Veggie and Beef baked meatballs (kids’ fav)

Meat, Starters, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

These days it is so easy to experiment in the kitchen. Any ingredient is available in the common supermarket. 15 years back I even didn’t hear about quinoa, and raw coconut milk was impossible to find anywhere. Today these products become the regular food ingredients in my kitchen. Simple beef meatballs could be turn into …

Lamb meatballs with yogurt

Eggs, Meat, Main dishes

As I mentioned many times – meat is not my strongest point in the kitchen. It is my husband who takes the Best Meat Chef’s role and serves delicious dishes to all our family. But he is travelling a lot and sometimes I stay with meat face to face! This was my first time with …

Lasagna with beef meat pearls

Flour, grains, pasta, Meat, Main dishes

While thinking about family one-pot dishes, few come into my mind. Well, on the first place is always rich, creamy and flavorsome LASAGNA. You can make the filling in advance and assemble the lasagna on the day. Originally it comes from the city of Naples, layered with local sausage, small fried meatballs, hard-boiled eggs, ricotta …

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Boys lunch-boxes

When preparing the lunch boxes I always keep in mind the sustainable approach: I don’t like to waste food. This means that I don’t try to put products there that I am sure my kids will not even touch. Better if my sons ask me at home to give them some new things to taste. …

Meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce

Eggs, Meat, Main dishes

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 …

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 – …