A different type of croissants (Romanian "cornulete")

Ingredients for 20 croissants:

• 250 grams of flour
• 100 milliliters of bors (sour water from fermented wheat bran - you can find it in the East-European groceries)
• 80 milliliters of sunflower oil
• 10 grams of fresh yeast
• 1 spoon with sugar
• 1 spoon with milk
• the zest from half of a lemon
• salt

Mix the fresh yeast with the sunflower oil and the bors.

Add the flour, the sugar, the milk, the lemon zest and the salt and mix.

Let the dough to rest for 1 hour in the fridge.

Preheat the oven at 180 Celsius degrees.

Divide the dough in two equal parts. Spread one part on the table and divide it in 10 equal parts.

Add the jam on each stripe and roll it.

Put them in the preheated oven for 10 - 15 minutes or until ready.

They are excellent in the morning with a cup of tea or milk.
Enjoy!
 

The original recipe can be found here

Beef sour soup - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 600 grams of beef
• 300 milliliters of bors (can be found in the East-European themed stores)
• 150 grams of homemade pasta
• 2 carrots
• 2 pieces of leek
• a few green beans
• a few cherry tomatoes
• lovage
• salt

Clean and cut all the vegetables (except the tomatoes) and put them in a pot with water at slow fire.

Cut the beef in strips and add it in the pot.

Let it cook for 40 minutes at slow fire.

Add the tomatoes and let it boil for another 15 minutes (or until the meat is cooked).

Add the bors and let it cook for another 5 minutes.

Remove from the fire and add the chopped lovage

Can be served with fresh cream and chilli pepper.

Meatball soup - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 3 onions
• 2 bell peppers
• 150 grams of rice
• 500 grams of minced meat
• 1 liter of bors made from fermented wheat bran (you can find it in the Eastern European dedicated stores - there is one on rue de Strasbourg, there is also a Polish guy selling stuff in front of Roller in Strassen)
• 2 carrots
• 200 grams of tomatoes juice
• salt
• pepper

For the meatballs, mix the 2 eggs with the rice, one chopped onion, 1 grated carrot, salt and pepper.

The composition for the meatballs should look like this:

Separately, boil the remaining onions, the chopped bell peppers and the carrot.

Make little meatballs.

Once the vegetables are boiled at slow fire, add the meatballs and let them boil together for half an hour, without mixing.

Add the tomatoes juice and after another half an hour add the bors and let them boil at slow fire for another 15 minutes.

In a separate bowl mix one egg with 10 spoons of soup and put this mixture in the big bowl continuing mixing.

At the end you can add the chopped parsley.

You can eat the soup with sour cream, or paprika pepper.

Bon Appetit!