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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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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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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Pumpkin crème-soup with shrimp, cream cheese and basil.

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It’s autumn and it means that it’s time for a great pumpkin soup with shrimp that I just LOVE cooking. It doesn’t require a lot of effort but it comes out perfectly smooth, bringing in the autumn flavors and colors into your kitchen. I tasted this soup long time ago in Europe, brought it into...

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Pizza from scratch in 30 minutes!

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Normally when we cook pizza we think it should take an hour, I saw some recipes where cooking pizza took 4 hours. I bet it comes out as a delicous masterpiece, but… guess what… we normally don’t have 4 hours to fix the pizza. It’s good, when we have 30 minutes. That’s why I decided...

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5 fast and delicious summer salads

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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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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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