recipes

of "cooking" kind

Crepes

• flour (2 cups)
• milk (2 cups)
• eggs (x6 small)
• salt (1 teaspoon)
• olive oil (2 tablespoon)
• baking soda (1 teaspoon)
• sugar (2 tablespoon)
• water (1/2 cup)
• vinegar (1 teaspoon)

result:

20 crepes

beta:

cooking time - 25 min

left front burner - 8, right front burner - 8

add oil, for pattern on the first side (or not for mono-crisp color)

Pancakes

• 1 cup all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, or vegetable oil
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

result:

~8 pancakes

beta:

cooking time - 15 min

right back burner - 7-8, right front burner - 7-8

microwave butter for 45 seconds to melt, olive instead of veggie oil

Spaghetti Bolognese

original Whole Foods recipe

• 3 table spoons virgin olive oil
• 1/2 medium onion, thingly sliced and chopped
• 1 large glove of garlic, thingly sliced and chopped
• 1 baby carrot, thingly sliced and chopped
• 1.2 lbs ground beef (85%)
• 6oz can of tomato paste
• 1/2 box of penne
• salt/pepper as needed

result:

4-6 servings

beta:

cooking time - ? min saute veggies first, before ccoking ground beef add tomato paste at very end

Thai Spicy Basil Chicken Fried Rice

original recipe

• 1 and 1/2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon white sugar
• 1 and 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil for frying
• 2 cups cooked jasmine rice, chilled
• 6 large cloves garlic clove, crushed
• 2 serrano peppers, crushed
• 2 poblano peppers, crushed
• 1 piece boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into thin strips
• 1/3 red pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
• 1/2 onion, thinly sliced
• Thai basil, cucumber
• salt/pepper as needed

result:

1-2 servings

beta:

cooking time - ? min

Banana Walnut Bread (bread machine)

[original recipe] (http://www.food.com/recipe/banana-nut-bread-for-the-bread-machine-96521#activity-feed)

Banana Walnut Bread

[original recipe] (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20144/banana-banana-bread/)

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 4 jumbo eggs
• 1/4-1/2 cup of milk
• lot of bananas (5-6)

process

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

Combine flour, baking soda and salt. In other bowl combine butter and sugar. Mix eggs and mashed bananas.

Stir banana mixture into flour mixture.

Bake for 60-75 min.

Pavlova Cake

[original recipe (first attempt, ingridients)] (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12126/easy-pavlova/)

[original recipe (third attempt, oven settings)] (http://www.theboywhobakes.co.uk/recipes/2017/8/4/the-perfect-pavlova)

Cake

• 6 large egg whites
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 2 tsp cornstarch
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Topping

• 1 pint heavy cream
• kiwi and/or raspberries

result:

One 9-10 inch cake

beta:

use egg separator to get egg whites

eggs should be room temperature before beating them into meringue

only use metal or glass bowl (plastic always has fats/oils on it so it wont work)

wipe bowl with a slice of lemon

beat eggs whites by hand with a whisk (~20 min) with a mixer (~10 min) until it foamy but still not holding the shape

start adding sugar by the spoon, it needs to dissolve completely

add cornstarch, vanilla extract and lemon

whisk until "peaks formed" e.g. when you remove whisk from it, shape of peak where shisk was is holding

preheat oven to 275 degrees fahrenheit (130 celsius), bake for 10 min, then lower oven temperature to 200 degrees fahrenheit (90 celsius), bake for 90 min. Rurn oven off let it cool in the oven (may open the door a bit).

whip heavy cream and put it on cake with kiwi slices/ raspberries. This turntable makes it super easy to apply whipped cream.

Pancakes on Kefir

• 1/2 liter kefir
• 3 table spoon sugar
• 1 tea spoon salt
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tea spoon baking soda

or

• 2 cups kefir
• 3 table spoon sugar
• 2 table spoon olive oil
• 1 tea spoon salt
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tea spoon baking soda

French baguette with crust

[original recipe] ( https://www.edimdoma.ru/retsepty/79104-frantsuzskiy-baget-s-hrustyaschey-korochkoy)

Bread

[original recipe] ( https://www.jennycancook.com/recipes/faster-no-knead-bread/

Biskvit (Sponge Cake Roulette)

[original recipe] ( https://natashaskitchen.com/biskvit-raspberry-roulade-roulette-cake/