If you cook with joy for your loved ones, it is impossible not to make something tasty!
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
BRIOSE SIMPLE CU IAURT / SIMPLE YOGURT MUFFINS
The simple yogurt muffins is a delicious dessert that you can make with your children.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Galuste de gris / Semolina Soup Dumplings
I have got two stories related to the semolina dumplings - an extremely popular Romanian recipe for clear chicken soup:
1. My mother made perfect dumplings - light, fluffy, uniform, perfect. She used to tell me that the first dumplings she had ever made where so hard that if she had thrown them towards the window, they would have broken not only the window, but also the heads of the passers-by. Unfortunately, my mother did not get to teach me how to make dumplings, but she did teach me something: HOW good dumplings should be.
2. I was living in Germany when a group of friends came from Heidelberg to see our first new-born daughter. I was making chicken soup and as I was preparing to add the noodles, Sorin (student and in the same time cook at a Portuguese restaurant) asked me why wasn't I making dumplings. I answered that they don't always come out right, he offered to prepare them and while doing that he told us the next anecdote: A woman was a very good cook, but her husband rarely praised her cooking. One day the woman prepares semolina dumplings and by mistake they turn out to be hard. Her husband comes home, sits at the table, starts eating and says: "You've finally learned how to cook! Now these are dumplings like at my mother's!" We all laughed (those of us in the kitchen), Sorin made the perfect dumplings - big, fluffy, homogeneous - the way they should be and we started eating. While eating the soup, I told Sorin that his dumplings were perfect, but Radu, another common friend said something like: "Hmmm... They're not that good. My mother's were harder..." Of course he hadn't heard the story and we all laughed at Radu and his hard dumplings.
This second story was to show that people have different tastes, depending on the way they were thaught or used to things. I have to say, even though I've said it already, that for me the dumplings should be uniform, but soft, fluffy, light and they should melt in your mouth. That's just me.
Eventually I have learned to make dumplings from Magda, my husband's aunt, but I also use a piece of advice given to me by Sorin, 10 years ago. Maybe the long experience of cooking dumplings also helps me make the dumplings I like.
1. My mother made perfect dumplings - light, fluffy, uniform, perfect. She used to tell me that the first dumplings she had ever made where so hard that if she had thrown them towards the window, they would have broken not only the window, but also the heads of the passers-by. Unfortunately, my mother did not get to teach me how to make dumplings, but she did teach me something: HOW good dumplings should be.
2. I was living in Germany when a group of friends came from Heidelberg to see our first new-born daughter. I was making chicken soup and as I was preparing to add the noodles, Sorin (student and in the same time cook at a Portuguese restaurant) asked me why wasn't I making dumplings. I answered that they don't always come out right, he offered to prepare them and while doing that he told us the next anecdote: A woman was a very good cook, but her husband rarely praised her cooking. One day the woman prepares semolina dumplings and by mistake they turn out to be hard. Her husband comes home, sits at the table, starts eating and says: "You've finally learned how to cook! Now these are dumplings like at my mother's!" We all laughed (those of us in the kitchen), Sorin made the perfect dumplings - big, fluffy, homogeneous - the way they should be and we started eating. While eating the soup, I told Sorin that his dumplings were perfect, but Radu, another common friend said something like: "Hmmm... They're not that good. My mother's were harder..." Of course he hadn't heard the story and we all laughed at Radu and his hard dumplings.
This second story was to show that people have different tastes, depending on the way they were thaught or used to things. I have to say, even though I've said it already, that for me the dumplings should be uniform, but soft, fluffy, light and they should melt in your mouth. That's just me.
Eventually I have learned to make dumplings from Magda, my husband's aunt, but I also use a piece of advice given to me by Sorin, 10 years ago. Maybe the long experience of cooking dumplings also helps me make the dumplings I like.
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