Béchamel sauce

Sounds sophisticated but well - tasty - yes, difficult - no ;)

Perfectly matches casseroles :)

Recipe, slightly changed by me, comes from the packaging of a good pasta.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine
• 3-4 tablespoons of flour
• 3/4 glass of milk
• salt(or sea salt), pepper

Optional ingredients:

• a pinch or two of grounded nutmeg (worth adding!)

Preparation:

1. Take a small pot. Put butter inside, melt on a low heat. 
2. Add flour and stir till smooth.
3. Slowly start pouring milk, stiring and boiling all the time till the sauce gets thicker.
4. Season with nutmeg, salt and pepper. Stir.
5. Bon Appetit :)

Hungarian Sausages

The air smells of holidays, at last the barbecue season is officially open, because the weather is so pleasant and warm during late afternoons and evening. But after many BBQs there are always some leftovers and there is a doubt - what to do with them? Well, if you don't enjoy reheating them, this is a mouth-watering solution.

Obviously, this is not only an idea for BBQ's leftovers. ;)

Recipe comes from my friend's mum. Enormous thanks for her for the recipe!

Ingredients:

• 2-3 tablespoons of oil
• 1/2-1 chopped onion
• 2 cloves of garlic cut info slices
• sausages cut into slices
• tomato puree
• (sweet&)spicy sauce
• ketchup
• 1 pepper - cut into stripes or small parts

Optional ingredients:

• courgette - cut into slices
• sweetcorn
• red (kidney) beans
• tomato wedges

Preparation:

1. Put the oil on the frying pan. Put garlic, onion and sausages, fry (on an average heat) till their colour get light gold. Turn the heat off.
2. Take a tumbler. Put 5 tablespoons of tomato puree inside. Add 2 tablespoons of water. Stir. Pour it on the frying pan. 
3. Starting from 3 tablespoons of each - add the sauce and ketchup. Stir. Turn on the heat, on the lowest power.
4. Add optional ingredients and the pepper. Stir.
5. Taste it and decide which flavour of the 3 ingredients (tomato puree, ketchup, sauce) you want to predominate. Of course it might be one of them, two or all of them. Add one tablespoon after another, trying it by taking a clean spoon every time you try it. While adding more tomato puree - it is essential to stir it with some water first.
6. This meal might be eaten on its own or, for instance, with bread.
7. Bon Appetit!

Classical Panna Cotta

Ohh how much I love preparing those little desserts! Perfect with coffee, vanilla-flavoured jelly-like dessert, easy to prepare and without using the oven :) 

Panna Cotta might be prepared in dozen of different flavours(many different extracts might be used instead of vanilla - like almond, coconut, rum, citrus ones...) and in many different shapes(it is up to You what kind of receptacle or form You'll pour it into :) )

Original recipe from this website.

Ingredients: (for 4-7 portions)

• 3 teaspoons of powdered gelatin
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 250 ml of 30-36% cream
• 250 ml of milk (2-3,2% of fat, not less)
• 80 g of sugar

optional ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon of rum 
• 1 tablespoon of white wine

Decoration:

Fresh fruit(for instance: strawberries, raspberries, wild strawberries, cherries), fruit mousse, caramel, chocolate, nuts

Preparation:

1. Put the gelatin in a tumbler and suffuse it with 2 tablespoons of water. Leave it for 5 minutes.
2. Take a pot and put the cream, milk, sugar and vanilla extract inside. Stir till the sugar is melted.
3. Add optional ingredients if you want to.
4. Boil and take it out quickly from your cooker. Add the gelatin and stir quickly for more or less 1 minute till the gelatin melts completely.
5. Pour the mixture into cups.
6. Cool it. Cover with (for example) aluminium foil and put in the fridge for at least 4 hours (entire night advisable)

• How to take Panna Cotta out of the cup?

To take it out easily you can put the cup for a few seconds in hot water. Then, keep the cup upside down and shake more or less gently till it comes unstuck from the cup's side. Be careful it may fall down!

Another way is just to put the knife inside the cup's edge and cut it inside near to the edges of the cup.