Top 3 for Fat Tuesday: Pancakes with raspberries, Crepes with cream cheese and puffy mini-pancakes!

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These are my top 3 pancakes as I call them. Although not all of them a exactly pancakes – the batter is the same , the cooking method is the same, so you can categorize them as pancakes for Fat Tuesday anyway!:-) Flavorful Raspberry pancakes: easy to cook and fast to eat. If you have...

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Light Holiday Cake with fruit and jelly “Indulgence”

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This cake is  the lightest cake you can ever imagine. It contains lots of fruit or berries, light cream  and jelly. So where’s the cake you will ask? Aha! Gotcha! The sponge cake cut in small cubes is your cake foundation, if you will. It is very simple to cook, but take some take for...

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Top 5 Valentine’s Day recipes

Heart Shaped Homemade Buttermilk Pancakes from Cooking with Libby Amoung some of the traditions we have done over the years, the idea of making homemade buttermilk pancakes the morning of Valentine’s Day is one of them.  You make them, then cut into heart shapes using just your average heart shaped cookie cutters.  Sprinkle them with powdered sugar and serve...

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Light cauliflower soup with chicken

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This soup is light  and is a great comfort food. I like to have this warm soup for dinner after a very busy day.The best thing is that you can prepare all the necessary veggies when you have time (or buy the ready mix) and just enjoy the soup in 20-40 minutes. You can also prepare the...

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Chili Rellenos

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A former neighbor showed me how to make Chili Rellenos from scratch 30 years ago with fresh Anaheim Peppers. The skins needs to be grilled or roasted “off” and the easiest way I discovered was putting in 350-400 oven until slightly charred and blistered. Read the full recipe here via  Good Deal Meals           ...

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Tuna soup with beans

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Tuna soup with beans. The idea of this soup belongs to my in-law, when she was was trying to fix  s soup fast. Originally it  was different, but I liked the idea, and in fact it’s a great anti-stress soup.  So i improved the soup a little and voila: the combination of creamy pinto beans...

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Top 5 recipes from my friends week 3

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I am reading blogs of my friends with a great attention. Some day I spend more time reading, some day less, but I definitely wanna know who  cooks what. What new foods my friends have explored, what old and good recipes were reinvented. I think these recipes are great for your weekend family gatherings. I love Mia’s easy salad...

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Aspic or meat jelly – famous Slavic Dish!

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This dish is very popular in Slavic countries. I have never seen it being cooked in the US, but I know that in European countries is’s still quite popular. Historically, meat jellies were made before fruit and vegetable jellies. By the Middle Ages at the latest, cooks had discovered that a thickened meat broth could be made into a...

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A day without Wikipedia Food facts

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As yesterday was a day when a number of websites such as Reddit, Wikipedia, Google and others went dark to protest SOPA and PIPA bills. I am not gonna go into the details of what these bills are trying to achieve I would rather share with you yesterday’s Twitter movement called #factswithoutwikipedia. WE all know...

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Roll with poppy seeds and strawberries

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  This roll will become your Sunday tradition when you try it. It’s so moist and sweet, flavorful , yet simple to cook. I read that preparation of this roll is very widespread in Eastern Europe . I cannot confirm that , but I tasted it maybe couple times at my Grandma’s when I was...

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