Super Bowl

Bring sports bar favorites to your home, just add friends and your favorite game and let the fun begin!

What’s in season

Pomegranates have been enjoyed for thousands of years and are a symbol of hope and abundance in many cultures.

January 31 st marked as ‘birthday’ of Russian Vodka.

 

It was on this day in 1865, the famous chemist Dmitri Mendeleev defended his doctoral dissertation “On the connection of alcohol with water”.

Peking Duck

Peking duck is one of the most famous of Chinese dishes. The duck is rubbed with honey and baked in a special oven, usually served with steamed pancakes (or ‘mandarin’ pancakes), spring onions, cucumber sticks and sweet bean sauce (Tianmianjiang which can be replaced by Hoisin sauce). There are many recipes for Peking duck, some are easy and some are not, which can make it intimidating to prepare.

Need to escape the chill of winter? Warm up your days with these tasty winter dishes!

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!

Potato Latkes

Celebrate Hanukkah (December 25-Jan 2) with a traditional classic! These crispy potato pancakes are a welcome dish all year.

Kartofdzhyn

Kartofdzhyn- the pie stuffed with potato and cheese. These popular Ossetian pies are baked with different fillings and often prepared on holidays. In Ossetia they traditionally serve three pies on a plate and only on days of mourning – an even number. These pies are a cult food in Ossetia and have ritual significance.

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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Roast plum and clementine duck with new potatoes

Roast plum and clementine duck with new potatoes, I used the recipe from my favorite Vietnamese book with adding some our favorite ingredients.
Roasted clementines and plum sauce give the duck a rich, fruity depth, and the Vietnamese touches make the whole dish incredibly aromatic. Sweet, savory, and umami flavors come together beautifully, with just a subtle hint...
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Barramundi with ginger and scallions

I love fish and love cooking it—especially because it’s so hard to find really well-prepared fish in restaurants. Some of my favorites are barramundi, steelhead, and branzino.
This time I made barramundi with ginger and scallions. I marinated the fish with cornstarch and Shaoxing wine, then fried fresh ginger in a wok, added the fish, and after about...
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Baked king oyster mushrooms, with olive oil, garlic, thyme, balsamic, soy sauce

Baked king oyster mushrooms, with olive oil, garlic, thyme, balsamic, soy sauce. They turn out like “mushroom steaks” – dense and very aromatic. разрезала их на две части, выложила на противень, смазав с двух сторон маринадом. Они у меня так пол чувства постояли и потом в духовку на 200С около 15-20 мин. Маринад: оливковое масло, соевый, тимьян, перец, соль, чеснок....
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Oven-baked duck with caramelized apples.

Oven-baked duck with caramelized apples.
I marinated it for 24 hours in soy sauce, orange and lemon juice and zest, white wine, thyme, garlic, a cinnamon stick, a bay leaf, and black pepper. I baked it in a steamer bag ( I wrapped it first in baking paper and then tightly in foil ) for two hours at...
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Marinated salmon with orange, lemon zest, cognac

Tried a new recipe for salty salmon and I love it! Marinated salmon with orange, lemon zest, cognac salmon around 1 kg, sea salt (not small) 4 tbsp, sugar 2 tbsp, orange and lemon zest, juice 1 orange, cognac, whisky, rom, or vodka 2 tbsp. marinate for 24 hr. in the fridge, clean with the water, dry and another 2...
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