Alex's Kitchen
Шрифт:
This hors d’oeuvre is French. It was named after a sofa where people sit and eat something light and not staining their hands or clothes. Today canap'e is a part and parcel of fourchettes and other official dinners. Nevertheless, you can make it yourself and gladden your mom and dad.
For making canapes with cheese, green olives and vegetables, you need:
PAPRIKA
1 piece
ROMAN LETTUCE
for serving
GREEN OLIVES
170 g
(contents in one can)
COTTAGE CHEESE
100 g
(mozzarella or feta)
STICKS
After that, you can start assembling your canapes:
cut cottage cheese into cubes of 1 centimeter
slice paprika into squares of 1 centimeter
pour out pickle from can with green olives and put them on a plate
lay lettuce on a dish
take one stick and pin down one green olive, a slice of paprika and a cube of cottage cheese
set canap'es on lettuce in a dish (cottage cheese should be below)
NOTICE: for more attractive serving you may take a half of green and a half of red paprika, or a half of green olives and a half of olives – all in all you may experiment with your canap'es as much as you want!
Bon appetite!
CROQUE MONSIEUR
Of course, it is French! This kind of sandwich is very popular in France, especially Paris. It was invented some more than a hundred years ago.
Why does it have such a strange name? Some people say that one jester innkeeper joked in such a way about himself as if he was cannibal. Other story tells about French word with meaning ‘to crunch’ and monsieur as a French man… OK, we won’t look for the roots – we will do our croquet monsieur!
For making croque monsieur you need:
TOAST BREAD
2 pieces
CHEESE
(GRUYERE DESIRABLE)
2 slices
HAM
1 slice
OIL FOR FRYING
1 tsp
When you got all of this, you should:
put one slice of cheese on one piece of bread
put slice of ham on cheese
put the second slice of cheese
cover it with the second slice of bread
pour oil into a frying-pan and heat it
NOTICE: be attentive when stand near hot frying-pan with heated oil!
put sandwich into frying-pan and fry for three minutes
NOTICE: watch bread not to burn
turn over croquet monsieur and fry it for more three minutes, then put on a dish
NOTICE: When you add to your croque monsieur fried egg, you get croque madam!
Bon appetite!
TARTLET
Tartlet is a kind of sandwich with no bread – there is a little baked basket instead of it. They are made of short dough – word ‘tartlet’ came from French ‘tartelette’ – small pastry. Nowadays they are much more closer to sandwiches than to cakes, although European cookery uses to fill tartlets with sweet fillings.
Tartlets are both nice and simple as they are ready-to-use: you can buy set of them in any grocery. Let’s try to surprise your parents, making tartlets in Slavic style!
For making tartlets with chicken and mushrooms, you need:
SET OF TARTLETS
10 or 12 usually
CHICKEN MEAT
500 g
FIELD MUSHROOMS
300 g
EGGS
3 pieces
ONION
1 piece