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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Olivier salad: simple salad recipe you will love

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This is a traditional recipe for the parties and holidays in Slavic countries. No one knows where it came to former Soviet countries from,(we were a huge country with closed borders for decades), but this was the main salad of every celebration in almost every family for decades. I cook this salad very rarely and mainly...

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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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Vegetarian pizza (with zucchini, mushrooms, red bell pepper,carrot, garlic and onion)

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This pizza is a “sister” of my “delicious 30 minute pizza.” It’s cooked from scratch in 30-35 minutes and I just Love this combination of veggies. You can use your combination, but this one is good for me!   The dough is the same: 2.5 cups of sifted flour 1 cup of hot water 0.25...

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Pumpkin crème-soup with shrimp, cream cheese and basil.

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It’s autumn and it means that it’s time for a great pumpkin soup with shrimp that I just LOVE cooking. It doesn’t require a lot of effort but it comes out perfectly smooth, bringing in the autumn flavors and colors into your kitchen. I tasted this soup long time ago in Europe, brought it into...

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Mom’s potato stuffed with beef

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         This recipe is my Mom’s recipe; she invented it when we lived in Russian Far East. She had that awesome spiral potato cutter, so she was cutting potato and using it in two dishes, spirally cut potatoes from  the middle of potato were fried (Yummm) and the rest of the potato, (it looked like...

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