December 31, 2013
Sweet buns with Lubavitch Sweet yeast Dough
Sweet buns with Lubavitch Sweet yeast Dough
Many years ago I bought a quite delicious cooking book compiled by women from Lubavitch community. They choose recipe they trust and make again and again. This time I decided to try one of the recipes from this book.
1. Basic Sweet Dough
Make 50 buns or pirozhkis.
1/2 sugar
2 packages dry yeast
1 & 1/2 teaspoon salt
6 & 1/2 to 7 cups flour
1 & 1/4 cups apple juice
1 cup margarine
3 eggs, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
In a large mixer bowl, combine sugar, yeast, salt, and 2 cups of flour. In a 1-quart saucepan, heat apple juice and margarine until warm. Margarine does not have to melt.
Gradually add warm liquid to dry ingredients, beating with mixer at low speed. Increase speed to medium and beat 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla and 2 & 1/2 cups of flour. Beat 2 minutes. By hand, stir in enough additional flour to make stiff dough, about 2 cups.
Turn dough onto a lightly floured board and knead 8 to 10 minutes until smooth and elastic, adding more flour if necessary.
Place dough in a well-oiled bowl and turm to oil the top. Cover and let rise in warm place about 1 hour until doubled in bulk. Punch down, turn onto floured board, cover with bowl and allow to rest 15 minutes for easier shaping.
2. What to make: piroshki and sweet buns.
3. How to shape it.
Imitation Crabmeat Green Tomato salad
Imitation Crabmeat Green Tomato salad
Make 2 portions
6-8 leaves butter torn lettuce,
4 oz imitation crabmeat, chopped
1 large tomato, sliced
1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced
Dressing:
2 tablespoons mayonaise
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoоn olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
For dressing, in a small bowl, whisk all dressing ingridients, except salt and pepper.
In a deep salad bowl, place butter lettuce leaves. In a separate bowl combine the next three salad ingredients. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss very well. Add salt and pepper. Pour salad over the leaves.
Салат с крабовыми палочками, помидорами и зеленью.
На 2 порции
6-8 листьев зелени "butter lettuce"
120 грамм крабовых поличек, мелко порезанных
1 большой помидор, нарезанные на тонкие дольки.
1/2 чашки сладкого красного лука, нарезанного кольцами
Соус:
2 столовые ложки майонеза
1 чайная ложка горчицы Dijon
1 чайная ложка лимонного сока
1/2 чайной ложки сахара
2 столовые ложки оливкового масла
Соль и перец по вкусу.
В небольшой посуде перемешать все составляющие соуса. Соль и перец не добавлять.
В глубокую салатную посуду уложить листья салата. В отдельной посуде перемешать крабовые палочки, помидор и лук. Залить соусом и добавить по вкусу соль и перец. Выложить салат поверх листьев.
December 27, 2013
Banana-Honey Cake with Vodka glaze
Unexpectedly for myself I found this easy recipe in one of Williams-Sonoma cooking books "Dessert of the day". First of all, this recipe can be made parve and served with any meal. For a second, any of us can experiment with spices. This easy cake will become very spicy and rich. Definitely I will make this recipe again. I have already offered a cake for test to several people, and they like it. It does not rise high, it's a quite dense and definitely very honeyish. William-Sonoma published cake without glaze, and I added the glaze and some new spices. First time I introduced vodka glaze in a Cosmopolitan Bread
Banana-Honey Cake with Vodka glaze
Cake:
2 & 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup (125 gramm) + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (together 10 tablespoons)
Butter can be substituted on pareve margarine to make a recipe parve.
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
2 large eggs
2 bananas, mashed
I added 1 teaspoon ground ginger and 1/8 teaspoon red pepper.
Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons vodka
1 teaspoon apple or orange juice (if you need more to make glaze, add it)
Preheat the oven to 350F (180C). Butter a 9 inch (23-sm) square baking pan. Sprinkle with flour and tap out the excess.
In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. In another bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the butter and brown sugar on medium speed until creamy. Add the eggs, increase the speed to medium-high, and beat until smooth. Add the dry ingredients in 2 additions, alternating with the mashed bananas and beating on medium speed after each addition until smooth.
Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan.
Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan or on a wire rack. Cut in squares and serve.
I used for baking a regular bread pan, waited 15-20 minutes after baking and cover with glaze. To make a glaze, I mix all ingredients until paste was formed.
Банановый медовик с глазурью из водки.
Тесто для медовика:
2 & 1/4 чашки муки
1 чайная ложка соды
1 чайная ложка разрыхлителя
1 чайная ложка молотой корицы
1/2 чайной ложки соли
1/2 чашки (125 gramm) + 2 столовые ложки несоленого сливочного масла (вместе 10 столовых ложек) Можно заменить на parve маргарин.
1/2 чашки коричневого сахара
1/2 чашки меда
2 болших яйца
2 банана (провернуть их в мясорубке или кухонном комбайне до получения пюре)
Я добавила 1 чайную ложку сухого имбиря и 1/8 чайной ложки красного перца.
Глазурь:
1 чашка сахарной пудры
2 столовых ложки водки
1 чайная ложка яблочного или апельсинового сока(если нужно больше, добавьте.)
Нагреть духовку до 350Ф (180Ц). Помазать маслом небольшую квадратную дечку (23 см). Обсыпать внутри мукой.
В небольшой посуде смешать муку, разрыхлитель, соду, корицу, сухой имбирь, переци соль. В другой глубокой посуде электрическим миксером на средней скорости взбить масло и сахар. Добавить яйца. Увеличить скорость и продолжать взбивать. Добавить сухую массу в 2 приема, чередуя с бананами. Взбивать до того, как все хорошо перемешается. Вылить в приготовленную дечку, аккуратно разровнять и поставить в нагретую духовку.
Печь в течении 35-40 минут. Проверить лучинкой на готовность. Вынуть из духовки и дать остыть. Нарезать на квадратики и подать к столу.
Я использовала стандарную дечку для выпечки хлеба. Вынула из духовки, подождала 15-20 минут и залила глазурью. Для глазури нужно перемешать все ингридиенты до получения пасты.
December 16, 2013
Cheesy Roses
Cheese Roses
Makes 25-30 mini pasтries.
1 cup farmer's cheese
1/4 cup melted butter
1 egg
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons milk
Chocolate salt for sprinkling
1. In a bowl mix well farmer's cheese, butter, egg and sugar. Add baking soda diluted in lemon juice. Add flour and form a dough.
2. Divide the dough in 3 parts. Take one piece and cover the other. roll out the 1/3 portion of dough to about 1/8" thick on a floured board. Using a cutter or a drinking glass, cut out approximately 3 inch circles. Place 3 rounds one after another one overlapped a 1/4 inch and use the roller pin to smooth the surface. Roll all of them together as you see on a picture and cut in the middle (the thickest part).Stand them up with a cut side down.
Reroll your scraps until it is ALL used up!
3. Brush each pastry with a milk and sprinkle with chocolate sugar.
4. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180C / 350F" for 20 minutes.
Творожные цветочки
На 25-30 пирожных
1 чашка домашнего творога
1/4 чашки растопленного сливочного масла
1 яйцо
1/4 чашки сахара
2 чашки муки
1/2 чайной ложки соды
1 столовая ложка лимонного сока
2 столовые ложки молока
Chocolate salt для посыпки
Приготовление:
Для начала, растираем яйцо с сахаром, маслом и творогом. Добавляем соду, гашенную лимонным соком, и муку. Хорошо вымешиваем тесто, раскатываем и вырезаем из него кружочки с помощью чашки. Выкладываем в нахлест по три штуки. Скатываем их в трубочку и разрезаем ножом на две части.
Застилаем пергаментом ( или силиконовым ковриком или просто смазываем сливочным маслом) противень. Выстраиваем на нем розочки. Смазываем молоком и посыпаем шоколадной солью.
Выпекаем в разогретой до 170 градусов духовке в течении 20 минут.
Recipe from http://vk.com/vtarelke?w=wall-4806561_280967
December 05, 2013
Quick Poppyseed Strudel
First time I posted about poppyseed strudel 7 years ago. I can not imagine that I run my culinary diary already 7 years. For last 7 years I started to write articles, created my own website and learned a lot of good new things. This recipe with me all the time. It's easy, tasty, and reminds me a strudel we used to eat many years ago back in Ukraine.
Dough: 2 tubes (8 ounces EACH) refrigerated crescent rolls.
Filling: 1 can poppy-seed filling, 1/4 cup of honey, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 1/2 raisins or dry cherries.
Prepare filling: mix everything together.
Unroll crescent dough; press seams and perforations together, forming a 15 in x 12 inch rectangle. Spread 1/2 filling lengthwise down the center of dough. Roll up, jelly roll fashion. Seal edges, pace the log seam side down, on nongreased cookie sheet. Repeаt with another can of dough. Bake at 375 F. for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown.
Universal glaze: 1 tablespoon melted margarine, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 cup powdered sugar. Mixed everything together and brush the strudel. Cut into slices
Пирог с маком. (американская версия)
Удобств в Америке много, и одно из них тесто компании Pillsbury. Пытаясь освоиться в Америке, мы используем американские продукты для наших старых и особенно вкусных рецептов. От пирога с маком никто и никогда не отказывался. Этот пирог делается очень быстро и почти не черствеет.
Тесто: 2 баночки замороженного теста компании Pillsbury "Сrescent"
Начинка: 1 баночка готовой маковой начинки, 1/4 чашки меда, 1 чашка мелко нарубленных орехов, 1/2 чашки изюма или сухой вишни.
Для получения начинки смешать все ингридиенты.
Вынуть тесто из баночки и раскатать в прямоугольник, защипить все дырочки. Выложите половину начинки на каждый прямоугольник, и сверните каждый лист вместе с начинкой в рулет. Выложите 2 рулета на противень. Пеките пироги около 30-35 минут, пока они не зарумянятся.
Универсальная помадка: 1 столовая ложка расстопленного маргарина, 1 столовая ложка лимонного сока, 1 чашка сахарной пудры. Все хорошо перемешать и помазать струдель. Нарежаьт струдель на порционные куски.
Recipe from Pillsbury Inc.
November 27, 2013
Spicy Pumpkin Bundt Cake
I'm not the biggest fan if the canned pumpkin, but someone gave to my mom a can, and I looked everywhere for a recipe to utilize the canned pumpkin. Since I trust Martha Stewart, I tried her recipe and it turns very delicious. My coworkers like it very much and asked me to do again. I used less sugar and it tastes really well with cream cheese. I think, it's a good idea for Holiday potluck breakfast or brunch..
Makes 1 big bundt cake or 2 medium-size loaves
Nonstick cooking spray, for pan
4 cups cake flour (not self-rising), plus more for dusting
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon ground ginger
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
2 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar (I used 2 cups of brown sugar)
4 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 14-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray. Dust with flour, and tap out excess.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
Beat butter and brown sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to low. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the buttermilk. Beat until just combined. Add pumpkin puree, and beat until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake cake until golden and a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Carefully turn cake onto rack too cool completely. Before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.
Recipe came from The Martha Stewart Show, November Fall 2007
Makes 1 big bundt cake or 2 medium-size loaves
Nonstick cooking spray, for pan
4 cups cake flour (not self-rising), plus more for dusting
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon ground ginger
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
2 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar (I used 2 cups of brown sugar)
4 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 14-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray. Dust with flour, and tap out excess.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
Beat butter and brown sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to low. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the buttermilk. Beat until just combined. Add pumpkin puree, and beat until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake cake until golden and a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Carefully turn cake onto rack too cool completely. Before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.
Recipe came from The Martha Stewart Show, November Fall 2007
November 23, 2013
Sweet Tuna Salad
Sweet Tuna Salad
2 (6-ounce each) cans tuna fish packed in water; drained
1/4 cup sweet relish (1 medium size pickle, chopped)
1/4 cup canned sweet yellow corn Nibblets
1/2 medium size sweet red pepper, choppped (my addition)
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon honey Dijon-style mustard
salt, black pepper to taste
Place tuna, relish, corn, red pepper, mayonaise and mustard in a medium salad bowl. Mash and mix with a fork until blended well. Chill in refrigerator for 1 hour before serving. Arrange on platter.
Сладкий салат с тунцом
2 (180 грамм каждая) коробочки консервированного тунца в воде. Открыть и отцедить от воды.
1 среднего размера соленый огурец, мелко нарезанный
1/4 чашки консервированной кукурузы
1/2 средней величины красного перца, мелко нарезанного
1/3 чашки майонеза
1 столовая ложка горчицы Dijon
соль и перец по вкусу
Перемешать тунец, соленый огурец, краный перец, майонез и горчицу в небольшой посуде. Поставить в холодильник на 1 час перед подачей на стол. Перед подачей быложить на блюдо и украсить.
Recipe comes from "Quick & Kosher" by Jamie Geller
November 17, 2013
Blueberry Corn muffins
Make 16 medium size muffins
1/2 cup butter, softened (I took parve margarine)
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup orange juice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
2/3 cup yellow corn meal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup blueberries
cinnamon sugar (optional)
Beat the butter with sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, orange juice and vanilla.
In another bowl mix the flour, corn meal and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until just blended. Fold in blueberries.
Lightly grease muffins cups with canola oil. Fill the cups about 2/3 full. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake for 20 minutes.
Recipe comes from Convington Inn, St.Paul
100 Harriet Island Road B3,
St.Paul, MN
www.convingtoninn.com
The recipe was published in local magazine www.tonkatimes.com
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