Pasta and vegetables

Pasta and vegetables

I like Italian cuisine very much. Pasta is one of the most favourite. I can cook it when have guests or just to have delicious dinner and everytime different: with mushrooms, cheese, with bacon and creams, with vegetables and nuts. Today, we had first snow, so I wanted something hot and tasty - pasta with vegetables and cedar nuts.

For 4 portions we need:
500g macaroni (in perfect way - "penne", but if you haven't like me this time, use "tubules")
salt
250 g carrot
250 g marrow
5 tsp. olive oil
2 cloves of garlic
80 g cheese
50 g cedar nuts
ground black pepper
2 tsp. basil

Step 1: Boil water in a large pot, add salt to you liking, add macaroni and stir it around, neatly.


Step 2: Wait after boiling 9-11minutes - macaroni are ready. Carefully pour water out( you can use colander)
Step 3: Peel carrot and garlic


Step 4: Wash vegetables, cut it finely and fry 8 minutes with 3 tsp olive oil.
Step 5: Add boiled macaroni, cedar nuts and 2 tsp oil.
Step 6: Season with salt, pepper, mix it and service immediately. Strew with grated cheese and basil.

Mmmm….wonderful!

Note: if you haven't marrow (as me) don't worry - you can put another vegetable or just miss it.
Note: you can add some cranberries.

Cheese cakes

Cheese cakes

Today I had a guest, she is my old friend. We haven't seen each other a long time because she studies in another city (and another country) - Omsk (Russia) and comes here very rarely. She likes cheese more than any other food and can eat it every time, she likes any dish if it contains cheese. So, I decided to rejoice her and cook some dishes with cheese. At first, I'll tell you about cheese cakes…

Ingredients for dough:
250 g flour
150 g butter
180 g grated hard cheese
½ tsp. baking soda
100 ml cream
½ tsp. salt
yolks from two eggs

For decoration: poppy-seeds, sesame, caraway-seeds

Step 1: combine butter, grated hard cheese, add cream and salt, than mix it with bolted flour and baking soda. Make dough.


Step 2: now divide made dough into 3 parts, every of each one wrap in a foil and place into refrigerator for 2 hours.
Step 3: Over 2 hours take out one part from refrigerator, roll it out as a layer (thickness 6mm) and smear it with whipped yolks.


Step 4: Sprinkle this dough layer with poppy-seeds and cut out by means of forms of different shapes like circles, hearts, stars and so on.


Step 5: Take out second part from refrigerator and do the same as first; smear this layer with sesame. Third part of cakes decorate with caraway-seeds;
Step 6: Lay out cakes on baking tray. Bake it during 10-15 minutes in temperature 220-230oC.


I advise you to try it!

Wait next recipe tomorrow…