1. Menu Starters Main Courses Dessert s Catalan cream Paella Snails on a tin Potato salad Herring fish salad German plum tart Chicken soup Bigos Szarlotka

2. Paella Ingredients 1 small onion, finely chopped 1 green pepper, finely chopped red pepper, boiled until soft and then cut into long thin strips 2 medium-sized tomatoes, skinned and finely chopped 200g prawns 200g small clams 200g squid 12 mussels 350g rice 2 cloves of garlic, coarsely chopped a pinch of saffron strands a sprig of parsley, finely chopped olive oil about 800ml water Steps: 1-Heat some olive oil in a large frying pan. Add the onion, green pepper, and squid and fry gently for about five 2- Add the rice and stir well to make sure that it is thoroughly cooked and add water and the differents tipes of fish and add salt 3- Then add the mussels on the top and put more water. 4- Once the rice is cooked and the mussels have opened, it is ready to eat. 3. Potato salad Ingredients: 10 unpeeled red potatoes 5 hard boiled eggs, roughly chopped 3/4 cup sour cream 3/4 cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, or to taste 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, or to taste 1/2 white onion, finely chopped 1 stalk celery, finely chopped 1 teaspoon celery salt salt and black pepper to taste 1 tablespoon dried dill weed Steps: In a bowl, whisk the mayonnaise, celery, onion, pimientos, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper until smooth. Add potatoes and bacon; stir to coat. Refrigerate until serving. 4. Chicken soup Ingredients: 3 part of chicken 1 tablespoon salt onion 1 tomato 1 carrot other soup greens based on preference 6 peppercorns 3 grains allspice 1 bay leaf parsley for garnishing Steps: Wash 1 cut-up 3 chicken, place in pot, add 1 T salt and 2-1/2 - 3 quarts water, bring to gentle boil and cook 90 min or until meat is fairly tender. (Cook only 45 min if a fryer is being used). Skim off scum until no more forms. To broth add 1 portion soup greens and 1 halved onion (impaled on fork and charred over flame), 1 whole tomato, 1 whole carrot, 6 peppercorns, 2-3 grains allspice and 1 bay leaf. Cook until vegetables are tender. Strain, discard all spices and serve. Vegetables may be used in some other dish, but the carrots may be diced and served in the soup. 5. Snails on a tin Ingredients: 80-100 snails Oil Salt- a piece of salt Brandy Steps: Snails are placed in a tin with oil. First put salt generously and then place the tin on the grill about 25 minutes or until you try to remove a snail easily. 6. Herring fish salad Ingredients: 1/2 kg potatoes 1 apple 1/2 onion 4-5 pickled herring fillets 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup normal cream 6-7 medium sized gherkins (German, Polish or Russian variety) olive oil 1/2 lemon parsley salt and pepper Steps:boil the potatoes peel them and leave to cool cut the herring fillets into 2 cm strips chop up the gherkins and the onion finely peel the apple and cut it into 2 cm cubes cut the potatoes into cubes put everything into a bowl add the juice of half a lemon and the sour and normal cream season with very little salt as the herrings a pretty salty already and pepper to taste add some fresh parsley and move everything carefully 7. BigosIngredients: 8 slices of bacon, finely chopped 1 pound boneless, lean pork shoulder 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped, or 1 teaspoon garlic powder 3 onions, quartered pound fresh mushrooms, sliced 1 cup canned beef broth 2 Tablespoons sugar 2 bay leaves 2 cups canned sauerkaut , rinsed under water and drained well 2 medium apples, cored and sliced 2cups Italian's tyle whole tomatoes with juice 1 cup cooked ham, diced 1 cups cooked Polish sausage, coarsely sliced Steps: Fry bacon pieces in Dutch oven or large saucepan over high heat for about 3 minutes. Carefully drain off some of the fat, leaving just enough to coat the bottom of the pot. Add pork, garlic, onions, and mushrooms, and, stirring constantly, fry until meat is browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium. Add beef broth, sugar, bay leaves, drained sauerkraut, apples, and tomatoes with juice. Bring the mixutre to a boil, increasing heat if necessary. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer stew for about 1 hours, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Add cooked ham and sausage, and stir. Cover and continue to simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes more to blend flavors. Remove bay leaves and discard before serving. 8. Catalan cream Ingredients (4 people) 1 liter of milk 4 egg yolks 2 tablespoons cornstarch 200 gr. sugar Steps: Step 1: Heat the milk. Step 2: Beat the egg yolks with sugar and cornstarch. Step 3: Pour the milk over the yolks. Step 4: Place the mixture into the fire, without boiling, until thickened. Step 5: Distribute it in clay pots and let cool. Put a layer of sugar and burn with a shovel (which is red in the fire.) 9. German plum tart Ingredients: 4 cups sliced fresh plums 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 (9 inch) unbaked deep dish pastry shell TOPPING 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 3 tablespoons cold butter or margarine Steps: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 inch tube pan. Separate the eggs. In a small bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, and set aside. In a large bowl, cream the butter or margarine with the sugar. Beat in the egg yolks and the lemon zest. Stir together the flour and baking powder and then beat the flour mixture into the creamed mixture. Gently fold in the egg whites. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan. There will only be a little over an inch of batter. Arrange the plums, skin side down, attractively over the batter. Bake at 375 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 minutes or until cake tests done. Transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool before serving. Makes 6 servings. 10. Szarlotka Ingredients: 2 eggs 2 tablespoons flax seed meal 1/2 cup oil 2 cups flour 1/2 cup oats 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon almond extract Steps: Wash and coarsely chop the apples , place in a large bowl and sprinkle with sugar Some lemon juice may be poured on top of apples also. Set Aside Preheat oven to 350F Mix the flour, oats, baking soda and baking powder in a medium bowl. In a separate bowl mix the eggs, flax meal, and oil, and extract together. Add this mixture to the flour mixture. Mix well Add this dough to the apples, along with the nuts and raisins. Mix very well. The apples will get incorporated into the dough. Add a bit more flour if the mixture is extremely wet Put into a large pan and smooth out the top so it flat. Bake for around 1 hour . Top should look fairly browned. Take out of the oven and Cool in the pan. 11. Special Occasions 12. Panellets Are the traditional dessert of the All Saints holiday in Catalonia. Ingredients 700 grams of almonds 1/2kg. sugar 2 small potatoes 2 whole eggs 700 grams of pine nuts or almonds broken. 13. Easter Cake The Easter cake is a sweet spongy usually accompanied by eating chocolate, dry sausage and hard boiled egg. It is a tradition that symbolizes the Lent and its withdrawal were completed. Are the traditional dessert of Easter. Ingredients: Sponge 4 eggs 150g of Sugar 150g of flour 20g of almond flour 5g of yeast 2 beaten egg whites 50g of butter For the Filling 300g of Peach Jam To Garnish 250g of dark chocolate 125g of butter 14. Mushroom Soup The mushroom soup are eat in the day of Christmas eve. This meal can be make of manifold kind of mushroom. We eat this soup with a pasta. Ingredients 1/4 lb dried wild mushrooms 9 cups vegetable or meat stock 1 cup butter 1 cup finely chopped onion 1 tablespoon cornstarch salt white pepper sour cream chopped fresh parsley 15. Pasta with Poppy Pasta with poppy are eat in the day of Christmas eve. This meal is our family tradition. Ingredients: 300 g of flour 1 egg pinch of salt 1 glass of poppy seeds 3 spoonfuls of honey 2 spoonfuls of raisins 2 spoons of almonds petals 1 spoonful of chopped walnuts 1 spoonful of orange peel 16. Berliner In germany the people were often eating Berlinerwhen they celebrate the new year!A Berlinertaste for example like a Donut, it's full of marmelade and it's taste realy good!But when they all want to eat a Berlinerso one of the many Berliner taste MUSTARD! So when you took the false, you will taste it ! The person who tooks the bad Berliner he's the LOOSER! Ingredients: 500 g wheat flour 1 / 2 cube of yeast 1 teaspoon sugar 0.25 l milk 2 egg yolks 1 packet vanilla sugar 50 g butter Salt 17. Bretzel The Bretzel its a part of Oktoberfest like a beer. People drink a beer and eat Bretzel too. The pretzel is the beginning of the 14th Century until today the number of bekers' guild. Ingredients: 1 kg flour 490 ml water 40 grams yeast 20 grams salt 30 grams malt or bakery Malt flour 30 grams margarine or Butter 18. Rafael, Mnica, Ada and Marc