Oven baked blooming apples with caramel sauce, trying to use more apples from my tree. Recipe is here
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Oven baked blooming apples with caramel sauce
About: Olya Sandstrom
Recent Posts by Olya Sandstrom
Apple and pear juices
Slightly salty salmon with cucumber and cream cheese / jalapeño goat cheese
Smoked pasta sauce with vegetables
Burrata with grilled peaches, balsamic glaze, tarragon and mint
Colorful corn and corn smut
Colorful corn and corn smut, also known as Mexican truffle, cuitlacoche. We tried it at Tepoztlan, when we had our cooking classes there, it was tasty! The unique, earthy taste has been part of local cuisine since Aztec times. They would use the corn and the attached fungus in tamales and stews. Huitlacoche has a very pungent earthy, sweet...
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Juice from the garden: pear, beets with apples and carrot with pear
Plum jam
11 kg of my favorite plums went to jam. I cooked it for 2 days but it was worth it, no pectin, not too much sugar and was so delicious! Perfect recipe!
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Homemade sauce from baked vegetables, garlic, herbs
Old fashioned dill pickles
I canned already dill pickles this summer, I used this recipe, but added an extra 1 tbsp salt for each jar. Also, I prefer to put the jars in a pot with hot water for 15 min. (without tightening the lids) instead of the oven, after, release the air, close the lids tightly and turn the...
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