QUICK ZUCCHINI ROLL

One of my New Year's resolutions is to get back into recipe photography and blogging. 

As far as recording is concerned, we made several video recipes, but I couldn't bring myself to sit down and record any of them. Today, firmly determined to do everything I've been putting off for the past two weeks, I'm sitting down and writing to you after a long time. I don't even know how long it's been since I shared a recipe with you on the blog, but I have to admit that I enjoyed my vacation even though I would miss this hobby from time to time. All this has nothing to do with today's recipe, but you have to start from somewhere :D  

Today I'm going to introduce you to a super tasty quick salted zucchini roll. It is prepared simply, so much so that even those who have never cooked can prepare it, and it is a nice serving for guests and the festive table.

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

QUICK ZUCCHINI ROLL  

For the crust:  

Two zucchini (around 25 oz)

One cup of Oil  

Two eggs

Flour ariund 3.5 oz

 Two table spoons of sour cream

One tea spoon of salt 

For the filling:

Cream cheese around 7 oz

Two pickles

Six slices of roast beef 

PREPARATION:
Turn on the oven at 200C.
Grate the zucchini and sauté them in a little oil.
When all the water evaporates, remove them from the stove and let them cool down a bit. 
Add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl with the zucchini and mix well with a blender to combine all the ingredients.
Pour the roll mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and flatten.
Bake the roll for about 25-30 minutes. 
When it's ready, roll it up while it's warm and let it cool down a bit. 
Unroll it, fill it with ingredients as desired and roll it up again.
Leave the roll in the fridge for a few hours to cool, then cut it and serve. 

SEE ALSO THE VIDEO RECIPE:

 Have a nice meal !

LASAGNA WITH CHICKEN

What for lunch Eternal dilemma! 

I always try to make the table diverse and to prepare some dishes in a different way. 

This time I opted for lasagna with chicken. 

I will show you how to prepare a complicated dish in a simple way for little money. 

Sounds good, doesn't it?

  

INGREDIENTS:

PREPARATION:
Chop the onion, grate the carrot and chop the garlic as finely as possible. 
Saute the onion in a little oil for about 5 minutes, then add the carrot and garlic and saute everything together.
Add spices as desired.
Grind the white meat into a mince, and if you don't have a mince, chop it finely. 
Add the meat to the pan and simmer with the vegetables. 
At the end, add finely chopped dry bacon (optional).
Pour in the wine and let it simmer until the wine evaporates. 
At the end, pour tomato juice and peel and simmer for about 30 minutes at a medium temperature. 
Remove from the stove when all the ingredients are well combined. 
Make the béchamel sauce.
Melt the butter in a pan, then add the flour, mix and pour milk. 
Stir until it boils, then remove from the stove. 
Trappist shred.
Spread a little bechamel sauce on the bottom of the dish in which the lasagna will be baked.
Put lasagna crusts (I use ones that don't cook and don't soften), then spread a rich layer of béchamel sauce, spread the meat filling and sprinkle some of the grated cheese over it. 
Put the crusts on top again and repeat the process until all the material is used up. 
Finally, coat the crust with béchamel sauce and put it in a preheated oven at 180C for about 40 minutes.
Remove the lasagna from the oven and sprinkle with a little grated cheese, then return to the oven for 10 minutes.
Cut the finished lasagna and serve. 

SEE ALSO THE VIDEO RECIPE:

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QUICK AND EXOTIC CHEESECAKE WITH ORANGE

Winter smells like oranges and cinnamon to me, and that's why I was inspired to make a delicious cheesecake with oranges. It wowed us with its taste and crumbly texture and made it to the list of my favorite cakes. The advantage is that it is quick and easy to prepare and will always succeed.

 

 

INGREDIENTS: 

PREPARATION: 
First of all, prepare the crust.
Add cinnamon and butter that has been at room temperature to the container with the biscuits.
Mix everything, squeeze out the juice and knead the crust with your hands. 
Spread the crust on the bottom of the mold and keep it in the fridge while the filling is prepared. 
Whip the sweet cream with powdered sugar and vanilla sugar until stiff, then add the cream cheese and the grated zest of 2 oranges. 
Spread the filling over the crust. 
Finally, squeeze 5 oranges and put them on the stove to heat up. 
pour two bags of gelatin with 8 spoons of water and leave it to swell.
Add gelatin to heated orange juice and mix well. When it melts, remove it from the stove and let it cool down a bit.
Pour the orange juice over the filling and leave it overnight to harden.
Remove the mold, cut and serve.

SEE ALSO THE VIDEO RECIPE:

HAVE A NICE MEAL !!!

Filled pretzels

I adored pretzels when I was a child, but I haven`t bought it in a bakery in ages. I was very inspired with that white, rubber like, salty dressing.

Homemade pretzels

 I was always wondering how to make that dressing. It was real mystery for a long time. But if you want to find out something it must be done. Dressing for pretzels - piece of cake.

Salty dressing for pretzels

INGREDIENTS:

For dough:

Soft flour - 17,5 oz

One egg

Milk - 3 cups

Oil - 1 cup

Salt - 1 teaspoon

Sugar - 1 teaspoon

One yeast (1,41 oz)

For filling:

Dried ham or bacon - 7 oz

Pizza cheese - 3,5 oz

For dressing:

Flour - 1 tablespoon

Salt - 3 teaspoons

Water - 3 tablespoons

Filled pretzels preparation

PREPARATION:

Pour flour into deep pot, put an egg, add oil, lukewarm milk, salt, sugar and crumbled yeast. Knead smooth dough. If it is thinly add some more flour, if it is opposite add more water. You ought to separate dough from the pot without sticking to pot or your fingers. Place the dough onto floured desktop and knead it a little more. Oil the pot where you prepared dough and put the dough back in the pot. Cover it with clean dish cloth. Leave it to rise for about 45 minutes. After that, place it again onto floured desktop and make bowls from the dough. If you want bigger pretzels bowls should be grater.
Cut out ham or bacon and pizza cheese into small pieces. Stretch each bowl with rolling pin. Shape should be long elliptic. Put in some filling and roll it carefully. Do it with all bowls and filing. Roll in each part of dough, using your oiled hands, and make long rod. When all rods are finished it`s time to make pretzels. As you shape one, place it on baking pan. Turn on the even on 390 F. Leave the pretzels to stay for 10 minutes till oven is heating. Bake pretzels for 20 minutes. While pretzels are baking in oven you should prepare salty dressing. Mix flour and salt. Add water on demand and mix it all together until blobs disappear. Dressing is good enough if  it is steadily sliding down the spoon. Pull pretzels out of oven and sprinkle them with the dressing. Bake them back for 5 more minutes. Don`t give them chance to cool down, eat them all right now.

HAVE A NICE MEAL !!!

Biscuit cake with bananas

Fast cakes are the best solution for busy moms. Also, biscuit cakes are always favorite for kids so they are the best choice for birthday parties. This biscuit cake is little bit different because contains vanilla filling which is perfectly creamy and is melting in mouths. Best of the bests is pretty easy preparation process and there is no fear of failure. If I make fruit cake I usually choose bananas because they are special taste decoration to each cake.

Biscuit cake with bananas

INGREDIENTS:

For base:

Crumbled biscuit - 17,6 oz

Soften margarine - 4,4 oz

Orange juice - 4 cups

For filling:

Milk - 6 + 1,5 cups

Sugar - 7 oz

Vanilla sugar - 2 packs

Corn starch - 4,4 oz

Four yolks

Margarine - 4,4 oz

Four bananas

Cream for decoration

Biscuit cake preparation

PREPARATION:

Pour crumbled biscuit in a pot, add soften margarine, juice and mix it all together until mixture becomes good for shaping. Place the cake mold on cake plate and arrange biscuit base. Boil 6 cups of milk with sugar and vanilla sugar in deep pot. Separately, mix corn starch, 1,5 cup of milk and 4 yolks.
When milk in deep pot boils add mixture with corn starch and mix it with wooden spoon until it becomes thick. Mix it with mixer few more minutes. Move from the stove and let it cool down. Add margarine and mix with mixer until it becomes nice smooth mixture. Cut out bananas, put them into filling and mix it all together. Arrange filling over biscuit base and put in refrigerator to get tight. At the end decorate it with sweet cream or just cream.

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Domestic bread

We do not buy bread in our family at all. I make it almost every day and I am doing my best to serve it warm when my husband gets back from work. It takes short time for preparation and is much better then one from store. Also we enjoy in smell of domestic bread in our home. Sometimes I put sour cream or cheese into the bread and the new type of domestic bread is here. I make it in variety of shapes and this is one of them. I hope you will enjoy.

Domestic bread

INGREDIENTS:

Flour - 20 oz

Warm water - 5 cups

One fresh yeast

Salt - 2 teaspoons

sugar - 1 teaspoon

PREPARATION:

Put flour and salt into deep pot and mix it. Crumble yeast directly to dough and add sugar and warm water and knead nice soft dough. If dough is thinly add some more flour or opposite add more water. You ought to separate dough from the pot easily without sticking to pot or your fingers. Cover the dough with clean dish cloth and leave it on hot place to rise for about one hour. When it is good enough place it on floured desktop and cutout in four parts. 

First two parts stretch and cut just like for cheese rolls and roll it. Place them to the edges of oiled baking pan. Another two parts separate in two more parts. Each of them stretch and roll. Cut them out in several parts and place them in the middle of baking pan. Let them stay for 20 minutes to rise and connect one to another. Place them into preheated oven and bake on 390 F for about 25 minutes. Bread is ready when the crust is nice and rosy. When you pull it out from the oven cover it with dish cloth for couple of minutes. Domestic bread is ready for lunch.

HAVE A NICE MEAL !!!

Tiramisu

Tiramisu is usually made of mascarpone cheese, just like cheesecake but in lack of it everyone can improvise. Tiramisu is well known Italian cake which is favorite for coffee fans.In lack of an expensive cheese I found a way how to make it cheaper and now it is very often served on my table.

Tiramisu

INGREDIENTS:

Ladyfingers - 10,5 oz

Coffee - 3 cups

Sweet cream - 5 cups

Cheese cream - 7 oz

Caster sugar - 5 oz

Cocoa - 3 tablespoons

Vanilla sugar - 1 pack

PREPARATION:

Cook the coffee and leave it to cool down.

Mix sweet cream, vanilla sugar and caster sugar with mixer to get filling for tramisu. 

When filling becomes tight add cheese cream and mix it a little more.

Dip ladyfingers into coffee and arrange it in a deeper baking pan.

Put the filling for tiramisu over ladyfingers.

Do it again until you spend all material.

At the top of tiramisu should be ladyfingers which I sprinkle with cocoa.

Leave tiramisu in refrigerator for hours to get cold well.

Cut tiramisu in squares before serving.

HAVE A NICE MEAL !!!