Hummus

The way I make it, and the way the Sister liked it too. :)

Ingredients for a big batch:

• 200 g of garbanzo beans
• 1 tablespoon of dried vegetable seasoning
• 2 tablespoons of sesame seeds
• 3 cloves of garlic
• cumin
• salt

Steep the garbanzo beans in water for a day (24 hours!). This is important because otherwise we would have to cook it forever.
After this take the beans, put them into a pan with the dried vegetable seasoning, some salt, and at least as much water as covers it. Cover it and cook until the beans can be mashed easily.
Then sieve the beans and put away the water they were cooked in (it will be needed for the next recipe too ;D). Put the beans in some taller dish.
Toast the cumin and the sesame seeds, then add them to the beans, along with the cloves of garlic. Add two dippers of the cooking water and mash the whole thing with a hand blender. If it is too dry, add more of the cooking water.

Upgraded sugar free fruit cake, presents itself as a birthday cake.

I deleted the previous fruit cake recipe, because this is practically the same, except for being better because I made the bottom crust of the cake as well. And we managed to take a picture of it this time :)

 Its the same thing as muffin dough, a bit changed, so that it wont be too heavy or light either. Its about the half of the normal amount that I would use for cupcakes.

Ingredients for the bottom crust  (12 slices):
It contains some sugar just because I wasn't sure it would work out without it, but it can absolutely be left out!

• 13 dkg-s of wheat
•  2 eggs, divided
• 10dkgs of sugar, or sweetening instead
• half of a packet of baking powder
• a little bit of vanilla flavour
• about a half dl of milk

Mix the sugar with the egg yolk and the milk and add the vanilla flavour. Mix the flour with the baking powder. Add the flour to the moist ingredients, and stir it with a whisk. It has to be like a cream. Beat the egg-white and add it to the rest, stir it with a spoon. Pour it into the frame, and bake it for 20 minutes at most, at 165-170 deg. Mine became a bit downy, so i cut off those parts :)

Ingredients for the cream:

• 8 dls of yoghurt
• sweetening
• the grated skin of one lemon
• the juice of half of the lemon
• raisins according to taste
• 1 packet of gelatine sheets
• some of the strawberries, chopped

Mix the yoghurt with the sweetening, the lemon juice and the lemon skin. You can add the raisins and the strawberries. Disolve the gelatine sheets in hot water, and add it to the youghurt. Pour it onto the bottom of the cake and let it cool for an hour in the fridge.

Trick: If you put some apicot jam mixed with gelatine onto the bottom of the cake, it wont get soaked.

Fruits:

• strawberries, banana, orange
• 2-3 dls of orange juice
• another packet of gelatine sheets

The cream in the fridge in an hour hardens just enough that we can put the fruits on it. I put a layer of bananas under the strawberries, and it spiced it up really good. If we have everything we wanted on it, pour the previously heated orange juice, which contains the disolved gelatine already. Put it back to the fridge, until the whole stuff hardens perfectly.

Mustard and rosemary drumsticks

Ingredients for 4:

• 8 drumsticks
• 2 onions
• garlic
• salt, pepper
• mustard
• rosmary
• thyme
• garlic and onion pasta

Smash the garlic and put it under the skin on the chicken. Salt both sides. Try to push the rosmary into the meat by the bone. Sprinkle the thyme leaves onto the chicken. Put some garlic and onion pasta, and some mustard on it. You can add some round peppers, and the 2 onions chopped into bigger pieces, and maybe tomatoes. It needs at least one hour at 200 deg, covered with aluminium foil. When its all soft, remove the foil and let it get a nice reddish colour. If you put all of the pastas on the chicken the day before, it will taste much better.

Hungarian style chinese, which we call 'szukijaki'

Meat can be left out, or chicken can be replaced by turkey breast. I will only mark the amounts where important, other than that it only depends on your taste, you can add more or less of each one of the ingredients according to the wishes of the family.

Ingredients for 4 (or just 3 and you have some leftovers for the next day ;)

• 1 half of a bigger chicken breast
• peas (frozen is perfect)
• 1 bigger carrot
• 2 packets of mung beans seed
• leek or red onions
• 3-4 eggs, beaten
• sliced bacon
• 0.5 kg of champignons
• rice-flour paste or rice
• lots and lots of garlic
• a bigger piece of ginger root
• soy sauce
• a little bit of sugar
• oil, salt, pepper

Preparations:

Its a quite a meticulous job to do, but the result speaks for itself. It's better to chop all the ingredients first, then you'll only have to do the frying and stuff - much quicker this way! We usually pare the carrots, to the size of a match stick, cut the onion in half and then into circles, slice the chicken in streaks and the mushrooms (the size of the bits mustn't be too small). You can also slice the bacon across - the smaller the better. Then pitch the eggs and beat them like you do when making scrambled eggs, you can also add a bit of soy sauce. Chop the garlic and the ginger fine, you'll need them twice. Don't do anything with the bean seed, the peas are fine as well just frozen.

The fun part :

Take a frying pan, the best would be a deeper one and put it onto the largest place of the stove. You will need another dish, from which you can serve the food, you will put the continually prepared ingredients in this one. First fry the bacon, it doesnt need any additional oil, it will give its grease out. When its done, get the pieces of bacon out, and leave the grease in the pan, and put the onions in it. Sounds strange but add a littlebit of sugar to the onions, it wont make it sweet but will give it a really nice taste and colour (you can add salt to it a bit later). Dont need to steam it over, just until it becomes soft. Add the onions to the bacon too. Put a little bit of oil into the pan and add the carrots, and a bit of sugar again. It needs a couple of minutes to soften a little bit, its perfect when its still a little crispy. Then come the peas, they're done when you can smash them on the wooden spoon, it takes a couple of minutes in case of tender peas. The next one is the champignons, add salt and freshly grounded pepper to it. Dont need to wait until all the water disappears from the bottom. Next comes the chicken, add salt and soy sauce, and the half of the garlic and ginger. Let it cook until the meat gets white in the middle too. The bean seeds only need a short time, just until its gets a glassy colour, then its ready. Finally comes the egg, pour it into the pan, and basically make scrambled eggs, the only difference is that you need to cut it into little bits. When all of this is done, in a little bit of oil fry the rest of the garlic and ginger, but pay attention to it, if it burns, it will become bitter. The final step is to cook the paste, it only takes 2 minutes. When everythings ready, you just have to mix the whole thing carefully. You can add soy or chili sauce before you start eating, it will give it a good taste. If you use a non stick frying pan, you can skimp the oil.

Tomato salad by KGy :)

Ingredients:

• mellow tomatoes
• red onions
• fresh parsley

Dressing:

• 1 dl of corn oil
• vinegar
• a little bit of salt
• sugar or sweetening
• water

Dice the tomatoes and chop fine the onions. Put them into the dish by turns and sprinkle the fine chopped parsley onto the top. Shake the ingredients of the dressing in a bottle and taste it. If its allright, then pour into the dish and mix the salad carefully. Its good for the taste if you let it cool for a couple of hours in the fridge but its just as good inmediately served.

Carrots with balsamic vinegar and new potatoes with caraway seeds seeds

Ingredients for 2:

The carrots:

• 3 carrots
• thyme
• dark balm vinegar
• salt, pepper, olive oil
• garlic
• 1 onion

The potatos:

1. 5 new potatos
2. caraway seeds

Chop the peeled carrots, put it into a heatproof dish, add a little olive oil, salt, freshly grounded pepper, and the leaves of the thyme. Mix it, and add the cloves of garlic and pieces of onion. Cover it with aluminium foil and steam it until almost ready at 200 degrees in the oven. Remove the foil and pour the vinegar into it, but not too much. Put it back to the oven for 5-10 minutes until the acidity of the vinegar disappears, and the top of the carrots get a nice colour.

Wash the potatoes, and leaving their skins on them cut them in half. Pour a little olive oil onto them and add salt, the caraway seeds and freshly grounded pepper.Cover them with aluminium foil and keep them in the oven at 200 deg until they become soft. Remove the foil then and leave them in the oven until they get a nice golden colour on the top. It can be eaten with the skins on, its really crispy and delicious.

Enchilada, hungarian version

 Ingredients:

• 1 bottle of enchilada sauce
• 1 chicken breast
• 1/2 of 1 tinned sweet corn
• 1/2 of 1 tinned red beans
• onions
• 2 cloves of garlic
• oil, salt, mexico grill seasoning
• 8 round tortillas
• grated cheese to taste

Fry the onions in the oil for a bit, then add the sliced chicken breast, add salt and cover it so that the frozen chicken melts and cooks. Remove the cover when ready, add the seasoning, and frizzle it. Add the beans, the smashed garlic, and the corn with the half of the bottle of sauce. Let it cook for a bit and then take it off the heat. Let it cool for a couple of minutes. Get a tortilla, and put some of the filling in it, roll it up and put it into a bigger ovenproof dish. Go on like this until you run out of tortillas or space in the dish. Put the remaining half of the sauce onto the tortillas, and sprinkle the cheese on it. Chives freshly cut from the garden can make a serious effect on the taste:) It needs ten minutes at 200 degrees to go golden and then you can serve it inmediately.

Key Lime Pie

This recipe is not our own, but it's a very tasty and unique kind of cake.

Layered rice

This recipe is the typical case of making an enjoyable meal out of leftovers. We had a big pot of cooked rice with vegetables from the day before, our story starts there...

Ingredients:
a pot of cooked rice with vegetables :)
2 dl yoghurt
2 dl cream
Italian seasoning
black pepper
a few slices of bacon
leek
 two tomatoes
cheese

Mix the rice with the yoghurt and cream, add the bacon sliced in little pieces and the chopped leek. Grind black pepper into it to taste and add plenty of Italian seasoning. Put the whole thing in a heat-proof glass dish, cover the top with tomato slices, and put cheese over the tomatoes. Bake it in the oven at 150°C until the cheese melts and the most of the humidity evaporates from the bottom of the dish.