Lazy Sunday with Woody in the background ...

Please let nothing happen today...we get up late and still in my pajamas, I cook pancakes for breakfast. We make some coffee, and do not have the desire to do anything. Good. 

Today is Oscar night. A new Woody Allen film has the nomination for "Midnight in Paris". Like always, a genius plot, music, and setting! Especially the portrayal of the 20s! The costumes! 

Feathers and cigarettes! The music, the music, the music!

We are also keeping our fingers crossed for Agnieszka Holland's film, "In Darkness". Finally a film, which we can be proud of.  Wieckiewicz , whenever he has to act, he does an amazing job. He makes us fall to our knees, and with this role he has only proven that he has no competition. This film definitely has to be recognized. 

So today, we are staying at home a digging up some old movies. 

There is no option for me to get out of the house today, I shall cook whatever is in the fridge. 

Ingenious ricotta scones with cream cheese

From when I found this recipe on a divine blog called mojewypieki.blox.pl, I have been baking pancakes almost every sunday! They are wonderfully soft, and melt in your mouth! Thank you for the recipe!

250 g of  ricotta cheese
125 ml of milk

2 large eggs, separate white and yolk

100 g of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
2 teaspoons of oil

(You can also add sugar)

Today, I added a grated rind of orange and the juice of half of the fruit.
Whip egg whites to stiff and set them aside.The rest of the ingredients should be put together and mix gently with the foam at the end.

Laura

For dinner I made two tarts: they always taste good,  are made fast and are a nice fit for a movie day.

Crust (a portion of two tarts)

250 g of flour
125g butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon of water or cream (according to how dense the dough is)
The crust, should be knead quickly and put in the fridge for at least a half an hour

Stuffing 1

500g spinach
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
4 slices bacon
2 potatoes
salt and pepper

blue cheese to sprinkle on top (I used Gorgonzola cheese)

 Spinach blanch and drain very well. . Bacon  cut into pieces and fried.  Now we cook onions with a spoon of olive oil on frying pan  for a couple minutes .  Wash the potatoes,  peel and cut them into thin slices and then fry in oil until golden. Then put to the pan spinach with garlic and fry until  all water evaporate.  Add the bacon and onion ,salt and pepper (as much as you need).On the crust, place potatoes and spinach, on the top sprinkle blue cheese and bake in temp. 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Stuffing 2

1 package of maccaroni and cheese

1 broccoli

1 red paprika

1 onion

1 egg

half cup of sour cream (I put less)

salt, pepper,nutmeg

sharp cheddar or Parmesan for sprinkling

Cook the pasta according to directions on package, but let it harden a little.Fry the onion on a spoon of olive oil, add chopped peppers and then, use a minute for it to cool. Broccoli should be moved up to a minute to the boiling water and cool down in ice water.Macaroni, broccoli, onion and pepper should be placed together, add cream mixed with egg and the spices . Put the stuffing out on the baked part, and sprinkle with cheese. Cook at temp.350 degrees for about 20 m.

Strawberry Johnny

I will say it outloud - I LOVE STRAWBERRIES! Since I remember I waited on them with longing. I remember I liked to go to my grandmother's village and  run in the strawberry field. I would gently  pluck the leaves and fruit. I loved the strawberries still half mature, white, pink and red ... Oh, and the cries of myself and my brother: I'm better! I have more.  You're stupid I have more! Etc. .. hahaha. We pluck them straight from the bush,  a sandy and fragrant vacation. Ah! I hated that it ended so quickly, and that we had to wait all year again ... Then when a few  changes occurred in our land and shops began to appear good, I saw the supermarket strawberries. They looked like the plastic strawberries my grandmother would have in her vase, the plastic ones, to decorate the house. One could knock out their eyes with them, and they were usually used for when my brother and I played with his soldiers.

Strawberries accompanied me for so many years. When I lived in New York, the situation changed. For here there is no seasons, no weeks, no beginning or end ... The noise and confusion, in this puzzle here, strawberries can be found at any time, in any season.This is why I love NY :) and recently, we found a new  strawberries lover:)

Strawberry Smoothie with wheat germ

450 g of strawberries

  200g organic vanilla yogurt

  a glass of organic milk

  3 tablespoons wheat germ

  3 tablespoons agave syrup 

All ingredients mix together in blender and go! A delicious and nutritious start of the day! Wheat germ is a natural multivitamin concentrate, which also contains lots of minerals. I tried to add them to yogurt and cocktails :)

                                  

My birthday cake

Poppy seed cake is always present at our house during Anrzejki, which is my father's name birthday. My mother baked it like a master, aromatic punch-soaked poppy tops with homemade red currant jelly and cream.  The cake dressed in creamy ruffles ... the taste I remember to this day. ..

I want this cake! However, I decided to skip the butter cream and use something lighter. I found a divine recipe on this page: www.kwestiasmaku.com I changed the recipe just a little bit, because I have been drinking a lot of coffee lately and I baked a cappucino cheesecake  two times in a row, so instead of adding espresso to the cream, I added dark cocoa and decorated it with vanilla halvah bits. 

Poppy seed sponge

2 cups of poppy weight (canned)

2 tablespoon semolina (dry)

6 large eggs (room temperature)

Add sugar optional, depends on poppy weight you use

Soaking the cake

I've used cherry tea, but the original recipe refers to use kirsch and coffee.Certainly a better version of mine, But for me the kids will eat the cake anyway , so I already know whose turning his nose :)

Ratio of cake

1 jar of cherry jam

Cocoa cream

1 cup of whipped cream

1/2 cup of sugar (optional)

1 cup mascarpone cheese

3 tablespoon coffe

3 tablespoon cocoa

Preparation

Poppy sponge: Beat the whites and set aside. Poppy weight mixed with semolina. Whip the yolks until they are fluff. Connect the Poppy with the yolks. Then gently mix with whites. Bake in temp. 350 degrees in a greased  pan or line the pan with the baking paper. The cake should bake for about 40 min.

Let the sponge cake cool.

Whip the cream with sugar to stiffen.

Add the mascarpone cheese  with constant stirring to combine the ingredients, then add coffee and cocoa. Keep on cooling.

Cut the sponge cake into  2 or 3 tops.  Soak each top of sponge cake with tea or kirsch then cover with cherry jam and cocoa cream. The top and sides of cake you should spread with cream and decorating according to your imagination :) I poured dark chocolate glaze and decorated witch halvah.

This cake just melts in your mouth! I really recommend.

This is How I Am

This is How I Am

misplaced between the lines

locked in your arms

looking for angels in  birch

without change...

Yet a year older today!

So I sing, because its cool,"everything you want, everything you wish for, will come true today!"

I wish myself health, a house in beautiful birch, and a healthy family!

...And, also, for my cake to come out well!

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Cupcakes sand, gently lemon ... for the call of spring

I love muffins, mixed, pounded, and homemade. Just in time for Easter, and with me feeling refreshed, I started to bake! With Mom's Recipe:

Sand Muffins - lightly lemon


3/4 glass of patato starch flour
1 1/2 glass of plain flour

150 g Butter

2 eggs

1 teaspoon baking powder

Half a glass of sugar (optional)
Lemon essence, lemon peel


Whip egg whites and set aside. Butter should be placed with sugar until light and fluff :), add the yolks and mix. Add flour, baking powder, essences and lemon peel, and finally connect to the dough gently with whites. Put it into molds, I was baking with  silicone ones, so I did not have to lubricate  them before baking.  The oven temperature should be set to 350 degrees. 

New York - pastel

It's coming!

Yay! You can finally feel her in the air and follow her wonderful footsteps.  You can seek out the first blades of grass timidly breaking out of the ground, the small blossoming flowers on the trees, and the small haze which develops, and lets me know there will be changes. It will be beautiful, and no longer will the world be so ugly. 

No! I'm not going crazy!

Who cares if its only February?

And,  that in a few days, I will bake a birthday poppy seed cake for myself?

This year, there was no Winter! Perhaps because of the crisis my Luka told me about. 

He says that our powerlines cleared the Winter so that they could save millions on heating and clearing snow. 

Nevertheless, I am happy that this "crisis" occured, and as I hear Spring, I open my window and wait.