Planning

Say when you want to eat. Edesia works back from there.

Every step of every dish, put in the order a kitchen needs, with the oven and the hob shared, and the time you have to start.

Sunday dinner for 6

SarmaleMămăligăCabbage salad
At the table at19:30
Start at15:45

A recipe is a story. Cooking needs a plan.

Recipes are written to be read. Edesia rewrites them to be cooked: what to do first, what happens while something bakes, and exactly how much of everything, in the sentence you are reading.

The recipe, as written

Rinse the pickled cabbage and separate the leaves. Mix the minced pork with the rice, a chopped onion, salt and pepper. Place a spoonful of filling on each leaf and roll tightly. Line a pot with chopped cabbage, arrange the rolls, cover with tomato juice and bake slowly for about two and a half hours. Serve with sour cream and polenta.

The same dinner, as Edesia plans it for 6 people

Prepare

15:45Rinse 2 heads of pickled cabbage and separate the leaves.
16:00Mix 1 kg minced pork with 120 g rice, 1 finely chopped onion, 2 tsp salt and 1 tsp pepper.
16:25Roll 24 sarmale, one heaped spoonful on each leaf.

Cook

16:40Layer them over 300 g chopped cabbage, pour over 500 ml tomato juice and bake covered at 180 °C.
2:30:00 in the oven
19:00Meanwhile, stir 250 g cornmeal into 1 l boiling salted water for the mămăligă.

Finish

19:15Rest the sarmale for 15 minutes; set out 400 g sour cream.
19:30At the table.

Several dishes, one kitchen.

Edesia knows you have one oven and four rings. It moves the work that can wait into the time something else is baking, so everything is ready at once and nothing waits on the stove.

The salad is cut while the sarmale bake. The mămăligă starts thirty minutes before dinner, not earlier.

It remembers what you would forget.

Some dishes start the day before: meat to thaw, beans to soak, a marinade overnight. Edesia reminds you when it is time, and tells you in the afternoon when to start.

Sat 20:00Tomorrow’s sarmale: take 1 kg minced pork out of the freezer and put it in the fridge.
Sun 15:30Start in 15 minutes to eat at 19:30. The cabbage comes first.