Quick blini for breakfast
Although made of wheat flour, they are ready in a flash and when you add soured cream they taste divine. You may want to add sugar, even if it is not my cup of tea.
"Quick blini for breakfast"
- 1/2 kilo flour
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups water
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/3 tsp citric acid to taste
Mix all the ingredients in a kitchen robot at medium speed, add baking soda last.
Best fried immediately, in butter. The blini will be golden and delicious.
Finally I managed to get Iwona to give me some leaven. I admit it was the first time I got to play with starter dough, which was a greyish slush that stank a bit. I knew I had to leave some of it for further baking. But when? Before I work the new dough or after? I bet on the latter version and... it was a mistake. Yet Iwona promised me another supply of her leaven.
"Leavened wheat-and-rye bread with dried tomatoes"
-250g wholemeal wheat flour
- 200 g wholemeal rye flour
- 150 g leaven
- 1 glass warm water
- 50g sun dried tomatoes
- 100 ml olive oil from the dried tomatoes
- 1 tbsp tomato purèe
- 1 tbsp salt
Mix the leaven with 100 ml water and 100g rye flour. Leave in a warm place for at least 12 hours.
Mix the remaining flour with 150 ml water, add olive oil and salt. Wait for 2 hours more.
Chop the tomatoes, add to the dough together with the purée. Place the dough in a greased baking tin, wait for 30 minutes and put in a preheated oven. Bake in 200-220C for 45 minutes. Leave to cool.
I admit it took some time, but the result was satisfying!
Spinach with bacon, salmon, and apple
... Not spinach again... Overrated! A nightmare of school and kindergarten canteens. Yet a revelation with a good sauce. A new and fresh incarnation with apples and coriander is a great dish in itself.
"Spinach with bacon, salmon, and apple"
- 1/2 kilo washed spinach leaves
- 100 g bacon cut into cubes
- 1 salmon fillet, roasted or fried
- 1 apple, pealed and very thinly sliced
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- a few coriander twigs
Place the spinach in a bowl, sprinkle with coriander.
Heat the olive oil in the frying pan, fry the bacon until the grease melts, add apple slices towards the end. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place the salmon divided into small pieces on the spinach and pour the contents of the frying pan on top.
Quick muffins for breakfast
Really quick and simple. They grew like crazy;-) Even though I used self-rising flour instead of leavening.... In fact it is the same thing, just less trouble. I wish someone would start selling it in Poland!
"Quick muffins for breakfast"
- 300 g flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 small eggs
- 150 g grated cheese
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 150 g full fat natural yoghurt
- 150 ml milk
- 5 tbsp olive oil
Mix all the ingredients in the kitchen robot, or use a large spoon and a bowl.
Preheat the oven to 190C. Put the dough into moulds or a special muffin baking tray. Bake for good 25 minutes until golden.
Plums are very healthy and we should eat them now, in autumn. My home-grown sages follow me and tell me such stories full of wisdom. Then they make sure I carry home kilos of fruit from the market. Later I wage war on fruit flies invading my kitchen. And after a while I desperately look for ways to use the plums, looking more miserable every day...
"Plum cheesecake"
- 500g plums
- packet of red jelly (Polish kind)
- 3/4 glass sugar
- 3/4 glass soured cream
- 1 kilo cheese- I used half ricotta half mascarpone
- 5 eggs
- 2 packs vanilla pudding
- 3 tbsp grouts (semolina)
Prepare the jelly according to indications on packaging, add stone- free plums cut into halves.
In the kitchen robot mix the cheese with the rest of ingredients. Pour the mixture into a baking tin lined with aluminium foil, if the tin is round, as the mixture is fairy liquid.
Place the plums with jelly on top. Bake for an hour in 180 C.
It is a really tasty cheesecake, especially if kept in the fridge for a while.
Ania tried to protest, saying that it is already evening and carbohydrates... All right, she will taste it, but just a little bit, a half perhaps. Oh, but you have butter? And jam? Lemon-and lime on top? Mmmh... Delicious!
And you made them so quickly?:-)
"Sweet butter rolls"
- 500g wheat flour
- 150 ml warm milk
- 1tsp salt
- 2 tsp dried yeast/40g fresh yeast
- 3 eggs
- 70g sugar
- 100g soft butter
- icing sugar to sprinkle
Mix the flour, yeast mixed with warm milk, sugar and 70 g butter in a bowl or a kitchen robot. Add the eggs and salt and work into a nice sphere which does not stick to your palm. Leave for an hour to grow.
Divide into portions, form the rolls and put them on the buttered/ floured tin. Cover with the remaining butter.
Wait again a little while then bake in an oven preheated to 190 C for 20-25 minutes. Serve sprinkled with icing sugar.
After a series of friends' visits the level of liqueurs in the bottles decreased considerably... time to recommend the production of new ones, as fruit is fairly cheap this year. Spirits is another story, you can't call it inexpensive. Yet, if you want to think ahead of winter evenings...?
"Dry plum liqueur"
- 500 g plums with stones
- 2-3 cm cinnamon (canella) trunk
- 250 g sugar
- 1/2 litre white wine
- 1,5 litre spirits plus glass of boiled water
Squash the plums in a casserole and cover with wine. Simmer on low heat for 15 minutes. Pour into a jar, add cinnamon, close well and leave for three days. After this time strain the mix and heat the clear juice briefly to dissolve sugar. Let cool and add water and spirits, cover well and after a few days pour into bottles. Ready to drink after at least 3 months.
