German Apple pie

Apple pie
German way :)
The best apple pie i ever ate!


U need:
100gr soft Butter
100 gr brown Sugar
150 gr sieved Flour
1 packet vanilla sugar
3 eggs
50 gr starch
1 tea-spoon baking-powder
6 peeled apples cut into splits

for the crumble:
150 gr Flour
125 gr Butter
125 gr brown sugar
1 packet vanilla-sugar
a bit cinnamon

First preheat the oven to 180 C

1. Mix the butter with the sugar and the vanilla sugar until its an even mix.

2. add the flour, baking-powder and starch and mix it well.

3. now add the eggs and mix it.

4. Grease a baking dish and put the dough into it.

5. Now put the apples splits on the dough

6 Make the crumble. Mix all the ingredients for the crumble and put the crumbles over the apple splits.

7. Bake it for about 45 min at 180 C

Spaghetti with Broccoli-cream-Tomato sauce

Spaghetti with Broccoli-crema-tomato sauce

150 - 200 gr spaghetti ( uncooked)
half onion ( small one)
1 garlic clove
2 tomatoes
3 tablesppons cream
salt n pepper
half teaspoon oregano
1 tablespoon lemonjuice ( preferably fresh)
50 gr broccoli ( frozen)

1. cook the pasta in saltwater for about 7 min, than drain them

2. cut the onion into small pieces. Cute the garlic clove into small pieces.
Heat a bit oil in a frying pan than put the onion and garlic into it.
Let it fry for about 1 or 2 min

3. Meanwhile cut the tomatoes into small pieces ( the smaller the better) and add it into the pan. Fry for about 3 min. Until it gets the texture of a sauce.
Add about half teaspoon of oregano 2 it.

4. Cut the broccoli into palatable pieces ( not 2 big or 2 small)
Than add it in the frying pan. Add also 3 Tablespoons of cream and let it all simmer until the broccoli is tender.

5. Now the lemon juice ( 1 teaspoon) and salt and pepper.

Mix the spaghetti with the sauce and serve it hot

Jewish recipe - Challah Bread - Sweet Bread with Raisins

Challah
Jewish

What you need to make Challah:

625 gr Fluor
0,5 Teaspoon Salt
50 gr sugar
20 gr raisins ( optional)
1 egg
62 ml oil
255ml warm water
21 gr fresh yeast,or 1 package dry yeast
pint sugar

1 yolk
1 tablespoon water

How to do it:

1.Mix the yeast with a pint of sugar and the warm water.
Let it stand for 5 min in a warm place (a sunny place in the window is a great place) until it raises up. If it doesnt raise, than the yeast is old and you need to get a new packet!

2.Mix the Fluor, Salt,Sugar and Raisins.

3.Mix the egg with the oil.

4. Now give the yeast mix to the fluor mix and stirr it.
Than add the egg-oil and mix it.

5. Now put the dough on the working surface and knead it til it feels soft and supple.

6. Next put the dough in an oiled bowl and cover it. let it stand for about 45 min in a warm place. If its cold ( winter time) than you might want to turn on the oven in a low heat. When its warm, turn the oven off and place the bowl with the dough in inthe oven.
The dough needs to raise during this time. If after 45 min it didnt at least got a little bit bigger than let it stand for some more time.

7. Heat the oven to 180 degree celsuis

8.Knead it again and divide the dough into 3 parts.Roll each peace
into a sausage form.
Now enclose the ends of all three pieces on each other and make one
braid pigtail with them. Enclose them again at the other end and stick the ends under the loaf stuck.

9. Set it on a backing sheet and let it stand for 30 min.
Mix the yolk with the water and put the mix onthe dough.
Than put it in the oven and let it bake for about 30 min.

white-bean soup

White-Beans soup
from Greece


u need:
175gr white beans, soaked in water over night and drained
1,7 l vegetable stock
120 gr pasta ( Corallini or other soup paste)
6 ts olive oil
2 garlic cloves
4 ts chopped parsley
salt n peeper

1.Give the beans in a big pot add the vegetable stock and cook it.when it starts 2 boil reduce the heat and stirr 2 hours til the beans r tender.

2. give half of the beans and a bit of the vegetable stock into a mixer.purree it and give it back in the pot. get to boil the mix again.

3. add the pasta and let it all cook 2gether for 10 min, til the pasta is ready.

4. while the pasta cooks, heat 4 ts of oil in a pan and ad the chopped garlic, fry for 4-5 min.add the garlic and parsley 2 the soup and spice with salt n pepper.add the rest of the oil 2 it and serve immediatly.

sweet porridge - the perfect oatmeal snack!

sweet porridge

british/scottish

U need:

250 gr rolled oats

500 ml milk

4 teaspoons sugar ( or more if desired)
you can use honey instead as a more healthy alternative!

1 handfull raisins ( more or less if desired)

Optional: cinnamon, some coffee powder, fresh fruits, yogurt
I love to add different ingredients everytime i make the porridge. My favorite fruits to use are peaches, banana, and mango :)
Dont use kiwi as it doesnt go well with the milk and turn the dish sour!

1. Place the oats in a pan and add the milk and about 300ml water ( thats about 1 cup).

2. Bring it 2 boil, than add the sugar and reduce the heat. Simmer for 4 - 5 min, stirr frequently.

3. Add the raisins and stirr.

You can serve the porridge warm or cold.
Its traditioanlly eaten warm as breakfast in the cold season ( which seems to never end in Brittain :D)
In the summer i eat it mostly cold with fruits, while in the winter its really great to eat it hot to warm u up.
 

 

tagliatelle with vegetable ribbons

tagliatelle with vegetable ribbons
from italy
serves 4

U need:
2 large courgettes ( zucchini)
2 large carrots
250 gr fresh egg tagliatelle or non wheat pasta ( u can use any kind of pasta, taste just as good ;)
4 tbsp garlich flavour oil
black peeper

For the garlic flavoured oil u can just put some garlic cloves in vegetable oil for some days. The oil will adopt some of the flavour. Of course its better 2 buy garlic flavoured oil, but i couldnt find it and this tip helped me a lot :)

1.
Using a vegetable peeler, peel the zucchini and carrots into long, thin ribbons.
bring water 2 boil in a pan and add the ribbons. Cook the ribbons for 30 seconds. Drain and seta side.

2. cook the tagliatelle acording to the instructions on the packet.
drain and return to the pan. Add the vegetables ribbons, garlic flavoured oil and pepper and toss over a medium heat until the pasta and vegetables are flavoured through.
serve immediatly.

U can also cool it and serve it cold like a pasta salad. Its great 4 hot summer days, an intresting variant 4 pasta salad and less calories than the normal pasta salads :)
U can also use less oil if u wanna cut some calories.

1 Serving: 348kcal/1464kj
9.6 gr carbs
12.7gr fat

americans

Americans

from germany i guess

U need:

100 g Butter

100 g sugar

1 packet vanillinsugar

2 Eggs

1 Pinch salt

1 packet custard powder ( vanilla)

5 tablespoons milk

250 g fluor

3 TL Backingpowder

250 gr icingsugar

lemonjuice

1. Mix the butter with the sugar

2. add vanillasugar, eggs and salt and mix it well.

3. add the custard powder, milk ,fluor and backingpowder

4. put the dough on a bakingplate. always 1 tablespoon full and leave some space between each one. it will give u about 18 pieces.

5. backe it for 10- 15 min with 200 grad celsius

6. mix the icing sugar with lemonjuice til it gets creamy ( i added some red food colour 2 make it intresting 4 the kids)

7. put the icing-lemon mix on the americans whle they stil hot