Squash quiche with filling

Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Meat, Starters, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

Pumpkin season is just started and right now on the grocery‘s shelves you can find a large number of different type of pumpkins. Among them one is very interesting – spaghetti squash. It is a semi-pub, semi-oval, oval in shape, light yellow in color. Its pulp after heat treatment resembles spaghetti pasta (hence the name). …

Quinoa salad with roasted cashew nuts

Egg-free, Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Lunch-box, Salads

My close acquaintance with quinoa happened a few years ago. I really liked the very kind of grains when they are cooked. Of course, this can only be my imagination, but for me they become like small shells of snails. Although the taste of quinoa for me personally is not particularly pronounced, it is possible to …

Semolina cakes with strawberries

Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Lunch-box

Semolina porridge is a favorite dish of my childhood. Yes, and now I’m happy to eat it for both cheeks. But sometimes you want to change something. The main motivator is the space in my son’s. lunch box, which must be filled every day. This is how semolina cakes were created.

Baked & fried blueberry cakes

Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Lunch-box

Experimenting in the kitchen, you can sometimes make a real discovery. Here it is today. I had a can of condensed milk and a bucket of blueberries. And at home – sons with completely different taste preferences. Who is looking for – he will find. And there was a very tasty solution: pies with blueberries …

Cottage cheese patties

Dairy products, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Lunch-box

I really love cottage cheese pie according to the classic recipe (from the cookbook “1000 culinary recipes”). It was very popular dish in former Soviet Union and was served in every nursery for kid scouts menu. Even now I’m ready to eat it every day. But only in lunch-box, for some reason, we do not …

Gyoza with beef

Egg-free, Meat, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Lunch-box

Prepare Russian pielmieni (dumplings), it would seem, is not such a big deal. However, it always stops me that the dough needs to be rolled out, cut, flour everywhere and waiting for the cleaning to happen. And what a lucky thing that the Japanese also have a similar dish. And this means that for their …

Butternut flat bread

Lactose-free, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Lunch-box

There are a lot of bread recipes, but I was always confused by the amount of effort, skill and uncontrollable factors that accompany its creation. Therefore, in my culinary practice of yeast, I learned to bake only walnut bread (it is extremely rare, since it works a lot, and it disappears from the table in …

Yogurt muffins with blueberries

Dairy products, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Breakfast, Lunch-box

What a yummy muffins it turned out! The yogurt and the whole bucket of blueberries stayed in the refrigerator and asked “eat me!” (there was market day in the store – and that said it all). It was necessary to invent what can be cooked from these ingredients, so even such that you could put …

Beef burgers with rice & lentils

Meat, Main dishes, Lunch-box

My new discovery is beef burgers with rice and lentils. Unusual make them such ingredients as teriyaki sauce, spring rolls dipping sauce and mayonnaise. Even more delicious is obtained if instead of rice with lentils use sushi rice with sushi seasoning. Bon Appetit!

“Tarkovanka” – Belarusian cuisine

Vegetables, Vegetarian, Main dishes, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

Tarkovanka is a dish of Belarusian cuisine made from grated raw potatoes. Its peculiarity is a combination of such ingredients as potatoes, apples, raisins (dried fruits) and onions. You can serve it with milk.

Delicious home-made pizza

Boys lunch-boxes, Egg-free, Flour, grains, pasta, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

City of birth: Naples, Italy Year of birth: 1522 Place of becoming famous: US This is one of the easiest food I make every Saturday for my family. Always delicious, and always favorite. My kids say that “mommy’s pizza is the best in the world”. Loving experimenting with the food I am cooking, pizza is …

Rotolo (from pizza dough)

Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

I like it when a dish reveals the taste just of several ingredients, bright and palpable. Do not kill the taste by sugar or seasonings. Yes, it’s for specific taste lovers. But that’s exactly how I cook – for “lovers” of my kitchen – my family. They like – and this is the most important …

Paratha with different stuffings

Egg-free, Flour, grains, pasta, Lactose-free, Vegan, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Lunch-box

Trying to diversify the contents of my child’s lunch box, I came up with the idea of ​​cooking something less traditional, not from our kitchen. And here we just visited an Indian restaurant (by the way, by my standards, the best Indian food – in the restaurant India Palace in Abu Dhabi in the Mazayah …

Oatmeal fritters with dates

Egg-free, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast, Starters, Lunch-box

All welcome! Today I share with you a very simple recipe for oatmeal fritters made from 4 ingredients. This is an excellent dish for breakfast, snacks or in a lunch box for children. Bon Appetit!

Marrow fritters with red bell pepper salsa

Eggs, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Breakfast, Starters, Lunch-box

Hello again! Summer holidays have passed and I am on air again. Sunny weather and excellent mood inspired me to new culinary discoveries and unusual taste combinations. I hope that you, my dear readers, will enjoy my taste experiments. Let me remind you of my credo: QUICK AND DELICIOUS! And that’s why most of my …

Coconut macaroons

Dairy products, Egg-free, Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Lunch-box

Hello. Today’s recipe is for coconut lovers. I can eat it in any form. For the first time I tried coconut shavings when I was at school. And there was this all known chocolate bar Bounty. Ate and wanted more! When I tell this to friend from Thailand, they immediately break away: “How? At school …

Cottage cheese fritters with banana and carrot

Dairy products, Fruits, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast, Lunch-box

Sometimes I want to diversify the bored dishes. That’s just such an option. Cheesecakes with carrots and bananas. Bon Appetite.

Millet porridge with pumpkin

Dairy products, Egg-free, Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Main dishes, Lunch-box

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

Eggs, Lactose-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Main dishes, Breakfast, Starters, Lunch-box

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 …

Vegetables fritters with tapioca

Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Lactose-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Lunch-box

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 …