Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Potato pancakes with herbs

Products for potato pancakes with herbs: 500 g sour apples, 1 - 2 tablespoons lemon juice 6 large basil leaves, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, salt, pepper, 1.2 kg of potatoes, 2 bunch thyme, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of flour with the top, 100 ml of vegetable oil. 

To make potato pancakes with chopped green apples. With blender Prepare mashed lemon juice, basil and sugar and apples, salt and pepper. Apple sauce for pancakes ready. 

Potato pancakes for clean, rub on a grater. Thyme for fritters wash, dry and oborvite leaves. Add the thyme potatoes, eggs, flour, salt, pepper, stir well. 

In a large skillet, warm the butter, grate pancakes lo golden color within 4 - 5 minutes. Put finished pancakes on a paper towel to ensure that no excess body fat. Pancakes with the desire to be reheated in a hot oven. 

Potato pancakes with herbs serve it over with apple sauce.

Salad with avocado and parsley

Products for a salad with avocado and parsley: 0,5 lemon, salt, pepper, 0.5 teaspoon ground cumin, 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 fruit, avocado, 4 tomatoes, 3 young onions, 2 bunches of parsley, 2 sprigs fresh mint , 300 g salad of cucumbers, 200 g cream yoghurt. 

To prepare the avocado salad with parsley whisk lemon juice with salt, pepper, cumin and oil. Avocado salad clean and cut into cubes. Cubes of avocado soak in a gas station that they are not darkened. 

Tomatoes, onions and greens for salad wash and dry. Leaflets oborvite and coarse chop. To decorate the salad aside 1 tablespoon of green. Cucumber peels and chops tomatoes into cubes. Onion salad clean and cut thin rings. All the vegetables and herbs mix with avocado and tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Yogurt Whip salad dressing. 

When applying to the table spoon yogurt on top with lettuce, sprinkle with salad greens.

Vegetable risotto with mint

Products for Vegetable risotto with mint: 2 carrots, 1 eggplant, 2 small onions, 2 garlic cloves, 6 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons pistachios, 300 grams long-grain rice, 600 - 700 ml vegetable stock, 2 - 3 dried peppers chili, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, salt, pepper, 1 bunch of mint, 1 bunch of parsley. 

To prepare the Vegetable risotto with mint, clean the carrots and cut thin circles. Eggplant pilaf for a wash, cut lengthwise into 4 pieces, cut some slices. Onions and garlic for pilaf clean and cut. In general kettle or cauldron heat 3 tablespoons oil, fry it for pilaf onion and garlic until golden brown. Quickly fry pistachios, add 3 tablespoons oil, heat, add carrots and eggplant, fry vegetables for 3 minutes. 

Add the rice and vegetables for 1 minute fry rice until transparent. Pour in the soup kettle; add the chilly, salt, pepper, cumin. Cover and simmer pilaf 20 - 25 minutes, at the end add the broth. 

Green wash, dry out, oborvite leaves, chop. 

When serving, add greens to the table in pilaf.

Green oil

Products for green oil: 200 g softened butter, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, salt, pepper, onion beam 0,5 - Rezantsev, 0,5 bunch of parsley, 6 basil leaves, 1 teaspoon thyme leaves. 

To make herb butter oil whisk Veselko to a homogeneous state. Mix the butter with the lemon juice, salt and pepper. Green for starters wash, shake off water, dry out. For starters onions - chive cut some circles, the rest green chop. 

Greens Mix the butter with a fork. Using the parchment paper we have created the oil in a roll. Tighten the oil and place in refrigerator for 1 hour.


Sunday, March 28, 2010

Borscht with mackerel fish

Products for borscht with mackerel fish: 400 g bonito, 4 potatoes, 2 carrots, 1 beet, 1 onion, 3 tablespoons of tomato - puree, cream, salt, green onion, 50 ml of vegetable oil. 

To prepare fish borsch with mackerel to cut. From the head and bones prepare for borsch soup, strain the broth. Raw carrots and grate the beets on a large grater and lightly fry in vegetable oil. Onions for borscht chopped and also fry with tomato - puree. Fillet fish, fried vegetables and cut into small bars omit the potatoes into boiling broth and cook soup until cooked. 

When serving borscht at the table in each plate, place a piece of boiled mackerel, green onions and sour cream.


Salad greens with shrimp

Products for salad greens with shrimp: 200 g raw peeled shrimp, 4 tablespoons olive oil, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, salt, pepper, 1 bunch radishes, 150 grams of red leaf lettuce (Lolo - Russia), 100 g of dandelion, 50 sorrel, 2 tablespoons wine vinegar, 1 teaspoon honey, 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, 100 g of fresh cream. 

To prepare the salad greens with shrimp oblate hot water and blot. Tablespoons of oil to heat the pan, fry shrimp in it with strong heating within 1 - 2 minutes. Remove shrimp to a plate, drizzle with lemon juice, salt and pepper. 

Radish salad wash, clean, chop salad radishes with thin circles. Salad Lolo, dandelion and sorrel, wash, clean, shake the water and cut pieces. In separate sorrel stems and coarse chop. 

Combine and mix the salad wine vinegar, salt, pepper, honey, mustard and remaining oil. Salad, greens and radishes drizzle pouring from above, place the shrimp on each shrimp, and place a spoonful of fresh cream.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Borscht Czech

Products for borscht Czech: 250 g beef 250 g pork, 2 liters of water, 2 carrots, 1 parsley root, 2 roots celery, 3 beet, 1 / 3 of white cabbage, 1 tablespoon butter, 4 tablespoons sour cream, 1 teaspoon flour, salt, herbs. 

To cook borscht Czech Chop meat into cubes, boil in salted water. Beets for borscht chop slices, put in the broth, cook until done. 

Flour for borscht spasseruyte in butter and dilute broth, add the cubed carrots, parsley, celery, cabbage, stew a bit, and shift into a pot with meat. Simmer soup for 15 - 20 minutes. 

Drinks Serve borscht with sour cream and herbs.


Fish meatballs with herbs

Products for fish meatballs with herbs: 1 lemon, 400 g fish fillet (rockfish, cod, salmon), 2 cloves garlic, 1 bunch of parsley, 50 grams of mixed herbs (onion - chive, sage, rosemary, thyme), 1 egg, 50 g breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons olive oil, flour. 

To prepare the fish meatballs with green fish wash, dry out and cut into pieces. Squeeze of lemon juice. Fish grind with blender, add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Crush garlic and add the fish. Greenery for meatballs wash, dry out and chopped. In fish, add greens, egg, bread crumbs, mix well, season with salt and pepper. Wet hands from stuffing GOALS meatballs, roll them in flour. 

In pan, warm the oil, fry meatballs over medium heat on all sides for 3 - 4 minutes. Then close the lid meatballs and fry another 5 - 6 minutes. 

To the table ready to serve meatballs with boiled potatoes, fresh vegetables and herbs.

Borscht with spinach and sorrel

Products for borscht with spinach and sorrel: 200 g beet, 50 g of sorrel, 100 g spinach, 250 g of potatoes, 20 g root of parsley, 40 g carrot, 40 g onion, 10 g flour, 10 ml of apple cider vinegar, 30 g cream , 20 g melted butter, 2 eggs, parsley, sweet bell pepper, 100 ml cream, salt, sugar, dill. 

To prepare borscht with sorrel spinach and beet chop sticks, sprinkle with cider vinegar, salt, add the broth and simmer until it becomes soft. Onions, carrots, parsley for borscht clean and chop sticks, lightly fry, add the dried flour, mix with beets and simmer another 8 - 10 minutes. 

Potatoes for borscht clean cut some large cubes, place in boiling broth or water and cook for 10 - 12 minutes. By the potatoes in the broth, add beet stew with vegetables and onions, spinach and sorrel, salt, sugar, allspice. Simmer soup until cooked. 

When applying to the table in the soup, place the sour cream, boiled eggs and parsley and dill.

Casserole with chicken

Products for casseroles with chicken: 800 g potato, 200 g of carrots, 1 tablespoon of butter, 200 grams spinach, 1 onion, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, pepper, salt, 200 g chicken breasts, 250 g sour cream, 150 g cheese mold.

To prepare pudding with chicken cook potatoes. Carrot casserole to chop, fry in butter. Carrot boils in 200 ml of water for 15 minutes. Carrot Broth save.

Chop Onions for casseroles, fry in vegetable oil. Add spinach, salt and pepper. Preheat broth of carrots with sour cream, add cheese. Chicken meat to the casserole chops and fries in vegetable oil, salt and pepper, to shift into the form. The meat, place the potatoes, carrots, spinach, cover with cheese sauce. Form, put in the preheated oven to 200 degrees. Bake casserole for 20 minutes until golden brown.

Drinks Serve casserole with fresh vegetables and herbs.

Borscht Bulgarian

Products for borscht Bulgarian: 2 liters of broth made from bones 0.5 kg and 300 grams of meat, 5 - 6 potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 parsley root, 1 onion, 1 beet, 1 eggplant, 1 / 3 head of cabbage, 4 pods bell peppers, 1 - 2 pods red pepper, 3 tablespoons cider vinegar, 1 teaspoon sugar 3 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 tomatoes, 2 tablespoons sour cream, salt, bay leaf, ground pepper, fresh herbs. 

To prepare the Bulgarian borscht beet, onion, carrots, parsley chop sticks, sauté in butter. Potatoes and eggplant for borscht clean, wash, cut some slices, put in the broth and boil. Add finely shredded cabbage, steamed vegetables, sweet and bitter pepper, fresh tomatoes, cut into pieces, let borscht pokipet 10 minutes. Flour for fry borscht and dilute the remaining broth, pour in the soup, season with salt, add the bay leaf, sugar, vinegar. 

To the table ready to serve soup with sour cream and parsley and dill.

Salads from apples and apricots

Products for salad from apples and apricots: 2 large apples, 2 - 3 carrots, 100 g dried apricots, 100 ml cream, 1 tablespoon of cranberry jam. 

To prepare salad of apples and apricots carrots wash, clean and rub on a coarse grater. Apples salad clean and rub on a coarse grater or chop sticks. Apricots salad washes with warm water and cut in small pieces. Prepared salad ingredients, connect, tuck a mixture of sour cream and jam, mix well and spread into the bowl. 

Garnish with slices of apricot salad and serve.


Pilaf with quince

Products for pilaf with quince: 250 g mutton, 2.5 cups of rice, 150 g butter, 250 g of quince, 3 carrots, 3 onions, 1.5 teaspoon seasoning for pilaf, salt. 

To prepare the pilaf with quince clean and chop onions and carrots. For pilaf lamb chop flesh into small pieces. In hot oil in a cauldron fry meat, salt and pepper. The meat, add onion and fry for 2 - 3 minutes, add chopped carrot. Quince for pilaf clean cut them into cubes and fries them separately in oil. At carrots Put quince, pour in a kettle over carrots and quince well-washed rice. Pour in the water pilaf volume at 1.5 times the amount of rice. Make a big fire, let the water boil pilaf, salt to taste, add seasonings to pilaf. When the water in the kettle boils away almost completely, make a small fire, cover the kettle with a lid and cook until cooked rice pilaf, no mixing. 

When rice is ready, pilaf mix, put on platter and serve. To plow the fresh vegetables, salads, greens.

Fruit salad - vegetable

Products for Fruit Salad - Vegetable: 1 brush of dark grapes, 3 - 4 mandarin, 2 apples, 5 - 6 leaves of lettuce, 200 g of cooked celery root, 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts, 3 tablespoons of crushed almonds for the filling - 100 g cream, 50 g mayonnaise, 1,5 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon chili sauce, sugar, salt. 

To prepare salad, fruit - vegetable brush the apples and cut into thin slices, sprinkle apples with lemon juice to avoid darkening. Celery salad chops into cubes. Mandarins salad clean, divide into slices and cut in half dolki. Grape salad wash, separate from the twigs and berries, cut berries in half, remove seeds. Prepared salad Combine ingredients, add nuts and mix. 

To prepare the filling Combine sour cream with mayonnaise, chili sauce, remaining lemon juice, salt and sugar, mix well. Drizzle with dressing cooked fruit - vegetable salad and put it on 15 - 20 minutes in the refrigerator. 

Lettuce wash shake, lettuce leaves, lay flat on a platter or salad bowl. At the leaves put cooked and chilled salad and serve salad at the table.

Borsch polish

Products for borscht Polish: 2 liters of water, 4 dried mushrooms, 1 onion, 1 carrot, swede 0,5, 2 stalks of onions - Leek, 3 potatoes, 8 pieces of beets 6 tablespoons butter, 0.5 cups of beet juice, 1 cup sour cream, bay leaf, parsley and dill, and salt. 

To prepare the Polish borscht wash mushrooms, soaked for 2 hours in cold water, the infusion of strain and boil it until cooked mushrooms, chop mushrooms. Vegetables (except beets) boil and wipe. Boil beets, cut them, connect with broth from mushrooms and vegetables, add the bay leaf and boil. Add the soup chopped greens, beet juice, butter, and sour cream, salt and bring to a boil. 

Drinks Serve borscht with sour cream.

Cream of kiwi

Products for the cream of Kiwi: 7 kiwifruit, 200 g sugar, 200 g of powdered sugar, 500 ml cream 30% - fat, 3 tablespoons of chocolate. 

To prepare the cream of the kiwi fruit kiwi fruit wash, clean, chop the flesh into cubes and pour 250 ml of boiled water. By kiwi add sugar, mix everything and cook on low heat with stirring for 15 - 20 minutes. Compounding rub through a sieve and leave in a cool place for 2 - 3 hours. To beat the cream of the cream with powdered sugar. Combine the cream with the mashed kiwi, thoroughly mix cream and lay out the form. Cream put in a cool place for 2 - 3 hours. 

When applying to the table cream sprinkle with grated chocolate.


Vegetable Snacks

Products for appetizers from spinach: 100 g bacon, 300 g frozen spinach (slices), 0,5 beam basil, 3 eggs, 25 g breadcrumbs, oil for greasing molds. 

To prepare appetizers spinach bacon chop into cubes and melt in 1 - 2 minutes under the lid with a power of 600 Tues For Bacon, add spinach and cook for 3 minutes under the lid with a power of 600 Tues 

For starters basil wash, dry out and cut straws. Eggs for Snacks and whisk together with the breadcrumbs and basil mix with spinach. Cutters for starters brush with oil, fill with spinach cooked weight, close and within 6 - 8 minutes bake appetizer of spinach with a power of 600 Tues.

Chicken with stuffing

Products chops with stuffing: 750 grams of veal, 100 ml of broth, 50 g lard, 50 g boiled beef tongue, 50 g butter 20 ml white wine, 15 grams flour, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 parsley root, 1 celery root, 1 lemon, salt and pepper. 

To prepare the cutlets stuffed with meat wash, cut into 4 pieces. Chunks of veal repel, they make incisions in the incisions attach cut pieces of language, cut pieces of butter mushrooms or white mushrooms, meat, salt and pepper. At the bottom of the skillet lay slices of bacon, cut into rings of onion, chopped carrot circles. Lay the vegetables on the slices of meat, stuffed mushrooms and language related to the beam celery root and parsley. Pour the meat broth; add the wine, lemon juice. Simmer the meat over low heat for 30 - 35 minutes. Ready burgers Put a saucepan, strain the remaining broth, bring to a boil, and add the flour, previously in removing fat from the broth. 

When serving, pour over the chops to the table a small amount of sauce, and the rest of it is often served in a gravy boat. The meat can apply boiled potatoes, fresh vegetables and greens.


Potato soup with cheese

Products for potato soup with cheese: 2 liters water 4 potatoes, 1 cup shredded cheese, 3 tablespoons flour, 3 tablespoons butter, 3 egg yolks, pepper, lemon juice, salt, herbs. 

To prepare potato soup with cheese meal spasseruyte on oil, dilute with hot water and bring to a boil. Then add chopped potatoes on a grater, salt and pepper and cook until cooked potatoes. Then in soup grated cheese, egg yolks and lemon juice. 

When applying to the table, sprinkle with finely chopped greens soup.


Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Tasty Pumpkin Pie

This cake is ideal to do when you feel like Algonquin happening in your diet plan. Serves 6 

Ingredients: 

1 kg pumpkin, chopped fine 
300 g of fresh cheese 
4 eggs 
50 g of grated cheese 
1 cup double cream 
nutmeg 
salt. 

To serve: 
mashed beans 

Preparation: 

Undo good fresh cheese and mix with the pumpkin and add the cream. 
Beat the egg yolks and add the grated cheese. Includes pumpkin mixture to mix well. 

Season and add a pinch of nutmeg. 
Monte whites until stiff and mix with remaining dough. Put everything in a nonstick pan and put it in the oven water bath for 45 minutes at 180 º. 
Accompanies this cake with a puree of beans.

Nutritious Dish: Salmon Eggs

Today we present this new option, Salmon Eggs, really light and nutritious dish. 

Preparation: 20 minutes 
Serves 4 

Ingredients: 

4 large eggs 
4 slices smoked salmon finite 
1 can of mullet roe (or caviar substitute) 
4 tablespoons evaporated milk 
4 sprigs fresh dill 
Juice of half a lemon 
Sal 
White pepper 

Preparation: 

Remove the eggs from the refrigerator 15 minutes before cooking, so they are at room 
Room temperature. Fill a deep saucepan of water and boil. 

Place eggs in saucepan and add a dash of vinegar so that the exhaust is not clear whether the shell of one of them cracks. 

Simmer 8 minutes and remove. Distribute a sliver of salmon on each plate, sprinkle with lemon juice and garnish with dill. 

Cut a disc from the base of the egg to hold it up and place over salmon. Remove the cap and season to taste. 

Garnish with a spoonful of mullet that you've mixed with evaporated milk.

Creamed Leeks with Asparagus

Today we present this tasty recipe, Creamed Leeks with Asparagus. 

Ingredients: 

1 kg of leeks 
3 potatoes 
Water 
Salt 
24 green asparagus 
Olive oil 
12 slices bread 

Preparation: 

Clean the leeks well. Put water to boil and add the chopped leeks with potatoes, peeled and chopped, salt and a drizzle of olive oil if virgin, best-and let it cook for 30 minutes. 

Once cooked tribunal and pass by the mixer and silo want finer by the Chinese. 
Cook the asparagus for 1 minute and then add them to the cream. 

Accompanies this cream with croutons of bread that you've fried in olive oil. 
Finally, garnish the cream with a drizzle of olive oil.

Enjoy these delicious fruit porter

This time we present these two options with fruit; here we offer these delicious recipes for brand new now. 

Feast of fruit: 

Ingredients: 1 / 4 kg of strawberries, 1 / 4 kg of white and black grapes, 2 apples, diced, 2 kiwis, 1 / 4 kg sugar, water to cover 1 cup of tea and orange liqueur or brandy mixed in equal parts with water. 

With sugar and water to obtain thick syrup, still hot, add the liqueur and fruit. Keep the refrigerator at least 4 hours. Serve fruit compotes, with all its juice and served with vanilla or chocolate ice cream. 

Peach Terrine damask: 

Ingredients: 4 large peaches, 8 apricots, 1 / 2 lemon, 1 / 4 kg sugar, 1 / 4 pint of water, 1 packet gelatin distaste. 

Soak gelatin in 1 / 2 cup of cold water. Prepare light syrup with sugar and water, simmer 10 minutes, remove from heat and stir in, mixing, gelatin. 

Add the cut fruit and pour into a mold wet. Take to the fridge until the next day.

Delicious chicken recipe chilidog

Today you can enjoy this delicious chicken recipe chilidog, as you go to develop the aroma of this dish you will be irresistible. 

Ingredients (4 people): 

150 ccs of oil 
6 cloves garlic 
400 grams of onion 
60 grams of flour 
1 bay leaf 
1 pinch pepper 
2 kilos of chicken 
1 pinch salt 
50 grams of tomato sauce 
300 grams of peeled tomatoes 
1 sprig thyme 
2 green peppers 

Preparation: 

It is chopped and clean chicken. Add salt and pepper and flour. 
Cut the garlic into slices, onion and peppers into strips and tomatoes parties endows. 
Fry chicken in oil and transferred to an earthenware dish, reserving. 
In the same oil, saute garlic, onion and peppers. 
Add the tomatoes. 
Halfway through cooking vegetables to put them over the chicken and cook slowly. 
You add bay leaf, tomato sauce, thyme. 
It is cooked very slowly until chicken is tender.

Rivulets Potatoes Hot Chili Peppers

This time we present this tasty recipe with paprika potatoes Rivulets. 

Ingredients: 

2 kg small potatoes 
a pinch of salt 
a tablespoon of red pepper 
Vinegar 
Garlic 

Preparation: 

You put the potatoes in their skins and water in a pot to cook. When done, remove the water and peel. 

You chop the potatoes in a pan, put the fire and turn them endlessly until they were smaller pieces. 

Then add the paprika and are still spinning. 
Finally, three cloves of garlic crushed in a mortar and add them a glass of wine vinegar. 

Spread the mixture over the potatoes, to take taste.


Cream of Carrot

Today we present this new option for people who are dieting or favor a vegetarian menu. 

For 2-3 people. 

Ingredients: 

2 large carrots 
1 onion 
1 / 2 leek 
3 medium potatoes 
Splash of milk or cream (to taste) (Soya, or optional) 
Sal 
Pepper (optional) 

Preparation: 

It makes a sauce with vegetables all heading into chunks (need not be small if done quick pot). 

Then cover with water and pour salt. Cooking time depends on the pot you use. 

When ready, pass the vegetables with the mixer. It takes a dash of milk or cream (to taste). And served with pepper (optional). 

Changes.... you can change the carrot zucchini, broccoli, and squash ... what have you. The rest is the same.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Easter food Recipe

Easter celebrations last a whole week - Bright Week, but the main festivities take place on the first day - Bright Resurrection. 

In Russia, wealthy families traditionally covered with a bright tablecloth and cakes were served several varieties of Easter, colored eggs in a dish with fresh shoots of wheat, oats, or with specially grown grass called watercress salad, bacon, ham, veal, turkey and other dishes. Adopted at first there was sanctified, and then other foods. 

Easter table colorfully described in the book M. Markiewicz "The customs, beliefs, food and beverages malorossiyan": 
"No master, who would not have to this day a pig, sausage, and a few colored Easter eggs. But Resurrection table wealthy nobleman, who followed Mrs. native antiquities, two, three, even four huge sweet Easter, from the excellent krupitchatoy flour in butter, eggs and sugar, and one or two of sour Easter, Easter cheese, lamb of butter, a couple of pigs - one without the stuffing, the other stuffed with oatmeal and liver, they fuck in the teeth, two lambs - one without the stuffing, the other stuffed with almonds, raisins and rice, ham ham ham and pork under the net of the paper; kendyuh, hog's head in a kind of eyes, olive stuck in the butter, green onions, watercress, lettuce, plate millet, salt on it Chetvergova; excellent bacon into pieces, and several varieties of sausages and sausages, such as: krovyanyya, folks malorossiyskiya, pechenochnyya, etc.; butter, cheese, sour cream, onion roots, all of which taxed dyed in yellow, marble, most in the red dye eggs, and these яйцы gusinyya and kurinyya. Add to this a few varieties of vodkas and liqueurs, and there is perchikovka and kalganovka and cardamom, and Snapper, and plum brandy called Slivovica and robin, and brandy, and Ternivka. 

Here are the traditional ancient recipes cooking for the Easter table. 


Lettuce 
Ingredients: 
bunch of sorrel, lettuce, dandelion leaves, ram son, cilantro, green onions, 2 potatoes, 200 g cream, 400 g of rye bread, 2 tbsp. olive oil, pepper, sugar, salt, vinegar to taste. 
Preparation 
Spring greens wash, dry out and tear the hands of the average. Boil potatoes without the skin, knead, and add cream, salt, pepper, sugar, vinegar. 
Make liquid puree sauce. 
Bread cut into cubes and fry in olive oil. Green expanded into beautiful transparent dishes. 
During the meal, each consumer will put a green on a plate and pours her sauce. 


SALAD Beetroot 
Ingredients: 
1 kg of beet, 100 g of mayonnaise, 3 tablespoons. spoon sour cream, 2 - 3 tbsp. tablespoons grated horseradish, 1 tbsp. tablespoon lemon juice, 1 onion, salt and pepper. 
Preparation 
Beets cook 45 minutes. Cool, peel, cut into strips, put in a bowl. 
Prepare a sauce of mayonnaise, sour cream, horseradish, lemon juice and onion, put salt to taste and pepper. 
Beet pour sauce and decorate with slices of radish. 


Student FISH 
Ingredients: 
100 g fish detail, 100 g large boiled fish, 4 g root of parsley, 1 onion, 1 boiled egg, 1 egg white, canned, cervical cancer, 5 g of crab or shrimp, pimento, salt to taste. 
Preparation 
Fish Trivia (ruffs, perches, etc.) to cook. Broth filter, fold it sturgeon, fillet of pike-perch, burbot, whitefish, catfish or other lean fish, add parsley, onion, salt, pepper, and cook until cooked fish. 
Broth lightens the egg whites. This egg white mixed with cold broth (in the ratio 1:5), enter the hot broth and bring to a boil. Then incubate for 20-25 minutes on the edge of the plate and filter through the canvas. 
In a glass bowl to fit neatly sliced pieces of fish, canned cervical cancer, crab or shrimp, egg and decorate with lemon slices. 
All the fish carefully pour the broth and put in the cold. 


ROLL CAPITAL 
Ingredients: 
300 g chicken meat, 200 grams of duck meat, 200 grams of goose meat, 50 g of cream, 4 egg whites, 100 g cheese, 100 grams of canned peas, 100 grams of ham, 50 g beef liver, salt, herbs. 
Preparation 
Boiled flesh of chicken, duck, goose liver and boiled twice to pass through a meat grinder with a fine grid, beat well, add the grated cheese, green peas, diced ham, chopped fresh herbs, cream and whipped egg whites. 
All is well mixed, lay out in cellophane, to shape roll and bake in the oven regularly greasing the surface of cellophane oil. 
Roll cool, release from cellophane and cut into slices. 
Lodging fresh and pickled vegetables, fruits, herbs. 


EASTER HAM 
Ingredients: 
1,5 kg of ham, 6 eggs, 1 tablespoon. Teaspoon grated horseradish. 
Preparation 
Crude smoked ham wash and place in a large saucepan, add water to completely cover him. However, to put ham boil eggs. 
A low heat to cook the ham until tender. Add the ham cool, without removing it from the broth. 
Cooled leg out onto a plate and cut into portions. Decomposed into an oblong dish. 
Clear hard-boiled eggs, cut lengthwise and arrange on a platter on both sides of ham. 
Serve with grated horseradish or salad. 


Eggs jelly 
Ingredients: 
8 eggs, 400 g nezastyvshego jelly. 
Preparation 
In eggs with a blunt end to make a hole about 1 cm, and with a sharp needle to pierce. To let the protein and the yolk, shell, rinse with cold water. 
Prepare separately a mixture of chocolate, butter and cranberry jelly, and, stirring frequently, give them cool. 
Fill colorful mixtures shells. Piercing the shell with a sharp end to gloss over crumbs. 
Prepared to put the eggs in the refrigerator overnight. 
When the gel hardens, remove the husks and lay eggs, jelly on a dish. 


EAR WHITE CHICKEN 
Ingredients: 
100 g chicken, 50 g onion, 1 pinch of black pepper, 1 pinch of allspice, fresh herbs, salt. 
Preparation 
Processed chicken, pour the hot water, add salt and put to boil. Once boiling reduces the heat and brings the chicken until cooked almost without boiling broth, periodically removing the foam and fat. 
1 hour before the end of cooking in the broth to put whole onions, and for 15-20 minutes - bitter and sweet pepper. 
The finished remove the chicken, chop up into pieces and store in a hot broth. 
Before serving pieces of chicken decomposed into soup plates or bowls and pour strained and boiled broth. 


BAKED LEG 
Ingredients: 
5 kg of ham -- 
For the brine: 1.2 kg salt, 5 liters of water. 
Preparation 
Leg previously pickle for 2 weeks in salt water. For this leg wash in cold water, poskoblit with a knife, put in boiling salted water (not boiling!), Remove the foam to cool the lid again to remove the foam and keep in a cool, dark place (the refrigerator). 
Brine merges. The salty ham to remove from the brine, rinse, pour boiling water and cook with the lid on low heat for about 2-3 hours until tender. 
Then remove from the broth hot, greased and bake in the oven. 
Submit to the table with a garnish of cooked peas or baked apples. 


FILLET IN SHIRT 
Ingredients: 
1,2 kg of pork, pepper, salt, 1 bunch of green onions. 
Filling: 4 small onions, 250 grams mushrooms, 300 grams minced beef, 200 g sour cream, 100 grams of cognac, 1 nutmeg. 
Preparation 
Long thin piece of pork to fry until done, its pre-washing her, drained, with salt and pepper. Thick stalks of green onion cut lengthwise and spread-eagle, pour boiling water salty. Bow pull out and let the water drain. 
Preparing the filling. Onion extinguished in melted butter with mushrooms, add ground beef, sour cream, brandy, grated nutmeg. 
Onion leaves decompose, so that one sheet is on the other. Get exactly Onion surface on which to lay ground beef, and on top - a long piece of pork. 
All wrapped in leaves, placed in a thick-bowl and put in preheated to 180 ° C oven for 30 minutes. 
Put in onion roll shirt on a platter, cut into slices. 
Garnish with vegetable strudel, and among them lay rosettes of mashed potatoes. 


Lamb with Rosemary 
Ingredients: 
2,5 kg of mutton, 2 sprigs rosemary, 2 tsp ground pepper. 
For pickling: 1 liter of water, 50 g of salt, 2 tbsp. tablespoons sugar, 2 cloves of garlic. 
Preparation 
Cut the bone. In place of the bones put rosemary and tie the meat with a thread, giving a piece of original appearance. Grate pepper. Send 2 hours in an oven heated to 175 ° C. 
In bowl pour water, add the salt, sugar, chopped garlic and stir. 
When the meat has cooled, put it in a double plastic bag and pour the salt solution. Firmly tie. In this form, leave the meat for about 5-6 hours. From time to time to turn the bag. 
Ready to remove the meat from the bag and towel dry out prior to the store in the refrigerator. 


LAMB with bone 
Ingredients: 
2 kg Leg of lamb with bone, 1 liter of water, 1 glass of 9% vinegar, 100 g of bacon, 2 heads of garlic, 1 onion, parsley root, pepper, bay leaf, dill, salt. 
Preparation 
Sheep leg (back), rinse, remove fat, soak in water with vinegar for 2-3 hours in the cold. Remove, dry out, and chop garlic, to give lie down for 30 minutes. 
Salt, put in a pan with slices of bacon, onion, pepper, bay leaf, root parsley, dill. Cover with lid, stew for 30 minutes. 
Put lamb in the pan, greased and bake in oven until ready for 2-3 hours, turning and sprinkling with juice. 
Served with fresh or pickled vegetables. 


Pig with horseradish 
Ingredients: 
1 carcass of a pig weighing 1 kg, 1.5 kg of potatoes, 1 tbsp. tablespoon flour, 1 tbsp. tablespoon of butter, 200 g horseradish, 2 tbsp. tablespoons vinegar, 1 cup sour cream, 2 cups of broth, salt, parsley, sweet pepper. 
Preparation 
Prepared to cook a pig in unsalted water until cooked, add salt broth, allow cooling in the broth of a pig to 50-60 ° C, removing and cutting into portions. 
Finished pig served with boiled potatoes and pours sour cream sauce with horseradish sauce, sprinkled with parsley. 
Preparing gravies. The grated radish lightly fried in butter, add the allspice, vinegar and boil until the vinegar does not boil for 3 / 4 of its volume. 
Flour lightly fry, diluted broth, boil, add sour cream, all once again boil over low heat, add salt, drain, mix with mayonnaise, mix well and fill with oil. 


STUFFED TURKEY 
Ingredients: 
1 turkey carcass, 400 g veal or pork, 3 eggs, 3 onions, salt, pepper, 1 white loaf, dried crusts. 
Preparation 
Processed turkey washes, gently remove her skin, cut the fillets and set aside, and everything else the meat off the bones and chop. 
Then add the veal or pork, soaked in water, roll, egg yolks, fried in oil, onion, salt and pepper. All passed through a meat grinder and knead well. 
The skin of turkey with salt, put in her first fillet (pre-salted), and then minced. Farce tight unnecessary. Hole sew and cook in a wind furnace, pouring oil. 
When everything is ready, removes from the oven, quickly smear egg, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and placed back into the oven for 5 minutes. 
Before serving cut with a knife and, if served hot, pour the red sauce and lemon juice. 


PAINTED EGGS 
Method 1 . 
Scraps of silk fadable matter rasschipat, mix, eggs, wash thoroughly, wiped clean of all, then again to moisten, wrapped in silk, to cover all this rag bound with thread and put them into the pan with warm water. From the moment that starts to boil, cook for 10 minutes, remove, cool and then I will remove the rag and silk. 
Method 2. 
Wash eggs clean of all, wipe them, wrap the rag, wrap thread and the top places instill black wooden stick, put them into the water and when the boil, cook for 10 minutes, cool and remove the rag. 
Method 3. 
Onion peel to boil, once boiled infusions, lower in the infusion clean eggs, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Depending on the number of shell eggs can be painted in colors from yellow to reddish-brown. 


Patties EASTER 
Ingredients: 
500 g flour 120 g margarine, 300 g of cottage cheese, 2 eggs, salt. 
For the filling: 400 grams of meat, 2 onions, 1 tbsp. tablespoon vegetable oil. 
Preparation 
Of these products knead a soft dough and put it in the refrigerator (not freezer!) For 20 minutes. 
Preparing the filling. Cooked meat is passed through a meat grinder and mixed with fried onions in vegetable oil. 
The dough is rolled out into a thin layer, cut into small squares (5x5 cm), put the filling and stung edge. 
Top grease patties with the mixture of yolk and milk (1:1) and bake until golden brown. 


Larks 
Ingredients: 
800 g wheat flour, 20 g yeast 800 ml milk, 25 g margarine, 2 eggs (one for lubrication), 100 g sugar, 1 tsp salt, 2 tbsp. tablespoons vegetable oil. 
Preparation 
Prepare dough sponge or bezoparnym way. 
The finished dough is cut into pieces; roll into strips of length 15 and thickness of 2 cm each striped tie knot. 
Derived from upper head. On either side of her stick, two raisins. In the wake of a knife a few slips and lubricate the top bird eggs. 
Bake in the oven. 


Kulich 
Ingredients: 
2 kg of flour, 80 g yeast, 4 cups of milk, 10 eggs, 1.5 cup of raisins, 1 / 2 tsp cardamom, 1 tbsp. teaspoon sugar, 1 / 2 cup almonds, 1 tsp cinnamon, salt, 10 g vanilla powder. 
Preparation 
Milk, yeast, 1 kg of flour dough, adding salt. When the dough rises, knead, put cinnamon, cardamom, sugar, vanilla powder and knead well. When the dough will keep up with the dishes, put beaten egg whites and 10 raisins, kneaded again, adding 1 kg of flour, to give up and make a cake. 
When the dough comes up again, grease the egg yolks and sprinkle with shredded almonds or powdered breadcrumbs and bake in the oven. 
Having taken out of the oven, sprinkle with vanilla powder mixed with sugar. 


Kulich SIMPLE 
Ingredients: 
1,5 kg of flour, 400 g butter, 1.5 cups of milk, 500 g sugar, 100 g of yeast, 250 g of raisins, 1 / 4 teaspoons of salt, zest of one lemon, 8 eggs. 
Preparation 
Dissolve yeast in warm milk, add half of flour, mix well, put in a warm place for 4-5 hours. 
When the dough rises, add the raisins, zest, mix well, to lay out a form and bake. 


Kulich Choux 
Ingredients: 
1,5 kg of flour, 3 / 4 cup butter, 1.5 cups milk, 1 cup of sugar, 10 eggs, 70 g yeast, 150 g raisins, 100 grams of candied fruits, 6 cardamom seeds, 1 / 2 tsp nutmeg nut, 1 / 4 teaspoons of salt, vanillin. 
Preparation 
Flour brew of boiling milk, Stir until smooth. Dissolve yeast in 0.5 cups of warm milk, let stand for 15 minutes, combine with the cooled flour, knead well and put in a warm place for 1 hour. 
Egg yolks rubbed with salt and sugar, combine with the dough. 
Knead well, to give more time to rise. 
Then pour the cooled melted butter, add spices and remaining flour. Good knead the dough, spread out in the form, give up and put in the oven. 


Kulich Front 
Ingredients: 
1 liter of milk, 1 tbsp. tablespoon dry yeast, 2.5 kg of flour, 8 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup of butter, 200 g of sweet almonds, 6 pcs. bitter almonds, 100 g of raisins, 1 tsp salt, vanilla. 
Preparation 
In whole milk to dissolve the dry yeast, pour in the jar, then, podsypaya little flour, make a thick dough for the cake, knead the best possible way to completely lagged behind the Phallus and the edges of the jar, and then add in a strong linen bag, tie it with string at the base and drop in a bucket of room temperature water. 
When the dough comes out, turn over the bag with one corner up and through the pores of fabric will come out the dough, then remove it, cut the string, lay back in the jar, add 1 cup of the dissolved fresh butter (when oil rastopleno, he must give the stand and then carefully pour in dough, leaving a balance at the bottom of the pot), 8 eggs (raw) 2 cups of fine sugar, peeled and well crushed sweet almonds and bitter, salt, pounded and pounded in a mortar with the sugar, vanilla, raisins, all of this to mix with the dough, dipped his hands in cold water. 
When the dough will bubble up and keep on hand - which means it is well vymesheno, then it should be put on the table (a table sprinkled with flour first) and let rise, then take 2 high pots, smear the bottom and sides with oil, sprinkle first roasted and then finely comminuted almonds, put them in the dough and put in a wind furnace, where it continued to leave in a half hours, constantly looking to cake is not scorched. 


Kulich WITHOUT YEAST 
Ingredients: 
400 g flour 60 g butter, 300 ml of milk, 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 / 2 cup of sweet almonds, 1 / 2 cup candied fruit, 4 tablespoons. lemon juice, 1 / 2 teaspoons of baking soda, zest of 1 / 2 lemon, vanilla. 
Preparation 
This cake can bake, when the house was not the yeast or not enough time for preparing dough. It is tasty and original. 
Oil rubbed with the yolks and sugar, gradually pouring lemon juice. Add flour, milk, vanilla, zest, chopped almonds, candied fruit, soda. 
Whip the whites, gently combine with the dough, lay out a form, oiled and sprinkled biscuits. 
Bake in a well-heated oven for 40-50 minutes. 


Chocolate Easter cake 
Ingredients: 
3 cups flour, 50 g yeast, 15 eggs, 100 grams of cocoa, 1-2 glasses of rum, 100 g of red wine, 100 grams of rye crackers, 100 grams of candied fruits, cinnamon, cloves, 1 / 2 tsp cardamom, 1 / 2 tsp ground bergenia, salt. 
Preparation 
Dissolve yeast in a small quantity of milk, mix with flour and place in warm place for fermentation. Then add the ground with sugar, egg yolks, cocoa, rum, wine, ground and sifted crumbs, finely chopped candied fruit and spices.

Christmas Fast

It was established Nativity Fast 
Establishment of Advent, as well as other multi-day fasts, refers to the ancient times of Christianity. From the fourth century St. Ambrose Mediodalansky, Filastry, St. Augustine is mentioned in their works Christmas fast. In the fifth century of the antiquity of Advent wrote Leo the Great. 
Initially Christmas fast lasted from some Christians, seven days, in others - a few more. At the cathedral in 1166 when the former Patriarch of Constantinople Luka and Byzantine emperor Manuel all Christians was laid to keep a fast before the great feast of the Nativity of Christ for forty days. 
Balsamon patriarch of Antioch, wrote that "the very holy Patriarch said that although the days of these positions (of the Assumption and Christmas. - Ed.) Is not defined by rule, urged, however, to follow the unwritten ecclesiastical tradition fast ... 15 days of November ( 28 - new style). 
Christmas post - the last post of several days in a year. It begins Nov. 28 and runs until January 7, lasts for forty days, and because the Church is called in the statute Lent, as well as Lent. Since Zagovezni the post have the feast day of St.. Apostle Philip on November 27, then this post is called Filippov. 


Why set the Christmas post 

Christmas post - Winter post, he gives us the sanctification of the last part of the mysterious renewal of spiritual unity with God and preparing for the celebration of Christmas. 
Leo the Great writes: "The very possession of abstinence were sealed four times that in the year we have learned that constantly need to purify and that the scattering of life should always try our fasting and alms to destroy sin, which multiplied impermanence of flesh and dung wishes." 
According to Leo the Great, Christmas post is a sacrifice to God for the collected fruit. 
"As the Lord uschedril us the fruits of the earth, - writes the saint - and we at the time of this post should be generous to the poor." 
According to Simeon of Thessalonica, the "post Christmas Forty depicts the post of Moses, who fasted forty days and forty nights, got on the stone tablets mark the speech of God. And we fasted for forty days, and look, and acceptable living word of the Virgin, inscribed not on stone, but embodied and born, and become involved in His divine flesh. 
The Christmas post is set for what we have on the day of Christ emptied himself by repentance, prayer and fasting so that with a pure heart, soul and body could meet with reverence who had come to the world of the Son of God and that apart from the usual gifts and sacrifices, to bring Him our heart is pure and the desire to follow His teachings.

Secrets of Christmas baking

Whatever the Christmas traditions of different countries, makes them one - among all sorts of festive dishes on the table must be present spicy sweet pastries. Gingerbread houses, cinnamon biscuits in the form of figures of reindeer, stars, or little people, flavored muffins with raisins, candied fruit with soft rolls, crispy sugar bagels ... not list all; each has its own culinary options for Christmas baking. But what would not be discussed - whether German or Scandinavian peperkok Stoll, in all these formulations will have plenty in common. 
Common denominator 

Almost all Christmas cake is prepared in advance. Historically, this is a very simple explanation: such dishes require the participation of "skoromnyh products: eggs, milk, butter - so they decided it was preparing on the eve of Advent and keep up to the holiday. 
What is the secret of their long storage? 

Dried fruit and / or syrup - necessary parties "long-playing baking, they can not grow stale cakes, biscuits and cakes. 

Role of boiled sugar syrup can also serve as maple syrup, honey, molasses (potato or corn). In today's recipes Christmas baking is fairly frequent unrefined - "brown" - cane sugar. 

Another common ingredient - spirits - not to impede the process cherstvleniya, but does not bake moldy, speaking as asepsis. The same is true of different spices - cloves, cinnamon, black pepper and pimento, and ginger. 

Ginger has long been known as a preservative, was used in the manufacture of various drinks and breads that not only adds to them some flavor, but also increased the shelf life. 

Not surprisingly, it was ginger - the main note of Christmas baking. 
What we have in the pudding? 

Sometimes you get confused what is meant by the word "pudding", it can be, and pastries such as cakes and cottage cheese dessert, such as yogurt. 

In fact, the English word "pudding" substituted the word "dessert". Pudding - is something that is traditionally prepared "third dish. Zharilos meat on skewers cooked in a large soup pot, but on this boiler in the rag for a couple and prepared pudding. This does not necessarily have been a sweet dish, but most often it is a dessert option. The famous Christmas Plum pudding originates from such dishes as "Plum-porridzh: oatmeal, boiled in meat broth with the addition of nuts, honey and prunes. Actually, due to Prune, the name and for the specific oatmeal, and for the Christmas pudding (plum - plum). 

In the classical formulations for the Plum-pudding are needed beef perinephric fat, nuts, dried fruit, baby rusks, caramelized syrup, or dark beer el top fermentation, eggs and spices. Prepares it in two days. Originally need to mix all ingredients and leave them on the day. And the next day boil it for a couple of 4 to 8 hours (depending on the size of the pudding). Be maintained a dish may, within six months, or even longer. Before serving, reheat it must also steamed. Pudding served not only hot, but burning, flambiruya rum or brandy. 

Other traditional British dish - a Christmas cake, is also preparing in advance (6 weeks before Christmas), its membership must include dried fruits, steeped in brandy or other aromatic distillate and molasses. Baked cake wrapped in foil or waxed paper, stored at room temperature and weekly soaked with cognac. 
German roots 

If England can be regarded as the birthplace of cakes, Germany holds the palm in the class cakes and cookies.
Primogenitor considered German Debouche (honey cake), and the capital "lebkuhenov" - the city of Nuremberg. Since 1996, the "Nuremberg lebkuhen" protected by the law on controlling the name of the place of birth. 

The first record of those sticks found in the monastic chronicles already in the XIII century. Of course, the recipes "honey cakes" were known in ancient Egypt. But the German know-how was it to add a large portion of spices in the dough: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves. 

Unlike our usual solid cakes, scones Nuremberg "- soft, it is the dough used for the construction of various" gingerbread houses and other buildings and figurines. These cakes made to paint the colored glaze and chocolate. Just brown cakes are baked throughout the year, but special Christmas subtle differ starch coating, and their season comes in winter. Sometimes before baking gingerbread made in a small hole, so you can pass a string and decorate this cake tree. 

But the German Christmas cuisine is known not only cakes. Classic pie - Stoll - also has a long history. 

Let's start with the fact that the tunnels are a rare variant of yeast Christmas baking. For him, using very heavy and very biscuit dough. Stoll is baked with raisins, nuts, candied fruits, poppy seeds, and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Their shape and white color, he symbolized the infant Christ, and to the XV century, was a dish of "lean menus (kneading the dough by rapeseed oil). 

German nobles repeatedly appealed to the Pope - on the admissibility of butter in the baking, and in 1491 Pope Innocent VIII in "oily letter, authorized the use of baking. German gourmets, this assumption is cost expensive, because the replacement had to allocate funds for the construction of Freiberg Cathedral - as”repentance". But since those times Stoll confidently took his place at the festive table. 
Snacks mulled 

Scandinavian nations - known to fans Spiced hot alcohol: glegov and mulled wine. Virtually the same set of spices they use and while cooking the traditional Christmas cookies - peperkok (he piparkook Estonian, Latvian alias piparkukas). The dough for these cookies is very similar to the German gingerbread, but the products differ in that they are light, thin and crispy. Despite the presence in the title of "pepper", it is not intended that they pepper, black pepper, if added, in small quantities. Rather appropriate additives allspice, a well - cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, and sometimes orange peel. Cookies do not get "pepper", but spicy. For the dough is also used molasses or brown sugar. 
And what do you have? 

If you do not have time to stock up the cake in advance, you should not completely abandon the idea of Christmas baking. Two or three weeks is enough to make your cake or cake managed to ripen. You can use the classic recipes, and you can unleash the imagination: in addition to raisins and prunes add to your baked dried cherries, figs, candied pineapples and mangoes. Aromatize "children's cake" is not alcohol, and oil of bitter almonds. Knead the flour with cocoa powder, or add pieces of chocolate. And it is possible some of the flour substitute nuts, pulverized into powder (almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts). 

I'm making a Christmas cake, based on the recipe for "a quarter the cake," which in England is called "pound" as the French quartet-quarts (four quarters), it is easy to remember: all the main products are taken in equal proportions: in ¼ pieces. 

The mass of egg count of 50 grams each (it's egg "first category"), then at 5 eggs, we need 250 grams of flour, 250 grams of butter and 250 grams of brown sugar. Moreover in the dough adds about 300 grams of dried fruits and nuts, in advance of soaked in an aromatic distillate (brandy, rum, whiskey, liquor), I soaked them for at least a week before baking and store in a closed container. This is a major proportion; the total amount of the test can be reduced or increased depending on your appetites. 

All products for the cake should be at room temperature (eggs butter and remove from the refrigerator in advance). Whip the butter with sugar until they are smooth, and then enter one egg, each time whipping up density. Gradually add the flour and dried fruits in the end, which should be dipped in flour, so they are uniformly distributed in the test. Bake in an oven heated to 150 degrees about 1,5 hours or even longer. The degree of willingness to identify a wooden toothpick. 

Note: this dough you can bake in a square shape or in a special circular (with a hole in the middle), or distribute small portions in small bowls. In the latter case, baking time is reduced to 40-45 minutes. 

Finished cake should allow to cool in the form, and then on the grid in the oven. Cooled cake wrapped in foil, put in the closet and forgotten until Christmas Eve. However, its flavor will not allow itself to forget. 

As soon as I put my cake in the oven, my daughter took a nose and said: 

- Estonia smells... 

Then he added: 

- Tallinn Old Town... 

And then clarified: 

- Christmas Fair at the Town Hall Square! 

The girl has a good nose...

Saturday, March 13, 2010

How to get rid of hunger, sitting on a diet?

How to get rid of hunger, sitting on a diet?  
 
Those who sits on a diet too familiar hunger cramps and plaintive collywobbles. Favorite snacks - chips, nuts, crackers, sweets - are hidden in the farthest cupboard. How to defeat hunger and it does not go beyond the diet? Help the Council expert nutritionist’s portal Health.com 

1. Prepare the potato salad 

Potatoes are not so terrible, as they represent. It contains starch, which is getting into the digestive tract, starts to act on the body as tissue, maintaining blood sugar levels and reducing fat. Cold potatoes, of which more preferable to salad, double the useful properties of starch. 

2. Have breakfast 

More recently, confirmed that the breakfast save from obesity. Moreover, people do not let the morning meal, resulting digest 5% fewer calories than those who neglect breakfast. Also breakfast was not necessarily to be tight: oatmeal, fruit and low fat yogurt fill your stomach and do not give a feeling of hunger appear until dinner. 

3. Use a blender 

The study found the liquid food fills the stomach is better and faster than the feeling of satiety. Failed to prove that vegetables, shredded in a blender two times longer than the provisions on the instructions saturate at 12% better. 

4. Replace candy flavors 

The smell of vanilla is easy to help a man sitting on a diet, avoid the temptation to eat ice cream or other forbidden sweetness. According to the theory of scientists, the aroma of vanilla "tricks" the brain, causing him to feel that sweet body already received. Works any vanilla flavor: soap, shampoo, body lotion, cream and even scented candles. Come and a special spray - air freshener. 

5. Simmer lentil soup 

According to a recent study, people who include in his scheme to supply products with high fiber content - sweet potatoes, lentils and apples - lose weight much faster than those who adhere to a diet low in fiber. Lentils have a low glycemic index, ie, carbohydrates; lentils slowly blood glucose and, accordingly, rarely leave you alone with the feeling of hunger. 

6. Snack wisely 

It turns out that a correct bite, not only does not contribute to weight gain, but also helps to lose weight. This is due to suppression of feelings of hunger: snacks such as strawberries, broccoli and sweet potatoes, low-calorie, but nutritious, long leave feeling of satiety. 

7. Breathe deeply 

Stress dramatically increases the level of cortisol in the body, and he, in turn, prevents the formation of lepton - a hormone that contributes to a feeling of satiety. As a result, the more stress you feel, the less you feel satiated. Thus, there is "emotional eating". Only one way out: take a deep breath at the expense of five and release of a tension; let her shoulders fall down, like you - ball. At the expense of five take a deep breath, and then try again. Deal with such breathing exercises for five minutes every time you want to nervous system something to chew.

Fine (5) surprising ways to a flat stomach

Think flat stomach - the result of grueling workouts at the gym? Not at all. To receive news of your dreams, you must eat right and less nervous. So, what will help you to achieve the ideal shape of the abdomen? 

1. Oily food 

Do you think fat - the worst enemy of your figure? Not at all, at least, not all. So-called monounsaturated fats, nutritionists say, conversely, can save you from excess fat in the abdominal area. A study conducted by experts at Yale University, showed that the monthly diet high in these fats enough to say goodbye to one-third of adipose tissue around the abdomen. 

In addition, monounsaturated considered a preventive measure against heart disease, liver, diabetes, and breast and lung. They contain in olive oil, nuts, avocados and dark chocolate. 

2. Healthy bowels 

You'll be surprised, but the additional volume of your stomach adds ... air. In order to avoid his presence in your gut, follow a few simple rules: 

Eat slowly and try not to open your mouth too wide. As long as you chew, the esophagus, along with food enters the air. In addition to bloating, this is fraught with another unpleasant consequence - Belch. 

Do not drink soda. Where do you think becomes of bubbles? 

Do not click on products that contribute to gas formation: cabbage, beans, peppers, pears and citrus. 

Eat less salt: salty food provokes thirst, and everything else, retains moisture in your body. Because of it, you also look better. 

Do not eat raw vegetables. Boiled contain the same nutrients, but hold in your stomach much less space. A distended stomach - the same path to the bulging belly. 

Forget about chewing gum. As long as you chew, you can also capture the excess air that enters the esophagus and then into the stomach. 

Eat regularly. Interruptions in the diet, smoking and alcohol abuse also contribute to gas formation and indigestion. 

3. Stale bread 

Bakery products have always been somewhat inconsistent with slender figure. And this is partly true: the bread from soft wheat varieties contain the most harmful to our waist carbohydrates. In addition, British dieticians claim that many manufacturers of bread added to their products, special preservative, allowing baking longer remain soft. Naturally, this bread is easier to sell than stale bread, but in our gut it affects not the best way. One of the consequences - the same indigestion. 

The good news: in order to rid him of this trouble, does not necessarily give up bread completely. Just buy special crackers (or make them yourself) or hard bread from durum wheat. Due to the fact that they are tough, but light, eat them as much as fresh pastries, you can not, and thus saves on calories. Moreover, they have a lot of fiber, useful for your intestines, and, according to recent data, slim your waist. 

4. Meditation 

What sins are not only accused the doctor’s stress. Now, everything else, it is also called one of the possible causes of obesity. When we feel nervous, in our body appears the stress hormone cortisol, which stimulates hunger and especially - the craving for sugary and fatty. In addition, excessive cortisol serves a unique selection signal for our body, and means it: "it is time to accumulate shirk tummy. Thus our body is preparing for even more powerful shocks, when he may need a quick and easy access to supplies of energy. So try not to get nervous, drink tea with mint and meditate for 5-10 minutes a day. 

5. Exercises for ... back 

Many people try to get rid of fat on the abdomen, exhausting itself exercises for the press - ups the body and legs, simulators, etc. Well, the harm that will not happen, but the peculiar aesthetic benefits, too. You can inflate an iron press, but then flat your stomach just will not. Therefore, women should select exercises complexes especially carefully. Try this: Lie on your stomach, bend your knees and lift body. Perform 3 sets po15 times. Now straighten the legs and lie down straight. Raise both legs and body, pulling his hands. Repeat 10 times, 2 sets. Finally, the last thing: from a prone position on his stomach, lift the legs and hands chained to the castle, and shook his belly. Perform 2 sets of 20 times. So you get not only a flat tummy, but a strong back, pulled her back and buttocks.

Some "Harmful" foods which may be useful

The unexpected truth about meat, kebab and ice cream: they're better than you think, says dietician. 

Meat:
If every time I hear from a woman that she was on “red” meat to lose weight and become a “healthy”, I would have assumed a leg of lamb, I would be able to open a butcher shop. In fact, the lean “red” meat less fat than chicken, especially fed. Even the 100 grams of chicken fed with corn, contains 129 calories and 4.8 grams of fat, compared with 135 calories and 4.5 grams of total fat in a slice of lean meat of the same weight of sirloin beef carcasses. Moreover, sirloin beef contains three times uplifted tone of iron (which is not enough for many women in the UK) and almost four times more zinc, needed for immunity. But what about the saturated fat that clogs the arteries? – You ask. Chicken, fed with corn, not much better. Nobody calls you every day, cutting into the ham or bacon, but “red” lean meat, consumed several times a week can be a good addition to your diet. 

Cream:
Of course, if you each evening watching television do away with the whole wash basin ice cream Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough, perhaps you will bring benefit to their health. But no need to completely rule out ice cream from your diet, trying to stay in shape. Creams slowly digested. In other words, it is processed in the stomach slowly and gradually saturates the blood sugar, but because, unlike other desserts such as sorbet or puddings and cakes with whipped cream, it is possible to eat a little more and you do not want. Regular ice cream ball weighing 75 grams contains only 114 calories and 6 grams of fat and is more successful completion of a dinner for those who follow the figure, than a piece of cheese cake contains 511 calories and 43 grams of fat scary. 

White bread: 
Trying to increase consumption of fiber, many of us move from white bread to whole meal bread, thinking that a better choice. Thus you actually increase your consumption of fiber. While the 50-gram piece of white bread contains 0.8 grams of fiber in the same quantity of grain with the bran contains 2.5 grams of fiber (daily rate is 18 grams), which is very helpful for your gut. But white bread is superior to other varieties on the content of minerals. This is because since the Second World War, the entire meal for the preparation of white bread in the UK is saturated with calcium and iron and B vitamins - B1 and nicotinic acid. Therefore, white bread contains no less useful for bone calcium than bread and bran. And here is an interesting nuance: as white bread contains less fat your body absorbs more calcium, as the fiber prevents the absorption of calcium. So, if your family strongly refuses of bread with, you can leave your feelings about healthy living, since this refusal will also have dietary value. 

Butter: 
I never could understand why everyone wants to replace an appetizing piece of butter, whipped from milk, a mixture of oils, industrial production, artificially burdened to the state of margarine. Well, if you have naturally high cholesterol, this makes sense. But on the other hand, the 10-gram piece of butter, which is quite enough to cover a thin layer of two pieces of bread, which contains 8 grams of fat, of which 5 grams are saturated fat. It's about a quarter of the daily value of fat for women and nearly a sixth of - for men. If you consider that the same amount of fat contained in a small portion of a latte from the coffee, go to a cappuccino without the foam, you can safely return to their toasts with butter for breakfast or sandwiches for lunch. More good news - oil is one of the few products that contain vitamin D (cod liver oil also contains it). The oil is dark yellow, which is prepared from cows eat grass, not hay, contains antioxidant beta-carotene, useful for lung and heart. 

Kebab: 
Kebab, which is more commonly associated with undeveloped taste than with a healthy way of life, hardly worthy of positive feedback. But barbecue is one of the healthiest dishes in the menu of fast food restaurants. The standard portion of lamb shish kebab contains 232 calories and 6 grams of fat (even less than the same portion of chicken kebab) and a set of useful minerals, including iron. Order an extra helping of salad - and you can include it in its program of "five fruits or vegetables a day." However dollop of garlic sauce, served with BBQ, has tarnished rainbow diet now. This is just mayonnaise with garlic, tablespoon of which contains 207 calories and 22 grams of fat (compared with the standard hamburger from McDonald's contains 250 calories and 8 grams of fat, seems more reasonable alternative). Eat it with chicken barbecue, and you can not go wrong.

Eleven easy ways to burn calories

Anyone who has ever tried to lose those extra pounds knows that it is possible. But maybe you is not as necessary as it seems. The fact that you throw all the forces to solve the problem can cause rejection of the plan, which you swore perform. 

"You have to start small," - says Holly Wyatt, an impartial investigator Institute of Nutrition in Denver. - "People have a tendency to take on programs to reduce weight and at the same time trying to change everything in life." 

Experts say that this is the problem. Such attempt at radical change does not always lead to success. Want to find a simple solution? Take control of your diet and sports, which can burn calories with maximum effect. 

"For example, every day is enough to burn about 100 calories, not to gain 1-2 pounds (1 pound = 453.59237 grams), which, on average, a person gains for the year", - said Wyatt, who was one of the authors of the study related to struggle with obesity, the journal Saint. "To lose weight you need to do next - she says - to burn 500 calories a day. But we should not exclude them from your diet. "You can eat 250 calories less and burn 250 to walk 30-45 minutes. A week later you will lose about 1 pound (1 pound = 453.59237 grams)," - says Wyatt. But once you will not see drastic changes. 

1. Instead, order main dish meals 

It's no secret that over the past 20 years portion sizes in restaurants have grown exponentially. Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill showed that the average hamburger was 23% higher than it was in 1977, and soft drinks - 50%. So, instead of ordering a main course, the columns select appetizers pasta and salad or soup. Smaller portions do not mislead you with this goal. 

2. Sidestep Vending machines for drinks or food 

You should not eat up a huge stack of chips at once. Food should be taken in small portions. 

3. Start with a salad... 

and during the next meal you may eat less - said in a recent study by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania. 33 women who participated in the study, eating a garden salad for 20 minutes before the main course of pasta. Despite the fact that the salad sprinkled with plain, low fat mozzarella and low-calorie Italian dressing instead of high-fat sauces, the day women consumed 10% fewer calories. 

4. Dip fork in the refueling 

If you prefer your salad dressing, dip a fork into it before it spread on the green plug. This method allows avoiding up to 500 calories - saying Lisa Lakiotis and Tammy Lakiotis Shames, authors of the book "How to speed up your metabolism. 9 proven principles of weight loss." If the fork, which had been put in filling, dipped in buttermilk, then the plug will remain more cream filling and the calories contained in it. 

5. Keep track of calories in coffee 

A favorite by much coffee can contain as many calories as contained in the full lunch. For example, 16 drops of coffee Starbucks Cafe Mocha, with whole milk contains 400 calories-as much as is contained in a sandwich with grilled chicken, along with 22 oz. Fat and 33 grams. Sugar. If you get tired of regular coffee, dilute with coffee latte skim milk or 2% milk. 

6. Walk and talk 

The next time you're chatting on a mobile phone, put on your shoes and wander through the corridors at work or walk along the street. With such a 10-minute walk every working day with an average speed of 3 miles per hour (1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers), you burn about 1,000 calories per month and you reset the 3 pounds (1 pound = 453.59237 grams) per year. 

7. Eat nuts 

People who adhere to a diet based on research at Harvard University who eat up a handful of peanuts or nuts of different varieties on a daily basis, able to lose weight faster than the group of subjects, whose regime does not include meals with high fat content. But keep in mind that nuts are not only rich in natural fats for the heart but dense, control their consumption: Eat 15 pieces of almonds or cashews or 30 pistachios. 

8. Do not just sit 

Most people burn 100 calories an hour sitting and 140 - while standing. Another 6 pounds per year (1 pound = 453.59237 grams) you can save, if at work 2 hours a day you will stand. To this end, Frances Wilkins, publisher of diets for Slimming Memory Minder, puts on the desktop in the office of the table of weight measurement. "As a result, I no longer move, which allows me to change position," - she said. 

9. The more you sleep the more calories you burn 


According to recent research published in The Lancet, insomnia may prevent you from losing excess program. Because of the lack of sleep the brain is in a state of stress, a sharp increase in the production of the hormone cortisol, which regulates appetite. This reinforces the binge eating and intensifies the feeling of hunger, and moreover, from for lack of sleep, your body care not burn carbohydrates that turn into large amounts of fat. 

10. Double protein 

Rich in protein, low crab approach helps you to prevent loss of muscle mass along with fat, according to new research published in The Journal of Nutrition. 24 women with overweight ate 300 grams of lean meat, 3 servings of dairy products with low fat content and at least 5 servings of vegetables a day - on average, doubling the amount of protein and reducing the amount of carbohydrates that are consumed by the average American. Over 10 weeks, women have lost 16 pounds (1 pound = 453.59237 grams), about as much as the group of subjects, which was fed Program USDA Food Pyramid ". Women increasing the amount of protein to lose weight for more than 2 pounds (1 pound = 453.59237 grams). The secret is the following: Lucien (amino acid) found in beef, dairy products, to poultry, fish and eggs. According to research by Donald Lehman, Ph.D. Institute of Illinois, Lucien helps maintain muscle tissue. 

11. Keep a "sports magazine" 

Record their achievements - a great way to monitor progress, give yourself positive feedback and concentrate on their tasks. Molly Kimball, a sports nutritionist Sonora in New Orleans, offers its customers to show their "sports magazines" friends. Record your successes and an aspiration teaches accountability.

Eat garlic every day - and the pressure will be normal

Daily consumption of garlic is no worse than a course of medical treatment, scientists say. 

Garlic - one of the most popular heroes of our folk medicine. At least, in the fight against the common cold to him no doubt. Recently, overseas scientists found another useful feature of this undemanding plant. It turns out that if you take it every day in certain doses, can be put in order your blood pressure. 

To make such a conclusion, Australian doctors examined data from several hundred patients who took garlic in powdered form for 5 months. By the end of the probationary period, the overwhelming majority of patients, doctors have registered a significant reduction in pressure; the higher the pressure was initially, the stronger was the curative effect. 

As the authors say the study, all a matter of allicin contained in garlic. A daily dose of the substance, sufficient to treat hypertension, estimated at 3,6-5,4 mg. That is the day we need to eat a clove of medium size. However, it remains unclear whether the "garlic therapy" long-term effect. Perhaps to maintain blood pressure will have the effect of garlic without a break, writes Daily Mail. 

Despite the incompleteness of the work, the researchers say this discovery may be an important step towards ridding humanity of yummy heart disease. For high blood pressure - not only a symptom, but the cause of many ills, including heart attacks and strokes. However, to make a person switch to a healthy diet, lose weight and stop smoking is not so easy, though it is such advice doctors give to those who suffer from hypertension. As for pills, they can be quite unpleasant side effects and also cost money. Garlic also cost you less, but also has side effects - for example, a sharp odor and is not the most pleasant taste.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Carrot salad with nettles and garlic

Products for salad: 5 pieces of carrots, 4 tablespoons chopped nettles, 4 cloves garlic, 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts, 4 tablespoons mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons finely chopped green onions 2 boiled eggs, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, salt. 

To prepare the salad raw carrots grate on a coarse grater, mix with chopped nettle leaves, garlic, walnuts, add the lemon juice, salt. Fill lettuce with mayonnaise, sprinkle with green onions, garnish with boiled eggs.

Potato salad with salmon

Products for potato salad with salmon: 400 g potatoes, boiled in their skins, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 cucumber, 300 g smoked salmon 1 teaspoon horseradish 1 teaspoon lemon juice, salt, pepper , 3 tablespoons sesame seeds, fennel. 

To make potato salad with salmon Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes. Heat the butter in a frying pan and fry potatoes in it until golden brown. Cucumber salad chop into cubes. 

Salmon salad chop into strips. 

Prepare salad dressing by mixing olive oil, horseradish, lemon juice, ground black pepper. Sesame seed salad fry in a pan without oil. Dill wash and oschipite leaves. Mix the potatoes with salmon and cucumber. Pour salad dressing, sprinkle with sesame seeds and dill.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Salads from prunes

Products salad prunes: 600 g prunes, 2 cups shelled walnuts, 100 ml of sour cream or mayonnaise, 3 teaspoons of sugar. 

To prepare salad prune prunes wash, cover with cold boiled water at night. When the prunes soften, remove the seeds, berries salad dry out a napkin. 

Walnuts interpret in a mortar so as to obtain a homogeneous oily mass. Stuff the compounding each fruit prunes. Prunes and nuts put in a bowl heaped with sour cream and pour over sugar. You fill salad with mayonnaise.

Pies Moscow with mushrooms

Food for the pies in Moscow with mushrooms: 200 g of dried mushrooms, 1 onion, 2 - 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, 100 g of rice, salt, pepper, ready-made yeast dough. 

To make pies Moscow with mushrooms Prepare yeast dough in water and vegetable oil. Mushrooms pies to cook, drain, rinse, skip through a meat grinder or finely chop. Onions for pies chopped, lightly fry, dobvte mushrooms to the onions, fry together for 3 - 5 minutes. Fried mushrooms with onions cool, crisp soedinites cooked rice, stir, filling salt and pepper. Dough and make the filling GOALS Pies. 

Ready Pies to the table with mushroom broth.

Cabbage soup with apples

Ingredients: 100 g white cabbage, 2 potatoes, 1 small carrot and a similar piece of celery, 1 / 2 onion, a piece of turnip or rutabaga, a few leaves of parsley, 1 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 / 2 tomatoes or 1 tablespoon of tomato juice 1 / 2 apples, 400 g of water, salt to taste. 

To prepare soup potatoes, celery, turnip or swede be cleaned, cut into cubes, put in a pot of boiling water. Chopped onion and sliced thin circles carrots simmered with vegetable oil and a little water, put sliced tomatoes or tomato juice, bring to a boil and add to vegetables. 

Wash the cabbage, cut into small squares, put in a pot with vegetables and cook until done. In the finished soup add chopped raw julienned apples, pour the solution of salt and boil. Applying the table soup with apples, place in bowl cream and finely shredded parsley.

Cabbage soup with white beans

Products soup with white beans: 30 g butter, 1 onion, 2 carrots, 1 stalk celery, 2 cloves of garlic, 250 g smoked ham, 1 potato, 1 liter of chicken broth, 1 teaspoon of the mixture of dried herbs, 225 g of cabbage, 225 g cooked beans, black pepper, 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese. 

To prepare the soup with white beans, all the vegetables clean and cut. Melt the butter in a saucepan and sauté it with the lid onions, carrots, celery and garlic on a moderate heat for 10 minutes. Add the fire, put in a pot chopped ham. Fry the ham with vegetables, stirring occasionally. Add the potatoes in a saucepan and dried herbs, pour in broth and bring to a boil. Turn down the flame, cover the pan and cook soup on low heat for 15 minutes, then add cabbage and beans. Cabbage soup pepper, cover with lid and cook on low heat for 5 minutes.

Steam mackerel with vegetables

Products for steam mackerel with vegetables: 4 small mackerel, a few slices of lemon, black pepper, 2 small fennel, 0,5 kg of potatoes, 175 g green peas, salt. 

To make steam mackerel fish with vegetables to cut, clean the fennel stalks and finely chop, greens leave for decoration. Potatoes for mackerel clean and cut circles. Fill a pot halfway with water and put lemon rings. Grid brush with butter and place in a saucepan. Every Rybin pepper and salt inside and out and fill the fish fennel. On the grid, place the circles of potatoes, potatoes Arrange fish (mackerel), some fish, lay green peas. Carefully cover the fish with potatoes with foil and even the top cover with foil pan. Let the water boil, reduce heat and simmer for a couple of mackerel for 15 minutes until cooked fish and vegetables. Decorate mackerel with vegetables, herbs fennel, lemon slices and serve.