Mackerel with spices

Ingredients:  for 6 persons

1 kg mackerel (6 )

1 lemon

1 tsp Worcester sauce

salt

1 tsp thyme

1 tsp oregano

2 pieces of garlic

1 tsp chopped parsley

oil

Preparation:

1. 
   
   Wash the mackerels and dry them with paper towels.
   
   
   
2. 
   
   Mix the lemon juice, Worcester sauce and chopped garlic. Anoint mackerels outside and inside with this mixture and marinade them about 1 hour (maybe more).
   
   
   
3. 
   
   Salt the mackerels and let them rest half an hour.
   
   
   
4. 
   
   Put the fishes to the ovenpan, sprinkle them with oil and strew them with half of the spices.
   
   
   
5. 
   
   Put the pan to the oven (220 Celsius= 420 Fahrenheit) and bake the fishes for ten minutes.
   
   
   
6. 
   
   Turn round the fishes. Strew them with the other half of spices.
   
   
   
7. 
   
   Bake the fishes 20-30 minutes.
   

Brownies - original american recipe from 80'es years

Ingredients:
100 g butter
100 g cocoa
4 eggs
225 g confectionary sugar
100 g all-porpouse flour
100 g almond
vanilia extract
pinch of salt

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 170 Celsius (340 F).
2. Mix the flour, cocoa and salt in a bowl.
3. Beat the eggs and sugar until white and foamy in another bowl. Add the soft butter and mix them.
4. Add the dry ingredients gradually and vanilia too and mix them again.
5. Pour the dough into 22x22 cm foil-lined baking oven. Put the sliced almond to the top.
6. Bake it about 20-25 minutes. Do not dry cake.
7. Let it cool, remove the foil and slice.

Almond cake

Ingredients:
2 eggs
180 g sugar
80 g butter
2 dl yogurt
1 dl milk
80 g ground almond
220 g all-porpouse flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
vanilia extract
pinch of salt

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 170 celsius (340 F).
2. Mix the flour, almond, soda, baking powder and salt.
3. Beat the eggs and sugar with mixer until white and foamy. Add the soft butter too and mix again.
4. Add the yogurt and the half of the dry ingredients, mix them.
5. Add the milk and the rest of dry ingredients, mix them.
6. Pour the mixture into a 20x25 cm oven. Bake it about 30-35 minutes. Let it cool and slice.
7. Serve this cake with sweet sauce, puding, various jams or icecreams.

May be bake muffins or round cake as well from this dough.

Lemon-cumin cookies

Ingredients: for 35 pieces
150 g sugar
65 g butter
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 coffespoon ground cumin
1 coffespoon baking soda
pinch of salt
150 g flour

Preparation:

1. Mix the flour, salt, soda and cumin.
2. Beat the yolk and sugar until becomes white foam.
3. Add the butter too and mix them.
4. Add the flour and lemon to the mixture gradually.
5. Knead with hand gently until mixture forms a smooth ball.
6. Form a roller of the dough, thickness: 3 cm.
7. Freeze it for 1 hour.
8. Preheat the oven to 170 Celsius (340 F).
9. Slice the roller about 7 mm cookie rounds and put them on the baking sheet.
10. Bake on the center shelf of the oven for 8-10 minutes.
11. Transfer cookies with a cake shovel to a wire rack to cool.

Chocolate sauce

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1 tablespoon cocoa

2 tablespoon sugar

2-3 dl milk

vanilia extract

1 teaspoon rum or flavor

1 teaspoon cold butter

Preparation:

1. Mix the starch and cocoa, add 1 dl milk and beat them until flat.
2. Add 1 dl milk again and heat it carefully (about 100 Celsius degrees).
3. Add the sugar and vanilia too. If it is needed add some milk.
4. When the sauce is thick stop the heating. Add the cold butter and mix them until shiny.
5. At the end add some rum or flavor.
6. Mix the sauce with mixer until creamy. (About 1 minute).

Pumpkin soup

Ingredients:
300 g pumpkin
1 slice onion
1/2 apple
1 potatoe
1 teaspoon thyme
1 stock-cube or 3 dl fresh vegetable soup
ground black pepper
ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon butter

Preparation:

1. Slice the pumpkin, potatoe and apple.
2. Add the onion, butter, all of spices and stock-cube.
3. Add some water but not too much.
4. Cook the soup until softly, about 15 minutes.
5. Mix the soup until creamy.

Liver noodles (or liver dumplings)

Liver noodles is employed in vegetable soup in Hungary. You can make it from poultry and pork liver, my favourite is the chicken liver noodles.

Liver noodles

Ingredients:
2 chicken livers
1 egg
1/2 onion (small)
3 parsley
1 tablespoon flour
2 tablespoon breadcrumbs
10 g butter
salt
pepper

Chop the onion fine.

Scratch off the livers.

Chop the parsley fine.

Heat the butter and braise the onion until pale yellow. Let it cool.

Add the parsley, livers and egg. Add salt and pepper too. Mix them.

Add flour and breadcrumb...

...and mix them again.

Shape with a teaspoon...

...and put them to the hot soup. You should cook them about 5 minutes.