Diet meatballs with rice and herbs

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Meatballs are traditional dish not only in Italy, but in many Slavic countries. The most popular meatballs recipe in Ukraine is”Fried meatballs”, but realizing the amount of cholesterol contained in this dish I prefer to cook braised meatballs with rice. I cook them in deep frying pan, so that they would be cooked through properly....

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Top 3 Fall Soups

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 These three soups are the best comfort meal for the lunch in fall: it enegrizes, keeps you warm and boosts your taste buds. You can add lots of flavors to these soups by experimenting with herbs: basil, dill, parsley and others.   Vegetarian Pea Soup  Vegetarian pea soup is good those days when you want a...

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Vegetarian Pea Soup

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Vegetarian pea soup is good those days when you want a rich-creamy soup without any meat component in it. It’s a comfort food perfect right for the days when it’s chilly and drizzly outside. This recipe has simple ingredients and doesn’t require to be a skillful chef to prepare it. All in all perfect autumn...

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Vegan spicy red cabbage

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I hope you love the colors of this dish: it’s so autumn and bright! My family members call this dish “weird braised cabbage”:-) To me the red cabbage tastes absolutely different, than the ordinary green one. It’s more flavorful, tender…. mmm, it’s more autumn!   For this recipe you will need: 1 lb of red cabbage...

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Vegan spicy sautéed mushrooms in 10 minutes.

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It is mushroom season, and I wrote a lot about (button) crimini mushrooms lately. Button mushrooms have an excellent amount of selenium, zinc and manganese; all three are great antioxidant minerals. Also daily intake of crimini mushrooms for 1-2 months can reduce levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and TGs. And if you are not...

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Button Mushrooms stuffed with minced meat with lemon basil and grapes.

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This recipe is really amazing and fast to cook, considering the fact that button mushrooms contain 17 different vitamins, the benefits from this dish increase dramatically. This dish has a long history in my house, it was cooked without cheese and grapes, but I decided to add the sweet twist to it. THe bitterness of...

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Apple, cinnamon and walnut rolls + cream cheese crispy rolls!

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This is the simplest recipe of rolls in the world. The dough is very easy to cook and it’s very tender, almost melting in the mouth. This is also a very good dough for cookies. For the dough: 1 stick of butter 1 cup of sugar 1.5 cups of flour (sifted, self-rising) 1 teaspoon of...

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Top 3 Tortilla Recipes: 10 minute healthy recipes.

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Tortilla is a unique ingredient: every dish you incorporate it in is simple, easy to cook , yet very delicious. These 3 recipes are my favorites when I am on the run and the family needs to have a snack. Fried tortillas with beef It’s good to take with you if you decide to go...

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Healthy Fall Dessert: Baked apples with walnuts, honey and cinnamon.

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This recipe is as easy as it can only get. I think the hardest part is to take the apples’ seeds out, so that the apples would be intact. I am cooking these apples since the time I remember myself cooking. My Daddy cooks these apples in red wine, but, let’s not get too crazy...

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Homemade hot pockets with apples. (healthy breakfast in 10 minutes)

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This is a great weekday breakfast. It’s very easy to cook, it’s healthy and very delicious autumn treat. If you like the cinnamon, you can add it as well, walnuts will also taste amazing in this simple dish. When I cook it , sometimes, they don’t “live”  till morning family members hunt for them in...

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