Vintage breakfast idea – farmer's cheese

We are pleased to share with you our favorite simple and quick recipe for natural, old-school breakfast. It is made from probiotic farmer cheese, fresh chives and radish.  It tastes delicious when you eat it with fresh-baked bread.

Farmer cheese is a dairy product, popular and common in Europe. It is widely used as an ingredient for main dishes, side dishes, salads, sandwiches, desserts, cheesecakes. In Europe farmer cheese is available in most grocery stores, however in some parts of USA it’s barely known. We have found farmer cheese which is quite similar to European one. It’s Lifeway Farmer Cheese Probiotic, we use it to prepare our breakfast. 

INGRENDIENTS

• 1  lb farmer’s cheese
• 3 chopped radishes
• Chives
• 2 pinches salt
• 2 pinches pepper (we used lemon pepper)
• 2 tablespoons plain yogurt

DIRECTIONS

1. Mix farmer’s cheese with yogurt. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
2. Chopped radish and chives. You can sliced one radish to decorate your dish before serving.
3. Add chopped vegetables to farmer’s cheese and mix together. 

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Fig and Blue Cheese Pizza

Seeking inspirations for family dinner or party with friends?
You are just in the right place! Here is an easy recipe for attractive and uncommon pizza, which will surprise and delight your guests.

Preparing time: 1,5h  
Cook time: 20 minutes                                Yield: 2 medium sized pizzas

INGREDIENTS
Pizza dough:

• 3,5 cups flour
• 2 teaspoon instant yeast
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons olive oil
• 6 teaspoons water

Toppings:

• Sliced figs
• Blue cheese (you can use Mozzarella)
• Fresh, chopped thyme, oregano and rosemary
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper

DIRECTIONS

For the dough:

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Combine flour, yeast, sugar and salt in one bowl and mix together well. Afterwards add olive oil and water. Mix the ingredients.
3. Knead the pizza dough until the dough is smooth and delicate. You can knead it with your hands or use mixing paddle.
4. Form dough into sphere, cover it and place in warm spot. Let the dough rise until it doubles in size, at least 45 minutes to 1 hour.
5. Divide the dough in two pieces. Put one piece of dough on cutting board and form it into disk with your hands. Use a small amount of flour to prevent dough stickiness.
6. Place pizza disk on the parchment paper and stretch out into a round – with your hands or use a rolling pin. Leave the dough disk thicker, if you prefer more fluffy pizza bottom.  

Kneaded dough - let the dough rise for about 1h.

After an hour, the dough has doubled in size.

For the pizza:

1. Apply a thin layer of olive oil on the top of the dough.
2. Lay the fig slices and sprinkle with blue cheese – especially in gaps between fruit.
3. Add chopped herbs - thyme, oregano and rosemary, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
4. Bake for 20 minutes (or until the dough is golden) in preheated oven. Remember to bake one pizza at a time.

You can also use Mozzarella instead of Blue Cheese. Below is our second pizza with Mozzarella.

  Enjoy your simple and self-made pizza!

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