Sunday, May 31, 2015

Base for tripe stew or soup




1 kg (about 2 pounds) of  beef honeycomb tripe
1 1/2 pound beef with bone ( can  be substituted with 1 pound of beef bones)
2 sticks of celery
1 large onion
2 carrots
laurel leaf
black pepper peppercorns

2 cooking pans needed
1 for the tripe
1 for the beef with vegetables


Put beef with celery, peeled onion, carrot in cold water.
Cook it as a regular beef soup, with laurel leafs and peppercorns

Put cleaned tripe into a pan, cover with water and boil until undesired odor is gone..

Then trow away the water, take the tripe and put it together with the beef.

Cook until done. It is about 5 hours, sometimes even more. Remove the beef with the bone when its done. The timing is up to you. 1.5 or 2 hrs.  

After tripe is done, remove it from the broth, Remove the cooked vegetables, Strain the broth.

Tripe, beef pieces and the broth are the base for your next dish.

In couple of days, I will write about basic Polish Flijaki soup (stew)


Saturday, May 30, 2015

Vegetarian Borsch



Really easy:


Beets

Bell peppers

Cabbage

onion

carrot

potatoes

salt

pepper

laurel leaf

water


a little bit of oil



Cut the vegetables to small pieces


Put them all, except the cabbage and potatoes  in a pan, add the oil salt and a litle bit of water

Stew  until almost soft

Add hot water, add cabbage and potatoes. boil until done.

Add seasoning in the end

Serve with sour cream






Sunday, May 3, 2015

Fast beer plate : Baked Frankfurters with cheese and pan fried shrimp


The amount per wight of frankfurters and cheese is about 3:1

Slice the frankfurters and put the cheese there. Put in the pre- heated  oven 375.F


While the frankfurters are baking, clean the shrimp and fry it in olive or vegetable oil with a herb mix of your choice ( I prefer Cajun or Creole)

When both are done, just put on the plate together and serve

Friday, January 30, 2015

Lemon pepper chicken wings

Like chicken with lemon?
Then, here is one great dish for you.





It's easy to prepare
Dust your chicken wings with Lemon Pepper seasoning and salt
Sprinkle with vegetable or canola oil 

Put in preheated to 375 F oven.

Cook until brown. I cooked them until crispy

Enjoy!

#chickenwings #lemonpepper #Superbowl #snaks 

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Cajun Shrimp in white wine anybody ?



1 pound of shrimp 

3 -4 table spoons of any cajun or creole seasoning (If it is a salt free seasoning, then have some salt, too) 
2 table spoons of butter
1 cup of  dry white wine
1 cup of vegetable oil 
Dill ( optional)


Season the shrimp with the seasoning

Heat  the oil in a large sauce pan add the wine, but make sure you do not splatter the mixture all over, 

Let the wine come to a boil. 
Let it boil until the aroma of alcohol is gone. 
Put the seasoned shrimp there and add butter. 
Let it cook until done add dill in the end


Enjoy!

Get a  baguette ready, because the sauce is a "killer"








Saturday, November 29, 2014

Home turkey



For my family. I cooked it with a stuffing of rice, onions and chicken livers, on the bed of Sauerkraut with the kraut juice. 

Killer taste and moist turkey. I cook it for the last 30 plus years. Never fails me!!