Bigos Recipe for Rookwurst

Pulled from another place where I wrote this, I found I bought a rookwurst and couldn't remember what I made with it.


Bigos

This is a quick recipe. Take a cup of shredded cabbage and start slowly sautéing, when it is soft and cooked (about 10 minutes) add a 3/4 of a cup of sauerkraut. Cut into small chunks your rookwurst and also add to the pan. Turn the heat up, Cook for about 10 minutes, stir so not to burn the cabbage, add a couple of spoons of tomato sauce or ketchup, salt 7 pepper to taste, cook another 3-5 minutes.. Taste better on a cold day. Just like, we are having today. This is an extremely simplified recipe of Polish Bigos/Bigus.

P.S. Some mashed potato on a side is an added bonus.

From: www.discusscooking.com

A favourite at our house.

Jam Melon Recipes

I have a lot of melon recipes posted around the net on the days we made things with them.  This seems to be a good collection, I am hoping so.  I have to go back and work out which was the best from another place. 


Jam Melon Pickles
5kg melon
6 large onions
2 tablespoons mustard
1 tablespoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1 cup sugar
8 cups vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
see below for modifications*
Cut up melon and onions, sprinkle with salt and stand overnight. In the morning strain off all liquid, mix the dry ingredients with a little vinegar, put into the pan, and stir till it boils. Then add the rest of the vinegar, the melon and onions, and boil till tender.
Adapted from: P.W.M.U. Cookery Book 1982 edition. Ann Gemmell, Lothian.
The modifications are *an extra cup of sugar and 4 tabs flour added 10 minutes before the end after mixing it with a bit of the pickles in a cup. We also used a handful of salt (1/2 cup) for the salting down process, as per a recipe for melon chutney (posted).

Makes 16 jars.


Jam Melon & Apple Chutney
2.7kg jam/pie melons
800g apples
1.75kg onions
1.5kg sugar
4 cups vinegar
2 tablespoons salt
4 teaspoons ground ginger
3 teaspoons white pepper
2 teaspoons ground cloves
500g raisins
Chop melons finely, as well as onions and apples. Put 1 cup of vinegar with mixture on low heat. In meantime finely chop raisins.
When starting to boil put in the sugar, the longer the sugar is in the darker the chutney.
After the sugar is well dissolved and the chutney is cooking add the raisins.
Wait until everything is well cooked. Add rest of the vinegar, simmer on low heat in two pans, until thick.
Will take about 2 hrs to get to correct thickness.
Takes a couple of months to ‘mature’ in flavour, should improve with keeping and store for two to three years.

This chutney my husband likes as he likes sweet things on cheese.

Old-fashioned Apple Crumble & Chocolate Fudge

I typed this up ages ago on my original blog.  My daughter recently asked for chocolate fudge, that is what I call self saucing chocolate pudding, I called it that as a child.  These recipes would not be metric. 

My Nana was a good cook.  She loved to bake slices and make puddings.  She also made trifle.  I loved her mixing bowl, it was a slightly different color at the bottom from use.  All was made on the kitchen table, mostly baked in the wood oven.  She had flour drawers built into her cupboards when she ordered them.  Her drawer had a broken tea cup for measuring.

Apple Crumble
1 cup Self Raising Flour
3/4 cup coconut dessicated
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter
Rub butter into dry ingredients.  Put onto top of stewed apple and bake. 
This recipe is before metric.
Chocolate Fudge
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 cup Self Raising flour
2 level dessertspoons cocoa
Cream butter and sugar, add unbeaten egg.  Fold in milk, flour, and cocoa alternately.  Pour cake mixture into deep greased baking dish.  Make topping with 1/2 cup sugar and 2 level dessertspoons cocoa and sprinkle on top of cake mixture in dish then gently spoon 1 1/2 cups hot water onto mixture.  Bake in moderate oven 35 mins. 
Also a non metric recipe.

Tofu & Spinach Stir-fry

Pulling this off my original blog.  It is about my first experience with tofu. 

I put off eating tofu for quite awhile, but the two recipes, I think there were two, were a great success.  From memory this one is my favourite. 

Tofu & Spinach Stir-Fry
Serves: 4
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 22 mins
Tofu & Spinach Stir-Fry
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups (300g) SunRice Thai Jasmine Fragrant Rice
2 1/4 cups stock or water
1 tblspn oil
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3 tspns grated ginger
2 chillies, sliced
1/3 cup pinenuts
300g fried tofu, cut into 2cm cubes
1 bunch English spinach, washed and shredded
1/3 cup soy or teriyaki sauce (optional)
Method:
1) Bring rice and stock (or water) to the boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, 12 minutes. Remove from heat and stand, covered, 10 minutes.
2) Heat oil in a wok or frypan over a moderately high heat.Stir-fry onions until golden, 3-4 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, chillies and pinenuts and cook until nuts are golden, 2-3 minutes.
3) Stir in tofu and spinach, cook for 3 minutes or until spinach has wilted. Stir in rice and soy sauce (optional), heat through and serve.
Tips:
Rice can be prepared ahead of time.
Variations:
For a Japanese style meal use SunRice Koshihikari rice instead of SunRice Jasmine rice.
The recipe is from SunRice.  Though the recipe doesn’t appear to be on the site anymore.

The reason I seem vague, it was exactly a year ago when I tried this recipe. 

Warm Cottage Salad using Pork Sausages

This recipe was on my other blog.  The blog has spam redirection at the moment, but I found my recipes somewhere else.  When it gets fixed I can check, but I'm sure it is the same. 

Warm Cottage Salad (Sausage)

6 Country Style Pork Sausages
500g Tiny (chat ) Potatoes
300g Green beans , halved
100g Grape Tomatoes
150g baby spinach or rocket leaves
8 green olives
50g fetta cheese

Dressing
1/2 cup quality Mayonnaise
2 tsp Lemon Juice
1 tsp Garlic Crushed
2 Tblsp warm water

Place Country style pork sausages in a shallow frying pan and cover with cold water. Simmer gently for 4 minutes . Drain and cool slice into thick diagonal slices.

Place potatoes in the base of a steamer and cover with cold water , bring to the boil covered and boil for 5 minutes . Reduce heat and place the beans in the top half of the steamer for further 4 minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat and set the beans aside , potatoes should remain in the water covered for a further 5 minutes.

Heat a large frying or griddle pan over a high heat and brown the sliced sausages well 2-3 minutes.

Place the Spinach ,tomaotes, beans , crumbled fetta and olives into a large serving bowl and toss well.

Divide the salad evenly onto serving plates. Arrange the drained baby potatoes and the browned sausages slices over the salad.

Whisk together the dressing ingredients and drizzle over the salad just prior to serving.

Originally from the Australian Pork site.  

Polish Sausage Salad

I found this recipe on my original blog.

Polish Sausage Salad
6 large potatoes
6 eggs, hard boiled and peeled
2 slices thick 1/2 inch double smoked ham, optional
1 cup garlic chives or
(garlic & red onion chopped finely)
1 tablespoon mild mustard
8 polski or gerki (gherkins)
5 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 teaspoons salt
cracked pepper (optional)
1 (KR?) Polish Sausage or 2 sticks export polish sausage chopped
1 green spring onion chopped
Mix onion, mustard, mayonnaise, garlic, set aside.
Serves 6.
Adapted from goodrecipes.

Indian & Pancake Menu

My husband was very lucky to get a crepe pan from the op-shop on a Thursday when he was taking my car to get a new modified exhaust system.  We found he needed one, and one appeared.  It is a lovely frypan.  So I hope we can make crepes especially to see how it goes with them.  

Tuesday ~ Crepes with Chinese Chicken
Wednesday ~
Thursday ~ Roasted Sumac Pumpkin and Feta Soft Tacos
Friday ~ Moroccan-style Shepherds' Pie (uses harissa)
Saturday ~ Butter Chicken Wraps (uses chicken mince, chapatis) from Coles magazine
Sunday ~ Pies
Monday ~ Pizza
Tuesday ~ Left-over Minestrone Soup
Wednesday ~ Pea & Ham Soup with Krankys
Thursday ~ Indian Chicken & Cauliflower Pilaf
Friday ~ Vegetable Kedgeree (from magazine to use up almonds)
Saturday ~ Indian Pancakes with Tomato & Coconut Relish
Sunday ~ Creamy Corncakes with Curry Mayo
Monday ~ Left Over Pumpkin Minestrone Soup

Interesting recipes:

Borlotti Bean Mole with Pumpkin
Black Bean & Pumpkin Chili
Black Bean & Pumpkin Soup
Black Bean, Jalapeno, Pumpkin Quesadillas
Black Bean & Pumpkin Soup 2
Black Bean & Pumpkin Adaptation
Pumpkin Cupcake with Vanilla Buttercream
Eggnog Pancakes

Baking:
Herb and Cheese Scones with Chive Cream
Muesli Pikelets
Fruity Carrot Slice

School Holiday Menu

We had another go at Gozleme this week, with mixed results again.  I had a left over one for lunch today and was really impressed with the dill flavour.  The pastry wasn't quite cooked, it was just as good as cafe food though I think.

Tuesday ~  Beef Chow Mein to use up beans will try this later  Beef Crepes with Gruyere Sauce
Wednesday ~ Pies
Thursday ~ Japanese Pancakes or swap because I used the cabbage
Friday ~ Chorizo Potato Salad
Saturday ~Tuna & Feta Salad
Sunday ~Mustard Chicken with Mixed Beans & Peas (uses up some things) no chicken at shop
Monday ~ Woman's Weekly Tuna pie instead of Cauliflower, Blue Cheese & Spinach Frittata
Tuesday ~ left over silverside and potatoes
Wednesday ~ Red Salmon, Witlof & Rocket Salad
Thursday ~ Chorizo & Feta Gozleme with Tomato Salad
Friday ~ Sausage Stroganoff
Saturday ~ Bacon, Egg & Sausage Burgers
Sunday ~ Slow Roasted Spicy Beef Tacos (uses silverside)
Monday ~ Chorizo, Corn & Black Bean Salad with Tortillas
Extra subs for chicken dish and using up cabbage:
Minestrone with Pumpkin

Winter Menu

Some of these recipes I think can be adapted.  Like I may use normal pasta instead of wholemeal, and I have used a few recipes to come up with my own Gozleme using another lady's idea, she tried it and it worked, so we will try our own version following her idea.  I am not having actual roast chicken, just a BBQ chicken from the shop with gravy over it.  The ideas came from sale items at the green grocers and the left over silverbeet I have.  We tend to keep adding to our knowledge of variations of things or combinations of foods that we have enjoyed before.  Hence the haloumi.  If we can't buy rocket pesto we will use another one we make ourselves, that is in a sausage bake I have posted before.  I have rocket left over from one of the other dishes.  Swap recipes on my site, are recipes using ingredients I have already bought but are similar and usually don't use the meat that I end up not being able to buy.  However I do except my food budget to improve.  But in the meantime I have learnt to appreciate the simpler dishes in most cases.  Looking forward to eating more tuna.  Going to use half chicken on special for one recipe and another with the half jar of pesto in our fridge. 

Tuesday ~ Gozleme
Wednesday ~ Roasted Potato with Haloumi & Rosemary & Roast Chicken & Gravy
Thursday ~ Wholemeal Pasta Spirals with Rocket Pesto, Green Beans & Potato
Friday ~ Cauliflower, Pumpkin & Pea Korma (uses left over tomatoes)
Saturday ~  Tuna Pilau
Sunday ~ Tuna, Fennel & Caper Spaghetti
Monday ~ Salami, Broccoli & Cabbage Pasta
Tuesday ~ Savoury Mince & Potato Wedges
Wednesday ~ Chicken Schnitzel Burgers
Thursday ~ Chicken & Tomato Pesto Pappardelle
Friday ~ Savoury Mince & Chat Potatoes
Saturday ~ Paella
Sunday ~ Pumpkin & Bean Salad with Feta
Monday ~ Moroccan Lentil & Chickpea Soup

Interesting recipes:
Gozleme (silverbeet snack with homemade flatbread and feta inside)
Greek Pasta Filo Pie (uses lamb mince)
Warm Potato & Sausage Salad (uses Italian sausages)
Warm Potato & Sausage Salad (uses chipolatas)
Tuna & Hummus Wraps
Ham, Bean & Cabbage Soup
Pumpkin & Feta Arancini
Lentil & Haloumi Salad

Success from last week:  
Chicken, Silverbeet & Fennel Potato Pie

Baking:
Apple & Almond Pie
using gifted apples
recipe from Foodworks calendar from notes section on their facebook page, I can buy the almonds with my fruit and vegetables

Birthday & Play Menu

Tuesday ~ Roasted Pumpkin & Spinach Pasta
Wednesday ~ Lentil & Vegetable Cottage Pie
Thursday ~ Pumpkin Noodles
Friday ~ Gnocchi Carbonara
Saturday ~ Greek Zucchini Pie
Sunday ~ Chicken, Silverbeet & Fennel Potato Pie
Monday ~ Pies, Potatoes, Peas
Tuesday ~ Fennel & Broad Bean Soup with Ricotta and Oregano Gnocchi (uses silverbeet)
Wednesday ~ Chicken, Zucchini & Feta Pilaf
Thursday ~ Chargrilled Pumpkin and Haloumi Salad
Friday ~ Beef Sausages 700g Cheesy Sausage Rolls
Saturday ~ Mushroom & Butter Bean Soup
Sunday ~ Pies, Potatoes, Peas
Monday ~ Pies, Potatoes, Peas

Swap recipes:  
Pumpkin, Zucchini & Feta Frittata
Zucchini, Feta & Dill Frittata, merged together
Cheesy Bacon & Pea Macaroni


soft drink party, tub of icing for devil's food cake, chips
Baking:  Banana Date Loaf

Success from last week:  Roasted Vegetable & Bacon Soup made from our left over vegetables except I stole the leeks from myself
Magic Bean Stew, or Soup with 4 Bean Mix  

Interesting recipes:  Pumpkin Fruit Cake
Haloumi French Toast with Chorizo & Mushroom
Braised Lentils & Italian Sausages

Carrot & Spice Teacake

Silverbeet & Zucchini Menu

Tuesday ~ Bacon & Pumpkin Pasta
Wednesday ~ Two bean Nachos with Guacamole
Thursday ~ Ham & Mushroom Homemade Pizza see below
Friday ~ Left Over Risotto
Saturday ~ Greek Zucchini Pie
Sunday ~ Chicken, Silverbeet & Fennel Potato Pie
Monday ~ Garden Frittata (uses dill, silverbeet & zucchinis)
Tuesday ~ Fennel & Broad Bean Soup with Ricotta and Oregano Gnocchi (uses silverbeet)
Wednesday ~ Spaghetti Bolognaise
Thursday ~ Cheesy Broccoli Pasta
Friday ~ Spaghetti Alla Puttanesca
Saturday ~ Vegetarian Japanese Pancakes
Sunday ~ Pide Hamburgers
Monday ~ Chicken, Zucchini & Feta Pilaf
Swap recipe:  Creamy Lentil & Split Pea Dhal with Coriander
Roasted Vegetable & Bacon Soup
Strozzapreti, Zucchini & Pesto Salad 
Magic Bean Stew, or Soup with 4 Bean Mix 

packet cake mixes and scones

Swap recipes last week:
Pork and Fennel Pizza adapted from Egg & Roast Capsicum Pizza
Warm Potato & Chorizo Salad

Success from last week:
Roasted Chestnut & Herb Pesto Pasta with Mushrooms
Pan Fried Brussels Sprouts with Lentils and mashed potato?

Interesting recipes:
Spaghetti in Cherry Tomato Sauce
Crispy Greek Style Pie 
Warm Lentil, Cherry Tomato and Haloumi Salad 
Greek Pasta Filo Pie (uses lamb mince and silverbeet)