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Easy Salad

2010-01-27T17:17:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
2 avocado
1 large red apple
2 Tbl honey
1/2 cup raisins
1 Tbl sunflower seeds
Preparation
In a bowl, combine the diced avocados, apple and raisins. Drizzle with honey, and sprinkle with sunflower seeds.

Creamy Cheesy Cauliflower Soup

2010-01-27T17:14:00.000-08:00

Makes 4 servings
Ingredients
1 cup chopped onion
1 medium head cauliflower
2 1/2 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup fat-free milk
2 oz Cheddar cheese, grated (about 1/2 cup)
2 Tbl chopped fresh dill
Preparation
Coat a saucepan with oil, add onion and saute until tender then add the cauliflower chopped in big pieces and cook for 2 more minutes.
Add broth and milk to pan and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes or until cauliflower is very tender.
Puree soup in a blender in batches. Return to pan over medium-low heat. Whisk in cheese and continue stirring just until melted. Sprinkle with dill and serve with toasted baguette slices.

Grilled Mini Pizza

2010-01-27T17:10:00.000-08:00

Makes 4 servings
Ingredients
2 tomatoes
1 lb homemade pizza dough
2 Tbl olive oil
8 oz grated Cheddar cheese
1 Tbl fresh thyme leaves
Salt and black pepper to taste
Preparation
Prepare medium-hot fire on a charcoal grill
Cut the tomatoes into thin slices.
Divide the pizza dough in four equal balls, place some flower on your work area, then roll and stretch each ball until you obtain 4 mini pizza dough.
Place the pizza dough on the grill, cook 2 minutes on each side until is lightly colored about 2 minutes on each side. After removing from the grill drizzle on each olive oil, add the tomato slices, season with salt and pepper, and the cheese.
Cover the grill until the cheese is melted, about 3 minutes, or until its gets a crust.

Coconut Carrot Salad

2010-01-24T17:59:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
3 large carrots
1 cup raisins
1 cup walnuts
1/4 cup celery
2 Tbl shredded coconut
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 Tbl sour cream
1 Tbl cider vinegar
salt for taste
1 tsp sugar optional
Preparation
In a bowl, combine shredded carrots, raisins, walnuts, celery, and coconut. Whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar, and salt. You can add sugar is the carrots are not the sweet ones. Stir dressing into carrot mixture. Refrigerate for at least 1 hours before serving.

Italian Chicken with Penne

2010-01-24T17:54:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
1 pkg Penne pasta
2 tsp chicken-flavor instant bouillon
1 can artichokes
1/2 cup green onions
3 cloves garlic
1/3 cup dry red wine
1 pound boneless chicken breast
1 tsp dried basil
2 Tbl olive oil
2 cups milk
2 Tbl cornstarch
Preparation
Boil the pasta, rinse with water and place it in a bowl. Cut the artichokes and chicken in 1 inch pieces,chop the onions,garlic. In a pan place the wine and cook the green onions, artichokes and garlic. Place the mixture in a separate bowl, and in same wine cook the chicken with basil and oil, add the other mixture. Simmer for 15 minutes then add the cornstarch and milk and poor over the pasta.

Beef and Corn Pasta

2010-01-22T08:53:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
2 tbs olive oil
2 tbs red wine vinegar
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, chopped
1 large carrot, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 lb 1/4 inch pieces steak
Spaghetti, cooked according to pkg directions
2 can diced tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
1 can corn, drained
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/2 tsp dried parsley
1/2 tsp dried thyme
3 tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp ground cumin
salt as needed
Preparation
In a pot, heat oil, vinegar, garlic, onion, carrots, and green pepper. Simmer 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring frequently. Add meat and all remaining ingredients except the spaghetti. Cover and simmer, stirring occasionally. Before serving, reheat adding water if needed. Serve over cooked, drained spaghetti using about 3 cups of the sauce per pound of pasta.
Makes 4

Cabbage with Sour Cream and Swiss Cheese

2010-01-15T16:29:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
1 cabbage
5 oz Swiss cheese
1 Tbl all purpose flour
2 cups sour cream
2 cups milk
7 oz butter
salt
1 Tbl bread crumbs
Preparation
Slice the cabbage in big pieces and boil with salt. In a pan place butter on all walls, cover in bread crumbs and gratin cheese. Remove the water from the cabbage, then place in the pan, over it place the milk mixed with sour cream and flour, add more cheese, bread crumbs and the rest of butter cut in small pieces. Place to the preheat oven until its cooked, around 30 minutes.

Pomegranate

2010-01-15T16:01:00.000-08:00

The Benefits of Pomegranate
The fruit is packed with vitamins and nutrients and scientists are studying its role in fighting heart disease and cancer.
The largest pomegranate, known for the large seeds and sweetness grow in California. But the most important thing is the variety is especially rich in antioxidants.
Eating pomegranate will lower the potassium helping reduce the blood pressure, bringing fibers to your body, and vitamin C.
Drinking pomegranate juice will help your blood flow to heart. This is recommended in people with coronary heart disease.
The natural pomegranate juice it can be drank by people suffering of diabetes, the natural pomegranate juice does not effect the blood glucose or the cholesterol levels.
Studies suggest that pomegranates could reduce the spread of lung cancer, and keep the prostate cancer from returning.
Are very recommended for the many health benefits that bring to you, are fun to eat, and are delicious to add to salads.
(See the Spinach and egg salad)

Waffle with Apricot

2010-01-15T15:50:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
2 cups pancake & waffle flour
1/2 milk
1 tsp orange zest
1 stick butter
Preparation
Mixed the waffle flour with milk and orange zest. Heat the pan, place some butter, let it melt then add 1 big spoon of mixed, let it cook at medium heat on both sides.
It can be great served at breakfast with apricot gem, and fresh oranges or orange juice.
If you like it more sweet top with whipped cream.

Cheese, Bacon Polenta

2010-01-15T14:18:00.001-08:00

Ingredients
polenta (see recipe on the blog)
mozzarella cheese
turkey bacon
Preparation
Heat a pan with 2 Tbl oil, place one layer of polenta, one layer gratin cheese, sliced bacon , then repeat 2 more layers. Place in hot over , at a heat of 375 F for 15 minutes, until the cheese on the top is crispy and melted. It can be serve with sour cream, or as it is next to baked drumsticks.

Fruit Salad

2010-01-15T14:10:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
1 orange
1 cup papaya cubes
raisins
1 Asian pear
2 Tble orange juice
1 tsp honey
Preparation
Cut the fruits in bite size, mix the orange juice with the honey stir to dissolve then pour over the fruits and at the end add raisins.

Beet Salad Grand Marnier

2010-01-13T18:57:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
1 can beets
2 tsp sugar
4 Tbl lemon juice
1 Tbl olive oil
1 pinch paprika
1 pinch cumin
pepper
salt
fresh parsley
1 Tbl Grand Marnier
Preparation
Diced the beets into bites size cubes, mixed all remaining ingredients and pour over the beets, toss and place in fridge for 30 minutes before serving.

Liqueur Coffee

2010-01-13T18:43:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
1/4 orange liqueur
1 oz brandy
1 cup hot coffee
sugar for taste
whipped cream.
Preparation
Heat the alcohol, then pour in the hot coffee, sugar, stir, add the whipped cream then serve.

Cream French Toast with Fruits

2010-01-13T18:20:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
3 eggs
1 Tb milk
vanilla extract
2 tsp cinnamon
1 small pinch salt
6 slice bread (white or whole wheat)
whipped cream
berries ( strawberries, blueberries, blackberries)
butter to cook the bread in
Preparation
Mixed the eggs, add the milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon and salt. Place the bread in the mixed then in a hot pan with butter let the bread cook, on both sides. Serve with whipped cream and fruits.

Spinach-Egg Salad/ Salata cu Spanac si Oua

2009-10-30T09:04:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 lb baby spinach
2 hard boiled eggs
5 ea walnuts
1 pomegranate
3 tbl balsamic vinaigrette
1 tbl honey
salt and pepper for taste
Preparation
Wash the spinach leaves, place them in a bowl, add the slices boiled eggs,walnuts and pomegranate seeds.
In a cup mixed the balsamic vinaigrette with honey, then add over the spinach bowl.Add salt and pepper as desired.

Potatoe Spinach Caserrole

2009-10-30T09:03:00.001-07:00

Ingredients
6 big white potatoes
2 pounds frozen spinach
2 egg yolks
2 big spoons
sour cream
1 Tbl butter
Preparation
Wash the potatoes and boil in skin. Saute the spinach in butter. In an oven bowl covered in butter place the potatoes cut round pieces, one layer potatoes then spinach, repeat the layers, and on top place the egg yolks mixed with sour cream salt and pepper. Place the bowl in the heat oven, and let it cook until its gets crispy on top. Serve warm with sour cream.

Octopus

2009-10-26T19:49:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 medium octopus
1 onion
2 tomatoes
2 tbs oil
salt and pepper for taste
Preparation
Boil the octopus for 40 minutes, then cut in small pieces. In hot oil pan place the octopus add the round cut onions and small diced tomatoes, salt and pepper and let it cook for 20 minutes.
Serve with white corn meal. (See recipe for Sima-Kenyan Dishes)

Cardamon Hot Chocolate

2009-10-10T19:32:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
3 cups milk
2 cardamon pods, bruised
7 oz plain semisweet chocolate
Preparation
Bring the milk with cardamon to a boil, add the chocolate and whisk until melted.
Remove the cardamon pods. Pour hot chocolate in mugs and serve as it is or serve with whipped cream.

Pear and Gournay Cheese Salad

2009-10-10T19:20:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 ripe pears
4 oz gournay cheese
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp olive oil
salt for taste
Preparation
After you cut the pears into quarters and remove the cores, thinly slice each pear and arrange on the serving latter. Place cheese over the pears, mix the oil and vinegar and drizzle over the pears. Season with salt and serve.

Moroccan Carrot Salad

2009-10-10T19:12:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 lb carrots
2 oranges, juiced
1 lime, juiced
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp ground cumin
salt
pepper
Preparation
Peel and grate into find shreds the carrots.
Dressing: Combine the orange and lime juice with olive oil,cumin,salt and pepper.
Pour the dressing over the carrots, and refrigerate for 2 hours then serve.

Bolognese Meat Sauce with White Wine

2009-10-08T13:51:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 tbsp vegetable oil
3 tbsp butter
½ cup chopped onion
2/3 chopped celery
2/3 chopped carrot
¾ lb ground beef
salt
black pepper
¼ heavy cream
1 cup dry white wine
1 cup diced tomatoes
Preaparation
Put the oil, butter and chopped onion in a pot, cook and stir the onion until it becomes translucent, then add the celery and carrot.
Add the ground beef, salt, pepper, stir well until its change the color.
Add the heavy cream and let it simmer slowly, then add the wine and let it simmer until it has evaporated, then add the tomatoes and stir thoroughly to coat all ingredients.This sauce is great to be serve with 1 ½ pasta, and serve with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.

Steamed Fish Fillets with Black Bean Sauce

2009-10-03T19:30:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 lb fish fillet
1 tbl vegetable oil
1 onion
salt
black pepper
2 tbl lime juice
1 lb boiled beans
2 tbl soy sauce
1 tsp minced garlic
Preparation
Fill a large saucepan with water, then set a bamboo steamer basket over the saucepan. Place the fillets in one layer in the steamer with the round sliced onion, add salt, pepper and lime juice. Let it cook until the fillets are all the way cooked. Heat oil, add garlic, soy sauce and black beans cook and stir, then pour over the fillets. It can be serve over rice sprinkle with scallions.

Egg Drop Soup

2009-10-02T19:28:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 cups chicken stock
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp dry sherry
1 tbsp water
1 tbsp cornstarch
2 eggs
2 green onions
2 tsp dark sesame oil
Preparation
Combine broth, soy sauce, sherry in a saucepan and let it boil. Mix water with cornstarch in a separate bowl, then add it to the soup, simmer for 3 minutes then, add the well beaten eggs and later green beans. Before servind add in the sesame oil.

Tandoori Shrimp

2009-10-02T19:14:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 lb shrimp
1 1/2 tbsp cumin
6 tbsp peeled and minced ginger root
6 tbsp minced garlic
6 tbsp all -purpose flour
2 tbsp paprika
1 tsp salt 1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp ground turmeric
1 cup fresh lemon juice
2 cups plain yogurt
2 tbsp vegetal oil
Preparation
In a bowl mix the ginger, cumin, garlic, flour, paprika, turmeric, lemon juice then yogurt. Add the shrimp mix, and refrigerate the shrimp in marinade for 2 hours.
Saute the shrimp until change color in pink then turn on the other side. When ready sprinkle over the rest of the cumin seeds.
It can be serve with rice and lemon wedge for extra juice.

Duck and Kale Soup

2009-10-02T19:07:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 medium onion, diced
1 clove garlic, diced
1 bunch kale
1 3/4 cups chicken broth
1/2 duck breast, cooked and sliced
1/3 cup heavy cream
salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 oz brie cheese
Preparation
Heat the oil and saute the onion and garlic for 2 minutes. Stir in the kale and heat for 2 more minutes. Pour in the broth and add the duck and cream. Bring to a boil then reduce the heat and simmer gently for 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a blender and puree, return to the heat and add salt and pepper, stir in the cheese over the heat and melt then its ready to serve.

Fan Tailed Chinese Shrimp with Cabbage

2009-09-30T21:30:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
makes 2 servings
1 Tbl seasoned rice vinegar
1 Tbl soy sauce
1 tsp minced garlic
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 # shrimp with tails on
1 tsp lime juice
1 medium cabbage
oil for saute
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
Combine vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes in a bowl.
Peel and devein the shrimp.
Add shrimp to the marinade and refrigerate for 1 hour. Shred the cabbage.
Cook shrimp over medium heat, turning once, add the lime juice. Then add the cabbage, and season with salt and pepper.
Stir a few times, when shrimp change color and the cabbage is soften, it can be served.

Walnut Cake- Chec cu Nuci

2009-09-27T17:54:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 lemon zest
3 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 1/2 cups walnuts, chopped
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease the pan.
Cream the melted butter and sugar. Add the eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each. Add the milk, lemon zest, and vanilla, and mix thoroughly.
Mix the flour, baking powder, and walnuts. Mix this with the wet ingredients.
Bake about 1 hour, until a stick comes out clean.
Optional- after the loaves are cool, dust with powder sugar.

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

2009-09-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
25 perfectly ripened strawberries, green caps intact
5 oz sweet dark/white chocolate chips.
Preparation
Place chocolate chips in a bowl, then microwave it on defrost. This will melt the chocolate. When you dipped the strawberries, shake it when you take it out from chocolate, this will leave an even line of chocolate at the base. Cool covered strawberries on a sheet pan with wax paper. Try to dip them the same day you serve them.

Tomato Juice

2009-09-27T17:34:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
10 large tomatoes - seeded & sliced
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
1 1/4 cups chopped celery with leaves
2 Tbsp sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Preparation
Place tomatoes in crockpot. Bring to a simmer and cook, uncovered, until mixture is completely soupy, about 25 minutes.Press tomato mixture through a sieve. Add seasonings and chill.

How To Make A Really Good Milkshake

2009-09-20T15:24:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 cup whole milk
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
3 spoons blackberry jam
Directions
Place the milk and jam in a blender or mixer, mix then add the ice cream and mix a little bit more. Serves 2.

Banana Bread/ Paine de Banane

2009-09-04T18:39:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 cup mashed bananas
2 eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup almonds
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch salt
1 tsp lemon juice

Preparation
Preheat oven at 350F.
In a bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and almonds. Separately mixed mashed bananas, eggs, lemon juice and sugar then pour over the dry ingredients mix.
Coat the baking pan with butter and flour, place the mixture and bake for 50 minutes.
Let it cool down, slice and serve.

Romania

2009-09-04T10:35:00.000-07:00

Romania is a country located in Southeastern and Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory. It shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.

The territory's recorded history includes periods of rule by Dacians, the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. As a nation-state, the country was formed by the merging of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 and it gained recognition of its independence in 1878. Later, in 1918, they were joined by Transylvania, Bukovina, and Bassarabia. At the end of World War II, parts of its territories (roughly the present day Moldova ) were occupied by the USSR and Romania became a member of the Warsaw Pact. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, (December 1989 - a very violent fall of communism: national revolution and shooting the communist leader and his wife on Christmas day... we might not be vampires, but we surely are cruel) Romania started a series of political and economic reforms. After a decade of post-revolution economic problems, Romania made economic reforms such as low flat tax rates in 2005 and joined the European Union in January 1, 2007. While Romania's income level remains one of the lowest in the European Union, reforms have increased the growth speed. Romania is now an upper-middle income country economy.

Romania has the 9th largest territory and the 7th largest population (with 21.5 million people) among the European Union member states. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest (before the XXII, Bucharest was famous for being "the little Paris"), the 6th largest city in the EU with 1.9 million people. In 2007, Sibiu, a city in Transylvania, was chosen as a European Capital of Culture. Romania also joined NATO on March 29, 2004, and is also a member of Latin Union, of the Francophon of the OSCE and an associate member of the CPLP. Romania is a semi-presidential unitary state.

Famous Romanians: -just a few famous names
Literature: Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, Tristan Tzara (the founder of dadaism, which comes from the Romanian "da-da", meaning "yes-yes"), Eugene Ionesco
Art: Constantin Brancusi (sculptor), George Enescu (musician, check for "Ciocarlia"), Gheorghe Zamfir (musician, check the Kill Bill Soundtrack), Johnny Weismuller (actor, the famous Tarzan), Bela Lugosi (Romanian actor of Hungarian ethnicity, the famous Dracula), Alexandra Maria Lara (actress), Marcel Iures (actor), Michael Cretu (singer, band Enigma), Harvey Keitel (Dracula- half Romanian
Sports: Nadia Comaneci, Gheorghe Hagi, Ghita Muresan (the huge guy from "My Giant"), Helmuth Duckadam
Science: Nicolae Paulescu (the inventor of insulin), Henri Coanda (the inventor of the jet plane), Stefan Odobleja (the father of cybernetics).

Herman Oberth born in Transylvania- Romania was a great physicist, along with Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and American Robert H. Goddard, was one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.

Linguists - Even surrounded by all those Slavonic countries, Romanians share the same religion with them, but not the same language origins. Romania is the only Latin Orthodox country, but is not 100% Latin, are still some Slavonic mixed in Romanian language.

Touristic Atractions

Dracula and Transylvania, The Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, the unique Maramures architecture, the unique style of the Bucovina medieval monasteries, the medieval looks of Transylvania, the Danube Delta, the Iron Gates on the Danube, gold and silver in Apuseni, muddy volcanoes and soooo on...

Nature
Romania is 33% mountains (lovely Carpathians), 33% hills, 33% plain lands. Also the Danube Delta and the Black Sea.

Architects
The Brancovenesc style and the Maramures style. Check the normal Romanian churches (Brancovenesc style) and the Northern Transylvanian churches & gates (Maramures). Also the Bucovina monasteries.

Vegetable Beef Stew/ Tocana de Legume si Vita

2009-08-30T10:57:00.001-07:00

Ingredients
1lb beef
2 carrots
1 onion
1 bell pepper
2 potatoes
1 1/2 cup water
oil
salt
pepper
Preparation
Saute the onion with oil, add the pieces of beef, stir for 2 minutes to melt any fat, then add chopped bell pepper, carrots and potatoes, salt, pepper to taste, cover with water. Keep it at medium heat, until the potatoes are cooked. If needed add more water.

Carrots Saute/ Saute de Morcovi

2009-08-30T10:47:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 lb carrots, cut round pieces
1 head garlic cloves
1/2 tsp sugar
1 cup water
salt
oil
Preparation
On a pan, heat the oil, add the minced garlic, salt, after 2 minutes add the carrots, then the water.
Let it cook until the carrots are softened. Serve hot next to mash potatoes and steak.

Meat Balls Appetizer/ Aperitiv Chiftelute

2009-08-22T18:35:00.001-07:00

Ingredients
1 lb ground meat
1 egg
1 potatoe grated
1 slice bread
2 garlic cloves crashed
salt and pepper to taste
1 sprig thyme
oil to fry
Preparation
Place the ground meat in a bowl, add the egg, grated potato, the slice of bread that was presoaked in milk or water, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper. Mixed everything together. Make small balls by hand, then place in hot oil for 2 minutes. Are great to be serve as appetizer on a plater, next to cheese stick, and celery stick.

Steamed Fish with Bell Peppers/ Peste Inabusit, cu Ardei Gras

2009-08-22T18:22:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 Tilapia Fillet
2 green bell pepper
1 red onion
1/2 tsp minced garlic
olive oil
1 lime juice
salt and pepper for taste
Preparation
Heat the olive oil in a pan, add the onion, bell peppers everything cut in long, minced garlic, salt pepper and a part of the lime juice. Saute until the onion is translucent, then place the fish on top, season with salt , pepper, lime. Cover the pan and let it cooked at low temperature for 15 minutes.
Makes an easy to cook dish.

Avocado with Sourcream/ Avocado cu Smantana

2009-08-16T10:32:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 avocado
2 tsp sour cream
minced garlic cloves
1 slice lemon salt for taste
Preparation
Cut the avocado in half, take out the seed, cut in cubes the avocado and place in a bowl, add the lemon, salt, sour cream and garlic, mixed everything until it becomes a paste. Serve on toast bread as appetizer.

Pluot Juice/ Suc de Prune Pluot

2009-08-16T10:05:00.000-07:00

A pluot is a tradename for varieties of interspecific plum. It is a complex cross hybrid of plum and apricot, exhibiting more plum-like traits. The fruit's exterior with smooth skin closely resembles a plum's. Pluots are noted for their sweetness, their intense flavor, and very juicy pulp. Pluots are also rich in vitamin A. So very healthy for you. Puree 1 lb of pluot in a blender, and serve the juice as it is. You do not need to add any sugar since is very high in sugar content, and the vitamin A will help your eyes health.

Orange Shrimp/ Creveti cu Potocale

2009-08-16T09:53:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 lb shrimp
1 orange
2 Tbl olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, when hot add the shrimp until change color, add the orange juice, salt and pepper to taste, and let it there for 7-8 minutes. Then serve hot.

Kidney Bean and Avocado Salad/ Salata cu Fasole Rosie si Avocado

2009-08-14T20:32:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 can kidney beans
1 red onion
1 avocado
1 tsp olive oil
salt and pepper for taste
Preparation
Cut the onion round, the avocado in cubes, add the beans, sprinkle with olive oil, salt and pepper. White onion can be also used, and if you love tomatoes, you can add 1 tomato cut in cubes.
Its a delicious and fast snack

Ham, Raisins and Oranges Appetizer/ Aperitiv cu Sunca, Stafide si Portocale

2009-08-14T20:23:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 slices ham
1/2 cup raisins
1 orange
2 Tbs butter
Preparation
Boil the raisins in a little water for about 3 minutes. Drain off water. Put the raw ham, orange peeled and quartered, and butter a frying pan and add the raisins. Let cook for about 6 minutes, add salt and pepper to taste. Then serve.

Polenta with Corn Kernels and Scallions/ Mamaliga cu Porumb si Ceapa Verde

2009-08-12T10:55:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 cup corn kernels
1 Tbs olive oil
½ finely chopped scallions
½ yellow corn meal
1 cup chicken stock
Preparation
Heat the oil, add the corn and onion, after 1 minute add the chicken stock, when it starts boiling pour slowly the cornmeal, same as when you cook polenta, stir for a few minutes. Serve hot next to fish.

Orange Rice/ Orez cu Portocala

2009-08-09T14:51:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup diced celery with leaves
1 tablespoons chopped onion
1 cups water
1/2 cup orange juice
1 tablespoons finely grated orange peel
1 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon dried leaf thyme
1 cup uncooked long-grain rice
Preparation
Melt butter in heavy saucepan; add celery and onion. Cook until onion is tender but not brown. Add water, orange juice, orange peel, salt, and thyme. Bring to a boil; slowly stir in rice. Cover and reduce heat to low; simmer for 25 minutes.

Celery And Cheese Appetizer/ Aperitiv cu Telina Tulpina si Branza

2009-08-08T14:57:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
2 stalks celery
1 cup Swiss cheese
Preparation
Wash, peel, cut off the celery leaves, and boil in salted water for 20 minutes. Drain the water then cut celery stalks in halves and place in a small baking pan. Grate the cheese and place over the celery. Bake in hot oven for about 6 minutes, or until cheese has browned on top, then serve.

Plum Clafouti /Tarta cu Prune Plum

2009-08-08T14:39:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
6 tablespoons white sugar, divided
14 plums, halved and pitted
3 eggs
1 cups milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Butter a 10 inch pie plate, and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar over the bottom. Arrange the plum halves, cut side down, so that they cover the entire bottom of the pie plate. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of sugar over the top of the plums. In a blender, combine the remaining 3 tablespoons of sugar, eggs, milk, flour, lemon zest, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt. Process until smooth, about 2 minutes. Pour over the fruit in the pan.
Bake for 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm and lightly browned. Let stand 5 minutes before slicing.

Sima- African White Cornmeal Mush/ Mamaliga cu Faina de Malai Alba

2009-08-08T10:48:00.000-07:00

Sima also sometimes called Ugali is a component of many African meals, especially in southern and East Africa. It is generally made from ground maize flour and water, and varies in consistency from porridge to a dough.
The traditional method of eating sima is to roll a lump into a ball with the right hand and then dip it into a sauce or stew of vegetables and/or meat.
Sima is an important part of the diet of millions of Africans, its similar to polenta from Europe.

Makes 2-4 servings
Ingredients
2 cups water
1 cup white cornmeal
Preparation
Bring the water and salt to a boil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Stir in the cornmeal slowly. Reduce heat to medium-low and continue stirring, until the mush pulls away from the sides of the pot and becomes thick. Place it on a bowl in the middle of the table so guest can serve themselves. Is it good next to fish, roasted meat or stews.

Pan-Fried Tilapia served with Cantaloupe Salsa/Peste Tilapia Prajit servit cu Salata de Pepene Galben

2009-08-08T10:33:00.000-07:00

Makes 4 servings

Pan-Fried Tilapia/Peste Tilapia Prajit
Ingredients
4-6 Tilapia fillets
3 Tbls flour
4 Tbls peanut oil
4 Tbls butter
1 lemon juiced
1 Tbls finely chopped parsley
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
Season Tilapia with salt and pepper. Dust portions lightly with flour. Cook the fish in peanut oil until they are nicely browned and cooked all the way through (about 2-3 minutes per side). Whisk to blend lemon juice, butter and parsley, pour over oil drain Tilapia and serve.

Cantaloupe Salsa/Salata de Pepene Galben
Ingredients
½ cantaloupe
¾ cup finely diced bell pepper
¼ cup finely chopped parsley
3 Tbl finely chopped scallions
1 lemon juice
1 pch salt
1 pch hot pepper flakes
Preparation
Remove seeds and rind from cantaloupe. Chop cantaloupe into very small dice. Put in bowl. Add diced bell pepper, parsley, scallions and lemon juice. Stir. Add pinch of salt and pepper flakes. Chill. Serve with grilled chicken or fish.

Agua Fresca de Melón-Mexican Fresh Fruit Beverage/ Suc de Pepene Rosu

2009-08-08T10:12:00.000-07:00

Makes about 2 quarts
Ingredients
3 cups fresh watermelon chopped coarsely
7 cups water
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup lime juice
Preparation
Add the melon and 2-3 cups of the water to a blender and puree until smooth. Strain through a sieve into a large pitcher. Add the rest of water, 1/2 cup of sugar and lime. Stir well and add more water and sugar as needed. Serve well chilled over ice cubes.

Atole-Mexican warm cornmeal beverage/ Bautura Mexicana cu Faina de Malai

2009-08-08T10:05:00.000-07:00

2 servings
Ingredients
1 ½ cup milk
1 cup water
¼ cup yellow cornmeal
3 T Brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
Preparation
Whisk the milk, water, yellow cornmeal, sugar and cinnamon in a large saucepan until smooth. Place the saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to medium-low and continue to stir until thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in the vanilla and serve hot in mugs. You can make it thicker by adding more corn flour, in that way it can be ate using a teaspoon.

Cantaloupe and Avocado Salad/ Salata cu pepene galben si avocado

2009-08-08T08:52:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 cantaloupe seeded, peeled and cut into chunks
2 med avocados peeled, and cut into chunks
2 tbsp lemon juice
½ cup slivered toasted almonds or peanuts
2 tbl melted butter
1 head lettuce
Dressing
6tbl lemon juice
1/2tsp white pepper
6tbl lime juice
1/2tsp ground ginger
Preparation
Combine cantaloupe, and avocado in a bowl. Sprinkle with lemon juice, and refrigerate for one hour. Place ingredients for dressing in a bowl, and whisk together. To toast peanuts, drizzle with two tablespoons melted butter and bake at 325F degrees for 15 minutes. Tear lettuce into large, bite-size pieces, and line serving bowl. Spoon fruit into center. Pour dressing over fruit, and sprinkle with almonds. Very refreshing salad during the summer.

Strawberries Mousse/ Spuma de Capsuni

2009-08-05T10:38:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 pound strawberries
3 egg whites
3 Tbsp sugar
Preparation
Beat the white eggs, until it becomes foamy, add the sugar, and beat for 5 more minutes, until its a solid foam that stay on a spoon. Add the mashed strawberries, by turning the spoon. Place in glasses, refrigerate for 30 minutes then serve decorating the glass with a fresh strawberry sliced, or a hole strawberry if are small.

Corn and Tomato Salsa/ Salata de Porumb si Rosii

2009-08-04T21:37:00.000-07:00

Serves 4
Ingredients
¾ cup corn
½ red onion
1 green onion
2 ripe tomatoes
½ cucumber
4 radishes
1 Tbsp basil
1 lime juice
black pepper to taste
Preparation
Mix all ingredients together, corn the finely chopped red onion, green onion, tomatoes, cucumber chopped, radishes sliced, coarsely shredded basil, lime juice and pepper. Let stand at room temperature for at least one hour before serving.

Beef tongue with tomato sauce/ Nyelv Paradicsom Martassal/ Limba de Vaca cu Sos de Rosii

2009-08-02T09:21:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 lbs beef tongue
enough water to cover tongue
salt to taste
1 onion
1 stalk celery with leaves
4 bay leaves
1 tsp peppercorns
Tomato Sauce
4 cans crashed tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
1/2 cup water, or as needed
1/4 tsp thyme
Preparation
Add tongue to pot and cover with water. Simmer few hours or until tongue is tender when pierced with fork. Remove and cool on platter. Cut tongue in 1/4 inch slices and lay in a skillet on the side. Mix and simmer 20 minutes with the rest of ingredients, when cooked add the tomato sauce, serve with dumplings.

Cantaloupe Jam with Lime and Ginger/ Dulceata de Pepene Galben cu Lime si Ghimbir

2009-08-01T17:21:00.000-07:00

To make 2-3 -cup jars you'll need:
Ingredients
2 melons, peeled, seeded
2 oz ginger sliced very thin
1 lime
10 oz sugar
Preparation
Dice the melons. Next, add the thin sliced ginger, lime peel and juice. Add the sugar, mixed a little bit and leave it stay for 2 hours. During this time the cantaloupe will leave lot of juice. Then place it on low heat for 5 minutes, until the sugar its dissolved, then on high heat for 15 minutes, until the foam disappear. Low the heat and leave it boil for another 1 hour, mix from time to time. Place a glass jar in the heat oven, leave it there for 30 minutes then add the jam in it, close with a cap, place the jar upside down for 5 minutes, then turn and let it cool down. Keep over winter in a cool place.

Lettuce Salad with Tomatoes/ Salata Verde cu Rosii

2009-08-01T17:17:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
lettuce, chopped
green onions chopped
tomatoes, sliced
balsamic vinegar
olive oil
Preparation
Combine all ingredients and top with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. It can be served as it is a refreshing salad or with roast meat.

Marinated Grilled Tilapia/ Peste Tilapia Marinat, gatit pe Grill

2009-08-01T16:33:00.000-07:00

4 Tilapia fillets

MARINADE
¾ c. olive oil
½ lemon, juiced
1 Tbls. oregano
½ tsp. black pepper
¼ c. balsamic vinegar
½ c. finely chopped parsley
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 dashes Tabasco

Combine all ingredients, except fillets, in a large jar and shake well. Marinate fish in the marinade for 30 minutes. Remove fillets from marinade. Place fillets on hot grill elevated above coals. Cook 2-3 minutes per side. Serve with tomato salsa and sima, garnish with a thin lemon slice. Makes 4 servings.

Carrot, Apple and Cucumber Juice/ Suc de Morcovi, Mere si Castravete

2009-08-01T16:13:00.000-07:00

Serves 2
Ingredients
2 apples
2 carrots
1 cucumber
Preparation
Wash everything well. Chop the unpeeled, cored apple, and the peeled carrot and cucumber. Place everything in a blender and process. This juice is packed with antioxidants and soluble fiber. The cucumber and carrot help relieve fluid retention.

Fresh Fruit Muesli Breakfast/ Mic Dejun cu Fructe Proaspete si Cereale

2009-07-28T10:02:00.000-07:00

Serves 2
Ingredients
8 oz fresh fruit (honey dew and apple)
2 Tbsp oatmeal flakes, presoaked
2 Tbsp water
raisins
Preparation
Wash the fresh fruit and chop or slice. Mix the oatmeal flakes with water for 1 minute, then add over the fruits as well as the raisins.

Detox Essentials Tips
Daily
*Drink a glass of hot water with squeezed lemon juice, in the morning before eating.
*Eat dried fruits as snacks
*Eat a clove of garlic in your food
*Eat minimum 3 meals a day
*Drink a cup of hot water with a teaspoon of honey

Very important don't skip breakfast!!! If you miss it you might feel tired and you cannot concentrate. Breakfast starts your metabolism working, so feed it with a combinations of antioxidant vitamins, and protein.

Potatoes with Onions/ Cartofi Rantaliti

2009-07-28T09:48:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
2 pounds potatoes
1 medium onion
2 Tbls oil
1 Tbls paprika
salt for taste
parsley optional
Preparation
Boil the potatoes, peel and grind big. Saute the onion in oil, when its all clear add paprika , the potatoes and salt for taste. Are great to be served with pickles next to steak or pork dish.

Strawberry Honey Salad / Salata de Capsuni

2009-07-28T09:38:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
Salad
1/2 Head of lettuce
1/2 cucumber
1/4 cup green onions
1/3 cup strawberries
Dressing
- 2 Tbls liquid honey
- 1 Tbls vegetable oil
- 1 Tbls balsamic vinegar
Preparation
Cut the lettuce, slice thin the cucumber, onion and strawberries. Mix well the honey with vegetables oil and balsamic vinegar. Add dressing over salad only when its served.

Crepes / Clatite

2009-07-28T09:24:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 cup all purpose flour
2 eggs
1 Tbls sugar
1 cup milk
vanilla extract
orange pill skin
oil
Preparation
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, vanilla extract, sugar, orange pill. Gradually add in the flour and milk stirring to combine. Heat the pan, add 1 teaspoon oil at every second crepes, use a spatula to turn the crepes on the other side. Serve hot fill with fruit jam, especial apricot or peach.

Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce / Spaghete cu Sos de Rosii

2009-07-26T16:51:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
pasta - spaghetti
2 pounds meat (all sorts of left over meats: sausages, salami, chicken breast)
1 white onion
1 green pepper
5 shiitake mushroom
2 garlic cloves minced
6 tomatoes
chicken broth
1 tsp Tabasco hot sauce
oil, salt, pepper, oregano
Preparation
Saute the onion in oil, add green pepper, mushrooms, garlic when cooked add the meat cut in cubes leave to cook for 3 minutes then add the tomatoes, oregano, Tabasco sauce. Let it cooked until the tomatoes get smoother then add the broth , salt pepper and let cook for 15 minutes.
Serve over boiled pasta.

Cantaloupe Smoothie

2009-07-26T16:42:00.000-07:00

Makes 1 cup of low fat vitamin-rich drink
Ingredients
½ cantaloupe
1 banana
1/3 cup fresh orange juice
¼ plain nonfat yogurt
1 Tbl oatmeal flakes
Preparation
Peel and cut into chunks the cantaloupe and banana.
In a blender, combine the cantaloupe, banana, orange juice, yogurt and the presoaked oatmeal flakes. Blend until smooth, about 20 seconds.

Fish Steamed in Soy Sauce/ Peste Innabusit cu Sos de Soia

2009-07-25T16:10:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4-6 Tilapia fillets
1 tsp chopped ginger root
shiitake mushrooms
1 tsp chili pepper
1 Tbls chopped green onion
1 tsp garlic
vegetable oil
soy sauce
broth
Preparation
Chop the mushrooms into thin slices. Finely chop the ginger, slice the green onion garlic and chili pepper.
Sprinkle chopped ginger and mushroom on fish and cook in steamer for 20 minutes.
After its been cooked top the fish with the steamed chopped mushroom, chili pepper, green onion and garlic.
Bring to a boil vegetable oil, soy sauce, and broth. Pour onto fish and serve with rice.

Detox your body

2009-07-21T09:19:00.000-07:00

A few things to choose from that will help detoxify:
Breakfast
* One boiled or poached egg with one slice of whole-wheat bread
*Homemade muesli with live yogurt or apple juice
*Live yogurt sprinkle with ground seeds, and fruits as berries, apple, pear, papaya or pineapple
Snacks
*Fresh fruit
*Half an avocado
*Rice with banana
Lunch
*Oily fish with green salad
*Organic poultry with green salad
*Grains with stir-fried vegetables as tomatoes, bell peppers, broccoli, carrots.
Dinner
*Baked potato - no more then 3 times a week
*Grains with steamed vegetables which are all rich in antioxidants and plant nutrients (tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, bell peppers)
Dessert
*Berries with live yogurt
*Papaya or pineapple with yogurt
*Baked apple or pear
Things to do
Cut down on caffeine, alcohol, carbohydrates.
Eat more fruits and vegetables.
Drink more water.
Start exercising.
Keep a food diary.

Cabbage à la Cluj/ Varza à la Cluj

2009-07-20T20:09:00.000-07:00

Varza à la Cluj is a Transylvania style cabbage dish, almost as popular as stuffed cabbage, similar in taste but faster to be cooked.
Ingredients
1 sauerkraut or fresh cabbage
1 onion
2 pounds minced pork meat
4 Tbs grease or oil
1 cup sour cream
½ cup rice
salt
black pepper
dill
Preparation
Saute the onion in the grease, add the meat, salt, black pepper, from time to time add a spoon of water, this it will smother it down. Separately saute the chopped cabbage, add some salt and black pepper. Boil the rice in salty water. Coat the pot walls with grease (or oil), then create layers of cabbage, rice, meat and sour cream. Repeat this until all the ingredients are over and make sure you put a last layer of sour cream and dill on top of everything. Bake in oven 350 F for 35 minutes.

Balance your blood sugars and release energy

2009-07-20T20:03:00.000-07:00

A great breakfast that balance your blood sugars and gives you energy.
Ingredients
1 lowfat yogurt
1 tsp honey
1 banana
1 tsp sunflower seeds
1 Tbs muesli
Preparation
Slices the banana and mix together all the ingredients, the banana will maintain fluid levels and correct balance of acid to alkaline.

Watermelon Rind Pickles

2009-07-20T19:52:00.000-07:00

The watermelon rind is not a waste, make pickles from it very easy recipes not more then 15 minutes in preparation. Ingredients
4 quarts prepared watermelon rind
2 Tbs salt
4 cups white vinegar
8 cups sugar
3 cinnamon sticks, broken
1 Tbs whole cloves
Preparation
Cut rind into 2 inch pieces, trim green skin and pink flesh from rind, after all that done place the rind in a large pot, add the salt and enough water to cover. Simmer until its tender then drain and chill rind overnight in refrigerator. Boil for 5 minutes the vinegar, sugar, cinnamon and cloves, then add the drain rind to the syrup just made. Simmer for 10 minutes, and remove the spices. Will be easy if you use a cheesecloth, but you and discard the spices with a spoon also. Have ready some hot sterilized quart jars, in what you pack the rind with the syrup, leave some space, close the lids then put the jar in boiling water bath for about 20 minutes.If you want stronger flavor you can add 1-inch piece ginger root to the spices and process in same way. I like to decorate the jar with some of the spices that were used. Excellent served with a pork dish, tuna or grilled salmon.

Fried Chicken Gizzards

2009-07-20T19:39:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 1/2 lbs chicken gizzards
1/3 cup butter
salt and fresh pepper - to taste
Preparation
Place gizzards in a saucepan, cover with water. Bring to a boil over medium heat,cover, and cook for 1 1/2 hours. When cooked add the gizzards in a pan where you melted the butter, and fry for 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Great served with polenta, or rice.
Makes an easy and fast dish.

Watermelon Party Basket

2009-07-19T09:31:00.000-07:00

Watermelon basket for an elegant but easy edible party decoration or centerpiece. It can be used to serve fresh fruits or vegetables salads.

Its very easy and fast to create: just select a watermelon with a flattish bottom so it will not easily roll, a big sharp knife to cut the watermelon and a small one to design the models. Cut the watermelon in half, scoop out the red part, you can use the ice cream scoop, to give nice round shapes, use the small sharp knife to design the edges. Mix the round watermelon balls with different other fruits and fill it with your favorite fruit salad recipe.

If you have more time, you can use your imagination to create a watermelon basket with handle in different shapes. Use any watermelon, red, yellow, green, the more color full the nicer it will look.

Carrots Vichy

2009-07-14T10:02:00.000-07:00

2 Servings
Ingredients
½ pound carrots
2 cups soda water
1 ½ tbsp butter
¾ tsp sugar
2 tsp fresh parsley
Preparation
Peel and slice the carrots.
Chop the parsley.
Place the carrots and soda water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook until the carrots are just beginning to soften (5 minutes). Drain. Melt the butter in a skillet over med-high heat. If you consider the carrots are not sweet enough add the sugar over the carrots. Cook, stirring frequently, until the carrots are soft. Garnish with the parsley.

Vegetable Mixed

2009-07-07T20:19:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
150 gr potatoes
150 gr cabbage
150 gr bread
150 gr cauliflower
50 gr spinach
1/2 carrot
3 eggs
150 gr cheese
1 onion
fresh chopped parsley
pepper
salt
oil
white flour
bread crumbs
Preparation
Boil all vegetables and drain well. Saute the onion and drain as well. Soak and squeeze the bread in a bit of milk. Mince all of the above and mix well. Add scraped cheese, pepper, eggs, and parsley. Make balls, flatten them and roll them through flour and bread crumbs. Fry in a bit of oil. Serve as appetizer, are delicious served with sour-cream on top and garnish with parsley.

Poached Eggs

2009-07-07T13:53:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 liter water
50 ml vinegar
1 tsp salt
6 eggs
Preparation
Boil the water with the vinegar and salt. Break the eggs direct in the boiling water, but do not mixed the eggs. After 3 minutes take out the eggs. Serve on toast bread and maybe bacon. Very easy simple eggs for a nice breakfast, and much healthier for you, then frying the eggs in oil.

Natural Ways to Take Care of Your Skin

2009-07-06T11:43:00.000-07:00

Sunblock
One of the easiest ways to stay fair is to use sunblock on a daily basis. Find a moisturizer that includes an SPF of 20 or higher and use it every morning after washing your face. Sunblock not only prevents your skin from getting darker, but also blocks harmful UV rays that can cause cancer and premature aging. Remember your hands when applying sunblock, as they are a prime area for age spots.
Exfoliate
Exfoliating once a week will remove dead skin cells to lighten and brighten your skin. You can create a home made exfoliating paste, you do not need to buy the expensive ones to get the best results. Mix two tablespoons oatmeal and two tablespoons brown sugar with a quarter cup of milk, and stir until a paste forms. Gently scrub your face, rinse, and moisturize.
Mask
To have a great skin is not enough just to use make up removers every evening and use moisturize, you need to feed your skin, once a week you should use a mask depending on your skin type. If you don't have any mask from the store, just open your fridge. You will be surprise how many ingredients you have in your home that are ready to be used as masks to feed your skin.
Before applying the mask:
-put your hair back
-clean your face very well with make up remover
-put the mask over your faces be careful around the eyes, and lips, you don't want to use the mask to close to the eyes or over the lips.
-try to not move your face while you have the mask on, try to just relax, no talking after you remove the mask try to not use any make up removers or any lotion on our face, for a few hours. The mask should be used once a week or at least once a month, depends on your skin needs.
A homemade mask is a great way to lighten your skin and a good excuse to kick back on the couch. Try using one once a week. Use one tablespoon of each of the following: sandalwood paste, lemon juice, tomato juice, and cucumber juice. Mix them all together to form a paste. Spread the mixture on your face and wait until it dries. Rinse and moisturize for a natural glow.
To reduce pores squeeze the juice from and half apple, 1 teaspoon honey, mixed together and apply over your face for 20 minutes, this will reduce the appearance of big pores, make sure you rinse with plenty of cold water. Hydrate your faces with different masks.
Orange mask
2 teaspoon lemon fresh squeeze juice 1 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon powder milk vitamin E liquid. Mixed everything and apply gently over the face. You will get the benefits of vitamins and make your skin look thinner.
Honey and Milk Mask
Mixed 2 spoons honey with 2 spoons milk, put the mixed over the face and neck, leave it on 10 minutes then rinse with warm water.
Banana Mask
¼ banana 1 egg (egg yolk for dry skin, egg white for fat skin) 1 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon yogurt This mask reinvigorate the skin, and its best using it during the winter when the skin is affected by the cold winds.
Carrot Mask
Everybody knows that carrot is rich in vitamin A, which helps to rejuvenate the skin. This mask with help the skin damage, works as a tonic will make the skin soft and young. Squeeze the juice from one carrot threw a clean muslin cloth, and wipe your face with that. This mask is used for tired skin, who need a refresh. You can also mixed the carrot after it was squeeze the juice mixed with milk, sour cream or fresh yeast.
Anti wrinkle mask for all skin type
Wash a few lettuce leaves and pat dry with a towel, add the leaves in hot boiling olive oil, then apply the leaves warm on your face for 15 minutes, rinse the face with warm water and pat dry with a clean towel.
Tonic mask for all skin type
Mixed 1 teaspoon honey with 1 egg white, 1 teaspoon glycerin and 1 cup white flour until you obtain a paste. Apply on your face and neck leave for 10 minutes then rinse with warm water. Tonic mask for regular skin
Chop finely a cucumber and mixed with half of plain glass yogurt. Apply over face and leave 5-10 minutes then rinse with plenty of water.

Lose weight - Cabbage Soup/Slabeste - Supa de varza

2009-07-06T10:29:00.001-07:00

Easy way to lose weight with Cabbage Soup. Are different diets and to get the maximum out of them is to follow the diet right. The Cabbage Soup diet includes a variety of low-calorie vegetables such as cabbage, onions, and tomatoes, flavored with bouillon, onion soup mix, and tomato juice.

The Cabbage Soup have plenty of benefits to be included in any meal, even when not on diet:

weight loss
younger skin
better digestion
better vitamin intake

Here is a seven day program of losing weight with Cabbage Soup, you have to eat all you can cabbage soup and then each day different foods, its easy to follow and you don't get bored you can eat vegetables, fruits, beef. Some people say that they lost up to 10 pounds in only 7 days.
Easy, fast to cook in any kitchen, delicious and does wonders with your body.
Everyday eat soup as much as you want, even when you eat some other things you have to make sure you will eat the soup at least once a day. Avoid baked potato, no bread, no alcohol, no sodas

Day 1: All the fruits you want, but no bananas in this day. Drink water, unsweetened tea, black coffee and one glass cranberry juice.

Day 2: All vegetables fresh, raw, or canned vegetables. Green leafy are recommended and avoid dry beans and peas.

Day 3: Eat as much fruit, and vegetables.

Day 4: Bananas and skimmed milk. Eat at least 3 bananas and drink as much skimmed milk as you can today. Bananas are high in calories and carbohydrates, as is the milk.

Day 5: Have unlimited cabbage soup plus six tomatoes and also 20 oz of beens. Drink at least 6 glasses of water today.

Day 6: Eat 2 - 3 beef steaks with vegetables or salad.

Day 7: Eat all you want of brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices, vegetables.

Here are just a few samples of how you can prepare the very healthy cabbage soup, I have found these recipes on the internet, you can use your imagination and make different cabbage soups during your week of diet, or maybe just for a regular meal. On diet when you are looking for a cabbage soup recipe make sure you use only the ingredients that are aloud on the diet, otherwise you can find plenty of very tasteful cabbage soup recipes but very fatty, the ones made with sour cream, heavy cream, lot of meat.

So you can use ideas from the following recipes:

Original Cabbage Soup
- 1 head cabbage
- 6 medium onions
- 6 green onions
- 6 carrots
- 2 bell peppers
- 3 large tomatoes
- 5 stalks celery
- 4 oz uncooked brown rice
- Salt and freshly-ground black pepper

Slice the vegetables in small pieces. Put in a pot of cold water and bring to a boil. Let the mix simmer uncovered for around 10 minutes. Cover and adjust the heat to low. Let the soup simmer until the vegetables are soft enough. You can add the rice while the soup is simmering. Add salt and pepper to taste.

2. Refreshing Cabbage Soup
- 3 cups of chicken or beef broth
- 1 1/2 cups of green cabbage, finely shredded
- 1 tbsp of prepared mustard
- 1 tsp of sugar
- 2 cups of buttermilk
- 1 cucumber, finely diced
- 1 tbsp fresh dill, minced
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley

In a medium saucepan, heat the broth and add the cabbage. Let this simmer for around 10 minutes. Remove the pan from heat and mix in the mustard, dill, and sugar. Stir in the buttermilk and add the cucumber. Chill the soup for about 2.5 hours or depending on your refrigerator. Put some parsley to garnish the soup and enjoy the soup ice cold. A yummy soup on a hot summer day!

3.The Military Diet Cabbage Soup
- 1 large head of cabbage
- 1 large bunch of celery
- 2 bunches of green onion
- 1 large can of whole tomato
- 2 cans of chicken broth
- 3 large bell peppers
- Salt and pepper to taste

Military way is short and simple. Chop all the vegetables and add to a large pot of chicken broth. Add the whole tomatoes and cook with low fire for 15 minutes. Serve. Woohah!

4. Zucchini Cabbage Soup Recipe
- ½ medium head of cabbage, diced
- 3 small zucchini, diced
- 1 large clove of garlic, crushed and minced
- ¼ tsp dried basil
- ½ tsp black pepper
- Salt to taste
- 12 ounces of V-8 vegetable juice
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 can French Onion Soup
- 1-2 cups chopped spinach
- ½ cup sliced carrots
- Dash of Worcestershire sauce

Mix all ingredients and cook with low heat for 10-15 minutes. Serve and enjoy!

5. Weight Watchers Cabbage Soup
- 1 large dark green cabbage
- 1 red, 1 green, 1 yellow pepper
- 1 head of celery
- 2 carrots
- 2 lbs of mushroom
- 3 big leeks
- Small bag spinach
- Big bag water cress
- Big bag rocket leaves
- 3 onions
- 1 can Weight Watchers chicken soup

Combine all the ingredients and bring to a boil. Upon boiling, decrease heat and let the soup cook for another 10 to 15 minutes.

Watermelon Granita

2009-07-05T19:42:00.000-07:00

Serves 6
Ingredients
4 pounds seedless watermelon cubes
1/3 cup water
1/3 cup sugar
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1 Tbsp grenadine or pomegranate juice
6 thin watermelon wedges for garnish
Preparation
Make a simple syrup by heating sugar and water over high heat, stirring until all the sugar has dissolved. Let cool.
Place watermelon and the lime juice in a blender and process until smooth, then add the syrup and grenadine juice.Press puree through a coarse strainer, pushing through the solids. Pour into a glass baking dish, freeze, stirring and scraping with a fork every 30 minutes, until all of the liquid has frozen. It should take about 3 hours until its freeze, you can keep it in freezer up to 2-3 days.

Refreshing and delicious!Serve watermelon granita in margarita glasses and garnish with the watermelon wedges.

Parmesan Dressing

2009-07-05T18:21:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1/3 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup mayonnaise (you find the home made mayonnaise under the Romanian home cooking)
2 anchovy fillets
1 1/2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 tablespoon dry mustard (I like to use Dijon mustard)
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Preparation
Combine cheese, mayonnaise, anchovies, vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, remaining 1/4 cup oil, and 1 garlic clove in blender; puree until smooth. Season dressing to taste with salt and pepper.
Easy to make, this dressing add a great Parmesan taste to your salad.

Iceberg Lettuce Salad

2009-07-05T18:08:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
iceberg lettuce
carrots
red cabbage
garlic croutons
Parmesan dressing

Preparation

Garlic Croutons
4 thick slices white bread
2 Tbsp butter
1/4 unsalted garlic powder
Heat oven to 400°F. Trim the crusts off bread and generously butter the bread on both sides. Sprinkle with garlic powder. Cut into 1/2" cubes and bake on a cookie sheet for 10 minutes until golden brown.
Dressing
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup mayonnaise (you find the home made mayonnaise under the Romanian home cooking)
2 anchovy fillets
1 1/2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1/2 tablespoon dry mustard (I like to use Dijon mustard)
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Combine cheese, mayonnaise, anchovies, vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, remaining 1/4 cup oil, and 1 garlic clove in blender; puree until smooth. Season dressing to taste with salt and pepper.

Chop all vegetables, add the garlic croutons and Parmesan dressing. Easy made, refreshing and tasty. These vegetables are a very good source of antioxidants and vitamin A.

Home Made Garlic Croutons

2009-07-05T17:35:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 thick slices white bread
2 Tbsp butter
1/4 unsalted garlic powder
Preparation
Heat oven to 400°F. Trim the crusts off bread and generously butter the bread on both sides. Sprinkle with garlic powder. Cut into 1/2" cubes and bake on a cookie sheet for 10 minutes until golden brown.

Garlic croutons add a nice flavor and texture to salads and soups.

Bacon Cheese Chicken

2009-07-05T17:16:00.000-07:00

Serves 6
Ingredients
6 slices bacon
1 Tbsp. butter
2 Tbsp. olive oil
6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
salt
pepper
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Preparation
Cook bacon until crisp, about 5 minutes. Crumble bacon and set aside. Pour bacon grease out of skillet, but don't wash or wipe it. Add butter and olive oil to skillet. Saute chicken breasts in this mixture over medium heat, turning once, until chicken. Place chicken in ungreased baking dish. Cook onion and garlic in drippings remaining in skillet. Cook until onion is softened, then stir in salt, pepper, and cooked bacon. Spoon over chicken breasts and sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes until cheese is melted.
Makes a perfect dish served with mashed potatoes.

Cottage Cheese Dessert

2009-07-05T16:57:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
500 g flour
25 g fresh yeast (1 cub)
4 eggs
120 ml milk
100 g sugar
vanilla extract
70 g butter
2 tablespoon oil
cottage cheese
lemon zest
raisins (optional)
Preparation
Melt the yeast in warm milk add 1 teaspoon sugar, then pour over the flour, leave it there for 10 minutes. Separately bit the eggs with sugar, vanilla extract and butter. Add the eggs mixed to the first bowl and mixed with your hands until you get a solid dough, after that add the 2 tablespoon of oil, cover the dough with a towel and leaven for 1 hour. Mixed the cottage cheese with two egg yolk, 2 table sugar, lemon zest and a few raisins. Make the dough a thin 5 mm layer, cover with 2 teaspoon melt butter, cut in pieces of 6 cm add the cottage cheese mixed in each, then from corners try to cover the cheese. After all finished brush over egg white and bake at 350F.

Cheesy Oven Fried Chicken

2009-07-01T09:25:00.000-07:00

Makes 4 servings.
Ingredients
4 leg quarters
¼ cup milk
2 cups crushed cheddar flavored crackers
½ teaspoon dried basil
¼ teaspoon pepper
Preparation
Crush the crackers, add basil and pepper. Rinse chicken, pat dry with paper towel. Brush chicken with milk. Coat chicken with the cracker mixture then place it with skin side up in an ungreased baking pan.
Baked at 375 F oven for 60 minutes.

Vegetarian Dish

2009-06-28T15:48:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 onion
3 spoon oil
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 potato
1 carrot
3 tomatoes
1 cup rice
2 cup water
salt
black pepper
finely chopped parsley
Preparation
Cut all vegetables in cubes. Saute the onion and peppers, add the rest of vegetables and water. Let it boil for 10 min then add the rice and cook for 15-20 minutes more, when almost cooked add parsley.

Mango Smoothie

2009-06-27T18:17:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
3 fresh mango
honey to taste
1/2 cup ice
dry fruits
Preparation
Place the fruit and honey in a blender. Blend on high speed. If the mangos are not all the way riped add ½ cup orange juice.
Sprinkle with dry blueberries and ready to serve.

Wine Glazed Classic Baked Chicken

2009-06-25T17:23:00.000-07:00

Serves 4
Ingredients
4 lb chicken legs
olive oil
salt
fresh ground pepper
1/4 cup of white wine for gravy
Preparation
Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat chicken in olive oil, sprinkle both sides of the chicken pieces with salt and black pepper. Arrange the pieces skin-side up in the roasting pan. Cook for 30 minutes at 400°F,then lower the heat to 350°F and cook for 25 minutes more until cooked. Remove chicken from roasting pan to a serving plate and cover with aluminum foil, let rest for 10 minutes before serving.
Gravy - take the roasting pan with its drippings and place on a medium setting on the stove top. Add a 1/4 cup of white wine to the pan to help deglaze the drippings from the pan,heat on medium temperature to reduce to thickness.
Serve with mashed potatoes or steamed rice and salad.

Did you know?

2009-06-24T11:10:00.000-07:00

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.

Frothy Wine Dessert “Satou”

2009-06-24T11:03:00.001-07:00

Serve 4
Ingredients
5 egg yolks
½ cup sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated fresh lemon peel
1 cup sweet white wine
Optional-2 tablespoon fresh raspberries
Preparation
Place the egg yolks, sugar and lemon peel in the top of an enameled or stainless-steel double boiler set over barely simmering water.
Beat with a whisk or an electric hand mixer for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the mixture becomes a thick custard. In a separate pan, quickly bring the wine to a boil.
Then pour it into the custard in a slow thin stream, beating all the while. Continue beating for another 10 minutes or so, until the mixed is thick enough to coat a spoon heavily.
Divide the composition to 4 individual dessert dishes and serve at once, while hot.
If you like, you can add raspberries just before serving.

Vegetable mix “Zacusca “

2009-06-24T09:52:00.000-07:00

Very popular in East Europe,is a way of mixing vegetables for the long and heavy winters that cross East Europe, when the find of fresh legumes was a problem. Zacusca as called in Romania, or Zakuski, as the Russians. This is a vegetable paste that is generously spread on bread and eaten as an appetizer or as light dinner.
Makes 10 jars.
Ingredients
6 kg eggplants
6 kg tomatoes
1.5 liter oil
2 heads garlic
4 spoons salt
pepper
5 kg red sweet bell peppers
4 kg onions
2-3 chilli peppers
paprika
bay leafe
Preparation
Bake the eggplants, peel and leave them to drain out the juice. Clean and cut the bell peppers, chillis, onions and stir fry them in hot oil. Add the cubes of tomatoes. Leave on fire for 1 hour but stir from time to time. Add the garlic, salt, pepper and bring to boil again. When ready, it should look like a thick dark red paste. Conservate it in well-closed jars with a thin layer of oil on top.
Optional you can add: beans, celery, mushrooms, carrots.
Serve it with slices of bread and with red wine or hot tea.

Kenyan Vermicelli Bread

2009-06-21T16:35:00.000-07:00

Serves 12
Ingredients
½ pound vermicelli
4 cups unsweetened coconut milk
½ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1 egg
½ cup whole wheat or all-purpose flour
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Coat a 13 x 9 inch baking dish with butter or cooking spray. Prepare the vermicelli according to the package direction and drain.
Heat the coconut milk and sugar in a large saucepan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce the heat to low and cook for 5 minutes. Add the vermicelli and ginger.
Beat the egg in a small bowl. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons of the coconut milk mixture to the beaten egg, and then stir the egg mixture into the pan with the vermicelli. Whisk in the flour and pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish.
Bake for 1 hour or until soft and spongy. You can cut it into squares or whatever way suits you.

Maandazi

2009-06-21T16:30:00.000-07:00

Makes about a dozen
Ingredients
1 ¼ cup flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 pinch of salt
1 egg
¼ cup milk or even more
oil for frying
Preparation
Mix together dry ingredients and mix in egg and milk until well mixed. Roll out as for a jellyroll to about ¾" thickness. Cut using a donut cutter with center ring removed or a glass turned upside down. Fry in hot (365ºF) oil until golden brown.

Samosas

2009-06-21T16:24:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4-5 medium potatoes, boiled in the skin and cooled
4 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1 medium onion, peeled and very finely chopped
1 Tbsp. ginger, fresh, minced
1 fresh green chili pepper, finely chopped
3 Tbsp. water
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground coriander
1 tsp. garam masala (an Indian spice mixture)
1 tsp. cumin
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
3 Tbsp. fresh cilantro or coriander or parsley
1 package of egg roll wrappers
Preparation
Peel the potatoes and dice them into quarter-inch cubes. Heat the oil in a frying pan and put the onions into it. Fry it until begin to turn brown at the edges. Add the ginger, chili pepper, fresh coriander, and water. Cover the frying pan, lower the heat to simmering, until the peas are cooked, stirring occasionally. Add water if needed to keep the mixture from drying out. Mix the potatoes with salt. Cook on low heat for 3-4 minutes. Let the mixture cool slightly, so that it can be easily handled. Stuff the egg roll wrappers with the filling and deep fry to a golden brown.

Biriani

2009-06-21T16:11:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 medium -size unripe papaya
1 small bulb of garlic
1 small piece of fresh green ginger
1 kg meat - Of mutton leg , a lean cut of beef ,goat, or chicken
1 kg rice
1 kg onions
1 kg potatoes
250 ml sour milk or yogurt
2 limes
1/4 kg tomatoes
1 teaspoon cardamom
4 cloves
1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
2 small sticks cinnamon
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
1 smallest size tin tomato paste
oil for frying
Preparation
Peel papaya, remove seeds, and grate coarsely. Pound the garlic and ginger to a paste cut the meat into 1biggish pieces and put into a heavy saucepan with the
papaya, garlic and ginger. Add the sour milk or yogurt and the juice of the two limes set over a low heat and stir at intervals. While this is cooking, grind
spices together and set aside. Slice the onions and fry in oil until brown and crisp remove from the fat. Peel and slice the potatoes and fry in the same oil
until golden brown. Remove and keep on one side - apart from the onions. Check the meat to see if it is nearly ready, then add the spices and the skinned tomatoes, together with 4-5 tablespoons of the fat used to fry the onions and potatoes.
Mix together well, then add the tin of tomato paste.
Continue cooking over a low heat until the meat is really tender and the sauce thick and creamy. It is almost certain you will have to add a little warm water before the meat is cooked. Cook for a final 15-20 minutes to make sure all the flavour have
blended together. Prepare and cook the rice - put a good layer of the rice at the bottom of a fireproof dish or casserole. Pour over the meat mixture, and cover completely with another layer of rice. Now put in the fried onions, reserving a few for decoration, and cover them with the test of the rice,boil up the remaining oil and pour Over. Take the sliced potatoes and tuck them at the edge of the dish, and across the top, pushing them into the rice. Sprinkle with the reserved onions,
and put into a moderate oven to heat through for about 30 minutes.
Do not let it become dry.
Biriani can be served at table in the casserole if it is a decorative one, or else you will have to remove the rice and meat and vegetables, keeping the layers as
cooked and serve on a big platter

Tip

2009-06-21T15:52:00.000-07:00

When hand rolling sausages, meatballs of any kind, keep a small bowl of water near you so that you can keep your hands a bit wet. This way, the meat will not stick to your hands.

Romanian Sausages - Mititei

2009-06-21T15:45:00.000-07:00

Makes 12 pieces
Ingredients
5 cloves garlic
¼ cup water
1½ tsp salt
2/3 pound coarsely ground pork
1 pound ground chuck
1 tsp baking soda
½ teaspoon dried basil
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
½ teaspoon dried thyme
½ cup Beef Stock
Preparation
Crush the garlic well in the water, using a fork Stir in the meat, baking soda, seasonings, and garlic puree together. Add Beef Stock and mix well. For each sausage, take 1/3 cup of the meat mixture, and roll between the palms of your hands into a sausage shape about 4 inches long. Refrigerate sausages overnight so the flavors can blend. Use a cover container. Are excellent on the grill, but also can be broiled or baked in the oven. Broil the sausages about 3 minutes per side until cooked through and browned. Are great served with home french fries, mustard and bread.

Chicken-Leek Soup with Dumplings

2009-06-08T23:35:00.000-07:00

Serves 4 people
Ingredients
4 chicken wings
4 cup water
2 leeks
1 can chick peas
salt and pepper for taste
1 tsp. paprika
1 tsp. parsley flakes
10 oz. frozen spinach
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 eggs
8 oz. sour cream
Preparation
Rinse chicken wings and place in large pot with 4 cups water, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Trim root ends from leeks and chop. Add to chicken soup and simmer 30 minutes. Add the spices, chick peas and spinach to the soup mixture and keep on low heat.
For Dumplings
Put flour into a bowl and make a well in the middle; break in the eggs and add sour cream. Stir until a soft dough is formed. With your hands make 12 balls of dough (equal in size). Drop in the soup and cook until done.

Cafe au Lait

2009-06-06T19:29:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 cups hot, freshly brewed coffee
4 cups hot milk
6 cinnamon sticks
sugar for taste
Preparation
Fill each coffee mug half full of coffee and half full of milk. Add sugar to taste. Serve with a cinnamon stick.

Spinach Cream with Sunny Eggs

2009-06-06T19:16:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
3 pounds spinach
1 tablespoon flour
5 garlic cloves
¾ cup milk or cream
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon
salt
eggs and oil
Preparation
Cook and mince the spinach.Put the butter in a saucepan, and on the fire. When hot, add the minced garlic, flour, and stir until smooth and frothy, then add the minced spinach, salt and pepper. Cook for five minutes, then add the milk or cream hot, and cook three minutes longer. Separately fried eggs and serve next to spinach, for the meat lover you can add fried bacon.

Lime Garlic Grilled Shrimp

2009-06-05T23:33:00.000-07:00

Makes 4 servings
Ingredients:
4 limes
4 cloves garlic
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
salt
ground pepper
1 1/2 pounds shrimp
Preparation
Peel the shrimp.In a bowl mixed 1 tbl spoon lime zest, ½ cup lime juice, add minced garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper for taste and shrimp. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Remove from refrigerator 15 minutes prior grilling.Grill shrimp 2 minutes on each side until it turns pink. Slice the rest of the lime and serve with shrimp.

Watermelon Lemonade

2009-06-05T23:18:00.000-07:00

Serves 4
Ingredients:
1 1/2 pounds sliced seedless watermelon , rind removed
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 lemon zest
1/2 cup honey
1 lemon for garnish
Preparation
Blend the watermelon, add lemon zest. Separately mixed honey with lemon juice until is dissolved, then add in the watermelon juice. Stir in 1 cup cold water and refrigerate until is cold. Serve over ice and garnish with thinly sliced lemon.
If you are fan alcoholic beverage you can add vodka over the pureed watermelon.

Romanian Mushroom Stew

2009-05-19T16:19:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 lb. fresh mushrooms
1 lb. bacon
4 medium onions
salt & pepper to taste
Preparation
Fry bacon until crisp. Remove from pan but leave drippings. Add onions to bacon drippings and fry until soft. Drain grease from onions. Wash and cut fresh mushrooms. Scald with boiling water then squeeze well. Add mushrooms, salt and pepper to bacon and onions in a saucepan. Cook for 15 minutes in covered pan.