cooking and a train

Swedish dishes has a tendency of not sounding very appealing when you talk about them. But here is a typical Swedish dish called "Kroppkakor". It's not my favourite dish, but it's one that is easy to make at home, and does not require any hard to get ingredients.

What you need:
~0,5kg cold boiled potatoes (should be boiled to the point where you can eat them comfortably)
2 medium sized eggs
3-5dl wheat flour
a pinch of salt

Filling
0,5kg salted pork
2 onions
2 tablespoons allspice
1 teaspoon white pepper

Dice the pork & onions and put them in a hot skillet with some oil, until the onion is about to get brown. Add the allspice & white pepper. Pour off all excess fat

Mash the cold potatoes, and mix in the eggs & salt. Put in enough flour for the dough to feel dry (this is dependent on what kind of potato you're using). Make ~20 dough balls out of the dough, and make a large hole in each one of them. Add the filling, and close the dough balls. Now put it in hot water, on medium temperature and let it simmer for about 10-15min. Serve with lingonberry jam.

One of my favourites is relatively easy, though I can't tell the exact measurements. It's one of the foods that can be done by guessing the amounts, because it can't really make it wrong.
You'll need:
Chicken breasts, sliced (not chopped!)
Paprika and flour (it's like half-one tablespoon of paprika for 20-30dkg of flour, mix them)
Cheese - something semi-soft like Port Salut (most common in Hungary) or gouda, and some smoked cheese for the taste - about 4:1 ratio, grated
Sour cream
optional chopped bacon, raw - a good fistful, you'll use it only to the delicious salty-meaty-smokey taste

Coat every chicken breast slice with the paprika-flour mixture, and start making layers in a fire-proof bowl like this by chicken, sour cream (half-one cm layer, don't use too much), and then some cheese, and a few pieces of bacon thrown on randomly. Repeat this until you used up all the chicken - then some sour cream, and a generous amount of cheese to top it. Cover it up weither with the top of the bowl or tinfoil, and cook for maybe an hour - then remove the top/foil and let the cheese to golden.
The salty cheese and bacon makes the sour cream to separate - it will cook as a dairy product, but it has some water content, which is mixed up with the juices of the meat and the floury coating, and as the whole thing cooks, it will have a great taste, as cheese, some paprika, meat, bacon and sour cream mixes up, and during the cooking it will take a thin jelly-like (or thick sauce) consistency - because of this I think it's very best to serve with rice :)

...and it burns burns burns, like a ring of fire...

I don't really have a favorite food so need to think about this for a bit. I'll post a recipe later maybe. In the mean time, just wanted to bump the thread & say thank you for the great giveaways. :)

cool train :D

I do not know to cook but this is my favorite food D:

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bump :)

I like tortillas :D

One of my favourites: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/polish_hunters_stew/

It's not widely loved, but I make tuna salad sandwiches in a special way. Not really "cooking", but eh. Usually makes 2-4 sandwiches.

Ingredients:
Can of Tuna
Miracle Whip
Diced Sweet Pickles
Can of Potted Ham

Break down tuna into smallest chunks possible. Begin adding Miracle Whip and stir until a creamy mixture is achieved. Stir in potted meat, adding more Miracle Whip as needed.Stir in pickles, adding Miracle Whip if needed to maintain creamy texture. Spread onto two pieces of bread and stick them together.

Have a bump with my own recipe (nothing "national" or regional tho) of Omelette with baked apple:

• Crack 3 eggs and place them in bowl.
• Add a few drops of soy sauce (optional - do not add it if you have never used soy sauce in omelette or scrambled eggs, especially in the "sweet" ones; it may require some experience), pinch or two of salt and 2/3 of teaspoon of sugar.
• Intensively whisk the eggs for about 4 minutes. Whisk them once again after some time and leave the eggs to rest for about 6-10 minutes until they'll be translucent (you should be able too see your submerged in eggs fork or other tool you've used to whisk eggs even if you placed it near the bottom of the bowl.) This will allow eggs to "excessively grow" on the frying pan and to gain texture similar to the "Ptasie mleczko" (kind of marshmallow) - omelette will be really delicate and fluffy inside and crunchy from the bottom.
• While the eggs are resting, take 2 medium sized or 3-4 small apples, peel them, remove the cores and chop into relatively small pieces.
• Put your chopped apples into some bowl, take fork that won't easily brake and mash the apples with it until you get small yet irregular sized pieces. (or use some blender
• Take your apple mass, put on pan, add some sugar, cinnamon and spoon of water. Heat the pan, cover it and leave there for about 5 min. Stir from time to time.
• Add one teaspoon of honey to the eggs (i prefer the linden one because of its intensive aroma) and sift the teaspoon of cinnamon to the mass so it won't form any big lumps in there (whisk or intensively mix again). Cinnamon won't combine that easily with eggs so ignore it if its floating in huge amount on the surface. You'll just need to mix it just before you pour eggs on the pan.
• Heat the frying pan, put some butter and pour the eggs (remember to mix them before you do that) when the butter start to boil. Fry it on low heat (note: depending on how many sugar you've added and what is the heat under the pan you may see and smell that omelette is burning a bit from bottom, but don't worry it's just sugar/honey caramelizing. It should not make any big difference in the taste - it may be just a bit more bitter from the bottom side). Cover it and watch until its top start to coagulating. If you like you can add your "baked apple" mass now, before you fold omelette in half or just add it on the top of it, without folding the omelette, when you'll place it on plate.
• Decorate with sifted cinnamon, pour one tablespoon of honey around the omelette and voila!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjena_paprika or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarma_%28food%29#Serbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremeschnitte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquette#Hungary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserschmarrn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachertorte
We don't have Thanksgiving and big feast, but we have this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martin's_Day#Croatia.2C_Slovenia

My favourite food is Crumble.
It's really easy to make and there are many variations. My preference is for Rhubarb or Apple.

I don't have a "personal" recipe for it myself, I usually just google a recipe and improvise. In the past I've added things like extra oats, grated coconut, pecans, cinnamon, whatever happens to be in the cupboard that needs using up. I often double the measurements on the topping because I find most recipes make it too thin. As a final point, I've also used sweeteners instead of sugar as there's a few diabetics in the family.

bumperino

cochinillo (im missing it a lot :( )

Cooking is really hard for me. XDD
Thanks for the nice train. :D

Tasty topic. Yes.
Um... I'm not a great cook but as i have to eat usually i make few things that are rather simply. Some cutlets or rice with apples. Few soups based on tomatoes. Omelettes made from eggs... I dont think that any of it has some unique recipe so i'll refrain from spaming. Yes.

Soup

Ingredients:
Meat with bones (chicken and/or beef)
Carrot
Parsley (root and leaves)
Celery (root and leaves)
Parsnip (root)
Dill
Pepper (not chilly but a regular one ;) )
Bouillon cube
Peppercorns
Onion that you peal and put on a stove or a grill just to char a bit on the sides
salt
Noodles ( i really can't say if you can find this in Germany, but it is very common here, you can buy them in every store. I think you can call them egg noodles.)

Preparation:
Wash the ingredients, peal them. Put them all (except the noodles) in a big pot and cook until meat is cooked. Then (I can't remember the word for this so ... ) you pour the soup through this ;) and put it on the stove again. Now you add the noodles. Cook until noodles are cooked (few minutes).
When serving you can add back carrot and meat that you cooked in the soup (just chop them to smaller peaces) if you like eating them (I like only cooked beef) ;)

As for the right amounts of vegetables I really can't specify exactly, it is about the taste. When I'm making this soup I make it in a 6 l /8 l pot and then divide it and freeze what I won't use immediately, so I'll tell you how much of everything I use.
4-5 carrots medium to big, 1 parsley + handful of leaves, 1 parsnip, 1 cm thick peace of celery root + handful of leaves, 1 spoon of chopped dill, one pepper, 5-6 peppercorns, 2 bouillon cubes, 1 onion, and noodles are added about half a handful per person, but that I add only to the part I'll eat immediately, and not in the part I'll freeze. :)

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Bumperino with Baked Tasmanian Salmon with Caramelized Lemon Orange Dip !

Only thing I can "cook" is pudding.
...as in.. Beutel auf, Zeusg anmixen, Milch aufkochen lassen, angemixtes Zeugs rein, aufkochen lassen, essen :D

Is boiling water considered cooking?

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Well, in my country the best thing to wake up in the morning are the "Arepas".
Are very simple to do, you just need corn flour and salt(if you eat salt, if you don't, doesn't matter. c: )
You put 2 cups of corn flour and a little salt, after that, put water until the mass it is not too solid but no too soft.
Then put the flour in form of a wheel in a griddle or skillet (your choice) in low flame and give it like 5-9 minutes for both sides and it's done.
Pair it with cheese, butter or/and eggs and ready to eat.

Bump for train. Maybe later, I will leave a recipe here.