SOMETHING SWEET? A QUESTION THAT IS VERY HARD TO SAY "NO" TO
And sweets will remind you of tastes and events. They will make you want to relive those moments and enjoy them like at the end of any conversation or pleasant moment that you don't want to end.
The dessert of all 90's kids...
I don't know how often you make desserts at home, but in my family they were only made on special occasions. Maybe they needed eggs and they weren't really available, or sugar, which was a bit expensive, anyway, only on holidays did you get a good cake.
For the rest, hard donuts (probably because they didn't have egg :)) ) and pancakes less often because it's nicer. The jam was also a rare element, as the fruits were put in the bowl, the goodness of sugars was not wasted on a few jars of jam as you would get diabetes :).
I make it now too, but I know how hard it was for some families in the post-December period, so I enjoy pancakes with plum or quince jam with a glass of cold milk...yummy, how tasty I am May.
While I was writing I realized why they weren't done that often. Well, if they don't go to be eaten with wine :))
Cage ice cream
When you hear about the cage, you think of alms and cemeteries, by no means a dessert. I first made the cage at an unhappy time, but - knowing that my mother was joking and smiling - I turned it into a dessert.
And the cage ice cream, very creamy and refreshing, came out.
I actually "stole" the recipe of a cake eaten at a Romanian restaurant, the only one where I saw the cage for dessert on the menu.
I like the cage, with the candies on top and a lot of walnuts. It was the only candy we ate in the country when I was little, taken directly from the basket brought from the church, where it had been consecrated.
Now, you get the glass cage, with chocolate and other candies, but it seems that nothing has changed in its taste no matter what other flavors are added.
Costica the Wise was also in the cosnita who led his mother on the last road ... well how could it be otherwise?
When the kid want sweets
You start and make them, of course, if you don't have a cookie at hand ... and let it be something as fast as otherwise you lost it on the shelf ... :)
Normally I wouldn't have written this story, because when I was a child I didn't eat muffins, but now it's already the childhood dessert of the little ones and the most handy recipe that parents can prepare for their children with what they have at hand: ).
So, keeping the spirit of my dream of creating a bridge between generations, this recipe is the bridge that builds the bridge between what their children want (something dlce) and what their parents do, who are more or less open or less open to adding sweet in they ... well they can be made with chocolate, sugar, meringue, candies on top to look colorful (it's not bad and it's so fun for children) or with carrots, bananas, apples, currants, wholemeal flour and maple syrup how were the ones made by me now not to get my artisan cook's license for the children around me: P. Let's see what we vary in the near future and discover new tastes ...
And see what Thea will remember when she grows up with the muffins made by herself, from which the mythical eagerly eats because we also add an "unhealthy" ingredient for the taste ... like butter (biiio, normal :)) in this composition that gave it an interesting taste ... I say, to eat the mythical two breathless muffins ...
So, we will continue to build the bridge between the younger generations, through interesting flavors and good cheer ...
Childhood small croissants...
For two years I have been struggling to keep the Christmas pig to make the croissants of my childhood in the country, but I have not succeeded so far. Either my nose became sensitive and the bone was not what I thought it was, or it was something that was not related to the pig's trance. Maybe this year (pfoaaa, we are already in February 2021), when I will cut the pig, identify the mystery and either I quit my job or I will succeed.
Osanza to buy I said I do not want to try, given what happens to me osanza from my own pig, so I will give it another chance this year to see if we will get those croissants with multiple layers and unmatched taste of good. My godmother made the best croissants and I remember that when we went with sorcova with Tataie Costica and my cousin, they were the tastiest sweets we ate in the whole village. With shit and powdered sugar on top (not so much but enough to be tasty) they were super tasty.
Here's who I'm going to ask for help this year in the pig slaughter to guide me to get the bone out properly and I'll ask the recipe to be as close as possible to what I remember.
Until then, look, I used butter instead of osanza and to eat it, I also replaced normal flour with wholemeal flour ... I don't know what has normal flour taken from the country, ground at the mill, but it also works with wholemeal flour, however, it is not so elastic and malleable.
Some croissants came out :) crispy enough for Miss Thea to ask for and eat them all. If you're wondering what I replaced the shit with (I just don't give shit to children when they're little :), I put prunes and cranberries ...
and the good ones I also ate a few seasoned with a glass of Costica cel Intelept 2018, to feel the flavor properly ...
Roses sweets...
I'm not a big fan of jams because they have a lot of sugar, but I have a few that I would eat anytime, anyway ... One of them is that of roses ...
It wasn't done in my area, but I had a colleague in high school whose parents made rose syrup ... it was so good, with cold soda, that I couldn't leave to visit :). That taste (and of course the thought of Balchik :)) I always remember when I taste the rose jam ...
So fine, velvety, it is an elegant dessert that can get you out of trouble when you run out of ideas to impress someone :))
Especially with a picture to match, you can't even see what's on the plate :). For example, have you seen my jam caramelize? :)
The picture is taken long after I made the jam (about a month) and I did not find the rose from which I made the jam (it was more purple).
for me, the idea started from the roses in the yard that smelled so beautiful and passed away quite quickly, and in a month it will make other roses again. And I said that I can use them for another purpose than to let them wither:) ... Hmmm, you really thought I wanted to impress someone and I went crazy picking roses in the neighborhood :)
It goes very well with a cup of warm milk, another taste that reminds me of childhood mornings when we eat a cup of milk with a slice of bread with margarine, butter and jam
This is the jam...
I kept eating jams and marmalades, but the tastiest and most special of all remains the green walnut jam. It is that taste that surprises you with a lot of courage to make your taste buds take on the plains ...
I thought it was autumn, from bigger walnuts, but going through the market in search of cherries, I found an uncle who told me that now is the jam season and they looked too good not to take ...
It's hard and requires a lot of care, but it's worth the effort and any price you see and it seems a bit expensive ... now let's not exaggerate but it's worth something more than one of the classic foreheads.
The walnut you see in the picture was the only walnut that I looked for in the whole Circus Park, which seemed to be there to be discovered and made a blog star. It hurt my heart that I broke it, but if it stayed there it would surely fall on the ground at some point and it seems to fit better in the picture ...;)
Father's Duty
Every dad is responsible for cleaning the children both literally and figuratively :). When it comes to food, I'm the best at cleaning, so I laugh at everything left uneaten after eating Thea. Including "cheese bears" on the verge of expiration or falling on the floor while eating :). I think it's fun :), now I don't know how you do it, but I don't think it's too different: P
So, as Thea likes very much currants, we have always a big stock due to COVID and we always have the fridge stuffed with currants when we find something fresh and beautiful.
These days, it seems that the young lady didn't like the currants very much, so Dad had the duty to clean. But still, how to eat 300g of currants in such a short time? Especially considering my last experience with the excess currants and berries when my cheek swelled from so much salivation, that the excess vitamin C is not good for the body, I decided that I have to cook them in some way.
So, I started looking for a good currant dessert. I also had freshly made Mint Liqueur, so it was a refreshing dessert.
And so I made the wonderful currant tart, with wholemeal flour (hence the answer to the question why the cookie didn't grow so much and it's not yellow? As you can see from those beautiful pictures from the recipes on various recipe sites) and as I'm quite stingy with sugar, I sprinkled some maple syrup on the plate, not to be reproached for not making the dessert sweet :) :)
"Cozonac" with molasses...
I have always tried to make sugar free "cozonac" and so far it has not come out ... trying with honey, with less sugar, I still did not manage to have a taste of home made "cozonac" but it seemed like a sweet bread :)
Unfortunately, due to the cumbersome process and the force that you need to strike the batter, more and more people prefer to buy it than to make it at home. Even my mother bought this year from the market and didn't do it home, because last time she didn't go out so fluffy and it seems like when you see that people doesn't like it that much you start to give up. I won't give up, with all the criticisms received :)
I didn't stoke the batter how women do in the countryside, but I have a device that beats him so well that it comes out fluffy. The color is from molasses, an unprocessed sugar with many beneficial properties to the body, which I discovered in coffee, making its topping the best ...
And with a Costica the Wise person it goes very well.
"Mucenici" from Oltenia,with juiceucenicii oltenesti...
There are so many types of "mucenici" in the regions of Romania that you do not even conceive - if you are used to them - that there could be other ways too :). I, for example, if I do not drink "mucenici" with the spoon and do not feel the taste of rum and nuts do not even say that I eat "mucenici".
The Moldavians are big and with syrup ... the Ultenian ones are small and with juice, and the Muntenian ones look like a combination between the two: P
It was the first time I made it and if I still had a bottle of rum from Cuba, I said to use it :). What is the essence of rum ... And they came out so good that I eaten all not leaving anyhing for the colleagues at the office for which I had praised them :)
I did not taste them with a glass of wine, but rather with an vintage tuica in the barrel where Costica the Wise stayed for a year ... and what good tuica came out;)
Pumpkin soup opera…
I like the pumpkin pie so much that I could eat a plate alone ... but as most people eat apple pie, it's hard to make your appetites and eat a whole plate yourself ...
So, since the pumpkin appeared, I still ate the apple pie, still saying I'll cook at some point the pie or the pumpkin tart to make my lusts ...
And Christmas passed and I haven’t ate pumpkin pie yet ... especially as Thea likes apples, we've made apple supplies ...looking forward for the moment when she will eat pumpkin ...
So, on the eve of the new year, I set myself not to come in the next year without eating the pumpkin pie ... with a lot of cinnamon, nuts and an ornament from leftovers, it came out reasonably good ... it could have been better, but I put hazelnuts in the salt crushed above, and the sweet-salty taste does not like everyone ... with a red wine was a delusion.
The tricky tiramisu…
I did not cooked sweets until now, when I saw around me people cooking and made me cravings for some ... so I started with simple desserts such as tarts, fruit in the oven ... now i said to try the next level that requires a little more patience and skills ... and what's easier than a tiramisu I said ... especially because I have a kitchen robot who knows how to do the stuff himself ...
And I started on Saturday morning because I heard it was fast and then it had to spend some good hours in the refrigerator ... I put the robot in operation and what to see, the first failed attempt ... it may be from the cream, it might be from the eggs , i did realize that instead of having a soft cream it was a sweet and tasty cocktail ... the second time the same, and the third time I called for help on the mother-in-law who showed me that patience is the key and not the kitchen robot .... next time I let the robot apart and with patience will get something better ...
And it works so well with a coffee ... or with a sweet wine now taken out of the freezer ...
The autumn came
Autumn Fruits are very good fresh, but can be prepared during winter and spring in the oven to compensate for the cold outside and to bring a special flavor in the house ... of all, I like pearls the most. With fresh honey and nuts are a real delight ... then there are apples and quince ... Apples more because Thea ate apple as the first baked fruit ... she was so nice when she first eaten. a bit sweet sour ... I can not wait when she will eat also pear with honey and nuts ... it will be a delight ... I read a secret for the nuts not to burn quickly in the oven, to be put before in cognac with water ... sounds good, right?
The desert of childhood
I have so many stories when it comes to donuts that I find it very difficult to select for this article. And with whom I speak, everyone has his stories ... Donut was the answer to the question: what is the type of food or the sweet that generates most memories? :)
Donut is the sweet that I think we ate most in childhood. Home, grandparents, park, football field, neighbors, annoyed donut .... and even more. :) With sugar powder, crystal sugar, jam, milk ... with anything :).
For me, the best ones were those in packs, big as a plate, crunchy and with sugar on top. were made by the gypsy at the corner of the street, so good, in her big pot of oil :). I was licking my fingers and as much as you ate, you still wanted one.
And of course those made by the mother with crystalline sugar and grandmother :). We were eating a big bowl in 5 minutes ... they were no longer good cold and they had to eaten fast ... Their secret? Eat the when are warm with a cup of milk or a cold spritz with white wine :)
Fruits from the forest
I remember when I first ate the berries ... I was in my first mountain camp in Poiana Tapului ... the first and only one, that's bringing me a lot of memories with many beautiful excursions. I was too small to remember details, but I know for sure that the first berries I ate were then. Now they are found everywhere, not just in the mountains, but the wild ones are the most tasty and less artistic :). Half of July is full season for berries. I chose to have a good picture, so I went to the Obor market and bought what I like the most ... but you can find everything there: blackberries, blackcurrants (black and black), small wild apples, blueberries, raspberries I can eat in different ways, I like it very much in the desert ... and I took a tasty cataif desert from the "old friend" Fadel (where you can find sweets as you have not tasted) and I have " thrown " near it some blueberries and raspberries ... It goes with a cold liqueur and green mint .... I tried with sage that gave a very strong aroma ;)
Story with strawberry flavor
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As I told you in other discussions, May is a month full of tasty fruits from which all kinds of dishes can be made ... One of my favorites is the Tart. Everything started from the green tarts that I make every spring from March, when onion, garlic and ramsons appear, which give a great taste to the tarts. We make the tarts from spinach, stevia, nettles, cheese salmon ... hmmm already raining in my mouth.
Strawberry tart was not in the list, until some colleagues said they would make the tart, and after long wait, I said it was time to cook something sweet too. And the picture, it's a whole story of the evening where it was made in the yard, among the grass :). Yes, it is my first sweet preparation, not counting the cheek I was doing in the kettle when I was a kid to eat it quickly and without noticing that I did it myself. And look how many memories bring this tart, very tasty and easy to do;). With a Strawberry Liquor, it works great;)
