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Lunch-box 7

Once you have made a pizza dough at home you can freeze it for long-term storage or keep in fridge for few-days storage. Then it can be easily used for many dishes for lunch-box. Pizza dough is universal and is good not only for pizza, but for any pastries with filling, savory or sweet, mini-doughnut …

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Meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce

As you can see in my recipes, I do not often cook meat or fish. The reason is simple: I come from a country where there are no oceans and seas, and the fish we ate mainly comes from lakes and rivers. And it is my parents who always cook it for me. As for …

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Lunch-box 6

One of the main idea of sustainable kitchen is not to waste food. This means that the food should be planed in a way that allows avoid throwing it. Using left-overs for preparing new dishes is a very common practice in restaurants and many homes. Our home is no exception. I use left-overs in my …

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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.

Lunch-box 5

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.

Lunch-box 4

I love potatoes. In my country (in Belarus) we eat them a lot, more than bread. We use potatoes in savory dishes, soups, casseroles, ragout, as a side dish, but also in desserts. Potatoes cookies are one of my favorite and kids love them as well.

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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Lunch-box 3

I love adding vegetables in meat and porridge bites. Today’s winners – zucchini and carrot. Full of vitamins and nutrition values, also when cooked.

Lunch-box 2

The most popular dish for kids’ lunch boxes in our house is for sure Onigiri, shaped in balls. This is the rice balls made of sushi rice and other favorite ingredients. Onigiri can be eaten by chopsticks or by hand, which makes life easier. Kids love them.

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).

Lunch-box 1

Today’s lunch-box is full of delicious dishes: pancake pouches with meatballs and cream cheese for lunch and Apple Charlotte cake (egg-free) for sweet tooth. The recipes are waiting for you! Bon Appetite!

Sponge roulade with cheese cream and berries

I love to cook cakes without any reason. Just when I am in a good mood, or want something sweet to eat, or simply to please my home inhabitants?. Sometimes it’s way to leave my thoughts in another, culinary world of dimensional spoons and scales, as desserts like precision. And how huge positive energy I …

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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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Pancakes pouches with meatballs

Mardi Gras has come! And that means it’s time to cook pancakes and temporarily forget about all sorts of diets, because if the “carnival is fed up well, money will come.” How many people, so many pancake recipes. And every woman has to find the proper one herself, through trial and error. For pancakes – …

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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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