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Bosnian Potatoe Pie

2011-09-24T09:13:00.000-07:00

Ahh, potatoe pie. I made it today..well, this dish is a bit complicated to make, but believe me, it is worth it. I could eat potatoe pie every day. This is the second time this week I am making it :)

Ingredients (filling)

Potatoe filling

- 1.5 kg. potatoes
- 1 big onion
- salt
- pepper
- oil

Ingredients (dough)

- 2 cups flour
- salt
- water

Preparation (filling)

Peel the potatoes, dice it, and put it in a large bowl, then add diced onion, salt and pepper and mix it all well with ur hands. Leave it in a covered bowl.

Preparation ( dough)

Now, the dough is being prepared after the filling so it doesn't get too sticky when molded.
Put flour and salt in a bowl, then add water to create hard non sticky dough. One small cup of water is usually all it takes. Once the dough is ready for moulding, split it in four pieces. Mould every piece separately into a fine dough ball, then soak the balls in oil on each side, and live them to rest for 10 minutes.

Now, here comes the tricky part; Using the rolling pin, roll each piece as tin as you can (so it is see through). When rolling the dough, use as much flour as you need to keep the dough from sticking to the rolling pin and surface. Sprinkle some oil on a rolled dough, and then put potatoe filling all over it (just like the pictuce says). Roll on each side, and put it in an oven pan. Bake the pie in a 250 C preheated oven for 20 minutes.
After the pie is baked pour it with 3 dcl. of salted boiled water, and leave it covered for 10 minutes.
You can also sprinke the pie with some melted butter. This pie is almost always served with yogurt.

Pie ready for the oven

Pie ready to be sevred :)

Squash potatoe "pizza"

2011-09-22T05:19:00.000-07:00

Now, this is a healthy kind of "pizza" that kids just love. So, if you have kids, and want to trick them into eating something healty, and not just let them pump up with carbs, this is a reciepe for you.

Time to prepare: About 1 hour

Ingredients

- 1 medium white or green squash
- 6 medium potatoes
- 1 small onion
- 2 medium tomatoes
- oil
- 3 medium eggs
- 2 dcl. milk
- salt

- pepper
- sweet red paprika powder
- 1/2 teaspoon curry

Preparation

Dice or slice sqush, potatoes and onions, then put it in a large bowl. Salt the mixture, and put about 2 large spoons of oil in it, then add, sweet red paprika powder and pepper. Mix it all well using your hands, and then place it into the oven pan. Slice the tomatoes, and place them over the mixture in the pan. Bake in a preheated 200 C oven. for 20 - 25 minutes. While the squash and potatoes are bakeing, beat eggs and mix them with milk, then add curry, and a pinch of salt. After 20 - 25 minutes take out the pan from the oven and pour milk and eggs over it. Take the pan back into the oven, and bake for another 5-7 minutes. Take the dish out of the oven, and let it cool for 15 minutes uncovered. Cut the dish into squares or pizza triangles and serve.

Oven baked paprika with milk

2011-09-22T02:09:00.000-07:00

Paprikas are one of my favorite vegetables, and I dont like doing experiments with it. This is the way the paprika is almost always eaten in my home. I got this reciepe from my mom, and she got it from hers. Again, it is very simple, and it isn't time consuming.

Time to prepare: about 40 minutes

Ingredients

- Paprikas (number of paprikas depend on the size of an oven pan you are using)
- Salt
- about 2 dcl. of milk ( for 8-10 paprikas)
- 2 pieces of garlic (you can also use powderd garlic - 1 teaspoon)

Preparation

Using your finger poke a hole in each paprika, and put a little salt in each hole. Place poked paprikas in an oiled oven pan one beside the other so that they are touching. Bake them for about 10 minutes in a preheated oven set to 200 C. After 10 minutes, take the pan out of the oven, and turn each paprika. Bake them for another 10 minutes on the same heat. While the paprikas are in the oven, heat the milk to boiling point, put a pinch of salt in it and copped or powdered garlic, mix it all up, pour the mixture in the pan with paprikas, and bake for another 5 - 7 minutes. You can serve them solo, with mashed patatoes, rice, meat..etc.

Fast chocolate peanut balls

2011-09-19T05:33:00.000-07:00

Here is another fast and delicious receipe, but this time it is a desert :) I just love these yummy balls, and kids love it too because of the peanuts.

Time to prepare: about 40 minutes

Ingredients

- 400 gr. of any kind of crushed cookies

Granulated peanuts

- 150 gr. of granulated peanuts

- 1/2 litre of chocholate pudding

- 100 gr. butter

- 100 gr. dark cooking chocolate

- 1 spoon vanilla sugar

Mixing pudding and butter

Crushed cookies

Preparation

Put crushed cookies into a large bowl or a pot then add sliced chocolate, and vanilla sugar. In another bowl mix butter with pudding, and add to the bowl with the cookies. Mix the dough until it becomes solid for moulding. Mould the dough into the balls and roll each ball into the granulated peanuts.

Now, you have your perfect desert. This is even more tasty if you put it in a fridge for about an hour before serving. Bon apetite:)

Dough ready for moulding

World's healthiest food

2011-09-18T22:23:00.000-07:00

The other day I was talking to some people about food, and the disccusion was all about healthy eating, cooking etc. What I noticed is that none of them actuely knew what kinds of foods are the healthiest. Everyone were all about vegetables, and they didn't go further then that. OK, vegetables are healthy, but there are tons of other food that are even healthier. Today I am going to tell you about 7 kinds of food that world's most famous nutricionists recomend, and placed high on the list of being healthy.

- Mushrooms

First of all you should be careful with this food. Recomended daily dosage of mushrooms is abaout 400 gr. Besides being very delicious, they are one of the main foods that help in preventing breast cancer with woman.

- Walnut

Walnut is very rich in Omega 3. It also regulates body cholesterol, and in that way preventing all kinds of heart diseases.

- Barley

This food also helps in fighting cholesterol, and heart diseases. Barley is also very rich in fibres so it helps to regulate digestion too.

- Low fat milk

Milk that has no unnecessary fats contains various healthy nutricions such as calcium, vitamine B and D.

- Almond

Almond is another nut that is extremely rich in fat acids that help in kepping blood vessels clean and healthy.

- Blueberry

This delicious berry fruit is considered as the most effective antioxidant in the world. It helps to fight cancer and ageing process.

- Bulgur

Bulgur is half cooked, crushed and dried wheat. It has extremely good effect on our diagestive system, and it helps with constipation, heart diseases, and cancer.

Curry Fish Noodles

2011-09-18T08:36:00.000-07:00

This is one very simple dish, but with that it is also very healthy, cheap, and easy to cook!

Preparation time: about 20 minutes

Ingredients (for 2 servings)

- 200 gr. of noodles
- 2 medium fish fillets
- 1 full teaspoon of curry
- 1 medium lemon
- 1 spoon of butter
- salt
- oil

- 1 egg
- breadcrumbs

Preparation ( noodles)

In about half litre of boiling water put one teaspoon of oil, and a pinch of salt, then add noodles and cook for about 5-7 minutes. After the noodles are cooked, pour out the remaining water, and in hot noodles add the butter,curry and pinch of salt if the noodles aren't salty enough. Mix until the butter melts.

Preparation (fish)

Cut the fillets in half. Take each piece and dip it in this order - breadcrumbs - egg - breadcrumbs. After dipping the fillets fry them in a hot oiled pan for 6-8 minutes.
Cut the lemon in half and sprinkle it on the fish when the dish is served. You can also decorate the plate with some cherry tomatoes.
Enjoy your meal :)

Welcome

2011-09-18T07:58:00.000-07:00

First of all let me wish you a welcome to my blog. I wont be long in my welcome speach, becouse I know you are here for the recepies. Besides recepies, this blog will also be filled with the info about food, and diferent kinds of helpful tips. Hope you enjoy it, and find what you came for :)