Monthly Archives: October 2010

Dessert, Made in Poland

My Mom’s cheesy cookies

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These are so simple and quick, as well as usual, no sugar added! All that is needed are 3 equal parts of flour, cooking margarine and Polish white cheese, the same as for pierogi, to be obtained from a good Polish deli. It’s my  Mom’s recipe.

Those 3 ingredients get mixed together into a sticky dough, it needs to be rolled out and with a small form cookies are cut out and baked until golden, so about 18-20 minutes.

When out of the oven I sprinkle them with generous amount of icing sugar, necessary, as no sugar is needed to make them.

Awesome with coffee.

Dessert, Room for improvement

First attempt of a mango souffle

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They look gorgeous, don’t they?

That was the second take on them on Friday evening, the first ones were definitely not cooked and as I had some mango puree left, I quickly whipped up the second batch, Florian made sure the temperature in the oven is 375 exactly, like in the recipe and in they went. They were much better than the first ones, but still only half cooked, the lower down, the more raw they were.

Bea reckons it might have to do with uneven temperature in the oven or the ramekins.

All I know- the cooked bit tasted lovely and I’ll keep on trying until they’re perfect.

To be continued….

Good Food

A bit of Japanese

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Sushi!!!!!!

Love sushi ever since Ubon times, love it to bits. Don’t love Yo Sushi, don’ t love supermarket sushi. Don’t love industrial cheap sushi, that should be banned. If sushi- either very good, which means expensive, or- homemade. Of course it looks nothing like the professional one, but the one I made today tasted awesome. I used sushi rice, flavoured it with some flavouring I bought a while ago in an Asian supermarket, added some rice vinegar, almost too much! I bought  a nice salmon fillet, a tuna  fillet and 3 tiger shrimps, a nice, ripe avo, nori and got cracking. I fancied spicy tuna rolls, like those we used to have every day in Ubon times. I chopped my tuna and mixed with some mayo, lots of chilli sauce and some chopped scallions. The other rolls were with fresh salmon and avo, with the fried shrimp ( I did not attempt a shrimp tempura roll, not just yet). I made 3 nigiri with tuna, which was so fresh, that it had to be done and one inside out thing with the spicy Japanese thing I found on the Posh Shelf in Waitrose.

We loved the result tonight. I thought I overdone the vinegar, but it was full of flavour and the spicy tuna rolls I’m well proud of.

The thing to master now is presentation.

Eaten out

The French rule!

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We spent last weekend in Normandy with Moka and Ivan. On Mont St Michel we tried the omelettes the island is famous for- the most expensive lunch in my life, but hey-

It looks enormous, but it was light and fluffy, with lovely salty fried ham served on the side. Great stuff!

The day after Ivan had a seafood platter for lunch;

That was refreshing change after the horribly overcooked shrimps we came across the night before.

Yum!