This Custard Apple Pie is so delicious, pretty easy to do and perfect to eat warm or cold.
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Cake with Condensed Milk, Nuts and Whipped Cream
Simple and very easy to make. Instead of whipping cream, you can use sour cream, and you’ll just need to add more sugar, around 200 g total for the cake. Use any nuts that you like. Also, you can bake two different cakes; one light and the other you add cocoa.
Before putting the cream on the cake, I like to cut the...
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Potato Latkes
Potato latkes are a traditional Jewish dish for Hanukkah but they can be made on any other day as an appetizer or side dish for dinner. Latkes are usually made from potatoes and onions, but you can also add zucchini, apples, carrots, sweet potatoes, parsnips and more.
If you want your latkes to be golden crispy on the outside and...
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Coconut-Orange Cake with Cream Cheese
A very festive and delicious cake, which turns out tender with a nice coconut taste and it is easy to prepare. A great idea for Christmas and/or New Year!
You can decorate with chopped nuts the cake or add them to the cream. Also for decoration you can use: coconut flakes, rosemary twigs, cranberries or other berries, orange...
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Rosemary cookies
Very simple and original, tasty crumbly biscuit cookies flavored with rosemary and chunks of salt. Use only larger sea salt, along with sugar and honey, they give an original touch for the cookies. I like to make these cookies for Christmas and give it to my friends and family with a jar of 'Basil jam' or
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Pasta with Pumpkin and Bacon
After making so many tasty various dishes in October from pumpkins, I still had a small piece left. I wanted to try something similar as the Pumpkin Risotto, but with pasta instead. The sweetness of the pumpkin balances the bacon, Parmesan, and sage, it turned out very delicious! Very simple way to add some flavor to your pasta.
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Risotto with Pumpkin, Pancetta (Bacon) and Sage
The sweetness of the pumpkin balances the sage, salty bacon and Parmesan. Warm, fall-like, comforting and flavorful dish, one of the most delicious creamy risotto recipes!
Here is an idea to garnish your pumpkin risotto:
In a frying pan (in which bacon was fried), you can make crispy sage leaves by dipping the slightly wet leaves into a flour, remove excess,...
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Sopa Azteca or Tortilla Soup
Sopa Azteca or tortilla soup is a Mexican traditional simple soup, prepared with just a few ingredients: pasilla chile- and a tomato -chicken broth, topped with a tortilla chips, creamy avocado, cheese, and tangy Mexican crema. It's simple, but a very rich and flavorful soup! If you cannot find Mexican crema, you can use sour cream.
For fried tortilla strips:...
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Calabaza En Tacha—Candied Pumpkin
Calabaza en Tacha (candied pumpkin), is a traditional Mexican pumpkin dish cooked in brown sugar cane syrup, served as a snack, dessert or breakfast. A calabaza is a type of winter squash, with a sweet flavor and very firm texture.
Also it's one of the traditional foods served for Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Super...
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Spooky Meatballs
Great fun dish for a Halloween! My kids had so much fun decorating their own Spooky Meatballs. Meatballs turned out juicy, tender with a nice smoked flavor because of the bacon. In this recipe I used Pecorino Romano cheese, but you can use any other firm cheese. And instead of ground beef you can use chicken or turkey, depending...
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