Flash Drive, Bowling, Romanian Recipe

A little while back I bought a very inexpensive portable radio from Walmart. I hadn’t realised when I bought it that it had the capability of taking a flash drive and a card. So I have been making a flash drive of MP3s to play – some while ago, I copied all our LPs and 45s on to CDs but the CDs wouldn’t play on our player although they play fine on the PC so now they have been copied to the flash drive and it’s nice to hear some songs we haven’t heard in a while. Artists most of you wouldn’t bother with but we enjoy, Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and many others. It’s amazing how much this little 2 gig flash drive holds, I haven’t even filled it up half way yet.

We are so happy, we get to go bowling again today. Two whole weeks and we have missed it. The banquet is going to be next week now. We don’t care so long as we get to bowl LOL.

Sorry I didn’t get round to posting this recipe yesterday. This is the recipe from last Saturday. This vdersion comes from Big Oven. Alex mentioned it looked like lasagne, but it isn’t, I can assure you.

Varza à la Cluj (Cabbage from Cluj, Romania)

Varza à la Cluj is a specialty food from Transylvania, it's minced meat, cabbage and rice baked in sour cream. Delicious!!

Ready in 2 hours

Ingredients

 
1 head of cabbage
1 medium sized onion
2 garlic cloves
1.5 lb of minced meat (I've used beef; pork, lamb . You could even use a combination)
2 tablespoons of butter (or oil)
1 cup of rice
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons paprika
2 cups of sour cream
0.5 cup of Milk
Original recipe makes 10 Servings

 

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 375.
Shred the cabbage and onion.
In a large pan, over medium heat melt the butter. Add the cabbage, salt, pepper and 1 tbsp paprika. Sauté for about 15 minutes or until it softens. Set aside.
While the cabbage is cooking cook the 1 cup of rice in two cups of water with a bit of salt. set aside.
Brown the meat with the onion, garlic, salt, pepper and 1 tbsp paprika. Set aside.
Combine your cabbage, rice and meat into a large baking dish or casserole. (Some people like to separate them into layers but I like it all mixed up)
Combine the milk and the sour cream in a large enough bowl and then pour this mixture over the dish letting it seep to the bottom.
Lower the temperature and let it all bake until it is tender at 350 for about 90 minutes. The top should be crispy brown and bubbling.
Serve this with toast and put some extra sour cream on top.

Have a great day