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Sugar Cheese Cookies
View recipe: Sugar Cheese CookiesAs the cool fall weather is setting in, I’m beginning to feel like baking. In need of some “warming up” before heavy baking in winter, I decided to make some improvisational cakes. One, the fruit and nut cake, was not…
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Cauliflower with Slow-Cooked Garlic
View recipe: Cauliflower with Slow-Cooked GarlicUnlike writing (allegedly manuscripts do not burn), cooking is a transient art, swept away by Time just as the Tibetan sand paintings. Just as with the sand paintings, the sweeping away itself is a ritual. Business lunch, romantic dinner,…
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Beef and Mushrooms Stew
View recipe: Beef and Mushrooms StewIt’s interesting how food is associated with our memories. Remember a meal, and then go people, and places, and feelings. Or maybe it’s just me?.. Maybe I’m getting old and tend to return to my past as old people…
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Quick Pickled Cucumbers
View recipe: Quick Pickled CucumbersSometimes a normal person has cravings for sweet, sour or salty, and many other things. Don’t get me wrong, but I think it’s very healthy to follow your cravings, otherwise you will get depressed and plain unhappy, and there is nothing…
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Classic Beets Salad
View recipe: Classic Beets SaladOut of the Russian gastronomic stereotypes (apart from cabbage, which is also German, and vodka, which is really quite popular around the globe) beets is one of the most persistent. And yes, we are truly beet-eaters. Beets are a…
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Lamb Pilaf
View recipe: Lamb PilafEvery home chef has his or her own recipe for lamb pilaf. Different ways to cook rice, different spices, different fats and oils, etc. … My recipe is a compilation of many and my own experience put together. I…
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Cheater's Green Tea Ice Cream
View recipe: Cheater's Green Tea Ice CreamIn the last few weeks of summer, it is permissible to catch up on ice cream before the coming of sleet, rain and snowfalls, before the unforgettable slushy winter blues catch up with you and steal your soul, if…
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Fish Rissoles
View recipe: Fish RissolesFollowing our rule to cook fish at least once a week, we decided on fish for Saturday. There was no particular recipe in mind, and, exhausted by endless repair work over dreadful garden shed, I almost ended up cooking something quick…
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Savory Zucchini Muffins
View recipe: Savory Zucchini MuffinsRemember my recipe for Squash Pancakes? I love these pancakes, but striving to live a healthier lifestyle, I always think about less harmful ways of cooking. So the idea of baking instead of frying those pancakes has been brewing in my…
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Portobello Salmon
View recipe: Portobello SalmonFinally, there came to be a dreary Sunday, the kind that causes bouts of spleen and laziness, chains one to her Brooklyn apartment, and hence also to its aging gas stove. Thus it came to be that I ignored…
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