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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Potato, zucchini, red bell pepper, with bacon and herbs baked in a pot.

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 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...

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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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Pickled eggplants with carrots, garlic and herbs

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This recipe is cooked by my Grandma for decades. It’s delicious, astonishingly simple and mainly reveals new flavors of eggplant. I couldn’t master this recipe for quite some time. (Well, at first I don’t use as much salt in my recipes as the other cooks do. Salt is important part of this recipe. Second, you...

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Quick and delish omelet with squash, tomato and onion (and with lemon basil, of course).

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So this is my favorite Saturday morning breakfast/brunch meal. It’s very fast to cook and you can add pretty much any vegetable you like and it will be gorgeous. For this one I added: 3-4 slices of snow white squash you can use zucchini); ½ of white onion; 4 eggs; ½ tomato; Lemon basil leaves;...

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Simple fast salad with romaine, tomato and pickles

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This is simple and fast dinner salad. The key to it are pickles, which make it sour and not bland. You’ll need: 1-2 lettuce romaine hearts 5-6 cornichons ¼ white onion 1-2 tomatoes 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp. basil, lemon basil pinch of salt pinch of fresh ground black pepper; Peel the...

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Eggplant rolls with tomato,garlic and herbs

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This recipe was cooked by my Grandma and was her signature recipe. It’s very delicious and garlic with herbs adds the amazing flavor to the eggplant. It’s easy to cook, fast and the ingredients may be found practically in every house. For this recipe you’ll need: 1 eggplant 2-3 tomatoes (depending on size of eggplant...

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