Georgian tomato salad

Georgian tomato salad

In Georgia it accompanies nearly every meal. Fresh and refreshing... Prepared with excellent, often garden-grown tomatoes. Fortunately in Poland we still have a good selection of these delicious fruit.





"Georgian tomato salad"

- 2 large tomatoes
- 1 sweet onion
- a few twigs of coriander
- 1 chilli
- salt, pepper to taste

Wash and slice the tomatoes, chop the onion finely. Remove coriander leaves. Cut the chilli in half, remove the seeds, chop finely. Mix all together. Simple but delicious!

Buckwheat pancakes

It is a healthier version of pancakes, even if children are rather unenthusiastic about it. But we, grown-ups, understand that what is healthy may be tasty all the same:-)















"Buckwheat pancakes"

- 400 g buckwheat flour
- 3/4 glass milk
- 3 eggs
- half tsp salt
- 3 tbsp oil

Top with whatever you like. I added a fried egg, some ham, a tomato, mushrooms, cheese to sprinkle.

Mix all the ingredients together until you achieve the consistency of thick yet liquid cream. You can adjust water and flour to get the right thickness. Fry thin pancakes in a large frying pan. 

Baked cheesecake with ricotta

I like a ricotta cheese. It is not so heavy and has less calories than other cheeses...

















"Baked cheesecake with ricotta "

For the dough:

-200g white flour                                    
- 100g butter
-pinch of salt
- 2 tsp sugar

for the filling:

- 500g ricotta cheese
- 100ml cream /36%/
- 3 eggs
- 130g sugar
- 3 tbsp cornflour
- 30ml liqueur /orange is the best ;)/

Mix the flour, salt, sugar and butter together. Add cold water to form a dough. Chill for 1 hour in plastic wrap in a fridge.

Heat the oven to 200stC and grease a springform tart tin. Roll out the dough and line the base and sides of the tin.

Mix the ricotta cheese with sugar, egg yolks, cornflour and liqueur.  Whisk the egg whites and gently fold into the cheese mixture.

Pour cheese into the pastry case and bake for 45 min. You may decorate with icing sugar.

Easy macaroon cake

Yesterday, while watching "Troy" again, where Brad Pitt flexes his newly pumped up muscles, my Middle One demanded a cake. Definitely and immediately. The only one I could think of baking during commercial breaks was the macaroon...












"Macaroon"

- 230g flour
- 2tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 100 g sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- flavouring oil
-a little of your favourite preserve
- half glass milk
- 120g butter

For the topping:
- 3 egg whites
- 1/4 glass sugar
- half glass coconut flakes

Put butter and sugar in the kitchen robot and work until smooth, add the rest of ingredients. Pour into a fairly small, buttered tin. Add the preserve in several places. Beat the whites with sugar separately, mix with coconut flakes and decorate the top of the cake.

Bake in 180C for ca. 50 minutes. 

Salad with pear and rocket.

I am not a big fan of rocket. I can eat it in small quantities, just like pears... And yet I could eat this salad all the time...










"Salad with pear and rocket"

- rocket leaves
- roasted salmon
- 1 pear
- green roman lettuce

For the sauce: a clove of garlic crushed in a mortar, 1 tbsp honey, stir. Add freshly squeezed lemon juice or vinegar and pour. olive oil generously. Mix until you get a well balanced, sweet and sour emulsion. 

Divide the leaves and the salmon into pieces and pour over the sauce. Leave for a few moments to marinate and serve:)

Lemon foam cake

It was supposed to be a literary meeting, for expats learning Polish. Naturally, it was Iza who organised the whole thing:-)
I had a good hour in the morning to perform my "magic". Not a lot of time, so I settled for lemon foam. To sum it up, all that was left afterwards was a small piece. The choice can't have been bad, can it?












"Lemon foam "

- 6 eggs
- 250g butter
- full glass sugar
- half glass oil
- 2glasses potato starch
- half glass wheat flour
- 2 tbsp white vinegar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon zest
- lemon flavouring

Mix butter with sugar until smooth, add one egg at a time, add flour and baking powder, lemon zest, vinegar, oil and flavouring. Once well mixed pour into a greased baking tin and bake for 45 mins in 180C. 

Lavender scones

I love scones... especially with lavender scent. I just cut a few flowers from the garden...

















"Lavender scones"

- 230g flour
- 60g butter
- 50g sugar
- 150ml milk
- 1-2 tsp lavender flowers

Mix all the ingredients together. Roll or pat out 3cm thick. Cut into rounds. Place on a baking tray and bake for 15-20 min in an oven - 200C.