Mom’s potato stuffed with beef

Stuffed potato helen's cooking

         This recipe is my Mom’s recipe; she invented it when we lived in Russian Far East. She had that awesome spiral potato cutter, so she was cutting potato and using it in two dishes, spirally cut potatoes from  the middle of potato were fried (Yummm) and the rest of the potato, (it looked like...

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

Baked veggies helens cooking 3

 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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Stuffed cucumber salad (old recipe from 1927 newspaper)

cucumber salad helen's cooking

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

Pickled eggplants helen's cooking 3

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).

omelet with squash, tomato and onion main

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 and fast pie with braised cabbage, eggs, tomato and lemon basil..

fast butternilk pie with cabbage, eggs, tomato and lemon basil 1

This pie was invented some time ago it’s fast and simple to cook, and filling can be pretty much anything: mushrooms, braised cabbage, spinach, eggs and herbs, meat… you name it. For the batter: 1 cup of cultured buttermilk; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1, 5 cups of self-rising flour; 1 egg; Pinch of salt. Filling:...

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Lazy homemade pasta with minced pork and beef meat

pasta with minced meat main 4

This recipe is as simple as 1-2-3! You can make it with pasta from a store but it’s more tender and delish if you cook it yourself. The detailed recipe for the homemade pasta may be found here. The alternative brief recipe is here: 2-3 eggs; 1/3 melted butter; 1 cup of flour; 1/3 cup...

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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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Delicious braised cabbage with raisins

braised cabbage helenscooking

 This is a great side dish: simple, yet delicious. It’s good to serve with mashed potato and meat. It’s also good to use as a stuffing for the pies. If you are vegetarian it could be a great main dish, my family loves it for its rich flavor and sweetness of the taste. ½ head...

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