Broccoli and Cheddar soup

I love cheese on a top of a warm soup... I just love it :)



















"Broccoli and cheddar soup"

- 0,5 kg broccoli
- 1 small onion, chopped
- olive
- 1 potato, peeled and chopped
- salt, pepper
- 100 ml double cream
- 100g Cheddar, grated

Melt an olive in a large pan. Add onion, potato, broccoli cut into pieces and cook about 5 min stirring frequently. Add water or vegetable stock, salt and pepper and cook for another 20 min.
using a blender puree the mixture until smooth, add cream. season well. You may add a few drops of Tabasco.

Heat soup gently and serve the soup garnished with the grated cheese.

Stilton Welsh rarebit

My teenager boy likes only very simple, not very healthy food. I try to find new dishes with "secret vitamins" inside;)


















"Stilton Welsh rarebit"

- 100g stilton cheese / or other blue one/
- 20g butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 spring onion sliced
- 2 spoons milk
- 2 slices of bread
- 2 slices of bacon

In a small pan heat the butter with the spring onions for a while, leave to cool and add cheese, a yolk and milk. Mix well.

Put the mixture on a bread and cook under a preheated hot grill for about 2-3 min.

Sweet & sour aubergine

I love aubergine..maybe it is because I am coming from the "potato land"... it means Poznan...

Sweet &sour aubergine

- 1 big aubergine

- salt

- pepper

- 1 onion

- 1 zucchini

- 1/2 fennel bulb, trimmed

- 70 ml red wine vinegar

- 2 big ripe tomatoes

- a few of basil leaves

Cut aubergine into small pieces, sprinkle with salt and leave for 15min. Cut onion into 0,5 cm dice.

Heat olive in a frying pan, add the onion until soft. Add the fennel cut-et into 1cm dice. Than add an aubergine. Cut tomatos and zucchini, add to the pan. Wait about 20 min, add vinegar and basil leaves. Season well.

Walsh buns for breakfast

Isn't beautiful there? I've never been
to Wales... so far ;). But Gunes was with her boyfriend and they took this fantastic picture of the funny house:)









"Welsh buns"

-400g flour
- 4 dag fresh yeast/6g dry?/
-30g sugar
- 5 dag butter
- 150ml milk
- 1 egg
- some currants

Put the butter and milk in a saucepan, heat gently. Add yeast with sugar. Put flour, prepared mixture and egg into a blander. Mix well.
Form into a ball, leave in a warm place until doubled in bulk. Knead currants into a mixture.
Divide into 12 pieces and form each into a need round.
Wait another 10-15 min.
Bake until golden in a warm oven.
Serve with butter and jam.

Welsh yeast cake

I prefer polish version of yeast cake... but this one is quite original. More flowery... Thanks to fruits?

















"Welsh yeast cake"

-250g flour
-1 tsp cinnamon
- 75 g raisins
- 100g butter
- 100g sugar
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 egg
-1 cup warm milk
- 1 tbsp dried yeast
- 1/2 tbsp bicarbonate of soda

Beat together the butter, sugar, syrup and egg. Add flour, cinnamon, milk, yeast, soda. Mix well. Add raisins in the end.
Place in a greased loaf tin and leave in a warm place until doubled.
Put to the warm oven and bake about 45min-1 hour.

Rhubarb liquor

Do you like sweet and sour taste? I do. This fresh, very good for a springtime liquor taste delicious, especially if we keep the bottle in a refrigerator...
















"Rhubarb liquor"

- 1 kg fresh rhubarb
-  glass of honey
- glass of water
- 1 l strong spirit /or vodka - we do need water in this case/


Wash rhubarb, cut into pieces, put into the jar. Mix water with a honey, add to the rhubarb. Finally add the spirit. Close the jar, put to the fridge and wait only for 1-2 weeks! ready to serve :)

Root vegetable soup

You must try this soup! Especially with mascarpone cheese inside... it change everything! It taste amazingly...!!!

















"Root vegetable soup"

- 2 big carrots, chopped
- 2 potatos, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 white celery, chopped
- 1 large parsnip, chopped
- 3-4 spoon of oil
- 1 cup of milk
- small piece of ginger root, grated
- 4 tbsp mascarpone cheese
- salt and pepper

Heat oil in a big saucepan. Put chopped vegetables and fry lightly, then cover and sweat them on a low heat for 5-7 min. Pour in the water, just to cover them, add salt, pepper and ginger. Cover and simmer for 20 min, add milk and wait another 3-5 min.
Mix everything with a food processor.
Serve in a bowl garnished with mascarpone cheese.

Leek and Thyme soup

This is a very tasty, heart warming soup. Thanks to thyme smells fantastic.My daughter and her boyfriend ate all the pot  of the soup yesterday...so I am cooking another soup today ;)

















"Leek and Thyme soup"

- 1 kg leeks
- 1/2 kg potatoes
- 120g butter
- 1 large sprig of fresh thyme
- 1 cup milk
- salt
- pepper

Wash the leeks under cold water, then cut into thick slices. Cut the potatoes into rough dice.
Put the butter into the saucepan and melt it. Add the leeks and thyme. wait for a few minutes and add the potatoes pieces and than water just enough to cover the vegetables. Cook over a low heat for 20 min than pour the milk and season well. Cover the pot and wait another 20 min.
Remove the sprig of thyme and soup is ready to serve.
And it is delicious!

Old-Fashioned Coffe Cake

Unfortunately I like cakes. I like to bake them and especially eat them too... This time I wanted to taste something really familiar, remanding me my childhood....

















"Old-Fashioned Coffe Cake"

- 180g butter
- 180g brown sugar
- 180g self-raising flour
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 spoons of a very strong coffee

Put all ingredient  to a mixing bowl and beat until smooth.

Greased a tin with a butter or oil and turn the mixture into the tin. Bake in a preheated oven for 30 min, 180st C.

Cut into two pieces, spread with a wiped cream or a cornish cream. Delicious!