Christmas fever begins

From tomorrow it will be exactly month till Christmas. Today on lunch break I went for a walk to the mall and noticed that many shops starting decorate their window-cases. To my mind, after this weekend in all city we could feel Christmas spirit. Wait until Christmas tree will be bring into town hall and we could sit with our families at the table and eat delicious food.
But till this moment there are many things to do. The most important is to by presents for friends and family members. This is the most difficult task to be done. Because not every time you guess what people want to get for Christmas.
I have not started prepare present list for this year yet, but have some ideas for my friends. This year one of my passions was kitchen, I want to share it with my friends. So, for my fiends I will prepare packages with home made Cheese, Marshmallows and Soused Mushrooms. I think they will like it and can try to make it by themselves.
What is left? Christmas tree, advent calendar, presents for family, food preparation for Christmas Eve, etc. quite many things to do, but I think I will handle everything, as every year :)

Pumpkins

This year is full of discovery. Few weeks ago I discovered that some pumpkins are very tasty without preparation. You just cut a piece of it and eat as a melon. And what most excited thing, I never thought that it can taste something like between apple and carrot.
After such discovery i also decided to prepare pumpkin soup. First time experiment was successful, but today I have to spill all soup into toilet. I spiced my soup with muscat and I think it was to much of it :( my lunch was spoiled :( . Luckily I still have a piece of pumpkin in the fridge and can proceed my experiments on pumpkin dishes.

My plants

Summer is over, it is the middle of Autumn. As you know my gardening season is already over. I mashed my own grown basil into pesto sauce about more than month ago. The only plant which is still growing on my windowsill is rosemary. Rosemary is perennial and feel good on my windowsill. I always thought that Lithuanian climate is too cold for this plant, but today read that it can stand even -15 C.
It is amazing!I know that this herb can make your dishes sophisticated, also if you season potatoes with rosemary and bake them in oven it will be very delicious or "Best Potatoes you ever tried"!
I think this weekend I will have potatoes with rosemary for dinner :)

Autumn....

There are few reasons why I like Autumn. First one is, because leaves on the trees changes color form green to yellow or even red. The other, that in Autumn you have lots of vegetable and fruit. I got few bags of apple from my mother. Of course it is impossible to eat such amount, so I decided prepare apple pie. Looked and found few recipes I never tried before.
I selected the easiest recipe, there you need only shred apples into smaller pieces, bake them on butter with suggar, put everything in the baking tray and cover with crumbs, made from flower and butter. Thats all!!! All you need, just put pie into oven and wait for a half an hour. It is very tasty and most important thing - easy prepared!
Next time I prepared this pie, I changed original recipe and covered baked apples with allready prepared pastry, bought in the shop. Pie also was wonderfull. So, I can say, with Apple pie you always success!

Nothing new

It is allready month or maybe more when I rote my last post. But there was nothing interesting in my life. My PC is still broken and specialist said, that there is no sense fix it. It would be better, by new one. It was sad news, but on the other hand - now I have impulse save money :)

Granola

As you maybe noticed, that recently all my posts are about FOOD, this post also will not be an exception :)
I am going on experimenting in my kitchen. This time I decided to make Granola or it better known as Musli in Lithuania. It is really delicious for breakfast with milk or yogurt and one more reason why I started to like it, it is very quick and simple to prepare: you just mix different type of corn, nuts, season it with honey and spices like cinnamon, vanilla suggar. Put everything in the oven and bake until it changes color into brown. Thats all! You have breakfast for long time. Just do not forget to buy milk or yogurt :)

Marshmallows

Marshmallows is one of my favorite candies, when I start eat I can not stop until all packet is empty :) They are so sweet and soft. I just can not stop :) If you do not understand me, it just means that you never tried marshmallows :D
Yesterday, I decided prepare marshmallows myself for the second time :). First time was not successful :( But this time it was better :). This time they are really tasty, soft and seems to be like bought in supermarket. All colleagues also liked them :).
One more thing I like about marshmallows, that it is very easy to prepare marshmallows, all you need it is GOOD blender(mixer). It should be really gooood, because you need whip white of eggs with syrup and gelatin about 10 minutes!!!. I think I need new mixer after yesterdays marshmallows cooking, because my mixer was not so good and next time can be the last, when I use it :(