Please post here easy, simple and if possible, fast to make recipes. Add also picture of foods if you can. Let me start with few my own.
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Pasta salad by pictures, step by step
As one picture tells more than 1000 words...
1: put to bowl some green lettuce, add a little olive oil, pinch of salt and pepper and mix. Put slices of tomato to bowl as picture.
2: add cooked pasta on lettuce.
3: add grated carrots and mushrooms (you can cook them few minutes in oil if you like and spice as you like).
4: add sliced cucumber and corn.
5: put on salad 2 boiled eggs, each cutted to 4 parts, add some salt and pepper (or other spices&herbs you prefer).
As you can see, salad is very simple but looks nicer when different incredients are layered by they own. And of course, using different vegetables you will get again new kind of salad.
I wish i could have a admirer like you When i was new in Samosa making,i made its son,almost half or a little bigger of this daddy samosa and my bro's made so much fun of it
I think this is kind of "Finnish version of sambosa/samosa":
Meat pastries
pasty dough:
about 360 g flour
about 200 ml (180 g) water or milk
10 g fresh yeast
10 g sugar
salt
filling:
500 g ground beef
90 g onion
50 ml short grain rice
(120 g smetana or sour cream)
salt
white pepper
butter
for glazing and dipping:
1 egg
milk
butter
Start making the dough by putting the flour, the liquid and the crumbled yeast into the mixing bowl of a heavy-duty tabletop mixer fitted with a dough hook. Knead for 13 minutes, add the salt and sugar and knead for 2 minutes more. The dough will be quite firm. Let the dough rise, tightly covered, until doubled in size.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling. Cook the rice until tender and drain thoroughly. Fry the ground beef in a skillet on high heat, until all the moisture has evaporated. Season with salt and pepper. Chop the onion very finely and sauté in butter until tender and translucent.
Combine the meat, rice, onion and smetana. Smetana makes the filling juicier, but it may be omitted. If you like, add some chopped hard-boiled egg, fresh herbs, garlic or other spices to the filling.
Punch down and knead the dough on the work surface and then let it rest for 5 - 6 minutes to relax the gluten. Divide the dough into 10 equal-sized pieces and roll them into balls. One at a time, roll out the balls into flat disks, about 15 centimetres in diameter.
Take one dough disk, place a small pat of butter on the centre of it (butter can be omitted) and about 55 grams of filling on top. Pinch the edges of the disk together firmly to make a closed, oval pasty. Fill the rest of the dough disks.
Place the pasties seam side down on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Cover the pasties with a damp towel and let rise for 15 - 20 minutes. Brush the pasties with egg, prick with a fork and bake at 225 °C for 15 - 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat about 150 millilitres of milk in a saucepan, add a big lump of butter and let it melt. Submerge the piping hot pasties one at a time briefly in the hot milk-butter mixture, tilting the pan if necessary. You can use barbecue tongs to dip the pasties. Place the pasties in one layer on a large plate. Cover the plate tightly with parchment paper and a towel and let the pasties soften for about half an hour.
Is this generally for what you've cooked, along with an image and recipe?
In that case, how do I attach images.
(BTW, long time no see...How is everyone?)
NOTES:
•These spa pops are a healthier & more cost efficient alternative to store bought pops. More eco too, no packaging to toss!
•As always, use your own taste buds to determine how sweet you want your ice pops.
INGREDIENTS
•1 cup grated Cucumber
•1 fresh squeezed Lemon, remove any seeds
•2 cups cold Water
•Natural Sweetener added to taste: use your favorite (Maple Syrup, Honey & Agave are good too)
METHOD
Slice lemon in half and squeeze it over a strainer into 2 cups of cold water. Sweeten lemon water to taste with your favorite sweetener. Fill popsicle molds 2/3 with lemonade. Freeze uncovered for about 1 hour. Take pops out of freezer. Scrape and stir any ice crystals that have formed. Add a spoonful of the cucumber to the pop molds. Be sure to leave a tiny bit of room at the top of your popsicle mold so they don’t overflow when you add the stick. With a popsicle stick or a butter knife, press the cucumber into the mixture so it is evenly distributed. Add your popsicle sticks, freeze pops for another 3-4 hours until solid.
Last edited by sister herb; 07-18-2012 at 01:44 PM.
great thread! gonna come in handy for ramadhan... Well i could have posted some of the recipes i know but I wonder if anyone here likes to use much of oil or red chilli..? see our native dishes usually contain a lot of both...
thanks for all the recipes posted here. today I am gonna try the Lemonade Cucumber Spa Popsicles insha Allahcoz its hot here!
Tomato salad makes a colorful accompaniment to many dishes. This recipe has a
delicious spicy flavor and makes an excellent salad for a picnic or
buffet. It is also suitable for vegans and will suit anyone on a
meat-free or diary-free diet.
Ingredients: (Serves 4)
4 large ripe tomatoes
1 small fresh red chili
1 garlic clove
1 oz/25 g fresh basil
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
Salt and pepper
Fresh crusty bread, to serve
To garnish:
Fresh basil sprigs
Lemon wedges
Method:
Bring a tea kettle of water to a boil. Place the tomatoes in a heatproof
bowl, then pour over enough boiling water to cover them. Let them soak
for 2-4 minutes, then lift out of the water and cool slightly. When the
tomatoes are cool enough to handle, gently pierce the skins with the tip
of a knife. The skins should now be easy to remove. Discard the skins,
then chop the tomatoes and place them in a large salad bowl.
Seed and finely chop the chili, then chop the garlic. Rinse and finely chop
the basil, then add it to the tomatoes in the bowl with the chili and
the garlic. Mix the oil, lemon juice, and balsamic vinegar together in a
separate bowl, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour the
mixture over the salad and toss together well. Garnish with basil sprigs
and lemon wedges, and serve immediately with fresh crusty bread.
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When i was new in Samosa making,i made its son,almost half or a little bigger of this daddy samosa and my bro's made so much fun of it 
There's some nice recipes in this thread,yummy. Gonna definitely try them (:
made them for iftari.. 
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