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Summer dinner

Got some vegetables and herbs ( tarragon, dill, mint, cilantro) today in my garden and made our summer dinner: Baked ginger, lime, tarragon branzino with Icelandic licorice salt. Tomato cucumber salad with dill and flax oil. Also, boiled fried small potatoes with homemade salo, sour cream and fresh dill. (more…)...
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Khachapuri today, the ‘real way’

We tried making Khachapuri today - the "real way."
Usually, I bake them in the oven and they always turn out tasty, but today we experimented with our pizza oven — and even tried the smoker — just to see which method works best.
In the end, we agreed: next time, we'll start in the pizza oven and...
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Cherry nastoyka 2025

Last summer, I found a great recipe for a less sweet, richer cherry and plum nastoyka — it turned out to be the best we've ever made or tasted.
So today, I made the cherry version again, and in August, Nikita will make it with plums.
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