Mistakes to avoid when cooking holiday dinner

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It’s almost turkey time and his means that a lot of newbies will attempt to cook a Thanksgiving dinner for the first time. I, myself, will be cooking a pumpkin cheesecake, the cake that I have never attempted to approach before. SO when cooking a Thanksgiving dinner, especially when cooking it for the first time,...

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Button Mushrooms stuffed with minced meat with lemon basil and grapes.

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This recipe is really amazing and fast to cook, considering the fact that button mushrooms contain 17 different vitamins, the benefits from this dish increase dramatically. This dish has a long history in my house, it was cooked without cheese and grapes, but I decided to add the sweet twist to it. THe bitterness of...

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Olivier salad: simple salad recipe you will love

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This is a traditional recipe for the parties and holidays in Slavic countries. No one knows where it came to former Soviet countries from,(we were a huge country with closed borders for decades), but this was the main salad of every celebration in almost every family for decades. I cook this salad very rarely and mainly...

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Top 3 Tortilla Recipes: 10 minute healthy recipes.

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Tortilla is a unique ingredient: every dish you incorporate it in is simple, easy to cook , yet very delicious. These 3 recipes are my favorites when I am on the run and the family needs to have a snack. Fried tortillas with beef It’s good to take with you if you decide to go...

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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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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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Rice and Crab salad fast and easy!

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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...

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TGIF Special: Teriyaki Chicken

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TGIF  and today is the first week of  my TGIF Special! Every week I’ll be featuring one post of my friends’ signature recipes , so stay tuned  maybe next week it will be your turn ! I Love this recipe, it’s simple, it’s fast to cook and tastes EVEN BETTER than at the local restaurant! Meet...

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Fried cauliflower

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You know that I love cauliflower, I had the whole day dedicated to cauliflower in my ***good food*** section on Helen’s Cooking Facebook fan page. Cauliflower is very nutritious, easy to work with and Surprise! Surprise! It’s delicious. This is a signature recipe of my Mom, she cooks cauliflower this way very often. When I...

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Stuffed cucumber salad (old recipe from 1927 newspaper)

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This is a recipe of salad from 1927, very extraordinary in implementation I would say. You all remember this newspaper menu of the 1927 family that I posted on my Facebook page:  I decided to experiment with the filling , as we don’t really eat celery in my family. The result was astonishing, my fiancee,...

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