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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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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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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5 fast and delicious summer salads

Tomato and avocado salad

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...

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Fast and simple baked chicken with apple and strawberries

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This is my invention: apples give the chicken sweetness and honey flavor, strawberry adds bit of acidity to this combination. You can have this this dish ready literally in 55 minutes. Preparation takes 15 minutes, cooking about 40 – depending on if you marinated you chicken in advance or just before cooking. 4 servings 4...

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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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Warm apple salad with chicken breast, tomato and romaine.

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This recipe was adapted from one of the restaurants I loved to have lunch back in Kyiv. It’s really simple, warm in colors and flavors, but mainly fast to cook! Your family will love it and there are different variations of how it can be cooked. You can use chicken breasts, chicken liver and today...

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Apple and carrot delicious 2 minute salad.

Carrot and apple salad

This is 2 a minute salad: 2 minutes to cook – 2 minutes to eat. It doesn’t matter how much of it you cook, it will evaporate in the air at the same speed. Apples and carrots is a match made in heaven, and, if the apple is sweet, you don’t even need a sugar in...

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Chicken with caramelized apple sauce

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  I love the combination of apples and chicken, I love it in salads and in main dish, so this is one of my favorite recipes adapted years ago from one newspaper.(Don’t even remember the name) The dish is very flavorful and playful, and is great  to cook for family dinner, as well as the...

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