Traditional main dishes When nibbling isn't enough anymore We'll start with a simple soup popular in the southeastern mountainous Klambari-speaking region, where it is often used as a weekday dinner in the later part of the year. It's made of fresh vegetables, cheese and when available and desired, minced meat. Fresh herbs are used as garnish. http://i.imgur.com/Y0K7OyR.png Ingredients for one hungry person or two sharing a light meal: 1 celery root 3-4 turnips (not swede turnips) 2 small tomatoes ½ bell pepper or similar 1 leek 50-100 g hard cheese, cubed 50-100 g minced meat (optional) Fresh herbs as parsley (optional, as garnish) Vegetable stock Salt, Pepper, other seasonings as desired Create a batch of stock (0,5-1 liters) or use a pre-made one. Bring to a boil, clean the celery root and cube it. Repeat with turnips. Give to the stock and boil for at least 20 minutes. Meanwhile clean the leek, cut into rings and be sure to use some of the greenish parts, too (the really dark green parts can be used for stock some other time). Add to the soup. Now add the (quartered) two tomatoes and cut the bell pepper into stripes. Half those and add them as well. After 20 minutes, try vegetables once every few minutes to check if they are almost ready. At that time, add the hard cheese and, if available and desired, the minced meat. Cook for a few more minutes until the cheese has softened. Season with salt, pepper and what else you would like and serve with parsley or other fresh herbs. http://i.imgur.com/s2sOqDR.jpg The next recipe is a another quick versatile Klambari dinner, which can be prepared as a traditional meat-heavy dish or lighter vegetarian variant. 200 g minced meat / 100 g dry soy meat Vegetable stock (if using the soy meat option) Vegetable oil 100 g traditional semi-hard white Klambari cheese (optionally can also use soft white cheese like Mozzarella) 1-2 tomatoes ¼ of a lettuce head ¼ of a red cabbage 1 onion Other salad vegetables as desired (for example cucumber, pumpkin etc.) Botamki sauce (a traditonal white sauce made of egg whites, oil and peeled almonds. Can substitute mayonnaise or a thin white sauce, like a yogurt or ranch dressing, if not available) Rice (as a side dish) (Serves two persons or one with a huge appetite) Fry minced meat in a pan in oil until brown from all sides. (Alternatively, let soy meat soak in half a liter vegetable stock for 20 min and then fry in a pan in oil). Cut tomatoes, lettuce head, red cabbage, onion and other vegetables, combine to a salad. Give the meat/soy meat on top of the salad, pour sauce over it and garnish with cheese. Serve with rice.