Polenta with egg

One dish that Andreea loves is polenta with eggs. Her grandma used to make this for her and it's probably the only dish she asked me to learn how to do. You will need an egg, a bit of butter and most important - some polenta.

Guide: polenta

Polenta is very common in my country. It's easy to make and all you need for it is cornmeal, water and salt. Cornmeal is a coarse flower made from corn.

Guide: Crispy witch fingers

Halloween is one of our favorite holiday, at least from a culinary point of view. We love to experiment and we try to design all kinds of strange and scary foods, to create a fun and festive mood for our guests. We cooked two types of witch fingers - and they're some of our best looking Halloween recipes.

Wine and Orange Marinated Pork

I found this recipe on a pack of spices and after the first sentence I knew I had to try it. If you want a refreshing, summery and very tasty recipe this Wine and Orange Marinated Pork is perfect. We used pork tenderloin, red wine, one orange and spices. We served it with a Yogurt and Orange Dip.

Yogurt and orange dressing

This is a perfect dressing for summer salads but it also works great as a dip for pork or chicken meat. All you need to make this is yogurt, an orange and a few spices.

Sweet and Flavored Pork

We really like Chinese food and we try reproducing its taste in many of our recipes. For this one we used onions, green apples (Granny Smith), bell peppers (red and yellow), bamboo sprouts, ginger, soy sauce (sweet not salted), brown sugar and spices (salt, pepper, chili, ground ginger and ground cinnamon).

Wild rice with soy sauce

Rice with soy sauce is great as a side dish for many of our recipes. It's tasty and it can be made from most kinds of rice - white, brown, wild, etc. For the recipe here we used wild rice, an onion, soy sauce and spices.

Beef in Wine and Oyster Sauce

One of my favorite foods is Beef in Oyster Sauce. I didn't know a specific recipe and I didn't waste time searching the web, as I like to improvise, and the result was delicious. I used  beef (flank or filet is best for this), red and yellow bell peppers, onions, mushrooms (canned), oyster sauce, white wine and spices (ground ginger, black and red pepper, chilli and nutmeg).

About us...

The Happy Kitchen is the place where we set all our daily stress aside and we immerse in flavours, ingredients, steam and, last but not least, taste. It's our small relaxation corner, where we are crafting savoury & sweet delights, more or less known, but always with passion and energy for our loved ones.
Our inspiration has plenty of sources - it can be a website, a TV post, the book of a beloved chef, or simply an ingredient that we stumbled upon in the market. Whichever the ingredients, we alway cook with the same purpose: to create something new, which would bring smiles around the table and which would be loved both by the ones savouring the dish and the ones reading the recipes.
The Happy Kitchen has two romanian authors, with different prefferences but which complete each other perfectly in the kitchen: Alexandru & Andreea Dragan, flavour & taste passionates.
In the Happy Kitchen we cook both Romanian and international recipes with a twist, always looking for a new way to inspire our readers.

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