For this dish I usually use steelhead trout but you can also use salmon. For me, I think, salmon gets a little drier than other fish. This dish is good to serve along with potatoes or other vegetables, salads.
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Crispy Fried Onions
Crispy, slightly sweet onion. This is a great addition to burgers or salads. My kids like to add it to their pasta or mashed potatoes. The next day the onions are not as crispy like on the first day so try to use the same day but if not, they can still be used in various dishes and stored...
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Breaded Baked Chicken Wings
Sweet and Spicy Baked Chicken Wings
One of my favorite recipes for crispy chicken wings, I always love the sweet and spicy combo! If you like more heat just add more red pepper. Great dish for a big company, the only one thing you'll need is a cold beer!...
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Thai Pork Burgers
The most delicious burgers I ever ate! Very tasty meat and the spices matched perfectly. Best to cook on the grill but can be fried also....
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Young (Spring) Chicken Tapaka (Tabaka) (Shemtsvari tsitsila-tabaka)
After Soup Harcho, Khachapuri, Khinkali, the most popular dish of Georgian cuisine is chicken tapaka (tabaka).
The name of this popular Georgian dish comes from the special small pan with a lid press where the chicken is cooked.
Chicken tapaka is a traditionally fried chicken with no spices, just rubbed with salt and pepper for 20 minutes before...
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Burger with Caramelized Onions, Figs and Goat Cheese
Figs and goat cheese go so good together. If you like this combination, then you'll love the burger with it. I add a little chopped bacon to the ground meat for extra flavor and to keep it moist....
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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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Fishcakes
Fishcakes are a tasty and healthy dish. Its best to use fish with a dense fillet. In this recipe I used bass.
Flour can be replaced with breadcrumbs.
These cakes are perfect for any side dish like rice, potatoes or vegetables, mashed potatoes, pasta, salad....
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Black Currants and Gooseberry Nalivka (Homemade Liqueur)
I've already made so many different types of nalivka (homemade liqueur) from sour cherry, plum and different fruits/berry combinations but this last summer I had a lot of black currant and gooseberry, so besides baking cakes and pies from these berries, I used the remaining berries to make sweet-sour homemade liqueur.
Nalivka is a sweet fruit...
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