Baked polenta with cheese

A traditional shepherds' dish is the delicious mămăligă cu brânză la cuptor (baked polenta with cheese). A simple, easy to cook, cheap recipe...

You need a fresh cook polenta, butter or oil, cheese, cream, possibly two eggs, bacon, sausages, or ham. In a thermo-resistant bowl smeared with butter or oil you put a thin layer of polenta, a thin layer of broken cheese and cream, a layer of polenta, and so on. The last layer must be one of polenta. On top you add some cheese and/or two scrambled eggs. In the cheese you may add some bacon, sausages, or ham. Insert the bowl in the oven and cook until the crust is slightly browned. Good appetite!

Images from Bucataria Denysei.

Quince dish

Today, a traditional Romanian peasant recipe, simple and easy to prepare - quince dish. Ingredients:
2 kg quinces
200 g sugar
100 ml oil
100 ml white wine
50 g flour

Do not peel the quinces, just wash them well and wipe with a kitchen towel. Cut into quarters, cut the hard part in the center, and then slice the quarters like a orange. Cover the slices with flour and fry them in oil well heated, then remove them in another pot.

Put the rest of the flour and the sugar into the remaining oil and stir over heat until sugar begins to caramelize. Pour the wine mixed with 300 ml of water and still give some boil, stirring so as not to make lumps. Pour the sauce over the roasted quinces and seethed together a few minutes longer.

Serve hot or cold.

Images from here.