Soda bread with mushrooms

The original recipe is Rachel Allen's soda bread recipe, plus I added some tomato sauce, mushrooms, onions and grated cheese. The outcome is a filling, vegetarian and quick lunch.

Apple pancakes with maple syrup

The amount of the ingredients depends on how many pancakes we want to make. Actually this is the usual pancake dough (the hungarian version), but I whipped the egg whites separately and added them in the end, which made the dough so light and spumy. 4 smaller apples, 40 dkg of flour, 3 eggs, this amount is enough for at least 4 people.

Ingredients:

• flour
• eggs
• 1 packet of vanilin sugar
• sparkling water or milk
• apples
• ground cinnamon
• skin of 1 lemon

Grate the apples and squeeze most of its juice out of it (and of course we filter the juice and drink it afterwards..:) ). Separate the 3 eggs. We will whip the whites in the end. Add a bit of milk or water to the yolks, the vanilin sugar and the apples. Also add a bit of cinnamon and mix the whole thing. Add the flour in smaller amounts, and if it gets too stiff then add water. In the end beat the egg whites and mix it with the dough. It fries quickly in the pan and its very delicious. To eat maple syrup with it is almost an obligation, thats what makes it so autumny :)

Chocolate cupcakes with ginger and chili

Last week I had a dream about me baking this exact type of muffin so I thought why not try it, so here is the dream muffin. :)

Ingredients for 12 pieces

• 25 dkg of flour
• one packet of baking powder
• 2 eggs
• 10 dkg of sugar
• 2 dl of milk
• ginger
• 10 dkg of chocolate
• chili powder
• 2 spoons of coca powder

Measure the sugar. Separate the two eggs, add the yolks to the sugar, add the milk too and mix it. Chop the ginger fine and add to this mix.
Measure the flour, add the cocoa, the baking powder and the chili powder, and the chopped chocolate too and mix it. Finally mix the wet part with the dry part. Beat the egg white up and add it to the dough. It takes about 25 minutes at 160-170 deg to get ready.

Chili-lime chiken with ginger-garlic seasoned pumpkin

Its easy and quick to make, but special and filling.The lime sets off the sweetness of the pumpkin perfeclty, and garlic and ginger is a wonderful match anyways.

Ingredients for the chiken

• chicken breast
• ginger
• juice of one lime
• salt, pepper
• chili powder

Ingredients for the pumpkin

• half of a pumpkin
• fresh ginger
• fresh garlic
• salt, pepper
• aluminium foil for the bundle

Cut the pumpkin in half and scrape the seeds out. Peel it and cut it into equal pieces. The amount of the garlic and the ginger depends on how strong you want it to taste in the end. Chop them fine and mix them with the pumpkin. Add salt and freshly ground pepper, and steam it in an aluminium foil bundle at 200 deg.
Meanwhile cut the chicken breast into pieces, and start cooking it in a bit of oil. Add salt and pepper, and when it becomes white add the chili powder and right after the lime juice. Cover it and let it cook for 5-10 minutes. Then remove the cover and let the sauce densify a little. The chicken is ready, all you have to do is wait for the pumpkin to soften and then you can eat.

Apple-peach-blackberry crumbs

The blackberry is our own from the garden :) This one is an energy-free version, with very little sugar and margarine, but its really good like this as well, because the own flavour of the fruits is very nice without sugar.

 

 Ingredients for 4:

• Fruits:
• 3 bigger peaches
• 3 apples
• one bowl of blackberries
• cinnamon
• nutmeg
• a very little bit of brown sugar

The crumbs:
The amount depends on how much crumble you want to put on it.

• whole grain flour
• margarine
• sugar

Preparation:
Cut the apples in half, and slice them, not too thick. Dice the peaches too. Put them into a pan, and add the brown sugar, and steam them until the apple softens. Meanwhile mix the flour with the sugar, and add the cold margarine. Start crumbling it, it doesnt have to be consistent, the point is to keep it a crumble. When the fruits are ready, pour them into the dish in which you will bake it, and add the berries. Sprinkle the crumlbe onto the top and keep it in the oven at 180 degrees until it becomes golden.

Veggie soup with thyme and marjoram

The original recipe says chicken stock instead of the stock-cube but thats what we didnt have at home now, so I stuck with the good old cubes.
 Its the perfect lunch for Sister, and other job-seekers before an interview.

Ingredients:

• 3 carrots
• 1 onion
• 2 sticks of celery
• 3 potatoes
• bit of olive oil
• marjoram
•  fresh thyme
• salt, pepper
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 dl of sour cream
• about 1 and a half litre of water
• 2 stock-cubes

Chop the onion, not too fine and put them onto a bit of olive oil, start softening them, after adding salt to it. Meanwhile peel the carrots and slice them. Slice the sticks of celery too. Add them to the onion and stir them well. Braise them for a while and then add the thyme leaves , the bay leaf and the marjoram, and then add the water, bring it to a boil and then add the two cubes (this is whats on the box, I actually dissolved the cubes in the water and added it then, and it worked). During that peel the potatoes, and slice them into equal pieces, and when the carrots are 80% soft, add the potatoes. It softens in about 10 minutes. When its ready, get it off the heat so that it doesnt boil, and add the sour cream. Then put it back to the heat and bring it to a boil again. You can edd extra salt to taste and freshy ground pepper also fits it well.

Peach cake with a banana impulse

Ingredients (for a cake frame of 28 cm)

The crust

• 10 dkg of stone ground wheat
• 2 eggs
• half a dl of oil
• 2 packets of vanilin sugar
• 8 ladyfingers smashed
• uice of half a lemon
• peel of a lemon
• additional sweetening if necessary

The filling

• one banana
• two packets of canned peaches
• apricot jam
• walnut
• almond chips
• sesame seeds

Measure the wheat for the crust and add the two eggs. Add the vanilin sugar, the lemon juice, the peel of the lemon, the oil and the ladyfingers. Knead the whole thing until you get a batter that you can stretch. Strech it according to the size of the frame and put it into the frame in which you previously put baking paper.
Put apricot jam onto the batter, and put the sliced banana onto the jammed layer. Start laying the peach sliced too. In an appropiate moment add some extra apricot jam between two layers of peach. Then comes the rest of the peach. Sprinkle the sesame seeds, almond chips and the chopped walnuts onto the whole cake. It needs 20-30 minutes at 180 deg.