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.
750 ml milk
75 ml wheat semolina (cream of wheat)
(1/2 tbs salt)
Bring the milk to the boil in a thick-bottomed saucepan. Stirring with a wire whisk, add the semolina in a thin stream. Cook for a couple of minutes, stirring continually, then lower the heat to minimum or turn it off completely. Cover the pan and simmer the porridge for 10 - 15 minutes. Stir every now and then to prevent the porridge from burning on the bottom or forming a skin on the surface. Semolina porridge burns on the bottom very easily.
Serve with sugar, jam or fresh berries.
From Occupied Palestine:
We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
Flaminator aims gun at alien harb. You there! Get back to your space ship and outta here. And stop tempting me.... and I mean us poor IB Towners with these irresistible dishes and things.
IT IS NOT FAIR WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN TAKE A BITE. I repeat. Not fair at all.
completely broken-hearted and depressed since alien harb started this thread.
It is pointless to watch other people's houses crumbling when our own house is in need of repair and attention.
Awwww! You first torture people and then hide behind a flower to say sorry.
Okay. I can't bear the cuteness. Apology accepted. Now can I order all those dishes you posted?
You do home-delivery, right?
Thanks. All? Hmmm... Ok I have vacation next two weeks. Why not spend all it in the kitchen... and home-delivery of course. To any corner of the world.
From Occupied Palestine:
We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
Fresh green peas cooked inside their pods is a typical Finnish summer treat.
The pods are eaten by dipping them in melted butter and sticking them in the mouth whole, pulling between the teeth, stripping off the peas and the green pulp.
fresh green field or garden peas in pods — 1 - 2 l per person
water
salt
(bunch of parsley)
melted or clarified butter
Melt some butter or prepare clarified butter. Set a small dish, like an egg cup, on every diner's plate. Just before serving the peas, fill the cups with the warm, melted butter.
Rinse the pea pods thoroughly under running water. Preferably use organically grown peas that have not been sprayed with insecticides. The pea variety used in this recipe should be the field pea (Pisum sativum arvense). Since field peas are nowadays hard to find in Finnish stores and market stalls, the sweeter garden peas (Pisum sativum sativum) are usually used instead of them.
Bring water to the boil in a large saucepan. Add the salt. Use one tablespoon of salt for every one litre of water. (Add the parsley, if using it.) Pour in the whole pods and lower the heat. Cover the pan and simmer for 15 to 30 minutes, or until the pods feel tender and are just about to open up. They must not become mushy. The cooking time varies depending on the pea variety used. Field peas may take even up to one hour to cook.
Drain the pods and pour into a warmed serving dish. Field peas may be sprinkled with a dash of sugar. Serve immediately with the melted butter. The pods are eaten whole: hold a pod by its stem, dip it in the cup of melted butter and stick it in your mouth. Pull it out between your teeth, stripping off the pulp and the peas.
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We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
carrots
rutabaga
parsnips
celery root
potatoes or sweet potatoes
1 - 2 small heads of garlic
yellow or red onions
honey or dark molasses
good, light-tasting olive oil
salt
white pepper
(few sprigs of rosemary and/or thyme)
The amount of vegetables used is up to you. A good balance of flavours is to use about the same amount of sweet-tasting vegetables (carrots, rutabaga and sweet potatoes), sharper, nutty-tasting vegetables (parsnips and celery root) and neutral-tasting vegetables (potatoes).
Peel the vegetables. It is easier to cut large vegetables like rutabaga and celery root first into smaller chunks and slices before peeling them. You can also just thoroughly scrub the potatoes, carrots and parsnips and leave them unpeeled. Detach the garlic cloves from the bulb. You do not need to peel them.
Cut the vegetables in relatively thick, chunky sticks. Place them in an oiled oven pan large enough to hold them in single layer. Drizzle or spray with oil and toss. Sprinkle with salt and white pepper. (Place a few herb sprigs on top, if you like.)
Drizzle honey or molasses generously on top of the vegetables. Note that when roasted in oven, root vegetables turn naturally sweet. Reduce the amount of honey or molasses if you do not like the result to be overly sweet.
Bake the vegetables at 200 - 225 °C for about 40 minutes or until they are tender inside and slightly crisped and browned on top. Turn and stir the vegetables once or twice during baking.
Serve the vegetables with various meat and game dishes, like roasts, grilled steaks, lamb chops etc.
You may also use other vegetables, like turnips, beetroots, yellow or white beets, leeks, kohlrabi or Jerusalem artichokes.
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We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
i. If I made a big omelette with all sorts of ingredients and put it into the fridge, how long would it stay good?
ii. The same for pasta with chicken mixed into it?
Creamy potato gratins are popular in Finland. They can be served to accompany many meat and fish dishes and varied using different seasonings — garlic, onion, cheese, smoked fish etc.
potatoes — preferably waxy
cream
butter
pepper
salt
suggestions for seasonings:
1. garlic
2. onion or leek
3. cream-type cheese
4. blue cheese
Peel the potatoes and cut them into about ½ centimetre thick slices. You can soak or rinse the potatoes with cold water to remove some of their starch, especially if the potatoes you are using are more starchy than waxy. Let the potatoes drain.
Butter a shallow oven casserole dish. Place alternate layers of potato slices, pepper and the seasoning of your choice in the dish, starting and ending with a potato layer. Regardless of the seasoning used, you may add a layer of grated cheese on top of the dish.
If you are using garlic, press it through a garlic press. If you are using onions or leeks, slice them thinly. If you are using Havarti-type cheese, grate it, if blue cheese, crumble it. Salt is not necessary to add if you are using cheese.
Pour enough cream in the dish to almost reach, but not cover, the top potato layer. The dish should come out moist, but not soggy.
Dot the surface with knobs of butter and bake the dish at 175 °C for about 40 minutes, or until a knife can be easily inserted through the potato layers and the surface is nicely browned. Depending on the potato variety used, the baking time may vary greatly. Add some more cream during baking, if it seems that the dish is starting to dry out.
Serve the potatoes to accompany various meat and fish dishes.
i. If I made a big omelette with all sorts of ingredients and put it into the fridge, how long would it stay good?
ii. The same for pasta with chicken mixed into it?
I was looking for you some information from official sources of my country:
1. omelette 1 - 2 days
2. pasta with chicken 3 - 4 days
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We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
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