“Maria, so good you came! I need you to help
me because I cannot make it on my own!”
Before
Maria showed up, I made all the necessary preparations:
1 medium
sized onion and 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped and placed in the hot olive
oil, in the pan.
Half of a small
casserole of ground beef (I think there were around 250 g) in the pan, over the
slightly glossy onions. I stirred around
the meat and added some flavours – a little pinch of pepper, a little pinch of
oregano and one of basil and, instead of salt, 1 teaspoon of soy sauce.
Half of a
small casserole of mushrooms (I think there were about 200-250 g), finely
chopped and thrown in the pan as well.
Added some
curry powder …
6 cannelloni
which don’t need to be boiled in advance – I tore them to pieces.
I peeled 3
potatoes and I was getting ready to grate them….
Ding- dong!
The girls are here!
“Maria, so good you came! I need you to help
me because I cannot make it on my own!”
2 zucchini
“These zucchini have cucumber in the middle”
said Maria. I didn’t have the heart to say no…
I grated
the potatoes as planned, and the zucchini- we peeled and grated them together.
Here I gave
Maria a break as she was already asking of the Big Black.
I carried
on …
250 g of branza de burduf
(which is a very salty , soft cheese, but any cheese would do) grated as
well
4 eggs
100 g heavy
cream
200 ml
cooking cream
Salt,
pepper, oregano, basil
All put
together in a mixer bowl.
“Mommy, did you call me?”, says Mari
sticking her head in the kitchen. In translation “What’s there for me to do
now?
“Maria, right on time. Help me!”
We mixed
together all the ingredients in the bowl.
“And now?”
“Now we get our hands dirty!”
In the
grated potatoes and zucchinis, Maria put some salt, pepper, basil and oregano
and because she wanted something else to add in, I offered her some dill. She
made such a discontent funny face…I gave her some a la Provance mix of greens- they sounded better! Then we got
dirty- we got our hands in the bowls with potatoes and zucchinis and for a greater
fun we poured in some of the egg mix too.
Of course
that before we put the potatoes and the zucchinis in the tray, we squeezed the
heck out of them, but we couldn’t miss the opportunity to play with the food a
little.
And now,
let’s put together the casserole.
In the tray
that Mommy prepared for us (buttered and coated with bread crumbs) we put as a
first layered the torn cannelloni.
We
continued with a layer of zucchinis.
Then the
meat with mushrooms. Here Maria did it by herself.
And a layer
of potatoes…all by herself again.
And the
final step- the eggs , cheese and cream mix.
And the
casserole is done!
Here I
intervened and got the casserole in the oven- preheated at 175 Celsius. Left it
there for about 25 minutes.
In the
meantime, Maria and I started our other project - “How do we make an M shaped Angry Bird??? They are round!!!”
After about
25 minutes, we took the casserole out and decorated it with some mozzarella bits.
7 more
minutes, and the casserole looked like this and the little master chef was happy.
Two minutes
it took her to get super hungry, and we kept insisting of taking yet another
photo of her…
…when all
she really wanted was this:
The fork,
the tablespoon were not enough all alone, so she decided to use both at the
same time, sweet thing!
After about
three servings, separated only by a small break of chasing the Big Black, in
the end I was left with only this:
I think it
was good…
May you
have the same appetite as Maria had!
“Maria, what should we name the casserole?”
“Ummm….ummm…The Kittel casserole!” (not
Kitten, not Kettle…Kittel!)
“What?”
“KITTEL”
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