I am always in a quest of new soup recipe. This one is a cross of broccoli cheddar and kale potato soup. Took 20 minutes
Category: Weeknight Dinners
Spring Salad
Made of rainbow carrots shaved with vegetable peeler. Dressing – tahini, olive oil, lemon juice. Whisk well! Garnish – feta cheese, roasted sliced almonds. All
Fish – fast and fabulous!
Food has to be tasty! The same applies to healthy food – it’s not necessarily steamed vegetables. These are several variations of fish – all
Brisket Alternative
It is turkey alternative for those who avoid red meat. And with this dish – they won’t lose much. Hard to believe that lean dry
Pumpkin Gnocchi
Ingredients:
- Roasted butternut squash puree – 2-3 tbsp
- Farmer cheese (tvorog) – 1.2 lbs
- 1 egg (can be 2 if small)
- Flour – 4 tbsp
- Salt 1/3 tsp
- Butter – 2 tbsp for garnish + sage leaves
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
- Melt butter in a small pan, add couple of sage leaves (or dry sage), pour over gnocchi
- Serve hot
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
Creamy mushrooms
Ingredients:
- Works best with shiitake, you can combine it some other mushrooms – oysters, baby bella, but shiitake is a must.
- Small shallot or 1 leak
- Heavy cream – 1/2 cup
- White wine 1/4 cup
- Salt, pepper, nutmeg
- 2 tbsp of light olive oil + 2 tbsp butter
Directions
- Heat your pan with 2 tbsp of light olive oil. Start with frying some mild onions (shallot or leaks) till golden brown
- Add your dry clean mushrooms to the pan and let them get golden brown, only after they get that nice crust keep stirring them till they are almost fully cooked.
- Add butter, stir and fry mushrooms for another minute
- Season with salt and pepper
- Deglaze the pan with white wine, reduce the heat and cook for about 5-7 minutes
- Add the cream, bring to a boil, cook for about 2 minutes
- Check for seasoning, add some nutmeg
- Serve hot or warm
Zucchini Gratin
Unusual, delicious, decadent zucchini dish, great for family lunch/brunch, dinner side dish, or party buffet
It does require some preparation, but it absolutely melts in your mouth. The cheeses and spices/herbs are flexible, so are the proportions, use the ones you have and/or like and as many zucchini as you have, adding spinach is an option too.
Ingredients:
- 3-4 middle size zucchini
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 -1.5 cup shredded cheese
Directions:
- Wash and peel zucchini (or summer squash)
- Cut into pieces (if you use food processor) to fit into the food processor. Skip it if you use a hand grater. Shred zucchini using food processor or grate using hand grater.
- Put shredded (grated) zucchini into a pan, add 4-5 cups of cold water, 1tbsp salt and put on high heat.
- Bring to a boil and let it boil for about 3-5 min.
- Drain through a sieve and wait till all water is drained.
- Make Bechamel sauce:
- Melt 2 tbsp butter on low-med heat, add 2 tbsp flour. Fry flour in a butter stirring constantly, gradually add milk, keep stirring to avoid lumps till the sauce start thickening. Once the sauce thickens – take it off the heat and let it cool a little.
- In a big bowl combine drained zucchini, grated cheese (I used provolone and fontina), it can be gruyere, parmigiano, manchego or a combination of the above, even cheddar. Season with 1 tsp salt, half tsp of pepper, you can add nutmeg, dry garlic, dry oregano or any other herb you like.
- Oil deep baking dish. Pour zucchini mixture into a dish and put into a preheated to 375°F oven for 50-60 min (or till it’s golden). Take a small taste 15 min before it’s cooked and add salt/pepper if needed.
- Serve hot or warm and you can reheat the leftovers
Запеканка из Кабачков.
Ингредиенты:
- 3-4 кабачка зуккини среднего размера
- 2 ст. ложки сливочного масла
- 2 ст. ложки муки
- 1 стакан молока
- 2 ст. ложки оливкового масла
- 1-1.5 чашки тёртого сыра (проволон, фонтина, груйер, пармезан, манчего, чеддер).
Инструкция:
- Помойте кабачки, очистите от кожуры.
- Нарежьте на дольки, которые поместятся в кухонный комбайн.
- Для натирания на тёрке нарезать не надо
Соус Бешамель:
- в небольшом сотейнике на небольшом огне растопите 2 ст ложки сливочного масла,
- добавьте 2 ст ложки муки, поджарьте непрерывно помешивая.
- продолжая помешивать постепенно добавьте молоко.
- не переставая мешать доведите соус до загустения, снимите с огня, остудите.
- Натрите сыр.
- Смешайте кабачки, бешамель, сыр.
- Добавьте 1 чайную ложку соли, 1/2 чайной ложки перца.
- Можно добавить сухой чеснок, орегано, мускатный орех.
Fish and chips Ramsay style
Rockfish pieces triple dipped: flour, egg, breadcrumbs with chopped dill. Potato strips blanched for 3 minutes in a boiling water, then seasoned, sprinkled with olive
Pig in a gluten free blanket.
The blanket is actually a dish of it’s own. Roasted with some olive oil disks of cabbage can easily be eaten as a separate dish
