Cherry cake with dried fruits

Basically this is Mrs. Lipton's most excellent cherry cake or at least a version of it, since I put more cherries and some dried fruits in it this time. It tastes very different so I decided to publish it again as a different recipe. It's quite tempting, it was still warm when I tasted it and it was already really good, so I'm not sure there will be plenty left for tomorrow... :)

Ingredients:

• 20 dkgs of butter
• 20 dkgs of sugar
• 4 eggs 
• 20 dkgs of flour
• one teaspoon of baking powder
• 10 dkgs of grated almonds
• 250 dkgs of sour cherries
• 2 tbslpoons of brown sugar
• zest of one lemon
• candied orange zest
• raisins
• candied lemon zest
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 

Stir the soft butter with the sugar until it's fluffy and add the eggs too, one after the other, and keep stiring it meanwhile. Then add the flour and the almonds too, plus the lemon and orange zest and raisins that you previously mix with the flour, give it a good stir, then add the cherries without the seeds. Put it in the preheated oven at 180 deg Celsius for an hour.

Turkey breast with sun dried tomatoes and chili

This absolutely improvised turkey breast "stew" was made together with the above detailed rustic rosemary bread. I can't figure out why these dishes are always the best, the ones that you didn't even plan on making... Well, all the more reason to just cook all the time :)

Ingredients, serves 2

• 40 dkgs of turkey breast fillet
• 1 can of chopped tomatoes
• 5-6 sun dried tomatoes
• half a can of sweet corn
• 1 teaspoon of chili powder
• 2 teaspoons of ground cumin
• 1 onion chopped fine
• 3 cloves of garlic
• a bit of mexican seasoning

Chop the onions fine and start frying them in a bit of oil, they have to be brown. Meanwhile you can cut the turkey breast in smaller pieces, and then if the onions are done, add the meat. Cover it with a lid for 15 minutes and then remove the lid. Fry it until there isn't any water left under it. Add the seasoning and keep cooking it. Then you can add the tomatoes and the sweet corn, cook for another 5 minutes. If it's too sour, you can add a tiny bit of sweetener or sugar.

Rustic rosemary - garlic bread

 

The original idea of this bread is not my own, Jamie made something like this in Jamie at home, and it made me think that I could do a different version with more herbs and not only with plain flour. I'm sure it's totally different than the one he made, but it is really delicious. Not very complicated, can be easily made in the oven and even if you don't have anything else to eat, it's perfect for lunch or dinner. 

Ingredients for a big oven pan

• a total of 75 dkgs of flour, the percentage of plain and whole grain flour depends on your taste
• 420 mls of warm water
• 2 packets of dried yeast
• 3 teaspoons of salt
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• one big handful of chives
• a couple of thyme springs
• 5-6 springs of fresh rosemary
• 4-5 cloves of garlic chopped
• olive oil

Measure the flour and mix it with the yeast, the sugar and the salt plus the finely chopped herbs. If you are using a break baking machine, you only have to pour the flour in and then the water and the machine will do the rest. If not, make a whole in the middle of the flour for the water and then you can start kneading the dough until you get a flexible but soft dough. When it is ready, let it raise until it becomes double the original size. Line some baking paper into an oven pan and roll the dough to the size of the pan, lay it onto the pan and sprinkle the olive oil, the garlic and the rosemary leaves onto the dough. Then press your fingers into the dough all over the surface, but not all the way in, just make little "craters". Then put it in the oven at 200 degrees and bake it until the top becomes golden brown.