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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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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Fried cauliflower

fried cauliflower helens cooking

You know that I love cauliflower, I had the whole day dedicated to cauliflower in my ***good food*** section on Helen’s Cooking Facebook fan page. Cauliflower is very nutritious, easy to work with and Surprise! Surprise! It’s delicious. This is a signature recipe of my Mom, she cooks cauliflower this way very often. When I...

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Fried zucchini with mayo-dill sauce and tomato

Fired zucchini helenscooking

This is a traditional recipe in my family, as well as in pretty much any Ukrainian family fried zucchini with tomato and mayo-dill sauce. It’s resembles a lot the eggplant recipe, but, zucchini, as a base component gives it a different twist. For the recipe you’ll need 1 midsized zucchini 1-2 tomatoes 2-3 tablespoons mayo...

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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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Quick and delish omelet with squash, tomato and onion (and with lemon basil, of course).

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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..

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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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Tomato, Onion and Lemon basil vinaigrette

Tomato and onion marinated salad helen's cooking

Fast salad for dinner or lunch. Minimum ingredients and maximum delight:-) Will taste best with mashed potato and meat, or rice and fish. Something not s picy and not sour. Preparation time: 0h:10m Ingredients: 2 tomatoes 1/2 white onion 1/3 cup of herbs (dill, parsley, basil: any) 1 pinch salt 1 pinch black fresh ground pepper 2...

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Simple fast salad with romaine, tomato and pickles

romaine and cornichone salad helen's cooking

This is simple and fast dinner salad. The key to it are pickles, which make it sour and not bland. You’ll need: 1-2 lettuce romaine hearts 5-6 cornichons ¼ white onion 1-2 tomatoes 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp. basil, lemon basil pinch of salt pinch of fresh ground black pepper; Peel the...

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