Simple, fast, easy and delicious jam! The taste is sweet and just slightly spicy, it's a perfect relish to many holiday dishes, or serve it with cream cheese on a crackers or toast. It makes a very nice addition to a Christmas or holiday gift basket. Once the jam is ready, pour immediately into the jars while it’s hot...
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Baked Vegetables and Herbs Homemade Tomato Sauce (Canning)
Delicious flavorful tomato sauce. Usually I make this sauce in September after picking lots of tomatoes and vegetables from my garden. One of my favorite sauces for the winter, perfect for pasta, Stuffed shells pasta,
Asian Eggplant with Sweet and Sour Sauce
Chicken Marinated in Mineral Water and Baked with Garlic Sauce
This chicken came out so juicy and delicious, and the small kick from the garlic-cilantro sauce gives the chicken an elevated taste. One of my favorite recipes when cooking with a whole chicken! This serves great with vegetables, potatoes, pasta, or rice. I am definitely planning on making it again!
Hasselback Butternut Squash with a Sweet and Spicy-Glaze, Thyme and Nuts
A wonderful recipe for Thanksgiving, Christmas, other holidays, or just for a simple dinner.
Hasselback is the way to cut the product (ingredient). In this recipe, it's squash, into thin slices, adding between the cuts some things, in this case, the bay leaf, which gives the flavor and aroma to the dish...
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Baked Eggplant with Tomatoes and Garlic
A similar dish is very popular from my hometown of Odessa, Ukraine called 'eggplant caviar'. I changed the recipe a bit, usually eggplant is baked over an open
fire, I instead baked eggplant in the oven with tomatoes and garlic and added the walnuts to the recipe.
Perfect appetizer for dishes with meat or fish, or you can serve simply with a toast....
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Asian-Sesame Pork Ribs in Crock-pot
Flavorful and tender meat in an Asian style sauce. The meat falls off the bone as you take them out of the crock! You can add some vegetables towards the end like carrots, celery, bell peppers, pea pods or cook the vegetables separately and serve them with the meat and white rice.
Add the ingredients to your slow cooker before...
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Jalapeno jam
Simple, fast, easy and delicious jam! The taste is sweet and just slightly spicy, it's a perfect relish to many holiday dishes, or serve it with cream cheese on a crackers or toast. It makes a very nice addition to a Christmas or holiday gift basket.
Once the jam is ready, pour immediately into the jars while it’s hot because...
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