Philadelphia Cheesesteak Easy

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One of the most delicious dishes of Philadelphia. Everyone knows Philadelphia cheesesteaks! I cook those to enjoy after a hard and busy week. Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Ingredients for 2 cheesesteaks: 2 bread rolls 3/4 pounds of beef ( rib-eye or top round, although any other beef will be good as well) 6 thick...

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Turkey soup with tomatoes and herbs.

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Great soup, if you have turkey leftovers from Thanksgiving or if you just wish to have a rich, hearty soup for lunch. Any part of turkey will be good (I cooked mine from turkey neck and some leftovers). It takes 30-40 minutes to cook and the taste is amazing. The key to great taste are...

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Simple and Easy Pumpkin Cheesecake.

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This cheesecake is creamy and moist and is very easy to cook. It doesn’t require a lot of cooking time and efforts. I invented it many years ago and it’s my favorite, although I do love New York Juniors cheesecake as well. For this recipe you don’t necessary need a spring form. Cooking time: 40...

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Apple and prunes mustard stuffing for turkey chicken or duck.

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This stuffing “lives” in my family for decades. I remember my grandmother cooking it since I was a little child. Preparation time: 5 minutes. Cooking tome: 10 minutes Ingredients: 4 apples (peeled and cored) 1/2 of white onion 1 carrot 1 pinch of salt 1 pinch of pepper 1 pinch of cumin 1 pinch of...

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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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Diet meatballs with rice and herbs

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Meatballs are traditional dish not only in Italy, but in many Slavic countries. The most popular meatballs recipe in Ukraine is”Fried meatballs”, but realizing the amount of cholesterol contained in this dish I prefer to cook braised meatballs with rice. I cook them in deep frying pan, so that they would be cooked through properly....

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Top 3 Fall Soups

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 These three soups are the best comfort meal for the lunch in fall: it enegrizes, keeps you warm and boosts your taste buds. You can add lots of flavors to these soups by experimenting with herbs: basil, dill, parsley and others.   Vegetarian Pea Soup  Vegetarian pea soup is good those days when you want a...

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Vegetarian Pea Soup

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Vegetarian pea soup is good those days when you want a rich-creamy soup without any meat component in it. It’s a comfort food perfect right for the days when it’s chilly and drizzly outside. This recipe has simple ingredients and doesn’t require to be a skillful chef to prepare it. All in all perfect autumn...

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Vegan spicy red cabbage

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I hope you love the colors of this dish: it’s so autumn and bright! My family members call this dish “weird braised cabbage”:-) To me the red cabbage tastes absolutely different, than the ordinary green one. It’s more flavorful, tender…. mmm, it’s more autumn!   For this recipe you will need: 1 lb of red cabbage...

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Vegan spicy sautéed mushrooms in 10 minutes.

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It is mushroom season, and I wrote a lot about (button) crimini mushrooms lately. Button mushrooms have an excellent amount of selenium, zinc and manganese; all three are great antioxidant minerals. Also daily intake of crimini mushrooms for 1-2 months can reduce levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and TGs. And if you are not...

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