Latvia - cheesecake (biezpienkūka)

 Ingredients:

• 500 g cottage cheese 
• 3 packets of biscuits  
• 0,2 l sweet cream 
• 100 g marmalade 
• 100 graisins 
• 50g apricots 
• glass of sugar 
• lemon zest 
• vanilla sugar

 Preparation:

Mix cottage cheese. Whipped cream. Marmalade and apricots, cut into small pieces.
Mix everything together, add sugar to taste and vanilla sugar.
Place the biscuits 3x3 4-5 rounds. Between the layers put the prepared cream.

Spain: "Dorada a la sal" (Salted gilt-head bream)

Spain: “DORADA A LA SAL” 

(Salted gilt-head bream)

Ingredients:

-          2 Gilt-head bream (fish)

-          2 kg course salt

-          0´5 kg normal salt

-          1/3 glass of water

-          1 Lemon

Elaboration:

1. Mix the course and normal salt in a container with the water.
2. Get the fish ready: clean it and put the lemon’s slices inside.
3. Through the half of the salt in a baking sheet, put the gilt-head breams on and cover them with more salt.
4. Cook it on the oven from 30 to 40 minutes.
5. Take the baking sheet away, put all the salt out the fish and serve it with some boiled or smash potato or vegetables.

Spain: Tosta Catalana (Catalan Toast)

Spain: “TOSTA CATALANA” (Catalan toast)

 Ingredients:

-          Slices of bread

-          Tomate

-          Garlic

-          Oil

-          Salt

-          Cumin

-          Cured Ham

Elaboration:

1. Prepare the sauce: grate the tomatoes, chop the garlic in tiny pieces, and season the mix with a bit of cumin, salt and oil.
2. Toast the slices of bread.
3. Flip the ham in a frying pan, just for a couple of seconds. 
4. Put the sauce on the toasted bread and the ham.