Cream of Mushroom Soup

After yesterday's success with the cream of broccoli soup and admiration from my husband, I decided to keep up the momentum and prepare another cream soup, now of champignons. I love champignons! And mushroom soups, especially those made by my grandma, I've eaten eagerly since my childhood. Again, I found an interesting recipe in the Internet, this time on a site agatagotuje.pl (Polish only), I modified it a bit and cooked the soup today. M. wolfed down, took two second helpings and said that he won't make soups anymore. I will definitely not agree to this, as I love his soups! However, frankly speaking, cream of mushroom soup came out delicious. Do you want to try? Let's get started! :)

INGREDIENTS:

500g champignons
2 middle-size potatoes
2 middle-size onions
2 bouillon cubes (preferably mushroom ones)
125 ml of heavy cream
1 spoon of butter
1 teaspoon of oil
spices: salt, black pepper, marjoram, chilli powder, nutmeg, parsley

Cream of Broccoli Soup

I'm just sitting at home, swollen after yesterday's removal of two wisdom teeth. It's difficult to eat anything, so after checking contents of my fridge, I got an idea of making myself cream of broccoli soup for dinner. I found a very good recipe on a website Wielkie Żarcie (sorry, just in Polish). The soup came out delicious, soft and easy to eat, even in my state ;) So, it's time for a recipe, with my minor modifications.





 INGREDIENTS:
Basic ones:
500g broccoli
2-3 cloves of garlic
1 spoon of butter
2 bouillon cubes
a glass of milk or couple of spoons of sour cream
spices: salt, black pepper


Additional ones:
Whatever you want: croutons, puff pastry croutons, grated cheese.

Minced meat loaf

First of all, all the best in the year 2014! :)

Gosh, time just flies! It's been already almost 3 months since my last post. Plenty of things have happened during this time: new job, many guests, visit to Finland, Christmas in Poland, etc. Of course I've cooked and taken pictures, but I haven't had time to post any recipes. Now everything levels off and I hope this year I will have more time for my blog.


Today I present you a recipe for minced meat loaf. I came up with the idea when making chops. Generally, a lot depends on a cook. I usually go through all the stuff in my fridge, when making this dish. The recipe I give is for an exemplary combination, and I really encourage you to try your own ideas out.






INGREDIENTS:
Basic ones:
500 g minced meat
1 roll (preferably kaiser roll)
1 big egg
middle-size onion
spices: salt, black pepper, herbal pepper mix, chili
crumbs

Additional ones: 
Pepper (entire one or pieces of few in different colors)
3-4 champignons
50 g cheese
(* great ingredients are also: couple of dried tomatoes [here in the picture, I've added them], a few spoons of canned corn, cucumber, etc.)

Muffins with vegetables and sausage

I'm starting the series of my variations on the muffins with a recipe for my Husband's favorite muffins: with vegetables and sausage. For some reason, whenever M. brags about me and my cooking skills, he always mentions those muffins. Well, some say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and for sure there is something about it ;)

Muffins with vegetables and sausage are perfect as: lunch, dinner, supper, snack, dish for a picnic or guests' visit. A great thing is that every time a combination can be different, everybody can choose what she/he likes or dislikes, and taste will still be good.

The starting point is of course the basic recipe for muffins and the rest depends only on imagination, taste and content of the fridge. I will show you an exemplary combination, based on muffins I have done recently. Usually I just check what ingredients* I have and what I would like to add on a particular day ;)



INGREDIENTS:
"dry" ones:
2 glasses of flour
2 full teaspoons of baking powder 
1/2 teaspoon of salt
spices (salt, pepper, herbal pepper mix,  herbes de Provence, chili)

"wet" ones:
2 eggs 
1 glass of milk 
100g butter or margarine

additional ingredients
1/2 medium size onion
1/4 pepper
1 sausage
1/2 tomato
50 g cheese
3-4 champignons
(* great ingredients are also: a couple of spoons of canned corn and/or peas, quarter of a cucumber, a slice of zucchini,...)

Muffins - basic recipe

There was a time when we ate muffins very often. I don't even remember from which site I took the first recipe, for muffins with chocolate. I have experimented a lot since then ;) In Berlin i don't make muffins so often, but I still like them :) In this post I will present the basic recipe. It is really easy and nice, there is no problem with scaling it (e.g. I often make muffins from 1.5 portion). I will gradually present my different variations. And I encourage you to play with your own ideas :)


INGREDIENTS:
"dry" ones:
2 glasses of flour
2 full teaspoons of baking powder 
1/2 teaspoon of salt

"wet" ones:
2 eggs 
1 glass of milk 
100g butter or margarine

additional ingredients

Letcho

The days are going by incredibly fast. Finally, I have some time for posting recipes.

Already in high school, whenever I stayed at home alone, I made myself a full pot of letcho. And it wasn't because I could not prepare anything else :P It was because I adore letcho. Today I'm going to give you my recipe. It is very easy, so even beginner cooks should have no problems with it.

INGREDIENTS:
2 onions
6 peppers (preferably in different colors)
5 - 6 tomatoes
3 barbecue sausages (or thick wieners)
salt, pepper, chili, oil

So here we start... :)

Already for a long time I've been thinking about creating my own cooking blog. Why? There are several reasons. First of all, i LOVE cooking! I try new dishes out very often. And there is a problem - it happens that after a while I forget about a great idea, I lose a piece of paper with a recipe, or I don't remember something. And then I have to search again. So, this blog will be my own modern recipe book, available from basically any place. Second of all, often somebody asks me for a recipe. If it is a foreign friends, I have to translate the recipe to English. Later, when somebody else asks for the same recipe, I have to burrow through my sent messages and look for what is needed. Not any more. Now I can simply send a link to the right site. Third of all, I like drawing inspiration from various blogs...and I hope I can inspire somebody. All the more, that very seldom I use recipes "as they are" - usually I change something, put some things together, or even create something on my own. Kitchen is my playground ;)

If any other reason comes to my mind, I will let you know ;)
And for now, have fun on my blog :)