Potato boats

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 4 big potatoes

300 g yellow cheese

1 egg

50 g butter

3 tablespoons yoghurt

Pepper

Salt

  Boil the potatoes, cut them in half along their length and carve their inner part out. After that,  fill them with the mixture of the grated yellow cheese, the egg, the yoghurt, the pepper and the salt. Place them in pot coated with butter and roast them until they turn red.

Yesterday evening I had unexpected guests and had to make fast something delicious, so I decided to prepare this dish. After boiling the potatoes I didn’t peel them. In the filling I put 2 eggs and more yoghurt because I used more potatoes as I couldn’t find big ones. (so I chose smaller but more). On top of each potato I put some corn and peas. The food turned to be amazing. J

Vegetarian lasagna

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 4 tablespoons of olive oil

500 g yellow cheese

300 g olives

250 g processed cheese

1 packet sheets of pastry for lasagna

800 g peeled tomatoes, strained

500 g mushrooms

Parsley, thyme, savory, salt

1. cut and bone the olives. Grate the yellow cheese
2. put the tomatoes in a pot to boil up. Add the flavouring and 1 of tablespoon sugar.
3. put the water to boil up, then put olive oil, salt and the sheets of pastry for 3-4 minutes. Cut the mushrooms and fry it with pepper and salt.
4. in baking dish pour out part of the tomatoe sauce. After that lay some sheets of pastry , yellow cheese, olives, tomato sauce on top of it and then again sheets, mushrooms, processed cheese and that until the ingredients finish.
5. on top put tomato sauce on and bake it in heated oven
6. minutes before the lasagna is ready, grate yellow cheese on it. Then bake it again until it becomes soft.

I made this lasagna for dinner. I didn’t boil the sheets, though, because on the label of its package, it was written “ no boiling” ;) When I was frying the mushrooms I putted much pepper…  :D . The tomato sauce that I made wasn’t enough so I had to make more. Also, I forgot to put sugar in the sauce. But when I took it out of the oven it smelled very good and looked delicious J

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Small home-grown melon

  I want to show a melon from my garden. It’s very small, not usual that’s why I will publish some photos of it. When I tasted the melon it wasn’t so sweet like the ones from the shops but wasn’t so bad J

Mini cakes “Sacher”

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 275 g black chocolate

125 g butter

125 g sugar

1 pocket vanilla

4 eggs

60 g farina

60 g flour

1 tablespoon cocoa

1 teaspoon baking powder

150 g apricot jam

75 ml whipped cream

   Cut 125 g chocolate into uniform pieces and melt it over hot-water bath. In the meantime, heat the oven up to 175 degrees.

   Mix the butter with the sugar and the vanilla until it becomes foam. Add the eggs one by one, the melted chocolate, the flour, the farina, the cocoa, and the baking powder. Mix 2 minutes with mixer on high speed.

  Divide the dough equally in baking dish that was spread with butter and bake it for about 30 minutes. Remove from oven and put it aside to cool down. Cut with round form 27 circles. Coat each of them with the jam and place every 3 of them on top of each other. In that way, you will have 9 small cakes. After that, coat them sidelong with jam.

   Melt the remaining chocolate on hot-water bath and leave it to cool down. Then pour the chocolate glaze on top of the dessert .

   On top of the each cake write the letter “S” with the whipped cream.

         P.S. You can serve the sweet with Viennese coffee.

In the morning I decided to make this mini Sacher cakes. I had a good start, but when I baked my dough it became hard and it was tough to make the circles, some of them got broken. I had an opened jar of blueberry Jam and used it. It wasn’t enough so I bought apricot jam and continued with it.

In the end I couldn’t shape the “S” letter with the whipped cream, but it looked beautiful. When I tasted it appeared to be VERY VERY  sweet and delicious. J 

Doughnut with prunes and vanilla cream

The Prunes doughnuts recipe:

for the dough:

20 g fresh  yeast

60 g sugar

250ml fresh milk

120 g butter

2 eggs

400 gr flour

2 tablespoons cocoa

salt

8 prunes from stewed fruit or fresh one2 tablespoons cocoa

for the cream:

2 yolks of egg

4 tablespoons of sugar

1 pod of vanilla

500 ml fresh milk

2 teaspoons farina

2 teaspoons powdered sugar for the surface

Mix together 1 tablespoon of sugar , 3 tablespoons of cool milk and the yeast in a large boul for some minutes, cover it and leave it in warm place.

Melt 80g of butter in small saucepan and set it aside. beat he eggs and add the risen yeast,the flour, the cocoa, the remaining sugar, pinch of salt and the melted butter. Add as much milk as needed for the dough to be medium hard . Stir the dough with wooden spoon until it gets smooth and makes bubles. Cover it up and set it in a warm place to rise.

  Melt the remaining butter. The dough must be devided into 8 pieces. Each piece should be flattened with hands and in the middle have to be putted one prune.  The dough  should be bend. Slide the doughnuts in the melted butter and put them in a baking dish. Cover them for 30 minutes to rise.

   Heat the oven to 175 degrees C. Bake the doughnuts on the lower row of the oven  30 minutes. After that turn off the oven and leave the sweets in it for 5-10 minutes.

    The cream:

 Mix the yolks and the sugar until they become foam. Put the milk, the farina, and the vanila in a pot. Stir it over medium heat until it boils down.

Take the doughnut out and powder it. Serve it warm with the vanilla cream.

    Yesterday I cooked this dessert but instead of making small doughnuts … it became a hole cake (one huge doughnut). I put a little too much milk in the dough and it became sticky and softy. And I think I have chosen the wrong plate to make the cake … the utensil turned little   and the sweet rose much more than I expected but nothing fatal happened. The vanilla cream  turned out to be very delicious I think although I put vanilla from a pocket not from a pod …

    But in the end, I got satisfaction  because my big “doughnut” was tasty and everybody enjoyed it. J

P.S. : I’m sorry but I don’t have photo L I hope next time I won’t forget and I’ll take a picture of it ;)

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