Новогодние маффины с клюквой / New Year's cranberry muffins

Маффины с клюквой - идеальная новогодняя сладость, простая в приготовлении и очень пряная. 

Ингридиенты на 18-20 штук:

• пшеничная мука - 4 стакана (200 мл стакан)
• сахар - 1 стакан
• молоко - 1.3 стакана
• растительное масло - 2.5 столовые ложки
• куриное яйцо - 2 штуки
• клюква (я использовала замороженную) - приблизительно один стакан
• цедра лимона - 2 столовые ложки
• разрыхлитель - 4 чайные ложки

Приготовление:

1. Разогреваем духовку до 200 градусов, пока готовим тесто. 

2. В миску добавляем сахар, цедру лимона и разбиваем яйцо. Венчиком или миксером взбиваем до пенки. 

3. Доабавляем молоко и масло и опять взбиваем. 

4. К получившейся смеси добавляем просеянную муку, смешанную с разрыхрителем. Замешиваем тесто. По консистенции оно должно быть не очень густым.

5. Приступаем к клюкве. Можно добавить цельные ягодки, но тогда нужно уменьшить их количество, чтобы кексики не были кислыми. Я предлагаю растереть клюкву с сахаром и уже потом добавить в тесто. Для этого ягоды нужно положить в дуршлаг или ситечко, ополоснуть водой, а затем выдавить их них сок в отдельную миску. Дальше по вкусу добавить сахар. На 20 маффинов должно прийтись примерно 20 чайных ложек сока. Когда нужный вкус достигнут, вылейте клюкву в тесто и перемешайте. 

6. Выкладываем тесто в формочки. Их можно смазать небольшим количеством масла, но если они силиконовые, это не обязательно. При 200 градусах маффины выпекаются 20 минут. Готовность можно проверить зубочисткой.

Готовые кексики вытаскиваем из формочек и подаем на стол. Вкуснота необыкновенная!

xxx

Cranberry muffins is the best way to spice up your New Year's feast. This recipe is really simple and the result is super delicious!

Ingredients for 18-20 muffins:

• wheat flower - 4 cups (200 ml - one cup)
• sugar - 1 cup
• milk - 1.3 cups
• sunflower oil - 2.5 table spoons
• 2 eggs
• cranberry (I used frozen) - about 1 cup
• lemon peel - 2 table spoons
• baking powder - 4 tea spoons

Cooking:

1. Turn on the oven on 200 degrees while making the dough. 

2. In a bowl add eggs, sugar and lemon peel, then whip with corolla or mixer until creamy texture.

3. In the same bowl add milk and oil and whip again. 

4. To this mixture add sifted flower mixed with baking powder. Knead the dough. It shouldn't be too thick.

5. Now it's time for cranberry. You can add the whole berries, but then be careful with their amount, otherwise your muffins will be sour. I suggest grinding your berries with sugar and then add to the dough. For this you need to put cranberries into a colander or a percolator, rinse with water and then squeeze the juice from them into a clean bowl. Then add sugar until you're satisfied with the taste. For 20 muffins there should be about 20 tea spoons of cranberries juice. When you have your perfect taste add juice to the dough and mix them together.

6. Put dough into your forms. You can oil them a bit, but if your forms're made of silicone, you may skip this step. Put muffins into the oven and bake them about 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Check if they're ready with a toothpick.

When your muffins are ready take them out of forms and serve. They are so delicious!

Я использовала кексики как подарок, завернув в красивую оберточную бумагу. 

I used my muffins as a present, so I wrapped it in this beautiful paper.

Оригинальный рецепт я нашла на сайте finecooking.ru , затем изменив под себя. Спасибо создателям!

I found the original recipe here: finecooking.ru and then I made it more me. Huge thank you to the creators!

Happy Holidays!

Kristina.

Bonnes Vacances - La Pizza!

Bonjour! А точнее добро пожаловать в Париж! Как объяснить словами мое счастье от возможности проводить летние месяцы в самом романтичном и самом необыкновенном для меня городе? 

Я дышу Парижем, пою вместе с ним, танцую под его лучами. Ну ведь это любовь?

И в свободные минутки я хочу радовать всех своим собственным Парижем, который состоит из случайных встреч, прекрасных находок и приятных воспоминаний.

Сегодня я хочу рассказать о месте, в котором можно вкусить все прелести итальянской кухни в корсиканском исполнении. Среди широких парижских проспектов таится невиданной красоты мир, который можно увидеть, если смотреть очень внимательно. Так, и моя пиццерия спрятана внутри маленькой улочки. Невнимательный глаз пройдет мимо, знаток же остановится и обязательно закажет сочную пиццу quatre fromages или что еще у нас в меню?

Добро пожаловать в Papacionu - ресторан с самой вкусной пиццей в городе!
Приходите одни или с близкими - порадуйте себя вкусными и сочными блюдами. Не забудьте заранее заказать столик по телефону, потому что место пользуется огромной популярностью и вечером столики никогда не пустуют!
Приятного аппетита!

7 rue Cadet, 75009 Paris

Phone number: 0145239003

Open hours: daily 12:00-15:00, 19:00-23:30.

xxx

Bonjour and welcome to Paris avec moi! How can I explain you my happiness of having an ability to spend summer in the most romantic, the most entertaining city for me?

I breathe with Paris, dance with it, sing all of the beautiful songs for it. This is love, isn't it?

And when I have some spare time, I'd like to introduce you to my very own Paris that I found while traveling in it's mysteries and history. You know that the most wonderful and interesting places are often hidden in place where you can not see them from the first sight. The pizzeria I'm telling you about is a place just like that. When you enter the street you can barely see the place. You can notice it if you already know it exists. Go there, order quatre fromages or what else is in the menu? Welcome to the Papacionu where you can have the most delicious pizza in town! 

Come and visit this place alone or with somebody, try the most amzing pizza! And you better order the table earlier on the phone, because it's kind of a popular place and tables are never empty, in the evenings especially!!!

Bon appétit!!!

Au revoir, Kristina.

Trip to a library.

Bonjour, my dear!
Hope, your august is good!
Today I wanna tell you about my trip to a library. But more precisely - failed trip to a library:)
Me as a good student wanted to read all books from summer literature list. And how can I do this in France, where probability to find book on Russian is very very very low? Someone can say: "Find russian shop here" & he will be right. I found one & went out there with only one book of Chekhov. Any ideas? FIND A RUSSIAN LIBRARY!!! Yep, I got this idea, google it and it made me happy, because I found one, while I was drinking my Frapuchino in Starbucks:). Turgenev's library in the center of Paris.
And here it all started. As a good student, I went there.
Here're my failes:

1. I couldn't find it for soo long! Because it's situated in the living building!
2. When I finally entered it, I found out, that if you wanna become a member, you need to pay 15 euros.
3. And then I got a really rediculos thing: if you want to take a book for a month, you need to pay more!

Of course, if I lived here, I would do all of this stuff, but I had only a month, so... I think, you understand me.
I was really sad, because of that and because I really wanted to read all of that books. So after this nightmare we went to a cafe, where I drank a really heilpful glas of juice.
And then, we decided to look around:) Then my mood grew up, because we found a really cool restaurant!!! It's cool as outside as inside. Near it there is a really cute fountain with flowers, so I fell in love with that place.
Here are the pics:

So, you saw my failed trip with the happy end!

P.S. You saw an adress of this restaurant, so if you will go to Paris (or if you are there:) you can visit it. And also I can give you an adress of this library. Rue de Valince 10. Turgenevskaya biblioteka.

Au revoir, from Paris with Love, your Kristina.

My Japanese smorgasbord.

Bonjour, my dear!Now it's time to tell you about my other journies here, in Paris.
One evening we decided to try russian food here. The nearest restaurant was sittuated far away:) But we went there. Our disappointment was so big, when we learned, that it closed!!! But our nextstep wasn't going home, but going to an intersting Japanese restaurant. It's interesting, because you pay there & then try everything you want! Yes! It's Japanese smorgasbord!!!



Haha, really cute dragon, right?:)

How it all started. I always wanted to see table with a stove inside.

And here's a food!!! You can see a variation of sushi & other Japanese food. And my face says: "Oh, I'm in the Heaven!"

Under this huge salad-list there were crevettes & something other:)

And these are frogs! You can't see them on my plate, because I wasn't so brave to try this delicacy:)

And here you can see the name of the restaurant. Of course, if you can read it:)

 Hope, you have great summer time!

Au revoir, from Paris with Love, your Kristina.

Le Mont St. Michel. Part I.

Bonjour, my dear!
A month... One month has gone. I'm sad a little bit, but I have another one.
This one was filled with amazing moments and events! I was in different, wonderful places and I will never forget that.
Today I want to tell you about one of my biggest jornies here, in France. I tell in France, because this journey  was held outside Paris.
It even further than Normandy. It's near the sea, where you can watch tides every day! This place is called Le Mont St. Michel. There're a big castle on the sea & there I had a great tour. I'm glad that my mom made a lot of pictures, so no I have all of that day at phone's memory:)

That's how our journey started. I'm sleepy  here, because we left at 5 am! This is my breakfast. I fell in love with this  croissant & jam! And I got my cup of cofee, which was very helpful!

This baby we saw on our way to cafe. She was crawling somewhere, when my mom shouted: "Look! Snail!"
And we made a picture:)

This howl is a rabbit's house! There were a lot of rabbits near the cafe we stopped at. It was amazing to wach this cute animalls were running on this little field. This is one of more others rabit's homes:)

On that place there're a lot of rabbit's burrows.

And here's an appl- tree. It's unusual for me to see an apple-tree near the filling.

As I told, the destination of our journey was outside France and further than Normandy. So we stopped there to have a  break. Also we saw there a souvenir's shop. There I found this cool apron:) You can see another on the photo lower. 

And here's a parking of our destination. It's unusual too, because cars there are standing on the sand.

There were a lot of poppies:)

Before we went to St. Michel Mountain, we went to town's cafe. 

And I was eating....

The Mulies. They were very tasty!!!

And then my mom made a sweet little photoshoot for me:)

I'm a gourment!!!

And here it is: Le Mont St. Michel!

And me...

And my mom:)

I love love love this picture!!!

Only amagine, that this bridge was used by kings & queens!

Jeanne d'Arc.

My mom called this picturelike that: "Granny, Daughter & Granddaughter":)

I always wanted to see houses like that one. On the first floor there are cafes, shops...

And this is a castle itself!

On our way higher, we noticed this alone rose bush.

Haha, of caurse the door is the main on the picture. Not me:))

On this pic I hold my hat as I ask money, ha!

People lived there! It's amazing:)

It's very majestic!

Sight from high...

This sea is unusual. In the morning you can not see any water, but in the evening you can watch the water goes up. 

This is my new house:) Of caurse it needs to be repaired, but I can live there with my prince:))

Despite the fact that this garden is small, it is very beautiful!

It's not an UFO! It's just a hole of fire place:)

Haha, I got there a little bit hard, but I love the picture:))

So you see the first part of my journey to Le Mont St. Michel! Soon, very soon I will write about second. 

Hope, you liked it!

Au revoir, from Paris with Love, your Kristina.