Smocked tea infused pumpkin tart

Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Healthomania, Vegetarian, Desserts, Pies, tarts, casserole

Kabocha, or Japanese pumpkin is hard on the outside with knobbly-looking skin. It is shaped like a squat pumpkin and has a dull-finished, deep-green or orange skin with some celadon-to-white stripes and an intense yellow-orange color inside. Kabocha has an exceptional sweet flavor, even sweeter than butternut squash. It is similar in texture and flavor …

Apple pancakes

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

Delicious Apple Pancakes Sometimes it is just enough to enjoy food without any restrictions! There are too many of them, so time to time we have to send the diets to the moon and celebrate the rainbow of flavors! Today’s recipe is about JOY! CHILDHOOD MEMORIES and FREEDOM! There are not just simple pancakes – …

Chicken rolls with omelette

Dairy products, Eggs, Meat, Main dishes, Lunch-box

And another original recipe for minced chicken. This time we will stuff it with an omelet :). Chicken rolls with omelettes are easy to cook. They can be fried, baked, steamed. And in any form they turn out very tasty.

Easy home-made ice-cream with marshmallow

Dairy products, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Desserts

Summer came in Dubai! Only AC and ICE-CREAM can save us 😁. Many people think that it is very difficult to make a good ice-cream at home. Believe me it is possible! Moreover you can easily make it without any special equipment, having only a simple electric mixer. And yes, this ice-cream will be light, …

Mini-cakes from semolina porridge with oat flakes

Dairy products, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Healthomania, Sustainable Kitchen, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Breakfast

Hello! I do not know about you, but I really do not like it when food wastes. I am sure you are familiar with such situation when you cook something to your kids and they with one voice are shouting that they will not eat it, but something completely different. This happens time to time …

Lace pancakes

Dairy products, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Sustainable Kitchen, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast

Just before the Lent, it is the right time for PANCAKES! In my culture this time is called “Maslenitsa” – is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday, celebrated during the last week before Great Lent, that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter). Maslenitsa corresponds to the Western Christian Carnival, except that …

Super-moist Chocolate & Almond cake „Garden bed”

Dairy products, Egg-free, Eggs, Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Lactose-free, Vegan, Desserts

And finally we have SUMMER HOLIDAYS!!! Oh, we can have “Pajamas day” every day, without going outside, seeing people, just do whatever we want!

Shortcakes with buttercream

Dairy products, Eggs, Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Desserts

Good day! Oh, how I missed the tastes of my childhood! I’ve remembered how many cakes, pastries and cakes we used to prepare with my sister as kids. But butter cream and biscuits were not frequent guests due to scarce products at that time – butter and eggs.

Kids’ favorite crêpes

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

I have tried so many recipes and combinations to made pancakes and crêpes, when finally developed my own one, preferred by my kids. Because it’s our kids who are the biggest consumers of this dish. Denis and Nikita love eating crêpes with pure sugar (with big crystals, when it crunches on the teeth) or with …

Meringues with edible flowers

Eggs, Festive dishes, Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Desserts

They are so beautiful that I felt sad to eat them. But once you bite it, you can not stop. Here it is really very fast and delicious recipe, which will decorate any table. Of course, you can prepare meringues at home yourself, but it takes a lot of time, technique and a proven oven. …

Oven-baked pancake

Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast

When the weekend comes, I always want to surprise my household with something delicious for breakfast. Always there is a question: and whether they will eat it? What do they eat, both small and old? Of course, pancakes! What kind of pancakes I did not cook: lace, oatmeal, and buckwheat, etc. But today was not …

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!

Home-made chicken broth with pancake noodles

Flour, grains, pasta, Meat, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Soups

Hello! In my cookbook there are not only difficult recipes from overseas cuisine with unknown ingredients. But also I have there classic simple dishes from common products. It is my mother in law, who reminded me about such recipes, when we were discussing the soups. And as you probably know, simple dish is the one …

Carrot fritters with semolina

Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Starters, Lunch-box

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. …

Pancakes pouches with meatballs

Dairy products, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Meat, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Breakfast, Lunch-box

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 – …

Vegetable kugel

Lactose-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Starters, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

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

Dairy products, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast, Starters, Lunch-box

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 …

Cottage cheese pudding

Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Desserts

Most often in my menu cottage cheese appears in the form of a casserole or cheese cake or just with yogurt and sugar. Well,  sometimes I want to change something and expand my taste dimension. Thinking about a dish, I activate my taste memory: I mentally mix the ingredients, taste each of them in my …

Banana smoothie with peanut butter

Dairy products, Egg-free, Fruits, Gluten-free, Vegan, Vegetarian, Desserts, Drinks

Preparation of various smoothie practically does not require recipes – mix everything and drink :). The main thing is to choose the right ingredients, which, of course, will differ depending on what goal you set for yourself: to fill up, refresh, cleanse the body, etc. Banana smoothies are filling and invigorating. They are good to …

Plum cocktail with walnuts

Dairy products, Fruits, Vegan, Vegetarian, Desserts, Drinks

When my creativity turns on, I can no longer be stopped. I’m like a rocket with a jet engine, rushing around the kitchen and preparing several dishes at the same time. The main thing is to have time to add fuel to me, which gives me strength and energy. The fuel most often used is …