A great idea for a picnic or a spring, summer, fall dinner, just add the mayonnaise before eating the salad if you are planning to bring it for a picnic. As well, you can use vegetables or olive oil with the addition of a little lemon juice instead of using mayonnaise. If you like it spicy, add some garlic....
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Potato Pancakes with Whipped Cream Cheese and Salted Salmon
Tart with Roasted Figs, Thyme and Feta
This tart has a beautiful array of textures and flavors. Super easy to make! Perfect as a dessert, appetizer, or even as a part of brunch. I sliced the figs into medium strips, but if they are fresh you can cut them in half too. Also I used peach jam, but you can use any other jam or marmalade...
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Blueberry Orange Elderflower Marmalade Pocket Pie
Remember Strawberry Rhubarb mini Pies we made with kids last June? This June we made Blueberry Orange Elderflower Marmalade Pocket Pies for dessert tonight, can't wait to try!
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Easy Tomato Tart with Garlic and Thyme
This tart is really easy to make, you just need to have puff pastry, tomatoes, garlic, and thyme. Perfect recipe when you want to make a quick, delicious, and festive looking appetizer.
Instead of thyme, you can use rosemary, cilantro, parsley or other herbs. If you prefer basil, add it to the tart after baking so it will look brighter...
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Profiterole/ Cream Puffs with Creamy Lemon Curd
A profiterole is a small French (less than 4 cm in diameter) pastry ball made of custard dough and can have various fillings (both sweet and savory): custard cream, cheese, mushrooms, meat, etc. Sweet profiteroles can be served as a dessert and profiteroles with meat, cheese or mushroom stuffing are perfect for soups.
This time I made them with sweet...
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Stuffed chicken legs with dried apricots
The best option is to cut the meat with a knife, the meat will be tastier and have a better texture, but you can use a blender, meat grinder or food processor. I also like to add some shredded cheese to the filling.
You can also try Stuffed chicken legs with cheese, nuts and herbs
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Stuffed chicken legs with cheese, nuts and herbs
Stuffed chicken legs are very tasty and not difficult to cook. You can improvise with ingredients to your taste and what is available at the moment of cooking- you can add to the stuffing chicken livers, rice, nuts, dried fruits, beets, onions, mushrooms, carrots, cheese, etc. Meat from the chicken legs is better to chop with a knife, the...
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Steelhead trout
We like to buy and cook steelhead (Steelhead trout) more than salmon. For us, this fish is tastier, flavorful, and the fillets are denser after cooking than salmon. We love to grill/smoked it with a dry rub, lemon juice, and olive oil using a soaked cedar plank.
More photos: Grill time!
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Khachapuri, from scratch
This time I made Adjarian khachapuri from scratch. Usually I use premade frozen dough, and that works perfectly fine too. This time, however, I made the dough and it was really quick and easy.
For the dough I used: -2 1/2 cup of flour, -2.5-3 tsp yeast (mix it in 1 cup warm water with 1tsp...
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