-chicken.html). However, the result tasted again more than excellent!

Bon Appétit!

Mussels with rice

Introduction

Time for some sea food ...

Materials

Mussels without the shell

Onion

Garlic

Fresh parsley

Tomatoe puree

Vegetable oil

Salt

Lemon

Procedure

1. Heat some vegetable oil and fry the cut onion, garlic and parsley

2. Add the mussels, mix and fry everything together

3. Add some tomato puree and keep frying for a about a minute

4. Add rice and water 3 times the volume of rice

5. Cook till the rice is soft enough

6. Spice with salt and lemon juice

Results

Discussion

...

Bon Appétit!



Keks

Introduction

Kekstje instead of ...tje

Materials

4-6 eggs
4-6 spoons of sugar and or honey
glass of goat milk
4-6 spoons berries jam
some water
bakers soda
chocolate (cacao)
flour
vegetable oil

Procedure

1. Mix and beat the eggs together with the sugar, the honey, the milk, the water, the jam, the soda and the chocolate (cacao)
2. Add flour, keep mixing and beating till you get a homogenous mixture with density of 50% PEG 8000 ... or in other words higher than the density of a mixture for pancakes.
3. Pour the mixture in a baking form covered with vegetable oil. You may also add some vegetable oil to the keks mixture itself
4. Bake preferably as slowly as possible

Results

Friday edition

Saturday edition

Discussion

Be careful with the bakers soda, it might taste bitter if you put too much. There was a Saturday edition because the Friday one was way too good ... let's see what will happen on Sunday ...

Bon Appétit!

Potatoes with tuna fish

Introduction

...

Materials

Tuna in vegetable oil
Onion
Tomato puree
Peeled and cut potatoes
Cut carrots
Dill
Black pepper

Procedure

1. Fry the tuna, the cut onion and the tomatoe puree together
2. Add the potatoes and the carrots
3. Pour some water to cover everything, add the spices and cook till the potatoes are soft enough

Results

Discussion

It is almost like the Ramadan  musaka ... no pork, fish instead of beef.

Bon Appétit!

Soup

Introduction

No experimenting tonight ... I wonder whether Nynke, my ex-officemate, still eats that garbage called cup of soup ...

Materials

Root vegetables - everything from the image below except the onion plus potatoes

Tomatoe puree

Cream

Frankfurters

Dill

Parsley

Oregano

Black pepper

Procedure

1. Cut the vegetables  and the frankfurters

2. Cook them in salt boiling water

3. Add the spices

4. Few minutes before the end add the tomatoe puree and mix

5. Add the cream and mix

Results

Discussion

Vitaminous and light dish ... although I am not sure about the thermostability of vitamins ...

Bon Appétit!

References
1. Mercadona vegetables mix

Pork with rice

Introduction

I expect more negative comments even than the scrambled eggs ... how can you mix this with that !!!

Materials

Pork
Mushrooms
Red wine
Cream
Blueberries, blackberies and other-berries jam
Rice
Black pepper
Bay leaf
Salt
Soya sauce

Procedure

1. Soak the pork pieces in a mixture of red wine, jam and cream for 24 hours.
2. Heat a pan and mour the mxture with the pork
3. Add the mushrooms and cook for several minutes
4. Add rice and 3 times its volume water
5. Add the spices and cook till it's ready

Results

Discussion

Next time I will add hot chilly sauce and natural chocolate as well ...

Bon Appétit!

Scrambled eggs

Introduction

Champions breakfast!

Materials

Eggs

Vegetable oil

Banana

Fresh white cheese

Honey

Procedure

1. Heat the oil and fry the bananas

2. Add the cheese, mix and fry

3. Add the eggs, mix and fry

4. Pour some honey and mix

Results

Discussion

Wonderful!!! All my favourite foods mixed together in a single breakfast dish!

Bon Appétit!

Chickpea with frankfurters

Introduction

It's good ...

Materials

Chickpea
Carrots
Red wine
Parsley
Savory
Frankfurters
Tomato puree

Procedure
1. Soak the chickpea in water for at least 24 hours
2. Cut what you need to cut, mix everything and boil till it's ready

Results

Discussion

The cheapest and quickest non-vegetarian hot dish ever!

Bon Appétit!

Chicken with apricots

Introduction

If it's fine with pine apple, it must be fine with apricot as well.

Materials

Chicken
Can of apricots
Lemon peel
Onion
Parsley
Vegetable oil
Savory
Dile
Salt
Red pepper
Black pepper
Rice
Tomato puree
Soya sauce

Procedure

1. Soak the chicken in soya sauce, the longer the better
2. Fry some of the lemon peel, the onion and the parsley in some vegetable oil
3. Add the chicken and fry it from all sides
4. Add the apricots together with the liquid from the can and cook for some time
5. Add rice and three times the volume of the rice water and keep cooking
6. Add the rest of the lemon peel and all the spices
7. Keep cooking
8. About 10 min before it's ready add tomato puree, mix and let the cooking proceed.

Results

Discussion

Too busy to eat it to figure out a text for a discussion ...

Bon Appétit!

Chickpea

Introduction

In Bulgaria we eat this as nuts with brandy, whiskey and other mood-improving drinks ... 3 months ago I saw it for the first time in jars and today was the first time I cook it myself, I haven't tried the jar one so, I cannot compare ...

Materials

Chickpea
Cut onion
Cut garlic
Cut parsley
Savory
Cut carrots
Lemon
Tomato puree
Vegetable oil
Sodium bicarbonate

Procedure

1. Soak the chickpea in water containing sodium bicarbonate for 24 hours, this will shorten the cooking process and will save a lot of energy
2. Heat some vegetable oil and fry the onion, the garlic and the parsley
3. Add the chick pea and mix
4. Add water and cook
5. Spice with savory and lemon juice
6. Add the carrots
6. Before it is almoust ready add some tomato puree, mix and cook for 1-2 minutes longer

Results

Discussion

After the 24 hours soaking it took me less than 25 minutes to cook it and it tasted better than I expected. I think I found a pasta replacement, it's heathier ... I believe ... it doesn't take longer time to cook it, it tastes much better ... imagine pasta without meat or cheese it has no taste ... and last it's same price if not cheeper.

Bon Appétit !

References
1. A short talk with my flatmate Mauricio ... a mix of Spanish, English and mainly gesture-mimics language ... I'm too lazy to start learning Spanish seriosly

Salad with salami and cheese

Itroduction

I am still sick so I keep eat salads ...

Materials

Green salad
Carrots
Garlic
Salami
Cheese
Sweet chilly sauce
Mustard
Vegetable oil
Lemon juice
Red wine

Procedure

1. Cut all the solid substances
2. Mix together
3. Spice with all the liquids

Results

Discussion

Be carefull with mustard, put a tiny bit otherwise you run the risk to be the only thing you taste.

Bon Appétit!

References
1. none

Rice with olives

Introduction

Quick, easy, tasty, simple ... notting more to say

Materials

Garlic cloves
Cut onion
Vegetable oil
Olives
Rice
Salt
Black pepper
Soya sauce

Procedure

1. Heat the oil
2. Fry the garlic cloves
3. Add the onion and keep frying
4. Add the rice and mix
5. Add water 3 times the volume of the rice
6. Add the olives and cook till the rice is soft enought for your taste
7. Spice with salt, black pepper and soya sauce

Results

Discusson

All kind of olives and all kind of rice ... it is awlays good!

Bon Appétit!

References
none

Salad with tuna fish

Introduction

During a practical in Human and Animal Physiology I learned that when you are getting sick you should reduce the consumption of foods, especially heavy meals. It sounds logical because imagine how much energy will be left for your body to fight the infection, the flu or whatever if all your blood is concentrated in the stomach digesting a juicy steak with butter champignon sause, for example. So, now as I am getting a cold and ... I am also getting blonder btw ... a salad!

Materials

Green salad, or iceberg or something green with huge leaves
Tomatoe
Tuna fish in oil
Lemon
Black pepper

Pocedure

1. Cut the salad and the tomatoe in large pieces
2. Add tuna fish and mix
3. Spice with lemon juice and black pepper

Result

Discussion

It tastes good and it is refreshing and it took me less than 2 min to prepare it ... maybe I should switch to salads forever ...

Bon Appétit!

References
none

Pork with caramelized vegetables

Introduction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWk6lTbkYU

Materials

Pork
Chopped vegetables, for example garlic, carrots and courgettes
Sugar and honey
Red wine
Black pepper and hot chilly pepper

Procedure

1. Caramelize the sugar by heating it in a pan
2. Add the honey and the vegetables and mix
3. Pour some wine
4. Place the pork on top of the vegetables
5. Cook till the pork is ready, i.e. it falls apart when you press it with the fork

Results

Discussion

I don't drink alcohol but cooking with alcohol is something different ... and don't serve this to children ...

Bon Appétit!

References
2. none ... it's my sick imagination ;D

Champignons with rice

Introduction

It contains no meat and it is very simple to prepare but it is still good enough to be described.

Materials

Butter
Sliced champignons
Sliced carrots
Rice
Whey or diluted yoghurt or karnemelk ...
Black pepper

Procedure

1. Melt the butter
2. Fry the campignons and the carrots in the butter
3. Add the rice and the whey and cook till the rice is soft enough for you
4. Spice it with black pepper


Results

Discussion

If you are vegan just replace the butter with vegetable oil and the whey with water or soya milk based yoghurt.

Bon Appétit

References
1. none

Roasted peppers in jars

This time I skip the introduction

Materials

Green peppers
Vinegard
Honey
Salt
Garlic cloves

Procedure

1. Roast the peppers on a heated metal surface
2. Wrap them in paper
3. Peel the roasted peppers
4. Put the roasted peppers in jars containing 30-50 ml vinegard, salt, a tea spoon of honey and garlic cloves
5. Close the jars and heat them in a waterbath for few minutes
6. Keep the jars upside-down overnight

Results

Discussion

You can buy this everywhere but if you make it yourself you can tell for sure that there are no perseratives and or any E--- stuff ... Also these two jars cost me less than EUR 1 and it took me less than 1 hour to have them. Keeping in mind that so far my time during weekends is for free it's cheeper even than Lidl, Aldi, Kaufland etc.

Bon Appétit

References

1. A long time ago ...

Milk desert

Milk desert

Introduction

Do it, try it, love it ...

Materials

Cream
Milk
Chocolate
Digestive bisquits
Bananas

Procedure

1. Mix everything
2. Microwave for 3 min
3. Freeze for 3 min
4. Enjoy

Results

It taste too good to have enough time to photograph the result ... however, tonight I managed to take a photo

Discussion

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Bon Appétit!

Chicken with rice

Chicken with rice

Introduction

Fast and easy

Materials

Chicken
Light beer
Mustard
Honey
Hot pepper
Black pepper
Butter
Rice
Pine apple
Carrots

Procedure

1. Soak the chicken in a mix of all the materials except the rice, the carrots and the pine apple
2. Forget about it for several hours preferably in the fridge
3. Cook together with the rice, the sliced carrots and the pine apple

Results

Discussion

Don't give it to young children ... there is some alcohol inside.

Bon Appétit

Literature

1. Imagination based on experience

Lazy tikvenik

Мързелив тиквеник/ Lazy tikvenik ... or pumpkin pie

Въвдени/ Introduction

Чакайте обсъждането .../ Wait for the discussion ...

Материали/ Materials

Кори за баница/ Pie pastry
Настъргана тиква/ Grated pumpkin
Захар/ Sugar
Мед/ Honey
Вода/ Water
Масло/ Butter
Расителна мазнина/ Vegetable oil

Приготвяне/ Procedure

1. Поставете няколко кори за баница в намаслена тавичка/ Place few layers of pie pastry in a oiled baking dish
2. Разпределете настърганата тиква, която предварително е била смесена със захар, мед и растителна мазнина/ Spread the grated pumpkin which has been mixed with sugar, honey and vegetable oil in advance
3. Поставете още няколко кори за баница/ Place few more layers of pie pastry
4. Сгорещете расителна мазнина и масло и полейте тиквеника/ Heat vegetable oil and butter and pour ove the tikvenik
5. Опечете/ Bake
6. Опеченият тиквеник се залива с сироп от захар, мед и вода ... по-малко вода/ Flood the baked tikvenik with a syrup made of sugar, honey and water ... less water
7. Ако може да дочакате сервирайте тиквеника студен/ If you can wait serve the tikvenik cold

Резултати/ Results

Обсъждане/ Discussion

Мързелив е, защото корите се купуват от магазина ... и както е казал някой си "Яж бе, Ваньо, яж бе, тиквеник!"/ It's lazy because you buy the pastry from the grocery store ... and as someone has said "Eat Vanyo, eat, tikvenik" (it is a word game because in Bulgarian tikvenik means the upper described dish and also it can be used to call somedy pumpkin-head, stupid)

Bon Appétit!

Литература/ Literature

Спомени ... и немързеливият вариант го знаем .../ Memories ... I know the non-lazy variant as well ...