Time:

30 min (10 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

0.25 cup vegetable broth
0.5 cup onion -- chopped
2 each cloves garlic --...
20 ounces tomatoes -- low...
1 cup navy beans -- cooked
10 ounces ziti pasta
0.5 cup parsley -- chopped
0.25 teaspoon pepper
0.5 teaspoon thyme -- ground
0.5 teaspoon basil

Directions:

Cook ziti al dente and drain.
Heat stock add onions and garlic, saute until clear.
Add tomatoes and simmer 10 minutes.
Add beans and seasonings, simmer 10 more minutes.
Serve over ziti and sprinkle with parsley.

Time:

35 min (15 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

0.333333 each white onion...
1 each clove garlic...
1 each red bell pepper...
1 each yellow bell...
1 each green bell pepper...
2 each cans tomato...

Directions:

Saute the garlic and onion till the onion is soft.

Add bell peppers, cook till soft.

Add spices.

Add mushrooms. Cook till soft. (I was able to leave this alone for a while.)

Add tomato sauce. I add a little bit more spice here because sometimes the flavor cooks off.

Turn the burner down low and let it simmer while you cook the pasta. It will thicken a little, but it distributes the flavor.

You can prett...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 cup raw short-grain...
2 each cloves garlic,...
1 each medium tomato, diced
1 each onion, diced
0.5 each red pepper, diced
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon dried oregano,...
3 tablespoon olive oil
0.25 cup Lemon juice
2 each to 4 more cloves...

Directions:

Unroll one bunch of leaves, and give them a quick rince in a colander.
Pick out very small or broken leaves and use these to line the bottom of a heavy, mimimum 2 litre pot.

Mix rice, garlic, tomato, onion, red pepper, cinnamon and oregano in mixing bowl.
Take one leaf spread on palm of hand, stem end towards wrist (snip off any remaining stem).
Place about a teaspoon of filling in middle, closer to stem end.
Fold bottom up just to cover filling, the...

Time:

2 hr 10 min (10 min to prepare, 2 hr to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each large Can crushed...
1 each oz. can tomato paste
1 each medium can tomato...
1 each medium onion,...
5 each cloves garlic,...
1 each heaping tsp....
3 each whole prunes

Directions:

Put everything together in large pot and simmer at least 2 hours.

Remove prunes (what's left of them, anyway) and pour over favourite pasta.

Alternately, you can put all ingredients into a crockpot and simmer all day!

Time:

30 min (10 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

8 ounces vermicelli --...
2 each cloves garlic --...
1 each medium onion --...
5 cups tomatoes (about 5...
0.25 cup fresh basil --...
0.25 teaspoon salt or to taste
0.125 teaspoon freshly ground...
1 each oz. can no salt...

Directions:

Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain.

While pasta is cooking, coat a Dutch oven with cooking spray; place over medium heat until hot.
Add garlic and onion and cook, stirring constantly, 5 minutes or until onion is tender.
Stir in tomato and next 4 ingredients.
Bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add cooked pasta to tomato mixture.
Cook, uncovered, until mixture ...

Time:

25 min (15 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

16 ounces vermicelli pasta
1 each red bell pepper...
1 each medium onion --...
2 each stalks celery --...
2 each small zucchini --...
4 each cloves garlic --...
4 cups diced tomatoes
1 OZ can tomato paste,...
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
0.25 cup fresh basil or 2...
2 tablespoons fresh oregano or...

Directions:

Cook pasta per package directions.
Drain and pour into a wide serving bowl.

In a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, stir red peppers, onion, and celery until tender, about 5 minutes.
Add zucchini and garlic; cook until zucchini is tender.
Add tomatoes, tomato paste, salt, sugar and lemon juice.
Stir until tomato mixture comes to a boil, about 5 minutes.
Add basil and oregano and cook an additional minute.

Serve Chunky Veget...

Time:

50 min (10 min to prepare, 40 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

250 each to 350 gram of pasta
3 each to 4 cloves of...
1 each red pepper
1 each green pepper
1 each orange/yellow pepper
3 each to 4 zuchini
7 each to 8 mushrooms,...
1 each to 2 can(s) of...

Directions:

Chop garlic, and saute in a litte olive oil, next add your peppers , let them soften for one to two minutes, next stir in your zuchini and mushroom.

PRE HEAT OVEN TO 190 fahrenheit. place pasta in a saucepan and cook in boiling water for 5-7 minutes .

Once the veg is ready, drain your pasta and stir half of the quantity in with the veg and chives and oregeno to season,place in a lasange dish cover with the remaining pasta sprinkle with a good helping of cheese nu...

Time:

30 min (10 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

3 cup rice, soaked in...
0.5 cup olive oil, Juice...
1 each Bunch Green...
1 each bunch parsley,...
1 each large, firm...
1 teaspoon dried mint...

Directions:

Thoroughly rince rice and drain well.
Mix the rice and all the above ingredients in a bowl.
If you are using fresh grape leaves blanch in boiling water for a minute.
Stuff and cook.
You could use torn grape leaves or slices of tomato to line the bottom of the pan so that the bottom layer of stuffed grape leaves won't scorch.

Time:

1 hr 15 min (15 min to prepare, 1 hr to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Notes:

Place your grape leaf...

Ingredients:

1 cup uncooked white...
0.25 cup olive oil
0.5 each lb onion, minced
0.5 cup raisins
1 teaspoon coriander, which...

Directions:

Heat half the olive oil, fry onions until soft, add rice and stir to coat.
Pour on a glass of water, add raisans and cook until all water is absorbed.
Roll into grape leaves, place grape leaves, seam side down, in a baking dish (close together), add more water, oil and lemon juice and bake at 300F for 1 hour.

Now, my changes:
I use the bottled grape leaves, because I like the extra tang from the pickling juice.
I also used green onions (both white an...

Time:

1 hr 10 min (10 min to prepare, 1 hr to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

0.5 cup veggie oil
4 each medium onions...
1 cup uncooked rice
1 cup parsley (minced)
0.5 cup raisins
0.5 cup tomato sauce
1 cup water
0.75 teaspoon allspice
0.5 teaspoon pepper, Grape leaves
2 teaspoon salt (or less/ to...

Directions:

Saute onions in the oil until browned.
Add rice and cook on a low heat for 20 minutes (covered), stirring occasionally.
Add all other ingredients (except grape leaves, of course) and cook for 5 minutes.
When it has cooled a little, use approx. 1 tsp. of filling per grape leaf and roll up, as for a burrito.
The filling should be totally enclosed.
To cook the "raw" dolmas, line a large pot with grape leaves and arrange the dolmas in the pot.
P...

Time:

40 min (10 min to prepare, 30 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

2 each oz. cans of diced...
1 can of tomato paste...
1 each onion
2 each to 3 cloves of...

Directions:

In a medium-to-big pot, cover the bottom of the pot with some olive oil. Chop up the onion finely and put it in the pot. Then crush the garlic cloves and put that in the pot as well. Turn on the heat to simmer, and if you don't have that, low. You'll want the onion to look almost transparent. Open up the can of tomato paste and put it into a big bowl. Then open up the cans of tomatos. Drain the juice into the bowl with the tomato paste. Then, using either a food chopper or a food pr...

Time:

25 min (15 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each green zucchini
1 each yellow zucchini
1 each tomato, a big...
1 each green pepper
1 each yellow pepper
1 each green pepper
0.25 pound pine nuts (or a...
1 each small onion or a...
0.333333 cup olive oil,...

Directions:

1. First, I'd suggest chopping up the peppers into long 1 inch strips, and place in a large bowl.
Add snow peas(or other pods) too.

2. Next, chop up mushrooms(if needing chopping), calliflower, & broccoli into bite size pieces. Place in bowl.

3. Cut a little onion up for flavor into very tiny pieces. Add onion to bowl.

4. Cut the Green zucchini in about 1/2 inch slices, then cut them in half.
For yellow zucchini, leave slices...

Time:

40 min (10 min to prepare, 30 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each small brinjal,...
250 each gram carrots,...
500 each gram baby...
2 each small red or...
1 each large onion, cut...
2 each cloves of garlic,...
3 milliliter pepper
125 milliliter dry white wine
125 milliliter white wine vinegar
30 milliliter sunflower oil
5 milliliter dried thyme
5 milliliter Dried rosemary
5 milliliter finely grated...
5 milliliter syrup or molasses
5 milliliter fresh lemon juice

Directions:

Conventional Method for vegetables:
Cook brinjal in 25mm-deep boiling water, about three minutes, drain.
Cook carrots in 25mm-deep boiling water, about seven minutes, until crispy tender, drain.
Cook unpeeled potatoes in just enough boiling water to cover, about 20 minutes, or until cooked through but still firm. Drain and cut in half.

Microwave Method for vegetables:
Place brinjal in a casserole dish, add 125ml hot water, cover, microwave on 100% po...

Time:

55 min (15 min to prepare, 40 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

12 each lasagna noodles
1 each medium eggplant...
1 each medium...
3 each garlic cloves...
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon italian herbs
3 tablespoon canola oil
0.25 cup dry cooking...
8 each mushrooms (sliced)
2 each x 12 oz cans of...
1 each small can of...
2 each dashes of tobasco...
1 can (medium) of...
1 cup of salsa, a bunch...

Directions:

Heat oil in a stir fry pan, add eggplant, garlic and salt
- stir fry until eggplant is just about tender (not too soft)
-- you may have to add a little water if oil is sucked up by eggplant.

Add zucchini, basil, oregano, italian herbs
-- stir fry for about 2 minutes more, then add dry sherry, red pepper and mushrooms
-- cook for another 2 minutes, then add tomato sauce, paste and tobasco sauce (cover and simmer for 5 minutes
- stirring occasio...

Time:

25 min (10 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each bunch fresh basil...
0.75 cup pine nuts
5 each whole cloves garlic
0.5 teaspoon salt, several...
2 OZ Tofu
0.25 cup yeast and/or soy...
0.75 cup extra virgin...

Directions:

Combine all ingredients EXCEPT OIL in the bowl of a food processor.
Process until semi-smooth.
With processor running, add oil in a continuous stream.

Toss with pasta, serve on toasted bread with tomatoes, etc.

All of these amounts are approximate.
Adjust them to your own taste.
It's pretty hard to mess up.

I often use other herbs besides basil.
Right now there's a cilantro pesto in the fridge, and last ...

Time:

40 min (15 min to prepare, 25 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each medium onion
1 each medium carrot
1 each stock cube
0.5 each pack (150 gram,...
2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
0.5 can (425 gram, 15oz...
5 tablespoon tomato puree
1 each medium aubergine...
100 ml (3.5 fl oz) soya...
2 tablespoon nutritional yeast...
0.25 each pack (75 gram,...

Directions:

1. Peel and finely chop the onion and carrot.
Saute in stock made with the cube (or use oil if you prefer) until vegetables are softened.

2. Meanwhile, grate or finely chop the drained and rinsed tofu.
Drain and rinse the lentils.

3. Add the tofu to the pan with the vinegar and stir for another 5 minutes.
Add the drained lentils and the tomato puree, and about 125ml (4fl oz) water.
Stir well, lower heat and simmer for 10-20 minutes.