Onion (Allium cepa) is a plant belonging to family Alliaceae, as well as garlic. The bulbs of onion are covered with the skin of different colors: violet, reddish and white. Red onion is spicier, white onion is milder, sweeter and juicier. Onion is one of the oldest vegetables known to mankind. In Persia and Central Asia onion was known about five thousand years ago. This is a perennial plant, which grows to a little bulb from seeds Read the rest of this entry »
One of the tastiest meat dishes is a juicy beefsteak. It’s prepared from fresh (not frozen) meat. You can prepare beefsteaks by yourself by cutting a large meat piece. But follow the following rules: cut the meat only across fibres and make the pieces no more than 1,5 cm in thickness. You can tenderize the steak a little bit. After beating the meat each piece should become half as thick. The time you need to roast the steaks Read the rest of this entry »
Vinegret is a salad made from boiled vegetables. Strange as it may seem, but antioxidant properties of carrot and beetroot still stay and even increase after boiling. How to boil the vegetables so, that they don’t lose their healthy properties? Just don’t peel and don’t cut them before boiling. A specific taste of this salad is created by pickled cucumbers, and to make it more piquant we added capers and some black olives. Read the rest of this entry »
Cupcakes are soft, light baked goods, which are very good for the whole family for breakfast. Both children and adults like cupcakes. Using this recipe, you may bake one big cupcake or divide the dough and pour it into small baking cups and bake many small cakes. You can add nuts, dried fruits and candied fruits to the dough - just everything to your taste. We prepared cupcakes with raisin. Read the rest of this entry »
The flesh of black sea bass has almost no bones. Its filet is very tender and juicy, is easy to prepare and is always tasty. Sometimes we fry it rolled in flour, and this recipe also provides a tasty dinner. But now we decided to use another recipe. This dish is so delicious, because we added capers and garlic to the fish, which saturated it with a wonderful, delicate aroma. This filet can be also served Read the rest of this entry »
This pie is made from sandy paste and is very liked by both children and their parents. You are free to choose any jam you like for this pie – apricot, bilberry, cherry. Here we decided to cook a strawberry pie, it is especially aromatic. This pie is very tasty with tea and coffee. The pastry is short and tender here, not too dry, because it becomes saturated with the jam while cooking. It’s a very easy recipe, the pie is fast to Read the rest of this entry »
Apple is one of the deciduous trees and bushes of the rose family bearing firm pome fruits with sweet or sweet and sour taste. There are more than 1500 species of apples and it has been under cultivation since prehistoric times. People started growing apples as early as Neolithic age. The most popular cultivar is the common apple grown worldwide. The common apple tree may reach the age of one hundred years. The tree blossoms in April-May. Read the rest of this entry »
The caper is a genus of plants that belong to the capers family. The genus, in the wide sense, is native to the Mediterranean region, Asia, India, the South Crimea and Caucuses. Capers are cultivated in West and South Europe, India, Philippines, Morocco and North America. The shrub bears honey yielding, white and pink flowers resembling the flowers of the small orchid. Read the rest of this entry »
Russians just love pancakes. And they have different pancakes recipes. There are thick yeast pancakes and very thin milk pancakes without yeast. You can have them with a variety of fillings. Pancakes can be served as the main dish or can be a dessert. Try this recipe for thin non-yeast pancakes with cottage cheese and cherry jam. This is a terrific dessert. Optionally, you can use sour cream with sugar or whipped cream Read the rest of this entry »
This tasty and dietary salmon cream soup is so quick and easy to cook. Soft and tender, this soup is good for children and adults. It is also an excellent way to prevent gastritis. Capers and olives will give salmon cream soup a special flavor. It is low-cal and rich in vitamin A due to carrots and tomatoes. And salmon contains polyunsaturated fats that have a positive effect on our health. Read the rest of this entry »
In culinary, the flesh of a ripe avocado is used for cold dishes. Usually, lemon or lime juice is added to avoid oxidation that impairs the taste and appearance of this fruit. Avocado is just fabulous for cooking vegetarian dishes. This sour-sweet fruit tastes like pear and pumpkin (more like pear) and it also has the savor of conifers sap that gets stronger from its pit to the skin. The flesh of avocado supplies 118 kcal and contains Read the rest of this entry »
Garlic is a plant that belongs to the onion family. The bulb of garlic is made up of smaller oval-oblong shaped bulbs called cloves. Garlic is regarded to as the king of spices. This plant has been cultivated for almost five thousand years. It grows wild in northern India, Afghanistan, the Mediterranean region and other areas. Unique garlic properties chiefly result from both well-balanced combination of organic substances with amazing Read the rest of this entry »
Kelp (or laminaria) is seaweed that grows near the Kuril Island Chain and is widespread in the Barents, the Yellow and the China seas. Kelp is another step to healthy life. Toxin free food is the foundation of health and beauty, and laminaria is just what you need. Kelp offers almost all the minerals and vitamins that are essential for our body. Not only is it rich in iodine but also contains biologically active Read the rest of this entry »
Dieticians argue that squid dishes help regulate the digestive system. Squid flesh is a rich source of some extractive substances that promote gastric secretion and support the entire digestive process. Besides, eating squid dishes supply our blood with cholinesterase. Cholinesterase deficiency can lead to liver disorders. And Chinese physicians claim that regular consumption of squid flesh in small quantities could prevent Read the rest of this entry »
You should get more cranberry into your diet as this berry is known to provide amazing health benefits. Cranberries are so juicy and have refreshing sour taste. They work well with honey and whipped cream that make this dessert so smooth. This easy and healthy dessert is a tasty way to get vitamins that give us the energy to live. You can make this dessert throughout the year because frozen Read the rest of this entry »
Nothing could be better than tasty and rich aspic. Make your family happy and indulge them with this dish. Moreover, aspic is a good preventive measure against scoliosis, osteochondrosis, backache and joint problems, because it is rich in calcium and substances that help maintain healthy tendons and bones. Aspic made with rooster or chicken is so good and easily Read the rest of this entry »
Cranberry is widespread along the Arctic Ocean coast and throughout northern and middle Europe as well as in Caucasian mountains, Siberia, Japan and northern North America. There are several species of cranberry. American cranberry is a showy shrub that has large berries. Northern cranberries are smaller and grow as evergreen creeping bog shrub. In Italy, cranberry occurs in the Read the rest of this entry »
Pasta with beans and mussels is a mouth-watering Italian dish. It is a wonderful combination of mussels with their amazing taste, beans that are so rich in dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, and pasta that provides us with carbohydrates. This recipe also involves tomatoes that contain beta-carotene and are known for antioxidant properties. Garlic is a natural antibiotic, and parsley offers chlorophyll let alone vitamins. All the ingredients make this dish so Read the rest of this entry »
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