This year Christmas is different for us, we are celebrating in Mexico, it's sunny and warm, love it! And we decide to make some simple dishes from some different countries. So here are some photos of pork shashlik with homemade sauce (our favorite sauce for shashlik), Rajas con Pollo, Russian potato salad (Olivie)
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Made easy Khachapuri with cheese again
Made "Easy Khachapuri" with cheese again, simple recipe for tasty cheese bread! My kids love it!
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Khachapuri
Making Khachapuri for dinner tonight, again :)
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Khachapuri with Cheese (the easy way)
Usually I cook khachapuri a different way, for example "Adjarian khachapuri". This time I decided to simplify the recipe a bit and it still turned out great. Instead of using a special cheese called "suluguni" or "imeretian" cheese, I used "bryndza" (a sheep milk cheese made in Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine). It's sort...
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Chicken Tapaka
Satsebeli Sauce (Pamidvris Satsebeli)
Satsebeli (Satsibeli) is a Georgian sauce, which literally means "sauce", and is made from pureed tart fruit or fruit juices.
There are many recipes of Georgian sauce satsebeli and each of them has its own characteristics and ingredients.
This Georgian sauce can be from tkemali ( unripe mirabelles or very sour plums), tomatoes, unripe grapes, cherries, pomegranate juice and walnuts. This...
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Khachapuri (Georgian and Ajarian)
Young (Spring) Chicken Tapaka (Tabaka) (Shemtsvari tsitsila-tabaka)
After Soup Harcho, Khachapuri, Khinkali, the most popular dish of Georgian cuisine is chicken tapaka (tabaka).
The name of this popular Georgian dish comes from the special small pan with a lid press where the chicken is cooked.
Chicken tapaka is a traditionally fried chicken with no spices, just rubbed with salt and pepper for 20 minutes before...
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Sunflower Kozinaki
Another Slavic sweet and easy recipe from my childhood that can be prepared quickly from sunflower seeds or nuts.
Kozinaki (Gozinaki) are Georgian and Armenian sweets with walnuts and honey, traditionally prepared for the New Year and Christmas.
Instead of walnuts they can be made from hazelnuts, sunflower seeds or sesame seeds. It's definitely kid's favorite!...
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Marinated Pork Kebab in Pomegranate Juice
This is a very traditional Georgian/Armenian recipe for pork kebab (shashlik). For our pork kebab-shashlik, I use the shoulder, it has more fat than tenderloin which to some people sounds bad but it makes the meat less tough and adds a lot of flavor. The fat also helps the meat from drying out while grilling. I usually cut the...
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