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Sauce “Green”

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:53:09 +0000

Wash several leaves of lettuce, spinach, tarragon or parsley. Boil the leaves in boiled water for 2-3 minutes. After that take them out, cut and mix with sauce “mayonaise”. Add salt and vinegar to taste. Serve with cold fish.

Ingredients:
sauce “mayonaise” - 1/2 glasses;
1 tablespoon boiled and cut leaves of lettuce, spinach, tarragon or parsley;
1 tablespoon vinegar.

Mayonaise with sour cream

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:16:52 +0000

Mix sauce “Mayonaise” with sour cream, lemon juice and cut parsley. Serve with the same courses. This sauce may be served with salads. Not add parsley in this case.

Ingredients:
sauce “mayonaise” - 1/4 glass;
thick sour cream - 1/4 glass;
1 tablespoon vinegar or 1 teaspoon lemon juice.

Sauce “Mayonaise”

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:05:24 +0000

Today I would like to tell you how to prepare sauces from natural ingredients. These sauces are more useful for health than ones from shops. They are usually served with salads, sandwiches and other cold snacks.

Sauce “Mayonaise”.

Put several egg yolks in the porcelain bowl. Salt them and mix. Then add sunflower oil in small portions stirring the mixture till it becomes thick. Add vinegar to the mixture.
For strong taste add 1/4 teaspoon mustard.
Mayonaise is served with cold boiled and fried meat and fish courses.

Ingredients:
sunflower or olive oil - 1/2 glass;
1 egg yolk;
1 teaspoon vinegar;
mustard to taste.

Mayonaise

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:57:45 +0000

Mayonaise is appetizing useful tasty sauce. It contains fat (40-70%), albumens and carbo-hydrates. Mayonaise is a thick mixture made of oil, egg yolks, sugar, vinegar, salt, mustard and spice.

Food is digested easier with mayonaise. That’s why it is often served with salads,first courses or cold snacks.

However, remember that it is not easy to cook mayonaise. It demands carefulness and skills.

There are a lot of various mayonaises: mayonaise with tomatoes, mayonaise with horse-radish, mayonaise with spice and other kinds. Today you will learn how to cook some kinds of mayonaise and other sauces.

Cold snacks. Sandwich with tomatoes and cucumbers

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:28:22 +0000

So, we learned about some salads in last entries. Hope my recipes will be of use! Now I’d like to tell you about cold snacks. Cold snacks are various sandwiches. You can use a lot of food-staffs to cook a sandwich: cold boiled or fried meat, ham, sausages, cheese, vegetables, sprats, smoked fish and others. Now I’ll tell you how to cook some beautiful sandwiches with tomatoes and cucumbers. I usually make them for my guests.

Cut semicircular slice of tomato and the same slice of cucumber. Put them on the fried circular slice of white bread. The slices will form a circle. Decorate the centre with mayonnaise and slice of raddish.

Russian salad

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:37:07 +0000

This salad is called “Russian salad”, but it is not popular in Russia only. Russian salad usually consists of boiled potatoes, pickled cucumbers, carrots and boiled beets. I add to it raddish, onions or sour cabbage. So, we prepare Rusian salad today.

Ingredients:

4-5 boiled potatoes;
1 beet;
1 carrot;
2 pickled cucumbers;
2-3 tablespoon sunflower oil;
spring onion to taste.

All the vegetables cut to pieces or slices. Put them in the big bowl, add spring onion or dill. Russian salad is more tasty with some pickled mushrooms.

Salad “Spring” - my favourite salad

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:17:48 +0000

And finally, here is my favourite salad called “Spring”. You need some lettuce, tomatoes, boiled potatoes, radish and spring onion.

Put the lettuce at the large dish, cut the vegetables and put them around the lettuce. I usually add to this salad 2 or 3 crumbled hard-boiled eggs. Salt before serving.
Also you can serve it with sour cream or some vinegar.

Ingredients:
several leaves of lettuce;
2 tomatoes;
2 or 3 eggs;
some radish to your taste;
2 or 3 potatoes;
spring onion to taste;
salt.

Fruit salad “Health”

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:07:30 +0000

Fruit salads are not so popular as vegetable ones. But they are greatly delicious and healthy as they contents a lot of vitamins, especially vitamin C.
Sometimes I cook this salad, mostly in autumn and winter, when we need vitamins. In my opinion, it’s more tasty with strawberries or bananas.

Ingredients:
3 apples;
1 pear;
1 orange;
1 tangerin;
1/2 lemon;
1 teaspoon powdered sugar.

Wash all the fruit carefully. Peel them, cut and put in the bowl. Don’t forget rewove seeds and core. Mix the salad with lemon juice and add powdered sugar before serving. Decorate with grapes or other berries.

Potato salad

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:20:23 +0000

Well, we’ve learned about preparation of vegetables and fruit for salad. If you don’t forget how to do it, try to cook this potato salad.
Though, I very often serve potatoes not as salad. This is very delicious too!

Ingredients for salad:
4 or 5 big potatoes;
2 tablespoons sunflower oil;
vinegar to taste;
salt;
pepper;
dill, parsley or spring onion to taste.

Peel boiled potatoes and cut them. Put the slices in the bowl, salt and pepper. Then add some vinegar and sunflower oil. Mix all the ingredients. Add dill, or parsley, or spring onion.

Preparation of ingredients for salads. Part 2. Fruit

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:01:30 +0000

Apples are the most popular fruit used for salad. Besides, you can use pears, plums, oranges, tangerins, bananas and various berries.

Apples and pears. It is better to peel them. Remove the core and cut the fruit to pieces or slices.

Oranges and tangerins should be peeled first of all =) Cut it and remove the seeds. By the way, peel is very useful thing. You can grate its upper part and add it in the salad.

Grapes, cherries, straberries and other berries. Wash them in cold water, then dry and put into the salad. Attention: stones shold be removed.

In the next enties I’ll tell you about some salads I used to cook!