Recipe: Sopa Paraguaya

Sopa Paraguaya is a "poor mans" dish from Paraguay. Thanks to friend Hugo Estigarribia I can share this recipe. Its the best kind of corn bread i could ever taste.


Ingredients
2 cans cream of corn (if you can get this, I explain below how to make that yourself)

3 portions mozzarella cheese (whole milk)  or more if you like it cheesy

2 small/medium sized yellow onions chopped fine. 

4 eggs 

1 ½ cups of enriched coarse yellow corn meal
200 gram of salted butter - cut into slices

1 cup whole milk
Salt to taste 

Mix all ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

Cut all ingredients into small pieces.

If you cant get cream of corn, like if you leave in a country where there is not such a thing available in the stores, you can make this yourself.

Use 4 corn cobs and cut the corn down with a knife.

Put all in a blender and let it blend until you have a smooth cream.
Add a bit water if necessary, depending how much fluid is in your corn.

After mixing put it in 13x9 clear Pyrex dish (or whatever size fits it nicely) and bake at 190 degrees for 50-60 minutes. The top should start to turn brown in spots and its done.

Remove from oven and let sit for a few minutes before trying to cut into squares. It tastes great hot, but it is not easy to cut until it cools off.

Traditionally its served with a beef soup, but you can also eat it as it is or with a stew.

Enjoy !

Food painting for Kids

A short while ago my lovely daughter had her first birthday and since the weather wasn't that nice that day I prepared different activities for the invited kids.

One of them was food painting, so I made different colored coffee cookies and had some sugar decoration colors ready to be used to paint on them.

Here a picture of the artwork which  survived the day, since some of course got eaten straight away.

Prosit Neujahr

Its soon time to watch the new years concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, its shown in more than 50 countries, hope also in yours.
Happy New year to you !

Prosit Neujahr: Enjoy the blue danube walz !

Recipe: Sauce tatar

I wrote about steak tartar a while ago, i just recently saw in the shop a glass of sauce tartar and wondered if they have something in common. I don't think so, but when i looked at the price, I thought, that must be possible cheaper ?

So i thought about what stuff is inside and came up with this recipe:
Make some Mayonnaise, as described here and than simply add some more pepper, salt, fine cut pickles and a onion.

Thats it, the sauce tastes not only great to fish dishes, but also on its own on a little piece of bread.

It took me about 10 Minutes to prepare this, including eating the bread ;-)

I wonder if I should make some of this and fill some half's of cooked eggs with it for new year ?

Xmas Swimm

Its amazing, all around Ireland there have been Xmas swimmers for Charity on the morning of the 25th of December.

In West Cork at the Inchidony beach more than 250 turned up to run together in the water for a swim.

All of this is of course for different charities and lots of money has been raised for them

On stands hot tea and soup was provided for guests and swimmers.

Next year I will make it myself into the floods !

Recipe: Scotched Eggs

Do you know the Problem, you buy breakfast sausages for the long weekend, but than you are so busy so you only do a light breakfast since you had too much of the Xmas Turkey left anyhow, so all the lovely sausages stay in the fridge until you recognize they will go off shortly....

Last time I had the issue, I  looked up how else i could use them, and preserve them a little longer.

This is the result; Scotched Eggs,
so all you need is 4 Eggs, Breadcrumbs, and the Sausage meat.

First I did get rid of the skins.

I boiled the eggs pretty hard.

Than, use the sausage meat and cover each egg with it. And breadcrumb the "ball"

Finally fry them in a pan with middle heat.

Until nice golden brown.








You can eat them hot or cold, and 2-3 days in the stored in the fridge should be no problem !

Enjoy !

Merry Xmas

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Xmas !

You thought i would work today ?

Nope i am celebrating and scheduled this post ahead,
to wish you all a Merry Xmas !

Well i actually might take a few pictures or so,
of my Xmas Dinner, and how i used the rest of the Turkey,
and blog about that "Next Year" :-)

I will make a small break, and will be shortly back with new stories, recipes, etc.

Yours,
Clonlin

I hope you liked my blog so far,
if you have any tips for me what to try next, leave them in the comments !

How to make Pickled Eggs ?

I categorized this recipe with cooking disaster, and I will explain later why...

But first let me start to explain, why i had the idea to make pickled eggs in the first place ?

You might remember my article of my chicken Heidi high preforming, and she is still together with the other chickens producing a lot of eggs every day.



So I was looking into it, how to conserve some eggs I wont use straight away, and add value to the product egg.

On a visit to London i heard about pickled eggs, so I had to try this.

On the above "pickture" you see what is needed:
4 eggs
100 ml vinegar
200 ml water
1 teaspoon English mustard
a bit of salt
a bit of sugar

1 onion

Boil the eggs hard, put them into a conserving glass, mix the other ingredients well and add them to the glass. There should be no air remaining in the glass

This way you can keep it for up to 2 month, you should anyway see or smell in case the egg goes bad.

I tasted it myself after 5 days, and here comes my point why I declared it as a cooking disaster. The egg was very much tasting like vinegar and mustard. I hated it and barley could eat that one egg.
Anyway, to be completely sure what I have done, I have asked on Face book for a English men to taste my pickled eggs. I shortly found one so I passed by Grahams Shop  to bring him the remaining three... He loved it...

Well, all ladies out there, if you want to make a English man happy,
you know now what to do !

So, will complete now the remaining Xmas Shopping !

Recipe: Pizza

Stressed shortly before Xmas ?

Thats no reason to buy fast food in a hurry,
there is always 15 minutes time to make your own,  home-made pizza, while wrapping up the Xmas Gifts !

My early gift to myself was a Kitchen machine from Bosch (modell MUM 4701) they didnt had a model named DAD 4701 :-)


So its even easier for me, since the pizza dough gets mixed by itself.

Thanks to Miriam for recommending that machine,
her mother got it already since 35 years, that I call quality for a low price !
Anyhow, throw the following ingredients in your machine if you got one, otherwise just do it by hand.
Ingredients:
1/2 packet yeast (10 gram)
3 cup flour (or about 600 gram)
1 cup warm water (or about 200 ml)
3 teaspoon of oil.

While the pizza dough gets mixed from your machine, get ready to prepare the toppings of your choice.
I used tomato with cheese, sausages, carpers, paprika, etc.


It was the first time I made Pizza from scratch, and it was so easy and soooooo good !
I will try in future now different variations of dough, this one was very fluffy and it raised quiet thick !


Enjoy !