Puff pastry dough made easy!

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I love puff pastry, do you? You can create literally hundreds of recipes with it and it’s ready in 15 minutes: Apple strudel, croissants, puff pastry baskets and puff pastry fish pie and much more. The recipe of this dough will help you create a lot of awesomely delicious dishes in minutes. For the dough...

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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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Easy 30 minute ready potato “sails” with turkey ham, onion and cheese

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This is a very simple recipe that was cooked for decades in mountainous part of Ukraine. It’s cheap, fast to cook and very simple dish, but surprisingly it’s amazingly delicious. Some dishes should be complicated, some are simple. Honestly, even your kids can cook it. Just boil potato for them in advance and… by the...

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Easy Country Style Chicken in 20 minutes

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This recipe was overlooked at Restaurant impossible TV program, I added my personal touches to it and it came out great. To define great I will explain: my fiancé, who doesn’t like chicken, was consuming it, as if it was his favorite sausage, not a chicken… I used cornmeal here, because I love adding it to my...

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Chocolate cake with coconut and rum “Mmm, Yum!”

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My cake is a combination of recipes, ideas and vision of a great chocolate cake. (to my mind) I love that this cake is moist inside, combines sweetness and bitterness of dark chocolate and I love that it’s easy to cook. 1/2 cup of chocolate chips ½ cup of instant espresso 1 ¼  stick of...

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Tomato and avocado salad

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This salad is my #1 summer salad. I can eat it every day 3 times a day. It’s very fast and simple to cook and as we all know avocado is very good for your health, so I try to eat it as much as possible. For this salad you need: 2 tomatoes 1 avocado...

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Rice and Crab salad fast and easy!

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This salad recipe is good with crab meat (as well as imitated crab meat) and shrimps (or you can use both), corn adds sweetness to the salad, rice works as the base of this salad. You can cook it without rice if you wish, but I prefer it with rice, and herbs (dill and parsley, or...

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Chocolate chip cookies, easier than buying:-)

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This chocolate chip cookies recipe was borrowed from Allrecipes.com website. I have changed the ingredients list a little bit, but the best part of this recipe is that it’s very fast, very simple and may be cooked with your eyes closed. You kids will <3 these cookies, they are” crispy on the edges and chewy inside”,...

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Fast and simple baked chicken with apple and strawberries

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This is my invention: apples give the chicken sweetness and honey flavor, strawberry adds bit of acidity to this combination. You can have this this dish ready literally in 55 minutes. Preparation takes 15 minutes, cooking about 40 – depending on if you marinated you chicken in advance or just before cooking. 4 servings 4...

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