Puff pastry dough made easy!

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I love puff pastry, do you? You can create literally hundreds of recipes with it and it’s ready in 15 minutes: Apple strudel, croissants, puff pastry baskets and puff pastry fish pie and much more. The recipe of this dough will help you create a lot of awesomely delicious dishes in minutes. For the dough...

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Pumpkin crème-soup with shrimp, cream cheese and basil.

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It’s autumn and it means that it’s time for a great pumpkin soup with shrimp that I just LOVE cooking. It doesn’t require a lot of effort but it comes out perfectly smooth, bringing in the autumn flavors and colors into your kitchen. I tasted this soup long time ago in Europe, brought it into...

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Deviled eggs with mustard, shrimp and basil.

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This recipe is inspired by classic deviled eggs plus spiced up by the deviled eggs seen on Food network. It’s my combination of delicious deviled eggs that conquered the hearts of my family members. I would be happy to see what your favorite deviled eggs recipes are. You can submit the recipes by creating your...

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Mom’s potato stuffed with beef

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         This recipe is my Mom’s recipe; she invented it when we lived in Russian Far East. She had that awesome spiral potato cutter, so she was cutting potato and using it in two dishes, spirally cut potatoes from  the middle of potato were fried (Yummm) and the rest of the potato, (it looked like...

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Sweet & sour chicken with pineapple, so simple and so delicious.

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I love this combination for its rich flavor and tenderness, the dish melts in your mouth. I serve it with brown rice or mashed potato, both are good. It’s a very extravagant recipe with very ordinary ingredients. Serves 4 people For this recipe you will need: 1 lbs of boneless chicken breasts 1 onion 2/3...

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Flavorful Raspberry pancakes: easy to cook and fast to eat.

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If you have never tried raspberry pancakes, well… you have never eaten the real pancakes! Pancakes with raspberries are not only delicious, but they also boost all the good flavors in pancakes as well as raspberries, which make them unforgettably delicious. Raspberry pancakes are very simple to cook. For 12 thick pancakes I use: 2/3...

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Easy 30 minute ready potato “sails” with turkey ham, onion and cheese

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This is a very simple recipe that was cooked for decades in mountainous part of Ukraine. It’s cheap, fast to cook and very simple dish, but surprisingly it’s amazingly delicious. Some dishes should be complicated, some are simple. Honestly, even your kids can cook it. Just boil potato for them in advance and… by the...

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TGIF: Chocolate lava cake or Chocolate cake, what to choose?

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TGIF! And it’s time for my TGIF recipe interpretation. This recipe from “A meandering mango” inspired me for my “Chocolate cake with rum and coconut” These cakes chocolate espresso molten cakes look amazing and the recipe is very simple. There’s only one problem that bothered me: two cakes that come out of this recipe won’t...

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Easy Country Style Chicken in 20 minutes

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This recipe was overlooked at Restaurant impossible TV program, I added my personal touches to it and it came out great. To define great I will explain: my fiancé, who doesn’t like chicken, was consuming it, as if it was his favorite sausage, not a chicken… I used cornmeal here, because I love adding it to my...

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Chocolate cake with coconut and rum “Mmm, Yum!”

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My cake is a combination of recipes, ideas and vision of a great chocolate cake. (to my mind) I love that this cake is moist inside, combines sweetness and bitterness of dark chocolate and I love that it’s easy to cook. 1/2 cup of chocolate chips ½ cup of instant espresso 1 ¼  stick of...

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