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Orient salad

So, the season of exotic fruits is open. I love their fresh smell and I just can not resist buying them. Recently I discovered a new fruit: a Chinese plum (loquats), little known in our country. The fruits are small, resembling apples, inside there are seeds. Taste like a sweet quince. Today I prepared a …

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Millet porridge with pumpkin

We can eat porridge for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Immediately remembered a fairy tale, how the soldier cooked porridge ? True, in our case, we do not need an ax or a boot for a porridge. Millet, milk, butter and pumpkin is enough. Have a nice cook!

Zucchini fritters

Hello! I really like green vegetables. Cucumbers, salads, zucchini, celery, artichoke, green asparagus, small green patissons, and so on. And this is very well seen in my recipes, where very often green vegetables play the main role. Well, everyone knows that they have a lot of calcium and other important vitamins. But they also contain …

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Vegetables fritters with tapioca

I have seen tapioca in the store very often. It can be of different sizes, and is mainly used for preparing a variety of desserts. I wanted to experiment and prepare from it an savory dish with vegetables. I really liked the result. I will add only that I expected to put the dish in my …

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Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding

In the Middle Ages, roast beef appeared for the first time at feasts in England. Today, the largest amount of beef per capita in Europe is consumed in France, while the world championship for both production and consumption is owned by Americans. High-quality beef has a bright red color and a rather dense consistency. It …

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Salad with arugula and apple

Once upon a time … I had a restaurant where one of the main items on the menu were salads. Perhaps this is why the preparation of salads for me is a piece of cake: mentally I mix all the ingredients, add some seasoning and know exactly what taste should I get. And every time …

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2-ingredients Banana Muffins (flour- and sugar-free)

Every evening, I break my head, what to prepare to my kid to kindergarten. There are few criteria: it should be tasty, healthy and not boring. The main thing it should be eaten? So that is why appeared the recipe for muffins without flour and eggs.

Potato cookies

Every nation has at least one product, which is almost mandatory in the cuisine. For Ukrainians it is pork belly (“salo”), for Russians – bread, for Mexicans – corn, for Italians – pasta, for Indians – rice and for Belorussians – a potato! Bulba is a head of everything”. Grilled, steamed, boiled in their jackets …

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Carrot fritters with semolina

My parents are from Polesie, located on the territory of four countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. The story so strongly intertwined culture here, languages and cuisine that now it is difficult to attribute a particular tradition of a particular nation. On the table we often appeared dishes from German, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian cuisine. …

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Coconut soup with vegetables and chicken

I love oriental, but not traditional cuisine. That are type of dishes with ginger, chili pepper, lemon grass, lime leaves, coconut milk, fish sauce and so on. Using these ingredients I do best, or shrimp, or a variety of soups based on coconut milk (for example, coconut soup with chicken).

Best Beef BBQ for sandwiches

We were looking for our perfect recipe of beef BBQ for sandwiches long time. Finally, we managed !!! And the story is … Walking around the city, it was very difficult to find something to eat for our son because of its very selective approach to eating. Before he tries something he always sniffs: if …

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Cottage cheese rosettes

Recently, in our son’s kindergarten it was celebration of the National Day – the day of all nations. All kids got their “passports” and they passed passport control, “travelling” to different continents and countries (between rooms and playing areas arranged as Asia, Africa, Europe etc). It was prepared by the wonderful kindergarten workers. Parents should …

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Vegetable kugel

Recently, flipping through a cookbook of the Belarusian cuisine, I stumbled upon a very simple recipe from vegetables. Taking as the base, I modified the recipe and fit it to our taste. The effect was great –Vegetable Kugel was very tasty. Kugel comes from the Jewish cuisine, and translated from the Yiddish as “round“.

Millet toasts

Sometimes you just dream about some snack. Of course, it could be a regular bread or crackers, chips and so on. However, when you try to limit yourself with gluten, the question arises – how can I replace bread? I have already shared the recipe of spinach bread which can be used for some rolls and …

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Pumpkin and sweet potato fritters

When I see a beautiful pumpkin in the shop, I can not just pass by, be sure I will buy it. Apparently, I still believe that the pumpkin can become a carriage. But because it is not, I have to cook something from that beauty. This time I baked the pumpkin and made fritters with …

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Spinach with pine nuts and raisins

There are few vegetables and plants in my diet, from which I always want to cook something special. Eggplants, pumpkin and spinach. Though first I tried spinach only when I moved to Poland. And it was cooked and served such way that I was not surprised that half of the population didn’t like it at …

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Sweet potato Mille-Feuille (eggs-free)

How to loose weight and at the same time continue eating the delicious food? I tried a lot of diets, I read tons of material about health life – I can have PhD based on it! I could’t say that they did not work. Of course, the weight is reset. Size decreases. But! Then with …

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Quick courgette & tomato warm salad

Dinner with two kids usually goes on the run. The main tasks for me – children to feed, wash and put to bed. And because their plans do not always coincide with ours, we often remain without dinner. In this situation, every minute counts, and quick recipes are more than welcomed. Today we had a …

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Czech knedliki

Those who have been in the Czech Republic, will understand me. Czech dumplings with goulash – it is better than any “high” cuisine! This is a dish that warms the body and soul, what you just can’t stop eating, even if it is already no place in stomach. There are many types of these Czech …

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Beef stew with beans and pineapple

To be honest, my husband and I are still looking for the perfect recipe for beef goulash, but with each sample we are getting closer and closer to the ideal. Sometimes we are preparing something, but the effect is not particularly surprising. Then I turn on my fantasy: how to save the meal? So with this …

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