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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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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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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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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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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Chicken wings in BBQ sauce with roasted potato.

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I bet you love chicken wings and roasted potato. The recipe is inspired by necessity to cook something fast and easy. Roasted potato is a recipe of my Italian friend and wings’ recipe is borrowed from one diner. It’s literally more efforts to eat than to cook. (Just remember if you want them even more delicious...

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Grilled pork Kabob with potato, red bell pepper and zucchini

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Kabobs are very popular in Slavic countries. In summer-autumn, even winter and spring. When me and my family lived in Russian Far East near the Chinese border we were grilling kabobs right in the snow in winter. (It’s very cold in winter in Russian Far East: -40 F (yes minus FORTY Fahrenheit or -40 Celsius)....

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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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