Eszterházy style... stew

I have been returned xD! And I brought something with a fancy name and a surprisingly easy making method. I know, originally this should be with sirloin slices, but it's easier to make this way, and the family loves the small stripes better than the full slices.

Ingredients:

• Meat! Beef sirloin, or whatever you have in the freezer...
• Carrots
• Parsley
• Celery
• Parsley leaves
• Bay leaf
• Onion
• Cooking oil
• White wine
• Water
• Sour Cream
• Flour
• Mustard
• Lemon juice
• Sugar
• Salt, pepper
• Pasta

Directions:

Thaw the meat (this time you can use the microwave), and cut it up to stripes or dices. Salt them and roast them on a bit of oil. They don't need to become soft, just until the pink colour disappears. While you're doing (or before, or after) peel and cut up the onions. Fry them on a bit of oil. Then add in the meat, and pour water and white wine into the pot, just enough to cover the meat (if you add more, the stew will be thinner). Put in a bay leaf, and let it cook.
Peel the carrots, the pasley and the celery (how much of each is up to your taste) then cut them to small pieces or toothpicks. Fry them on a bit of oil, and sprinke them with salt, pepper, and chopped parsley leaves.
If the meat is softened up, mix the sour cream with a bit of flour. Pour some of the stew on it, to have it warm up, then mix it into the stew. Mix in the vegetables, and add a bit (tiny bit) of sugar, mustard and lemon juice. You can adjust the salt and pepper levels if you need to, then boil it to complete.
Cook some pasta for the side dish. Officially it's macaroni, and as it turns out, I have some at home XD

Well, it is pasta, so... cheese?
(Looks around if Mom's watching in angry way. Yup, she does.)

Ok, no cheese this time either... for me :(

You can eat it the way you want, and see you next time!

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Seedsman Slice

Another report from the lab, this time with a bit more daring inventions. And why have I named it Seedsman-slice?
Because I can.

Ingredients:

• Pork loin
• Eggs
• Onion
• Cooking oil
• Salt, pepper
• Flour
• Breadcrubs
• Hulled sunflower seeds
• Side dish

Directions:

Thaw the meat! (the method was already explained earlier) Slice it, tenderize it with a hammer until it's thin and spread, rub the slices with salt and a bit pepper, then let them draw it in. Meanwhile, make an omlette with lots of onion (out of one egg for each two slices). Spread about 1-1,5 tablespoons of omlette on one side of the slices, then fold the other side on top of it. Bread it (the egg will make a nice sealing) with the sunflower seeds mixed into the breadcrubs. Fry them and serve them. The current side dish is french fries. You can have it with picles or tartar sauce on the side.

Experiment: Success.
Have: a nice meal.
See you: next time.

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Layered Camembert

Welcome to the hellish laboratory that I simply call: The Kitchen. Based on my original idea, here comes a delicious abomination.
(If anyone recognize it an existing, legitimate recipe, tell me down below, so I can correct it.)

Ingredients:

• Camembert (one small roll for a single ration)
• Apple
• Flour
• Eggs
• Breadcrubs
• Side dish (any one will do)
• Optionally, sauce (not any one, but you have some choice)

Directions:
Slice up the apple into disks and cut out the middle. If you don't like it, you can cut off the peel too. Slice up the cheeses to disks too (I did them into three disks each, but more skilful folks can do even more... or less, if you don't like thick things :P ) Reassemble the cheeses, with a slice of apple between each cheese disks. Bread them (you know: cover it with flour, then beaten-up eggs, then breadcrubs) twice, and don't spare the stuff, the cheese is suspectible of escaping), then fry them. Serve them with any side dish you like - I made rice - and cranberry or tartar sauce on the side.

Don't think you're safe, I have many more ideas like this! So I'll be back, Muhahaha!

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Barbeque Chicken

It's BBQ time!

There are thousands of variations for this recipe, both the sauce and the food itself. A friend of mine showed me this particular one.

Ingredients:

The sauce:

• 2 cups of tomato paste (sweet tooth can start from ketchup)
• 1/2 cup of water
• 1/3 cup of apple cider vinegar
• 1/3 cup of brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons of mustard
• 1 tablespoon of mashed garlic
• 1 tablespoon of mashed onion
• 1/2 tablespoon of cayenne (those who have the balls for it can use good, hot hungarian paprika spice. Only at your own risk.)

The rest : )

• Meat! Currently chicken. Legs, wings, breast... whatever you like.
• Whatever you need for the side dish. For me: potatoes, salt, pepper, milk, butter.

Directions:

First: if you don't feel like tardy, start a day earlier. Take everything for the sauce, and mix it. Heat it for 20 minutes on slow fire, then let it cool down. Put it in some well-sealed container (like a sour cream mini-bucket) and put it in the fridge for a day (the taste comes out better if we let it ripen for a bit). Rub the chicken wit salt and a bit of pepper and leave it for half an hour, then coat it with the sauce (thickly) and put it into a tray. Close it with foil or a lid, then put it into the oven on 200°C for about an hour. After that, take off the lid, and grill the chicken parts' both sides until they're red-golden. If you feel they're too dry, you can pour some of the leftover sauce on them before serving.
Side dish: as per preference. For me, it's mashed potatoes. Peel and cook the potatoes in salty water, Infer it, then put some milk and butter in, and mash them. Seasone it with salt and pepper, and a bit of nutmeg if you like.

Starshots from left and right:

Have a good meal, see you next time!

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Chicken Dream

A new day, a new recipe, this time with a more sound name.
Chicken Dream... I doubt that a chicken would dream of such end, but who knows. If I'd end up on someone else's table at least I'd like to taste good :D

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast
• Mushroom
• Onion
• Cooking oil
• Parsley leaf
• Food seasoning
• Salt, pepper
• Cheese
• Side dish : )

Slice up the chicken (lengthwise, if it wasn't obvious :P) tenderize it a bit, rub them with salt and pepper, and let them draw it in a little. If you work with fresh mushroom, clean them and slice them. Cut up the onions (not too small) and fry them with a bit of cooking oil. After that, add the mushroom. If it was fresh, add salt and a bit of pepper, and a sip of lemon juice, and let it soften up, until all it's liquids are evaporized. If it was canned, it just needs a few minutes of boiling. Add the chopped up parsley leaf and the food seasoning. Roast the chickens a bit, then put them into a tray. Shovel the shroom-stew onto the chicken, and grate some cheese on top. (Remember what did I say about cheese and pasta? I'd like to extend it to here too.) Pour some liquid under it. If you have nothing else, water will do it fine, but the best choice some leftover broth. Put it into the oven for half an hour on 200°C, and that's it.

I suggest rice as a side dish, but you can make anything you prefer.

I was told that since I put these food pictures on my blog, I should really decorate it with some veggies...

I think I just invented e-serving. XD

Have a nice meal, see you next time!

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