No way don't pull this thead.
I love this one.:)
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No way don't pull this thead.
I love this one.:)
Sandy Frost
Sorry Richard, you have to go to Weight Watchers with the rest of us!!
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.
Vio-
Please know that I adore you, BUT, I bet you have stinky breath!!! LOL!!!:D :eek: :p
Fishies? Beets? No wonder why Juni LOVES you so much!!!!!!!
Johanna :D :D :D :D
I chew Orbit Winterfresh after I eat, if I don't have access to my toothbrush :p 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.
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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!!!!!!
Eeeeerr..........Did someone say Banana Bread? Or Banana Cake?
I adore banana bread - or cake!!!
Lynne
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! :)
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 :)
Check ou spaghetti pie.
its good.Sandy Frost:D
Here it is:
Uncle Mac's Banana Bread
(his name was Ovide McCarthy, he was a friend to animals, fixers of engines and all things mechanical, and beloved of children!)
Cream
1/2 cup shortening (butter)
with 1 cup sugar
add
4 ripe bananas
1 egg
sift together
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
add to first mixture
add walnuts (enough) if you want
bake 1 hour at 350 degrees in a loaf pan, test the middle like a cake (poke a toothpick down the middle, when the toothpick comes out clean, it's done!) (The actual time depends on how wet the bananas were.)
For best results - share!
Karen, I'm going to challenge you to a banana bread duel.
Here's mine:
1/2C vegetable oil
2 eggs, beaten
3 very ripe bananas
2C flour
1tsp baking soda
1/2tsp baking powder
1/2tsp salt
3Tbl milk
1/2tsp vanilla
1C sugar
Beat oil and sugar. Add eggs and banana mash. Add dry ingredients, milk, vanilla. Grease and flour pan, bake at 350 for an hour.
Nicole, what exactly you don't have except lovage, maybe I can suggest a substitute. Anyway, you can skip lovage in that soup or add some other strong flavored herb. Some people use savory or basil (I have a strong allergy from basil). I hope you have parsley :)Quote:
Originally posted by 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 :)
Karen and Soledad - YUM!! Many thanks both of you - I'm going to be baking this week-end!!! Off now to buy BANANAS!!!
:D :eek: :D
Lynne
In an hour we will know more. We will know then whether the website I found to change cups in grams (how do you fill butter in a cup?) and Fahrenheit to Celsius did ok.
I left earlier at the office because I felt I must bake banana bread right now. I checked every supermarket on my way home (ca. 20 miles) for ripe bananas and now it's in the oven.
I started with Karen's recipe because I did feel better about the butter than about the oil.
I changed very little (it will be difficult to sell me a recipe so that I change absolutely nothing:rolleyes: ). I added a little lime juice to the bananas. Maybe next time I'll skip the walnuts, add lime juice and rhum and call it Jamaican Banana Bread.
Karen you skipped 2 important informations (maybe because you have a bunny:
:D
You must first wipe the cat hair out of your big baking bowl.
Then you must wipe the cat hair out of the baking pan (it stands in a closed drawer under the oven where the cats NEVER get in but it seem to be impossible here to take something from the dishwasher without finding a reminiscence to TigriFiluzi there.
Barbara, you are too funny :D Jamaican Banana Bread??? I think I'll try that too :D :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by Barbara
I added a little lime juice to the bananas. Maybe next time I'll skip the walnuts, add lime juice and rhum and call it Jamaican Banana Bread.
Normally I take great pride in my culinary ineptness but...I know the answer to this question!!! (I am so excited!)Quote:
how do you fill butter in a cup?)
My mother would make pie crust from scratch and my only kitchen chores was to help with this.
Let's say it required 1/3 cup of shortening or butter. I would fill the cup up to 2/3 with water and then spoon in the shortening or butter. It would displace its weight. Pour the water out and voila ---1/3 cup of shortening!
(Of course an alternative is to look at the measurements marked on the stick margarine wrapper!)
You cannot imagine how it smells here! SUUUUUper-YUMMY!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...7/fc8b52c5.jpg
I hope you believe it if you see.
(I will have to wait for te final check at least another half hour:( )
BTW: Sara I always knew you're a genius!
But can you believe it: around here the sticks of butter are marked with grams:p
How fun! I can imagine the smell of your kitchen from here! As for your note, the bunny fur tends to stay on the rug, it doesn't get into the baking bowls/pans, which are high up on shelves anyway! :)
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Originally posted by Barbara
Karen you skipped 2 important informations (maybe because you have a bunny:
:D
You must first wipe the cat hair out of your big baking bowl.
Then you must wipe the cat hair out of the baking pan (it stands in a closed drawer under the oven where the cats NEVER get in but it seem to be impossible here to take something from the dishwasher without finding a reminiscence to TigriFiluzi there.
LOL Barbara!! But, Barbara, isn't cat fur a condiment in your home? Another well known ingredient? I hate to say how many time Dad has given me a disgusted look as he removed a 2 inch long black hair from his mouth!! And he won't buy it when I try to tell him it's his!! Doesn't happen often, neatniks, but it does happen!:D
BTW - that looks gorgeous!!!
And, a banana saving trick : I buy them a lot, and when they strat to turn, I freeze them - just pop the whole banana into the freezer. Take them out and thaw (they'll be very soft - which is fine for your purposes) for cooking or blender drinks - milkshakes, mostly, with strawberries & vanilla ice cream.
It tastes as yummy as it smells. And not only we love it...
Nicole: Filou said, Tabasco has told him Banana Bread is VERY GOOD for cats:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...2/fc8b4d1c.jpg
I love banana bread (and have been known to bake it....sssshhhhhh) but no one else in my house likes it so I have to eat the whole thing!
I can smell your bread from here! Have you tried the other recipe yet?
Had to chuckle at that one, Barbara, as when I went to clean out for my move, I found Golden Retriever and cat hair an inch thick in the drawer under my stove. :eek: YUCK!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Barbara
Karen you skipped 2 important informations (maybe because you have a bunny:
:D
You must first wipe the cat hair out of your big baking bowl.
Then you must wipe the cat hair out of the baking pan (it stands in a closed drawer under the oven where the cats NEVER get in but it seem to be impossible here to take something from the dishwasher without finding a reminiscence to TigriFiluzi there.
ROFLMAO at that one!! Oh, no - maybe I'd better check my stove drawer. Ack!Quote:
Originally posted by Logan
Had to chuckle at that one, Barbara, as when I went to clean out for my move, I found Golden Retriever and cat hair an inch thick in the drawer under my stove. :eek: YUCK!!!
This a very very bad thread!!!!!!!! Everytime I read a new post I get just starved! I just warmed up a huge piece of Peach pie in the microwave that was given to me and I had it in the freezer!!!
Warm pie with ice cream!;)
This is a good time to ask if you have "pot lucks" where you live? Or do you ever go to restaurants and have buffet meals? I like this sometimes but - I rather leary about eating peoples food I don't know at pot lucks. Silly I know.
I love pot lucks! I'll eat anything made by anyone :D
I work for the Navy - potluck heaven! Especially with all the delicious Filipino food - I've had many varieties of pancit - love it!
Barbara, your banana bread looks divine! I hope Filou allowed you to eat some :D
A Potluck highlight.
A neighbor gave us this recipe years ago. I converted it for some relatives to a low fat version:
2 packs .3 oz SugarFree Lime Jello
2 cup hot water - cool until syrupy, then add
1 12oz can fat free evaporated skimmed milk, or equivalent.
1 cup Light Mayonnaise
1 - 16 ox tub lowfat Cottage Cheese w/2% milkfat
Fold in 2 cups pineapple minced or crushed Pineapple in unsweetened juice, drained well.
2 - ½ oz packs Walnut bits, or your choice. Almonds work well.
Refrigerate.
Freckles - I've never heard of that. But, just looking at the ingredients it looks quite yucky. What on earth does it taste like???:eek:
Many people make something similar to this recipe, but use Coolwhip or something sweet. Ruth's version isn't sweet Hmmm., kind of difficult to describe a "taste". :confused:
Maybe it's just because of the mayo and jello combo. That sounds very odd to me.
I don't know if this was already posted!
Amish Friendship Bread
1 cup sugar
1 cup oil
2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp backing powder
3 eggs
1 large box of instant vanilla pudding
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cups milk
2 cups flower
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup walnuts (optional)
Grease 2 lage loaf pans. Mix additional 1/2 cups of sugar and 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, sprinkle 1/2 of sugar mixture into pans. Pour batter into pans. Sprinkle remaining sugar mixture over the batter. Bake at 325 for 1 hour. Cool until bread loosens from the pan evenly.
http://www.armchair.com/recipe/bake002.html
Maybe it is a southern thing, but it is quite normal to put a dolip (I don't know if that is a real word) of mayonaise on top of congealed salad. I'm not a big congealed salad lover, but seems like my mother's generation is!Quote:
Originally posted by Soledad
Maybe it's just because of the mayo and jello combo. That sounds very odd to me.
Joan, that recipe is very familiar to me. My grandmother used apricot jello though, instead of the lime. And I've had it with the lime, but with cool whip instead of mayonaise. I actually enjoyed it both ways, too! :)
But you're mixing sweet stuff with mayo? It sounds so wrong!!
Soledad - my grandmother used to make a salad dressing mixing mayonaisse with pineapple (crushed with the juice) - it was soooo deliciuos on her salads (which always had apple pieces and raisins in them.) The lime jello with cottage chees and pineapple is pretty well know, her variety is probably really good! Have you every had that kind of jello dessert?Quote:
Originally posted by Soledad
But you're mixing sweet stuff with mayo? It sounds so wrong!!
BTW, Logan, there are lots of dishes called "aspic" that are gelatin based. Not always sweet, either! You mentioned a lot of Southern dishes made this way - will you share some recipes? :)
Well, Uncle Mac, whose Banana Bread recipe this is, used to sit and eat dinner with his best cat on his shoulder. The cat would eat occasional bites right off of Mac's fork when Mac held it over for the cat, so I am sure he is grinning from heaven, watching a cat over in Germany sharing banana bread with HIS human. Filou, you did share, right?Quote:
Originally posted by Miss Meow
Barbara, your banana bread looks divine! I hope Filou allowed you to eat some :D
(Yes, the spoiling-animals-quite-rotten gene comes to me from both sides of the family, Uncle Mac being my Dad's actual Uncle! :) )
I had checked with Filou in his radiator bed and this first photo shows his first try -after that I had to put the banana bread in a cupboard because he wanted to lick all over the surface. Of course he could get little bites from us just like Uncle Mac's cat but I prefer my food not being licked all over by Filou;) :p
This morning it was even better. Purrfectly cooked inside and still juicy and fresh.
Thanks Karen, thanks Uncle Mac
(I will spread my translated version of the recipe here among my colleagues -they were already interested when I left yesterday....).
Here's to Uncle Mac and Ruth - I'm going to make the banana bread and jello dishes (that Karen and Freckles posted) this weekend as a treat when Dadcat gets home - I'll be thinking of you both when I do - and let you know how I made out! Barbara's looks sooooo good. Wish we could do online potlucks!
Yes, Barbara, your banana bread looks very yummy.
We just had also a kind of banana/lemon bread the day before yesterday. I had to hide it, Juni likes it very much too. But she got her share.