What is homemade kitchen? Tastes, smells. Spices that grandmother laid out onto linen bags. Chamomile flowers laid on the table, on a huge towel. Over the stove - herbs beams. Chabret, linden ... Garland of a laurel sheet, striking on a thick thread. And on top - a bunch of smaller. Pods of acute peppers.
How did women prepare in the North Caucasian village? They put a saucepan on the stove and, passing by, threw the potatoes, then the spices were stirred and fled further - there was a lot of homework. Nobody stood above the pan. Did not count the time. Now so many culinary gadgets ... In the village of Gadget was one - the hands of the hostess.
Coffee
Coffee is a ritual, magic, process, action.
In my childhood, on the main shelf in the kitchen, a smooth row was a jazve of different sizes. On one cup, two, three. How did you cook coffee? Cold water poured into a cup, from which the guest will drink coffee. Two guests, two cups and so on. One cup - coffee spoon. Two cups - two. You need to know in advance what kind of coffee prefers a guest - sweet, medium, not sweet. And sugar pour into the Turk with coffee. No one, never in his life stirred sugar in a cup. In each house, any guest was offered at first coffee. From the threshold. While he was cooked, talked, discussed problems.
Coffee requires a cup - or with thin walls or with thick, elusive manually. Coffee does not tolerate drink on the go. The drink is designed to pause, rest, breathe. When you make a sip of real coffee, there remains foam on my lips, in the tongue - bloom, on the teeth - fragments of grains. And you yourself smell coffee. All day. Most Magic Aphrodisiac. The most fascinating smell.
Video recipe for reference: https://youtu.be/tvarwtflwn4
Homemade cheese
Cheese in the village cooked all women. It was not even considered something amazing or outstanding. Each hostess had frisk. And then - nothing complicated. Milk to bring to a boil, add a starter, wait until flakes will be waiting for the surface, throw it into gauze. Salt. Greens in cheese did not add. All supplements are greens, beet tops, potatoes - are needed already when cooking pies with different fillings. In the same way at home made cottage cheese, and prostroprious. Each hostess has its own recipe.
And yet: Cheese, who walked on pies, never rubbed on the grater. His kneaded fingers. And they mixed too. Homemade cheese, like the dough, demanded warmth hands, not spoons or blades.
On the remaining dairy break baked patties, pyshki. And she served as air conditioning for hair. It was believed that after rinsing, Razvaya hair becomes thick and shiny.
Video recipe for reference: https://youtu.be/llw_n-vuzzvg
Cheese baked with tomatoes and mint
My favorite Georgian dish. Like Ketzi - a round shape of a red clay, which does not require a drop of oil - Favorite dishes. In Ktsi, you can bake potatoes, meat, vegetables. Serve - also right in it, without shifting a dish on a plate. Beautiful, unusual. The best Keti was considered those who passed through the hands of several generations of women of one family. Each kitchen had to be at least three Keti of different sizes - from large, for Ojacure, to small, just for cheese with tomatoes.
Cut, add mint, lay cheese from above. Inside the cheese spreads, tomatoes remain entirely, do not turn into a tomato paste, the mint smells so that you can die. And on top appears a crust.
Everyone has long been known that there is nothing attractive smell of freshly baked bread, drift. The type of raw cortex has the same magic property. One look - and immediately I want to eat. Clang cheese, watch as it stretches, bite hot tomato and melted raw mass. Swallow, not chewing, because there is nothing to chew there. And the remains to collect a piece of pita. Until the last tomato drop and cheese, already slightly frozen. Cheese with tomatoes is not peasant food, but a high kitchen. Tart mint, only be sure to get fresh, anyone will bring to a gastronomic faint. If there is a friendly dish in its simplicity and impeccability, then it is it. Snack or main dish? It does not matter at all. Although it is applied to the dessert.
Video recipe for reference: https://youtu.be/fishurewn2g
Fried Suluguni
Only fried suluguni can compete with baked cheese. Snack, which is the first sweeping from the table. Cut the Suluguni, cut into flour, fry. Everything. Of course, as with each recipe, the mistress is trying to achieve the ideal. It is not collapsed in wheat, but in corn flour. Make a clarity of whipped with spices, sometimes with greens, eggs and flour. Or a double clarity, when a piece of cheese should be omitted into the eggs and twice in flour. Served with greens or sweet jam. You can with honey. And you can generally without additional taste. And so insanely tasty.
Video recipe for reference: https://youtu.be/0aajutzly5o
Beef in sour cream sauce
The most dish that can be served as a snack, and as the main one. But necessarily cold. Left after cooking soup boiled beef and it is not clear what to do with it? Use the recipe. The main ingredient is Adzhika. If it is not, you can replace sweet pepper. Finely chop meat, mix with sour cream, greens, garlic, let it stand. In the summer, when I don't really want to eat hot, beef in a dinner sauce is an ideal way out.
Video Recipe on the link: https://youtu.be/rffccdq_osm
Dzykka
Meets and called "Cheese Porridge". There are options with wheat flour, a semoline and even potatoes. But I love with corn flour and more cheese, do not regret. In fact, it is rather sauce. There is necessarily hot, only from the stove. Tear off a piece of footwash or bread, dip in the sauce, generously, not embarrassed, more. And enjoy.
Video Recipe on the link: https://youtu.be/pcvee3v2kfi
Milk soup
An ideal breakfast for a child. Eat all the children, even capricious babies. It is only necessary to take "children's" pasta - asterisks, steam rooms or other figures and cook in milk. Add sugar, vanilla, slight salt. Everything. Child swells, maternal heart calmly.
Video Recipe on the link: https://youtu.be/qays7y5mm2c
about the author
Masha Traub - Prose writer, in the past, a journalist of famous Russian socio-political publications, now the columnist of the oldest Russian weekly edition of the "light" and the modern media of the chalk resource FM. " Author more than thirty books. At the studio "Vertical" Stanislav Govorukhin was shielded by her "Mother of the Mom of the First Classic", and on the story "House in the south", Vera Storozhev was shot off the film "House with all inconveniences". On the stage of the Children's Music Theater. Natalia Sats goes Opera based on the book Masha Track "Edible Fairy Tales".
In 2020, the publishing house "Eksmo" published new items: a collection of stories "Or now I will die from happiness", the first literary series "Complete Ozooming", the story "bad daughter."
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