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Meat ravioli, also ricotta with pumpkin and Parmesan cheese.

04Jun

Family fun time

Perfect weather for making homemade meat ravioli, also ricotta with pumpkin and Parmesan cheese. And two different sauces/ toppings, mushroom herbs with homemade tomato sauce and for ricotta pumpkin ravioli I made almond sage butter sauce. Can’t wait for dinner tonight! ...

Chilled avocado soup

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03Jun

Chilled avocado soup, just added some garlic powder too. The recipe here. My family used it as a dressing for the salad :D (more…)...

Dinner from kids

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02Jun

Vermicelli bowls with Grilled Five-Spice Chicken, pickled carrots and herbs. Blueberry peach mini pies. Also asparagus from the garden with garlic and bacon. Thanks a lot to my kids with helping me in the kitchen and grill today! (more…)...

Lilac shortbread cookies

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01Jun

Nicole made Lilac shortbread cookies today. The recipe was a little bit complicated, but cookies was tasty. After trying them we decided, we can use my rosemary cookies recipe and instead of the rosemary we'll use lilac. (more…)...

Pork/ chicken shashlik

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29May

Sunday grilling! Pork / chicken shashlik (more…)...

Creamy Pasta with baked feta cheese, vegetables and bacon

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27May

Creamy Pasta with baked feta cheese, vegetables and bacon (more…)...

Lilac syrup

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26May

Lilac syrup, smells and taste amazing! 60-80 grams of flowers only, no sticks or leaves 350 grams sugar 350 ml of water juice of half lemon Boil the syrup, mixing the sugar with water, around 5-10 min on low heat. Add lemon juice and flowers and cook for 3-4 minutes then turn off and cool. Pour into small jar and hold in the fridge. ...

Lilac lemonade

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26May

Lilac lemonade, definitely we will make it again, so delicious! Just make a lemonade from 3 lemons, water and sugar, add bunch of lilac flowers, leave it for a couple of hours or overnight, strain and serve! Instead of lilac you can use violet, rose, lavender or jasmine. (more…)...

Pelmeni and vareniki, new recipes for the dough

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25May

Perfect weather today to make delicious pelmeni with pork/ beef meat and 3 different types of vareniki ( pierogi) with mashed potatoes and meat, they will be served with mushroom, onions and bacon topping. Also vareniki with cherries and ricotta with cherries. Great time spent with kids and results- delicious meal! My new recipe...

Vareniki with mashed potatoes and meat, also with cherries and ricotta cheese

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25May

Vareniki (pierogi) with mashed potatoes and meat. Served with sour cream and mushroom bacon topping. First boiled them, then fried on both sides. Also we made cherries vareniki and cherries with ricotta cheese in raspberry sauce, it was so good! Read more

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