Recipe Thread

[SANDY FROST]

6 ounces spaghetti
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 well beaten eggs
1 cup cottage cheese(8 ounces)
1 pound ground beef or bulk pork sausage
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
1 8-ounce can (1 cup) tomatoes,cut up
1 6-ounce can tomato paste
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon dried oregano,crushed
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (2 ounces)
Cook the spaghetti to package directions; drain
(should have 3 cups spaghetti). Stir butter or margarine into hot spaghetti. AStir in pqarmesan cheese & eggs. From spaghetti mixture into a "crust" in a buttered 10-inch pie plate. Spread cottage cheese over bottom of spaghetti crust.

In shillet cook ground beef or pork Sausage,onion,&green pepper till vegetables are tender & meat is browned. Drain off excess fat. Stir in undrained tomatoes,tomato paste,sugar,oregano&garlic salt;heat through.

Turn meat mixture into spaghetti crust. Bake, uncovered, in 350 degree oven for 20 minutes. Sprinkle the mozzsarella cheese atop. Bake 5 minutes longer or till cheese melts. Makes 6 servings.

My aunt gave me this recipe and it is good.
Enjoy.
Sandy FDrost





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[Vio&Juni]

Try this! It's a national Moldovan meal and it's very healthy.
Moldovan Fish soup
Ingredients:
Fresh lake or river fish (I prefer carp, but trout is also good) – 1 kg or a little more.
Carrot – 2 (medium)
Parsley roots – 4 (medium)
Greens – Lovage (very important – gives the particular taste) – about 8 leaves, Parsley leaves – as much as you like, any other you like. I add only these plus maybe in the spring some Red Orache.
Eggs – 2 (big)
Rice - 2 spoons (optional)
Salt, pepper, and red hot chilli pepper (try to make it not too hot)
We use a special sour liquid to make the soup sour – it’s a fermented liquid made out of bran and cherry leaves and young cherry branches. New, we can find it here in the supermarkets. I am almost sure, you don’t have this, so, use lemon salt, lemon, or whatever you use to sour the soup.

Process:
Cut the carrot and the parsley root in small cubes and boil it in water with salt. When they are almost soft, add the fish. You can cut it or not, but it’s preferable to add the heads too, they give a richer taste. Check if the gills are cleaned. Add the rice if you choose. Add 4 Lovage leaves now. Let it boil until the fish is ready. Add the other 4 Lovage leaves, the Parsley leaves, the pepper and the red hot chilli pepper. Sour the soup. Boil it more after you sour.
Separately, beat the eggs. Add some soup in the eggs and beat them more, repeat. When the soup is ready, pour this in the soup. The soup should be full of eggs flakes. Don’t boil it anymore.
The soup is very simple. It’s especially good for women because the fat acids contained in the fish, intact when fish is boiled only (not too long) fight the breast cancer agents.

[Vio&Juni]

Marinated fish under “fur coat”

Ingredients:
Marinated Herring fillet or whatever marinated fish you like – 1/2 kg
Red Beet – 2 (medium)
Carrot – 4-6 (medium)
Potatoes – 6-8 (medium)
Eggs – 2 (big)
Mayonnaise
Onion or green onion (optional) – not too much.

Process:

Boil the vegetables and the eggs WITHOUT SALT. The red beet and the carrot should be soft! Eggs should be hard-boiled. When ready, put everything in cold water. Peel the vegetables and grate every vegetable separately on a plate.
Cut the fillet in small cubes. Put it on a large plate in one level only. Add the onion cut in cubes, if you choose with onion. Add in levels the potatoes, then the carrot, then the red beet and cover with mayonnaise. The mayonnaise should color in red (this means the red beet is really good). Grate the eggs on top. Some people use the white only. Juni is crazy over yolk, and she gets it
It's very good after some hours, not bad at all immediately.
Suggestion – try to use very sweet kinds of carrot and red beet. It gives a special taste.

It is healthy, due to red beet and carrot. These two products provide the necessary intake of iron (esp. for vegetarians).

[Russian Blue]

I just found this recipe thread now!! Yeah, I know I'm slow! But I don't get to the Generalforum on a regular basis.

I love recipe threads. I'll have to pull some recipes to share.

[RICHARD]

Karen,
can you pull this thread?

i have gained 10 lbs just reading it.

thank you.

[SANDY FROST]

No way don't pull this thead.
I love this one.
Sandy Frost

[gini]

Sorry Richard, you have to go to Weight Watchers with the rest of us!!

[Vio&Juni]

Another fish dish - a very tasty one - you can find in the best restaurants of Chisinau

Ghivechi with fish

Choose a fatter fish for this meal - I have never had tuna - I don't eat frozen fish, and the ocean fish here is available only frozen. Or smoked. People say it's good and I believe it. You may try tuna.
So:
Fish - 1.5 kg
Onions - 2-3 (medium)
Carrots - 2-3 (big)
Eggplants - 2 (medium)
Sweet peppers (red, yellow, green) - 6-8 (big) or 10 (medium)
Tomatoes - 1-1.5 kg
Garlick - decide for yourself
Oil (not butter, not margarine. We use sunflower oil, it's also good with olive oil.) - 0.5 cup

Ghivechi with fish is good with Mamaliga -the Romanian name of Polenta.
You need for it:
Water,
Corn flour
Salt and a teaspoon of butter (not margarine).

Process:

Cut the fish and the vegetables in cubes (not VERY small, but also smaller than medium), carrot in very thin slices. Broil the fish in some oil until it' almost ready. Broil separately the eggplant in hot oil until it forms a crust. Take it out, so it doesn' absorb too much oil. Cook the onions and carrot in oil a little, add the peppers and the roasted eggplant, two minutes later the tomatoes. Do all this on high temperature. Add the garlick, and the fish and salt and cook until it' ready.

Mamaliga:

Boil the water, add salt and when it makes bubles add very carefully the corn flower and stir thoroughly. Try to avoid clumps. Make it as dough. Leave it for 20 - 25 minutes to get well cooked. Stir from time to time and almost at the end add the butter. If you take it with a wet cold ladle, you can form beautiful spheres.

Serve it hot. Grate some Fetta cheese and add cream on the mamaliga if you like.

[Cataholic]

Vio-
Please know that I adore you, BUT, I bet you have stinky breath!!! LOL!!!

Fishies? Beets? No wonder why Juni LOVES you so much!!!!!!!

[Vio&Juni]

Johanna
I chew Orbit Winterfresh after I eat, if I don't have access to my toothbrush Juni likes to smell my breath though, even after garlick
Meatballs, also with garlick, are her favorites. She never lets me finish making them if I don't give her some. She also likes the grape leaves, or marinated cabbage leaves stuffed with rice, vegetables and small pieces with meat. This is what we'll have for dinner in some minutes. With cream... yummy...
If you're interested, I'll give you that recipe too. In fact, I am too lazy to make them, my brother does or my sister. They are bothe professionals.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by gini
Sorry Richard, you have to go to Weight Watchers with the rest of us!!

i already weight watch......i watch it take over the extra space in my clothes!!!!!!

[lynnestankard]

Eeeeerr..........Did someone say Banana Bread? Or Banana Cake?
I adore banana bread - or cake!!!

Lynne

[Karen]

I'll remeber to post Uncle Mac's banana bread recipe tonight. It calls for 4 really ripe bananas, so you can start saving them now!

[Miss Meow]

Vio, yum yum yum, who cares what you smell like after those meals! We don't have a lot of those ingredients but I can start checking some heritage seed and herb nurseries for lovage etc. Or book the next plane to Chisinau

[SANDY FROST]

Check ou spaghetti pie.
its good.Sandy Frost