Banana Bread

• This recipe is modified from allrecipes.com
  
  

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
    
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    
  • 1/2 cup butter
    
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
    
  • 2 eggs, beaten
    
  • 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas
    
  • nutmeg to taste
    
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon 
    
  • 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
    

  
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
  In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt cinnamon and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture add walnuts; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
  Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

My Favorite Salad Dressing

I don't ever use exact measurements but it always turns out great no matter if I use to much of one ingredient or to much of another. These are just approximate measurements. 

 

• 2 cloves of garlic minced
  
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
  
• 1 teaspoon of white vinegar ( a splash)
  
• salt and pepper to taste
  
• 1 teaspoon water ( a splash)
  
• 2 tablespoons oil ( a good pour)
  
• 2 teaspoons fresh chopped dill ( a great big pinch)
  

I first add the sugar in a small bowl and dissolve it with the water, add garlic, vinegar, salt and pepper, and oil, whisk with a small whisk until well blended, add the dill and mix, pour over your favorite salad. This goes really well with feta. I also tried this with red wine vinegar and it did not work out.

Karpatka

For the cake the ingredients are as follows

• 125 g margarine 
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup flour
• 4-6 eggs depending on the size

In a saucepan boil water and add margarine till melted, add one cup flour mixing to make a think paste. Remove from heat and cool. When cooled add eggs whipping it up till smooth.

Bake at 220 for 30 minutes in two cake layers.

For the Cream 

• 1 pint of milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 TBS potato starch
• 2 TBS flour
• 250 g margarine
• vanilla

Boil milk and whisk in sugar flour and starch. Cool, whip in softened margarine and vanilla.

Place cooled cream between layers of cake. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

Meatloaf with Cabbage

• 8 leaves of italian cabbage
• salt
• 1 stale roll (deli roll/hoagie/bun)
• 1 egg
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 onion
• 2 Tbsp sour cream
• 2 Tbsp oil
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 lbs of ground meat
• pepper
• 3 hard boiled eggs
• 1 cup bullion
  
• veggies and potatoes

Blanch the cabbage in salted water, cut out the stem part of the cabbage. Soak the roll. Wash and dice the red pepper, and chop up onion. Cook onion and pepper in oil on frying pan about 5 min. Add minced garlic and mix in the roll, sour cream, egg, meat, salt and pepper. 

Heat oven to just under 400F. 

Form meat into roll. Peel the eggs and hide them inside the meat.  Wrap the meat up with the cabbage and place in baking pan. Cook covered in foil 30 min. Add bullion veggies/potatoes and continue cooking another 45 min.