Moldavian Cuisine

This was a great evening. For some time we decided to eat some fresh fish, buying it from the local store. Each evening trying a new one, different fish. So as you see in the picture I made different stuff. First is the fish. In some previous recipe I described how I fry it - with no egg or flour. Just putting some spices and greens. Simply boiled the rice adding just salt. I didn't want to complicate it too much. And a salad - the salad is made of the main ingredient the Chinese cabbage, some red thing smelling of crab, corn and mayonnaise. We had a bottle of wine in the fridge - it was "Buchet Moldavii" (Moldavia Buchet) something like Martini tastes. It was a great evening.

Here is another section of examples of Lunch. Here you can find links on other examples of lunch.The first picture represents mushed potatoes, fried fish with some amazing spices and salad.Mushed potatoes I think is not very difficult to make. The fish was fried with no egg or flour. I just salted it, added pepper and some greens so it got the color. The salad is made of tomatoes, yellow sweet bulgarian pepper, onion, cucumbers and mayonnaise.

This one contains my favorite eggplants. If you make them in a proper way this can be the most tasteful things in the world.First of all you have to cut the eggplants and put them into water for abut 10 min. Than fry them adding salt and garlic. Very tasty in the end. There are many recipes with eggplants, I love them.You can also see in the picture some potatoes. These potatoes were made in the oven. All I did is cut the potatoes and put them in the oven in a covered tan. Typical spices like pepper.Instead of salad it was just cucumbers. Very tasty and no need of meat.

This one is more difficult I think. More than that I invented the recipe myself :)This is rice with vegetables: corn and eggplants again. You have to prepare it separately. Boil the rice and fry the eggplants with some onions so that it still keeps its form. Than add the rice on the tan with the eggplants and mix adding spices and the add the corn at the end. Instead of salad you can see some pickled cucumbers.

This is how I cook. I hope you like it:)

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Even though I am one of the persons that hate fast food, i like pizza. I can eat pizza all the time. It is very hard for me to find a tasty pizza in my own town, there are just couple places and I get bored of them. That's why when I go somewhere I search for a new experience of pizza.I make pizza at home like once a month. I love to spend a lot of time on it. This is how a make it.The dough: follow the pictures. One egg mix with 2 cups of flour, add salt, some milk.

Add margarine and yeast as you see in the picture.

This is how the dough should look.

Than prepare the dough for the pizza in the following way. Put some tomatoes paste.

This is pizza before baking. Put on it anything you want. Any meat, salami, vegetables, eggs, mushrooms, olives, cheese etc.

This is a well done pizza! it was very tasty.

Pancakes with raisins are really tasty. I never thought that they can have such a taste. The secret is that raisins become very sweet inside of the pancakes.Normally for pancakes you need two eggs, 1.5 cup of flour, milk. Mix everything and add raisins when you turn it on the pan already.

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I like to visit different countries, visit new cities and get to know closer the culture of these countries, to see in reality the things about which I heard a lot of times and read a lot. When I visit a new country, besides all the aspects I like to taste the local cuisine.When I visited Los Angeles I was surprised by the diversity that is gathered there. There were so many things from all sides of the world all gathered together in one place. I could see all types of culture like from Russians to Japanese, Indian, Italian and many others. This is probably the main characteristic of United States of America, that there are people and cultures from all over the world. So what I did in Los Angeles is: I visited the Universal studios of Hollywood of course, everyone should see that, than the Aquarium of the pacific. Chicago things to doI like very much the historic downtown and you can compare it to the contemporary downtown – great view. Also I visited the Disney Land, which is pretty huge. One of the things that impressed me a lot is Tijuana Mexican shopping. And of course I have visited a lot of restaurants with Mexican, Chinese and many other foods. You can win 150$ if you sign up to this newsletter. sightseeing tours offers great tours in a lot of beautiful and interesting cities, as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco etc.

These "placinte" i made very quick actually. This is a recipe for lazy people) or those that don't have a lot of time. All you have to do is buy puff dough and curd.Easily cut the dough into small pieces and put the curd inside. You can make them any forms. How I baked them? I actually didn't bake, i fried them. I put the on a pan with no oil and covered for couple of minutes until they obtained this color. I like what i obtained.

Meat balls are very famous in this region. They can be any size, like big or small, but they have different names. They can be also from different meat, like beef, pork, chicken or even fish. And they can be fried or boiled.The following recipe of meat balls is an independent recipe and doesn't need a sous, like for small meat balls. The ingredients are:Minced meat1 eggonions150 gr of breadspicesgarlic (maybe)Method of preparing: if you are on a diet you can use chicken meat, and don't fry them on oil. But i used beef as you see in the picture. You have to prepare everything< cut the onions, put the bread in some water and put everything in a bowl as you see in the picture.

Than mix everything, and make these meat balls into such forms like you see in the picture.Put them on the pan, and fry until they are ready.

Zama (zeama) is a traditional romanian soup, made in both Moldova and Romania regions. This is a very old tradition and I never met any soup like that in other cultures. The soup is a very healthy variant of soup, it doesn't actually contain much fat, because it is made of bird meat. My variant of zama is from chicken. If you add special spices than you will get the specific taste of zama.The ingredients are:chicken meatvermicellionionscarrotlovagespicespotatoes (traditionally are not used)Method of preparing:Normally first prepare the meat. Cut the onions and the carrot into very small pieces and fry them, than add in the soup. Than when it is ready, after 40 min, add the vermicelli, normally they should be home made, but you can by them. This should be little vermicelli, small pieces. If you want to put some potatoes than add them before adding vermicelli. At the end add the lovage, this type of greens that gives a specific taste. There are actually spices from Maggi which have the same smell, you can try. I hope you like it!

Check out how I once cooked the beef ribs. This was a spontaneous decision. We just saw some nice ribs in the market and decided to prepare them. I never did anything like that before. In the end I liked the result. I didn't search for a a certain recipe, as usual cooked as my intuition told me.These are the ribs that we bought . There is enough meet on them, the main goal is to make the meet be very soft and easy to eat.In fact that was so hard to cook, I just fried them for some time, and when it was almost ready I added the tomato paste, and I was rolling the ribs in it.

I also added some spices, you have to pay attention to the color that I obtained. I actually was not expecting to obtain such a sous and color. Here s what i got in the end, very delicious ribs.

Probably mushrooms with pasta are not typical for Moldova, I'm sure of that, this is a typical food for Italy. But I like to cook it. healthy pasta is always good.It's a pity I forgot how these mushrooms are called. I just bought them in the shop. I like their taste. I heard one thing about mushrooms, and I don't know if that is true. i heard that after cutting the mushrooms, taking out of the ground you have to eat them in 12 hours, otherwise they become toxic. i don't know if that is true. I still love them.So the sous is very simple to make, because it has a few ingredients, not much.Mushrooms, onions and cream.

The preparing of the sous is easy. You have to cut the mushrooms, but not into too small pieces, and fry them on the pan, for 5-7 minutes. They should become smaller and obtain a brown color.

Than add the onions and fry them all together, adding spices. After 6 minutes, you may add some cream, just a little and wait for 3 minutes more.

In order to make the sous more thick you may add some flour. I put a spoon of flour and added some water in the cup and mixed very well than add into the sous. That will be enough to make it more thick.

Boil the pasta, don't forget about it :)this is what happens in the end.

Meatboals with peas and potatoesleave your comments pls)