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Custard Apple Pie
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Sweet and Sour Sliced Pickles
A quick and easy recipe for crunchy sweet and sour pickles with a little spice. I like this version because the pickles aren't so sweet and you can still taste the cucumber flavor. You can use small or large cucumbers.
The marinade will not cover completely the cucumbers at first since the cucumbers will have more juice after they marinate...
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Strawberry and Red Currant Cake with Elderflower Cream
Perfect summer dessert with fresh summer berries! To make this cake, I used two 9" cake pans but if you have only one, you can use just one pan and slice the cake equally in half.
For the cake layers you can use elderflower cordial or like I did, mix 5 tbsp of elderflower syrup (I bought mine at IKEA) with 1...
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Tuna salad with eggs and anchovies
Besides making a salad, you can instead make stuffed eggs. Just finely chop the egg yolks, anchovies and tuna, mix with mayonnaise and stuff with these egg whites. Garnish with herbs.
Canape with Vegetables
Strawberry Bruschetta
During strawberry season I try to make this quick and easy refreshing snack of strawberries, which is perfect for a lunchtime picnic or brunch with friends and family. Sweet strawberries with cream cheese and a pleasant tartness of balsamic, what a nice combo! Instead of goat cheese try to add mascarpone cheese or ricotta.
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Marinated Fried Chicken
Baked Carp with Herbs
I love fish! I grew up in Odessa which is on the Black Sea, so we always had all sorts of fresh seafood as well as from the rivers and lakes. Unfortunately, here in Minnesota where I live now, there aren't the same choices, especially in the store. Of course there are many lakes in Minnesota and we try as much as...
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Shrimp and Salmon Salad
Battered Trout
