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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Apple, cinnamon and walnut rolls + cream cheese crispy rolls!

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This is the simplest recipe of rolls in the world. The dough is very easy to cook and it’s very tender, almost melting in the mouth. This is also a very good dough for cookies. For the dough: 1 stick of butter 1 cup of sugar 1.5 cups of flour (sifted, self-rising) 1 teaspoon of...

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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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Healthy Fall Dessert: Baked apples with walnuts, honey and cinnamon.

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This recipe is as easy as it can only get. I think the hardest part is to take the apples’ seeds out, so that the apples would be intact. I am cooking these apples since the time I remember myself cooking. My Daddy cooks these apples in red wine, but, let’s not get too crazy...

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Homemade hot pockets with apples. (healthy breakfast in 10 minutes)

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This is a great weekday breakfast. It’s very easy to cook, it’s healthy and very delicious autumn treat. If you like the cinnamon, you can add it as well, walnuts will also taste amazing in this simple dish. When I cook it , sometimes, they don’t “live”  till morning family members hunt for them in...

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Burritos with sausage, cheese and tomato. (10 minute ready healthy dinner)

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Burritos should be spicy and meaty, but as my family loves burritos and doesn’t loce them too spicy I decided to invent mine. (Honetly there’s nothing to invent) Just throw in together the delicious vinnagraitte of saucage, tomato, cheese nd onion with herbs. Yes, I know it’s not traditional burritos , but who told we should be...

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Vegetarian pizza (with zucchini, mushrooms, red bell pepper,carrot, garlic and onion)

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This pizza is a “sister” of my “delicious 30 minute pizza.” It’s cooked from scratch in 30-35 minutes and I just Love this combination of veggies. You can use your combination, but this one is good for me!   The dough is the same: 2.5 cups of sifted flour 1 cup of hot water 0.25...

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Beef Cutlets Easy

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This recipe is very popular in European countries: in Austria it’s called schnitzel,  in the US it’s called a cutlet. We cook cutlets with beef and pork, even with fish and chicken. The main thing the fillet/ or loin has to be thin. It’s a great dish for a weekday dinner, 5-10 minutes to cook...

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Lemon Victoria Sandwich Cake with Raspberries, Strawberries and Clotted cream

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The last day of September is a double Birthday Day in my family. So I was looking for a cake that would be simple, fast and that wouldn’t require a lot of time in the kitchen. My Facebook friend Dor from La Difference Catering offered me to cook a Classic Victoria Sandwich, so I improvised...

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