Baddin's Chocolate Cup Cake

Ingredients

125g Butter
1 Glass sugar (left at room temperature)
2 eggs
Half a glass of fresh milk
3 tablespoon of cocoa powder
25g vanillin sugar (1 small packet -Dr Öetker)
25g baking powder (1 small packet - Dr öetker kabaratma tozu)
1.5 to 2 glasses of flour (depending on the consistency of the cake)
loads n loads of chocolate chips (let ur kids decide on that)
Small cake cups

Steps
-Mix the butter and sugar well.Use the electric mixer if u have one.
-Add in the rest of the ingredients.
-Mix the ingredients well for 5 minutes (i am making up the time.. coz i have no idea how long hehe)
-Add in the chocolate chips.
-Mix the cake mixture n the choc chips well.
-Put everything in the provided cake cups
-Bake it in the oven for around 15-20 minutes (160 degree celcius)
-Yum yum.. Eat it while it is still fresh n the chocolate chip is still somehow soft..it is not so healthy but definitely heavenly..:0)

P.s - the cup cake in the picture has no choc chips.. that is because we have none at home at the time of the baking.. but usually, i definitely let the kids decide how much choc chips they wanna add in..

Have a nice try!

Balık Guvec

U see.. fish is definitely good for health.. For us in turkey, fish is only sold fresh in the winter..the rest of the season, fishing comercially is forbidden by law..I make it a point to serve fish once a week to halil n the kids..Alhamdulillah, even baddin accepts his fate.. HE MUST EAT BALIK (fish) coz his mom will force him to hehehehe.. Halil.. he eats without complaints....he doesnt complain..but if i take out the bones.. he would love it more hehehe (lazy bump :0)).

This is a recipe i've created myself.. something i just made up at the spur of moment while i was in the kitchen..u bet he loved it... so i thought i'd share it with u here..life is about sharing, right?

Ingredients A (The greens)
Onion(s)
Tomatoes
Ginger
Green Chilli(es)
Leek
Carrot
Celery roots
Dill
Parsley

Ingredients B
Fish (preferably meaty fish like Salmon ..Levrek..Çupra)
Or any seafood things like Squids, Prawns..lobsters..Crabs

Ingredients C (The Sauce)
Mayonaise
Mustard
Lemon Juice
Dried mint
Dried oregano
A bit of olive oil
Salt
Peppper
Red chilli (powdered or grinded)

Ingredients D
Cheese to spread on top (Mozarella or kaşar peynir or dil peynir)

Steps
A
-Thinly slice ingredients A. If u want, u can dice them too..the cutting style is up to u.
-Add all of the sliced greens into a pan.. Add in either a bit of water or a bit of oil.
-Turn on the heat,let the veggies cook till softened and the water is absorbed.

B
-Grill the fish.
-Debone the fish..taking out the bones can be tedious job. Hence, i recommend salmon.. but then other fish like levrek or çupra (dunno the names in english) is wonderful as well since they taste quite milky.

C
-Mix all the ingredients in section C.
-The sauce shouldnt be too watery...not should it be too thick. U decide.

-Take out a clay pot (see picture above)
-Arrange the fish meat inside the clay pot
-Arrange the softened veggies on top of the fish in the clay pot
-Spread the sauce in C on top of the veggies ( a thin layer)
-Sprinkle the cheese on top
-Bake it in the oven.

A reminder:
*If u r a health concious person, u can replace the sauce with mashed potato and later top it with low fat cheese.
*U can also use caserole dish pan instead of clay pot
*This dish is to be eaten with fresh salad...

Have Fun trying!! I've won my tem's heart with this recipe..u can win urs too..:0)

Kavurma

This is a dish cooked in the Kurban Bayram (Raya Haji) in the Zaim family...it is also generally cooked by the turkish population in general using the meat slaughtered on that holy day (be it sheep or cow).









The Kavurma cooked at baba every bayram. Recipe by Kerim n Meşe. I think this is the traditional version.

Ingredients

Salt
Pepper

Water

Butter

Fresh meat

Fresh Kidney

Fresh Liver

Steps

-Melt the butter in a pan (how much depending on ur meat)

-Add in the meat into the pan

-Add in a bit of water... just enough to cover the meat.

-Turn the heat to maximum.

-Once the water starts boiling,cover the lid, turn the heat to the minimum and let it cook for at least one hour and a half or until the meat is soft.

-Add in the salt and pepper to taste right before u turn off the heat.

-Do all the above processes for liver and kidney.. all in separate pans. U can mix all the liver n kidney and meat all together in the while cooking them. The zaims cook them all in separate pans since not everyone likes to eat liver and kidney. Hence the separation.

-Kavurma is to be eaten with rice...

Kavurma-Simah's way (My modified version)

Ingredients

Onions-diced

Tomatoes -diced n chopped into small pieces

Basil (dried or fresh)

Meat,Kidney and Liver

Water

Salt

Pepper

Steps

-Add n the butter into the pan

-Fry the diced onions till soft

-Add n the chopped tomatoes and basil. Cook it till it is soft.. n turn into some sort of sauce. Turn off the heat.

-In another pan, stir fry the meat with a bit of butter for 5 minutes. Put the meat in the pan with the onion n tomato sauce in it

-Repeat the same stir fry processe for liver n kidney.

-Once all the meat, liver and kidney have been stir fried, Turn on the heat of the pan again. Add in water... The water should be just enough to cover the meat.

-Turn the heat to the maximum.

-Once the water starts boiling, cover the lid and turn off the heat to the minimum. Let it cook till the meat is soft.

-Add in salt and pepper before turning off the heat.

-I love to eat kavurma with rice and fresh green salads.

Reminder:

The salt should be put into the pan at the last minute. This is to prevent the meat from being hard.

Afiyet olsun!