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Easy 30 minute ready potato “sails” with turkey ham, onion and cheese
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 time you are home – they have themselves a nice dinner. So, for the dish as you already know you will need: Potatoes … Read entire article »
Filed under: main dish, Recipes, Vegetables
TGIF: Chocolate lava cake or Chocolate cake, what to choose?
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 even reach the dinner table, as they will be eaten by my family members betwen the oven and table transportation. So I invented … Read entire article »
Easy Country Style Chicken in 20 minutes
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 pies and muffins, but have never added to my main dishes. So here it goes: 3 boneless chicken breasts ½ cup of all-purpose flour ½ cup if corn meal 1 tablespoon of salt (better sea salt) 1 tablespoon of black pepper (fresh ground) 3-4 teaspoons of vegetable oil. Wash the chicken breasts, cut in halves lengthwise (mine were huge), then cut in halves (or three parts) crosswise. Season very well: salt, pepper. Pepper should be fresh and I used a lot of it. You can … Read entire article »
Chocolate cake with coconut and rum “Mmm, Yum!”
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 butter 1 cup of white sugar 1 cup of brown sugar 2 ¾ all-purpose flour (sifted) 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1 teaspoon of baking soda 2 teaspoons of vanilla … Read entire article »
Pizza from scratch in 30 minutes!
Normally when we cook pizza we think it should take an hour, I saw some recipes where cooking pizza took 4 hours. I bet it comes out as a delicous masterpiece, but… guess what… we normally don’t have 4 hours to fix the pizza. It’s good, when we have 30 minutes. That’s why I decided to share my recipe of fast pizza with bacon, ham nad vegetables. The stuffing can be pretty much any… the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Beef, Bread, Pastry, Pork, Recipes, Vegetables
5 fast and delicious summer salads
Tomato and avocado salad: This salad is my #1 summer salad. I can eat it every day 3 times a day. It’s very fast and simple to cook and as we all know avocado is very good for your health, so I try to eat it as much as possible. Read more Tomato, Onion and Lemon basil vinaigrette: Fast salad for dinner or lunch. Minimum ingredients and maximum delight:-) Will taste best with mashed potato and meat, or rice and fish. … Read entire article »
Filed under: main dish
Tomato and avocado salad
This salad is my #1 summer salad. I can eat it every day 3 times a day. It’s very fast and simple to cook and as we all know avocado is very good for your health, so I try to eat it as much as possible. For this salad you need: 2 tomatoes 1 avocado ½ white onion Pinch of salt Pinch of pepper 2 teaspoons of olive or sunflower oil Pinch of dry oregano Chop the veggies, season, add olive oil, stir well – … Read entire article »
Filed under: Recipes, Salad, Vegetables
Potato, zucchini, red bell pepper, with bacon and herbs baked in a pot.
I was searching the internet for some time to find if this dish is prepared on North American continent, the closes I got was a recipe from allrecipes.com by Jana, but based on name I can say that the author is either from Europe of has roots from European countries. Please help me, if you know how this dish is cooked in North America. The potato baked with zucchini (squash), red bell pepper, onion, carrot, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Beef, Chicken, main dish, Pork, Recipes, Side dish, Vegetables
Rice and Crab salad fast and easy!
This salad recipe is good with crab meat (as well as imitated crab meat) and shrimps (or you can use both), corn adds sweetness to the salad, rice works as the base of this salad. You can cook it without rice if you wish, but I prefer it with rice, and herbs (dill and parsley, or just dill) are important. This recipe appeared in my menu, when we lived in Russian Far East near China. I love … Read entire article »
Eggs and bacon breakfast
There’s really no tricks about cooking this… eggs and bacon or eggs and sausage are awesome for Sunday breakfast/ brunch, to add a twist to this dish add some herbs: basil, lemon basil or parsley and dill. Anyways it can’t be spoiled:-) Enjoy! Have a Happy Sunday! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bread, main dish, Omelet, Recipes, Vegetables
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