Puff pastry dough made easy!

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I love puff pastry, do you? You can create literally hundreds of recipes with it and it’s ready in 15 minutes: Apple strudel, croissants, puff pastry baskets and puff pastry fish pie and much more. The recipe of this dough will help you create a lot of awesomely delicious dishes in minutes. For the dough...

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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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Mom’s potato stuffed with beef

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         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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Flavorful Raspberry pancakes: easy to cook and fast to eat.

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If you have never tried raspberry pancakes, well… you have never eaten the real pancakes! Pancakes with raspberries are not only delicious, but they also boost all the good flavors in pancakes as well as raspberries, which make them unforgettably delicious. Raspberry pancakes are very simple to cook. For 12 thick pancakes I use: 2/3...

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Easy 30 minute ready potato “sails” with turkey ham, onion and cheese

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This is a very simple recipe that was cooked for decades in mountainous part of Ukraine. It’s cheap, fast to cook and very simple dish, but surprisingly it’s amazingly delicious. Some dishes should be complicated, some are simple. Honestly, even your kids can cook it. Just boil potato for them in advance and… by the...

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Easy Country Style Chicken in 20 minutes

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This recipe was overlooked at Restaurant impossible TV program, I added my personal touches to it and it came out great. To define great I will explain: my fiancé, who doesn’t like chicken, was consuming it, as if it was his favorite sausage, not a chicken… I used cornmeal here, because I love adding it to my...

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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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Tomato and avocado salad

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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. For this salad you need: 2 tomatoes 1 avocado...

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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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