Salut, hungry steemians!
I am starting up a new series of food blog posts dubbed floggs. Yup, with a double g, just to avoid confusions with the real word. In any context.
The recipes presented will mostly be traditional Macedonian/Eastern-European, flavored with my mom's secret ingredients.
My mom's my heroine. Now retired (from work, not from heroism), she prepares at least 3 meals a day ever since I can remember, plus deserts and salads and all other kinds of goodies on a regular basis. All of it while holding a regular nine-to-five (seven-to-three at that time, if it means anything) and maintaining a tidy house. Hadn't I witnessed it, I wouldn't be able to grasp it, as well.
I am trying to - at least partially - take over her skills and recipes, so I can keep the family meals tradition going. Hopefully someone out there will try them out and let me know what you think! :)
Feel free to culturally appropriate, use, or in any other way incorporate everything you see in this section, from the recipes themselves, to the photos and video clips. All of it is my content so, of course, some credit would come in real handy. That being said, any type of feedback is not only welcome, but highly encouraged, so feel free to drop a line and share your thoughts on my family recipes.
Also, feel free to modify/fine-tune my recipes by flavor and send them to me, I'd be happy to post your version in my flogging series.
The posting frequency will depend mostly on my mom's daily plans, based on which I'll make my choice. In case of the series start steeming, I will include request section.
Enjoy my recipes steemers!
Phillip's Salad
I'm opening up my floggs with a simple recipe, a quick-and-dirty salad.
The kitchen was already a mess from preparing the lunch, so all the photos are in gros plan. It feels a bit claustrophobic, so sorry about that. Just trying to find my style :)
Anyway.
Salads have forever been a mandatory component of our everyday family diet. No nutrition value must be neglected.
Enough diet wisdom, let's get cooking & mushing.
Preparing time for the salad is really short (10-15 minutes, not considering the time for baking the eggplant) and the ingredients are quite common, so no matter where you are in the world, this recipe will be easy to make.
Ingredients
1 regular-sized eggplant
2 teaspoons (10 g) of sesame seeds
200 gr of whey cheese (or regular white cheese)
200 gr neutral cream
1 tablespoon (15 g) mayonnaise
1 garlic clove
salt per need (not recommended if you use white cheese)
Prerequisites:
Bake and peel off the eggplant
Peel one garlic clove
Put the sesame seeds in a small, shallow pot/pan. Put it on a heated stove and stir it constantly, but gently, until you get pinched by that irresistible baked-sesame aroma.
NOTE: Do not use any kind of oil, just give it a 'dry fry' for about 30 to 60 seconds.
Make it so to be between heated and baked. Once a bit thicker smoke starts to appear, move it out of fire immediately. Let it cool off :)
In a bigger pan, put the eggplant and the garlic clove. Mush them both using pestle until they are both nicely pureed.
Add the whey cheese (or the substitute).
Add the sesame seeds, the mayonnaise, and the neutral cream. Mix them until they are nicely blended.
Decorate it with a vegetable of choice, let it cool off (even though warm is just as tasty), and enjoy.
Bon appétit!