Crème brûlée

Ingredients

125 g sugar to prepare the caramel
5 eggs
5 spoons sugar for the composition
1 l milk
4 tea spoons vanilla essence
Preparation
125 g sugar make it caramel at low temperature, in a 2 l pot, dress the pot around with the caramel sugar. Let it cool down
Mixed 5 spoon sugar with eggs, vanilla essence then add the milk.
Pour this composition in the caramelize pot and put it in the hot oven,
at low temperature 40 – 50 minutes.
Keep it in fridge and serve with whipped cream, fruits or as it is, after your preferences.

Cake/Chec

Ingredients
6 eggs
15 spoons sugar
9 spoons hot water
9 spoons oil
15 spoons flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Preparation
Mix the white eggs until it gets to a solid foam, add sugar, the hot water slowly, and vanilla essence; mixed for another few minutes until the foam gets really solid.
Separately mixed the yolks with the oil and pour over the white foam, add the flour which was mixed with the baking powder.
Let it bake for 50 minutes at 350°F.

You can serve it like that next to coffee
Or a few options
1. make a cream and add over, or make 2 layers of cake.
2. save a little bit of the mixed add cocoa over the cake in the pan , mixed with a spoon, like that the cake will have the cocoa spread and will make it look more interesting.
3. just add whipped cream
4. if you love dry fruits, after you pour the mixed in pan, spread dry raisins, berries or walnuts
Very easy to remember the recipe, same recipe you can add cocoa, or dry fruits and transform it in something else but same delicious.

Italian style chicken

Ingredients
4 pieces chicken breast, without skin
1 big cup rice
1 spoon olive oil
diced tomatoes, with juice
¼ cup water
¼ cup small chopped basil
basil leaf for decoration
Preparation
Put the chicken in the hot oil, keep it there for 8-10 min until it change the color to brown
Add the tomatoes, rice, water, salt, pepper and the chopped basil, let it boil, cover the pot and reduce the temperature. Keep on fire for 15-18 minutes.

Very easy to cook, inexpensive, I'm sure all the ingredients are already in your kitchen.

Things you need to know

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to
pick the little 'stringy things' off of it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Chai/Tea

For 2 persons
Ingredients
4 cups milk
1 spoon ginger powder
1 spoon cinnamon powder
1 spoon cardamon
3 spoons black tea
¼ tea spoon cloves (or 4 cloves pieces)
sugar or honey add for taste in the cup
after the mixed was strained

Romanian cuisine/ Bucataria romana

Romanian cuisine is very diverse, has influences from different dishes and traditions that it cammed in contact but, despite all that is also maintains its own characteristics.
Romania's traditional food sees touches of Balkan cuisine, as well as from other neighbors Turkish, Serbians, Hungarians, Austrians, Germans and other cuisines, but over the years, all these influences became traditional same as the oldest Romanian traditional foods.
More about Romanian traditional foods.

Cake Recipe/"Cozonac"

Ingredients:
1 kg white flour
250 grams. Sugar
500 ml. milk
4 whole eggs
4 yolks of egg
3 tbl spoon rum
1 lemon
1 orange
1 tbl spoon vanilla essence
100 grams. butter
60 grams. yeast
100 grams. grape (currant)
10 grams. salt

Preparation:
Mix half quantity of milk with the flour and the yeast. Allow it to grow in a warm place.
In a different bowl mix the remaining milk, whole eggs, yolks,the sugar, salt, pilled lemon and orange crust, vanilla essence.
For sugar to melt better you can heat the composition a little.
After it grows, the first composition will be mixed with the second one.
Beat the 4 whites with rum and add them to the dough.
Melt the butter and it to the dough as well as the grape juice.
Put the composition in cake pans, add some egg over the cake and sprinkle sugar.
At the medium temperature the cake should be baked in approx.40 min.

Enjoy!

Martini Time

Lemon Drop Martini

Ingredients
1 ½ oz citrus vodka
¼ lemon
1tbs sugar

Preparation
Slice the ¼ lemon into two seperate wedges.
Place in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes.
Add the vodka and the sugar into the shaker.
Shake strong.
Strain into a sugar rimmed cocktail glass.
Garnish with lemon twist and enjoy.

Cooking tips

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water.
The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup.
Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.