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Zucchini soup

Looks fancy, tastes delicious, cooks fast!

Ingredients (2 servings):

  • Small onion or shallot
  • Zucchini 2 medium
  • Sour cream – 1 tbsp
  • Chicken/vegetable broth – 1-2 cups
  • Light olive oil – 1-2 tbsp

Directions:

  • Chop onion/shallot
  • Chop zucchini to half inch cubes
  • Put your pan on a medium high heat, add olive oil
  • Start frying onion
  • When onion is translucent add chopped zucchini to the pan, mix with onions
  • Saute zucchinies with onion for about 10 minutes, till golden color, stirring occasionally
  • Add sour cream, mix in with the vegetables
  • Keep sauteing for a couple more minutes
  • Pour stock, bring to a boil
  • Add salt and pepper and turn the heat off.
  • Puree with emerging blender or pour the soup into a regular blender and puree.

Serve hot, garnish with roasted pancetta, prosciutto or feta cheese

 

Very green salad

Trying to live from the land: have lots of cucumbers and herbs in my garden and made this super green , healthy and delicious salad. In just 2 minutes. There are no proportions and not exact ingredients, just try to use up as much greens as possible. Avocado and feta cheese are store bought.

Ingredients:

  • cucumber
  • cilantro
  • parsley
  • chives
  • green onion
  • feta cheese
  • lime juice to dress

Directions:

  • Slice cucumber, I kept the skin because it’s sweet and crunchy
  • Chop your herbs really finely
  • Chop avocado
  • Crumble feta cheese
  • Add salt and pepper
  • Sprinkle with lime juice

Chocolate and red currant mousse (6 servings)

Chocolate mousse

Ingredients:

  • Dark chocolate (70% -80% cacao) – 100 gr (3,5 – 4 ounces)
  • Heavy cream – 70 ml (2.5 ounces)
  • Milk – 20 ml (1.5 tbsp)
  • 3 egg whites
  • Sugar – 30 gr (2 tbsp)
  • Pinch of salt

Directions:

  • Melt the chocolate in double boiler.
  • Warm up cream with the milk, don’t bring to a boil
  • Whip egg whites with a punch of salt, adding sugar gradually
  • Mix melted chocolate with still warm cream
  • When chocolate and cream mixture is a room temperature add some whipped whites (about 2 tbsp) and whisk it together
  • Then add the rest egg whites to the chocolate in 2-3 batches, gently folding whites into the chocolate with rubber spatula
  • Pour into some nice glasses and put into fridge for about an hour before adding berries part

Red currant Mousse

Ingredients:

  • Currant juice – a little less than a cup
  • Gelatin 1 tsp
  • Sugar – 1 tbsp + 1 tsp
  • Heavy cream – 1 cup

Directions:

  • Press berries through sifter to separate skins and small pits
  • Put the juice on low heat, add gelatin
  • Stir constantly till gelatin dissolves and take off the heat
  • Let it cool down to the room temperature but it should still be liquid, don’t allow it to harden
  • Using hand mixer whip cold cream with 1 tsp of sugar
  • When peaks are formed start adding berry juice very gradually and keep whipping
  • Pour currant mousse on top of chocolate mousse (which should be firm already) and put back into fridge

Cheese Gnocchi (lazy vareniki)

It was one of my favorite breakfasts, called lazy vareniki. Vareniki (similar to pirogi, but with thiner pastry) are Russian or Ukranian dumplings made with potato or ricotta cheese filling. So instead of making a dough, rolling it, cutting, preparing a filling, forming every dumpling you just put everything together in one bowl, mix it, divide into little pillows and boil. Lazy! And done within 5 minutes!

It should be done with tvorog, but if you don’t have it I found that farmers cheese is not a bad option for this dish (don’t use store bought ricotta, it’s too watery).

Ingredients (for 1 serving):

  • Tvorog or farmer’s cheese – 1/4 lbs (100 gr)
  • 1 egg
  • Flour – 3 tbsp
  • Pinch of salt

Directions:

  • Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix really well with spoon forming sticky dough
  • Put the dough on well floured board, flour your hands too.
  • It should be sticky, but workable, there is no need to kneed it, but you should be able to form about an inch wide log with your hands
  • Cut the log into small pieces
  • Put pot with water on medium to high heat, add 1 tsp of salt and bring to a boil. Do not reduce the heat!
  • Place several dumplings into boiling water, don’t overcrowd the pot.
  • Boil the dumplings for 2 minutes
  • Remove from the pot with a skimmer spoon
  • Garnish with melted butter or sour cream and sprinkle with sugar if you want to make it sweet
  • Serve hot or warm

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