3 for the price of 1

[el_staplador]

Just catching up here; hope that's OK.


Naleśniki Nadziewane z Jabłkami (Crêpes with apple filling)

3 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup flour
3 tbsp sugar
pinch salt
2tbsp olive oil

Beat all ingredients together into a batter. Leave to rest for an hour or so. Cook as for crêpes/English pancakes. Fill with apple filling:

2 apples
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp apple juice

simmered 20 mins or until soft.

Serves two generously.


Italianate Fridge Salad

1/2 packet elderly spinach
1 lonely mozzarella pearl, cut up as small as I could get away with
7 or 8 slightly squishy plum tomatoes
end of a jar of black olives

combined in a bowl, with the following dressing

2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp mustard
generous grinding of pepper

stirred like crazy.

Serves one.


Squash Goulash (from this recipe from tree_and_leaf)

1 tsp oil
1 onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, cut into chunks (I used green, but red would have been better, I think)
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp caraway seeds
1 smallish butternut squash (or similar quantity of similar fruit, peeled, deseeded and cut into chunks)
4 carrots, peeled and in chunks (less if they're big ones)
125g red lentils, washed
500ml vegetable stock
2tbsp tomato purée
salt and pepper as desired
yoghurt to finish

Heat oil, brown onions (roughly 5 mins). Add red pepper, garlic, paprika and caraway seeds. Stir in and fry for 1 min.

Add everything else bar the yoghurt, and bring to the boil. Cook in the slow cooker for about 6 hours on low, or cover and cook in the oven at 180degC for about an hour.

To serve, top bowls of goulash with yoghurt and sprinkle on extra caraway seeds and paprika. Goes well with most sorts of carbohydrate.

Serves armies.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

"elderly spinach" LMAO!

You made me crave pancakes now! And of course there's no problem with playing catch-up :)

[el_staplador]

Pancakes are awesome. This is well known.

[gominokouhai]

I appreciate your honesty with the salad recipe. Apple pancakes sound amazing, and the goulash sounds pretty good too---naturally I would prefer some meat in it, but it sounds like it's sufficient on its own.

[el_staplador]

Well, sometimes it bears repeating that one can make something edible without the ingredients being dew-fresh from Waitrose or whatever ;-)

There's quite a lot of protein in lentils, I think. You could add sausage or bacon along with the onions, though.

[missdiane]

That's funny since I was actually tempted on apple week to bake apples into regular fluffy pancakes. Good call on the crepes! I haven't made those in TOO long.

I'm intrigued by the goulash...hm...

[el_staplador]

So far, it's all turned out very tasty :-)