March 17, St. Patrick’s Day

A day when everyone can feel a little Irish!

Spring is in the air! Celebrate warm weather with a casual-yet lovely- spring dinner!

March 8, International Women’s Day

Here is a tasty sweet and sour pie stuffed with blueberries.

Maslenitsa!

Maslenitsa is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday where people celebrate saying goodbye to winter and welcoming spring. Like Easter, Maslenitsa is a different day every year, in 2024 it will take place from Feb 26  to March 4.

What’s in season

Try one of these tasty recipe ideas using oranges.

Lemons

If there’s one fruit you should always have on hand, it’s lemons. From their zest to their juice, they enhance so many recipes and make everything a little brighter!

Grill time!

Warmer weather means it’s time for backyard burgers, tender kebabs, sizzling steaks, BBQ ribs, cold refreshing drinks and gatherings of family and friends.

Chicken Piccata

Chicken Piccata are chicken breast cutlets coated in flour, fried and served with a sauce of butter, lemon juice, white wine or broth and capers. Simple ingredients, but the result are great, delicious, and tasty!

Slow cooker (crock pot)

Slow cooking allows flavors to steep and blend together. It circulates heat and liquid so food stays moist.

Breakfast

Whether it’s a special occasion, or just the weekend, one of these breakfast ideas will be the best part of waking up!

Love my garden

I love gardening so much, it makes my world beautiful. I have a vegetable/herb garden, flower gardens, fruit trees and berries. When I am outside I feel happy, too bad we don’t have nice weather all year but when we do, we are gardening! 😉

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Mashed fish, salmon

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Mashed fish, salmon
Plokkfiskur, Icelandic cuisine.
In earlier times, when icelandic housewives would serve poached haddock or other white fish with boiled potatoes several times a week there were invariably leftovers. They were usually dealt with by incorporating them into this simple but very popular dish. Nowadays, people buy fresh fish just to make the dish and it can...
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Peking duck

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our favorite dish -Peking duck, I’m trying to make it at least twice a year, especialy here in Playa, we can’t wait for dinner tonight, crispy sweet skin and super juicy meat, it smells so amazing already in my house! Made a special marinade with spices for inside of the duck and...
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Jerk chicken

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I tried jerk chicken for the first time in the US and, like how I first felt with Mexican(TexMex) food, was disappointed with it. So, when I saw a very popular Jamaican restaurant here in Playa, I didn’t bother to try. But then, my friend Juan cooked some jerk chicken at our house not too long ago and it...
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Hainan chicken and rice

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today I made Hainan chicken and rice, with 3 different and unique dipping sauces, ginger & spring onion sauce; soy dipping sauce; chilli-garlic sauce, our favorite. Also, chicken broth. Everything was so good, flavorful, fresh. it took much longer to prepare/ cook it than I thought it will, but it, definitely, worth it! Read more