miercuri, 30 martie 2011

Offline for two weeks

Hi, everyone,
My name is Ana - Jenny's daughter. My mom asked me to write to you that she has pc problems and that she will have it fixed in 2-3 weeks at most, hopefully. She says hi and can't wait to get back online.

I don't want to have this post empty so i will post a link of my own artworks for you ^_^
This is for full-size of the drawing - http://annyaonweb.deviantart.com/art/All-the-girls-want-188276091





You can see more of my work here - annyaonweb.deviantart.com   
Thank you for your patience, have a great day~!



marți, 22 martie 2011

MY SEEDS

These are the seeds that are waiting for spring as much as i do. I just hope to be able to plant at least a few this week. I'll let you know.

ZEBRA CHEC

This is a cake you can make when you don't have too many ingredients at hand, but still want something sweet. 
8 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup yoghurt
1ts vanilla
1ts baking powder
1/2cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup cocoa
2 1/2 cups flour
Mix the flour with baking powder. Beat the eggs with sugar for about 5 minute. Add the yoghurt and vanilla stir wel with a spoon. Add 2 cups of flour in 2-3 additions. Split the batter: 1/3+2/3. In the 1/3 of batter add cocoa and mix well. In the 2/3 add coconut and the rest of the flour (1/2 cup). Line up a 9inch baking pan with parchment paper. In the middle of it pour 2 spoonful of white bater (the one with coconut). In top of it add one spoon of black batter (the one with cocoa). Continue like this until you finish both of them (pouring only one in top of each other). The batters will fall to the edges and fill up the battom of the pan eventually. Bake it at 370F until golden in top and the tester (i use a toothpick) inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

SARAMURA

This is a fish dish. If you love fish as i do, you will love this.

about 2 pounds of fish
5-6 spoons of corn flour
salt, pepper
one tomato, or 3-4 tablespoons of homemade tomato sause (or 1/2 cup canned tomato)
6-7 garlic cloves, minced
red, yellow, green pepper (whatever you have)
olive oil
parsley
mix the corn flour with salt and pepper.

Cover the fish all over with corn flour and fry it in olive oil until golden.

Take it aside. Into a pot pour a few tablespoons of olive oil and the tomato, cut in small pieces.

Cook it for a few minutes. Mince the garlic and cut the pepper into small pieces.


Pour 3-4 cups of water in the pot we have the tomato cooking with olive oil, bring it to boil and add the fried fish, the pepper and the garlic.

Boil it for 20-30 minutes, add salt to taste and before you turn the fire of, add the parsley.

Enjoy it!!!
We ate this dish with polenta. Yammy!!!
 This one was made with file, but i use fish with bones too. In fact, when cooked with bones, the fish tastes better.

APPETISER CAKE

7 eggs
3 spoonful yoghurt
4-5 spoons oil
2 cups flour
1 cup shredded hard cheese
1 cup ham, cut in very thin slices and after that cut in very small pieces
1/2 cup chopped olives
2 teaspoons baking powder
With a mixer, beat the eggs for 4-5 minutes at high speed, until light and fluffy. Add the other ingredients one at a time, stirring well with a spoon. For you to know what kind of chees and ham to use and how to shredd or cut them, i'll show you a picture from an other recipe i made using those.

The last to add is the flour mixed with baking powder. Pour the batter into a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Cook at 370F, until a tester inserted in the middle if the cake come out clean.

CHICKEN MEATBALLS

1 pound ground chicken breast
2 slices of bread, only the core, soak with 2-3 spoons of milk
1 egg
2-3 garlic cloves, minced
salt, pepper
chopped fresh dill and parsley
a few quail eggs
Mix the ground chicken breast with soak core bread.

Add the egg, salt, pepper, dill and parsley and the minced garlic.

Mix well all the ingredients.

Shape into meatballs. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add meatballs and brown on all sides.
Remove meatballs from skillet and set aside. If you want, hard boil a few quail eggs and place them inside of the meatballs and cook them as you do with regular meatballs.
 They look good and they are very tasty too.

sâmbătă, 19 martie 2011

COCONUT_BUTTERMILK PIE

my pie's name should be coconut-yoghurt pie, because i used yoghurt instead of buttermilk. Coconut-buttermilk pie is a recipe from myrecipes.com

1/2  (15-ounce) package refrigerated pie crust
2  cups  flaked coconut
1/2  cup  butter, melted
1 1/2  cups  sugar
2  tablespoons  all-purpose flour
4  eggs, well beaten
1/2  cup  buttermilk
1  teaspoon  vanilla extract
1  cup  semisweet chocolate morsels
Fit pie crust into a 9-inch pie plate according to package directions; fold edges under, and crimp. Cover with plastic wrap, and set aside. Toast coconut at 350° for 5 minutes or until golden brown, stirring twice. Set aside. Beat butter, sugar, and flour at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended; add eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla, beating well. Stir in toasted coconut and chocolate morsels. Pour mixture into prepared pie crust. Bake at 325° for 30 minutes; shield edges with foil to prevent excessive browning. Bake 25 to 30 more minutes or until set.
i had no buttermilk, so i used yoghurt and i didn't read careful the recipe and i used 1 cup of yoghurt instead of 1/2 cup. the result was a pretty runny filling that separate when baked: the coconut up, the butter, eggs and sugar like a vanilla cream down and chocolate in the middle. hahaha, if i would want to get such a great thing, for sure i wouldn't succeed. i didn't shield the edges of the pie and nothing bad happened.