Very tasty tender and juicy chicken meat with sweet-sour filling....
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Stuffed chicken breast with dried apricots
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Stuffed eggs with salmon pate
A wonderful appetizer for the holidays. For this recipe you can use any red fish like trout or salmon, even tuna. Fish can be baked in the oven or grill. The salmon pate can also be served simply with crackers or bread....
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Asparagus
Asparagus is one of the most popular vegetables with its intense savoury flavour.
Asparagus can be a different colors, for example French asparagus is purple and extra sweet which turns green when cooked. British and American varieties are the
most common and are green, whereas Spanish and Dutch asparagus is white.
Asparagus is rich in potassium, iron and calcium and folic acid,...
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Baked potatoes with bacon and herbs
A recipe from my childhood, the only difference is that we cook it without the herbs. In Ukraine potatoes are one of the most popular vegetables, and food in general. This recipe is simple, but very tasty and nourishing. The potatoes soak in the flavor from the bacon and herbs. Potatoes can be peeled, but I usually leave the...
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Spicy Spanish Shrimp
Easy, quick recipe, lots of rich flavor, and spicy. I use fresh large pink shrimp and cooked them in a clay pot, but you can use frozen shrimp (thawed before cooking and dry on a napkin) and a frying pan, which holds heat for a long time. Serve the shrimp hot straight from the pan....
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Homemade Potato Gnocchi with Tomato Sauce
Gnocchi are Italian boiled potato dumplings, served with a variety of sauces. It can be a tomato, pesto or just melted butter with the addition of parmesan, garlic and various herbs. I made gnocchi with fresh homemade tomato sauce sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Those who like spicy food can add hot pepper into the tomato sauce. This sauce can...
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Tajine
A tajine is a clay dish with thick walls and a large conical lid. In a tajin you can cook different dishes such as chicken with dates, apricots, prunes, raisins, figs, olives, pickled lemons, or, as fish dishes, meat (lamb, pork or beef) and vegetables such as potatoes get very tasty with tomatoes or beans, peas, carrots, bell peppers,...
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Asparagus
My family didn’t grow asparagus when I was a child since it wasn’t popular in Ukraine as food and where it was grown, it was used in bouquets. It took me a time to acquire a taste and to enjoy this vegetable, but after I began to plant and raise it in my garden.
Asparagus grows in most any soil as...
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Some tips for making blini (nalysnyky), crêpes and pancakes
For blini and pancakes it's better to use a thicker pan made of cast iron or aluminum. A frying pan with non-stick coating is more suitable for crêpes.
When you are cooking blini and pancakes on a regular frying pan, be sure to add to the pan the butter or cooking oil before cooking each blini. But there is no...
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Crêpes
Crêpes are thin pancakes, cooked with milk and without yeast that are especially popular in France. Dough for crêpes must rest 6 hours or more, so prepare the batter in the morning or if you are planning to make them for breakfast, prepare the batter in the evening and leave in the refrigerator overnight. Usually I make a cake...
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