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Trip to Maine – Three Pines B & B
View recipe: Trip to Maine – Three Pines B & BWhat a glorious feeling to leave one’s beloved home to discover new captivating places. Acadia National Park became one of them for me and Alex, when in June we endeavored so anticipated trip to Maine. It took us about…
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Spiced Swordfish
View recipe: Spiced SwordfishMy contribution to this dish is small. With good seafood, most of the flavor comes from the raw ingredients at its own accord: no need to awaken it and draw it out. With excellent fish, the main responsibility of…
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Beef Bourguignon – My Variation
View recipe: Beef Bourguignon – My VariationOne of the prized dishes introduced to Americans by Julia Child, this rich beef stew is a French country classic. To this I add that my French co-worker referred to it contemptuously as “food for the old people”, claiming…
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Farmers Cheese Pancakes (Syrniki)
View recipe: Farmers Cheese Pancakes (Syrniki)These delightful tender pancakes make a perfect summer breakfast, especially if one has fresh berries for garnish. Syrniki (syr means cheese in Russian) is a traditional Russian and Slavic dish made of tvorog. Tvorog (also quark, topfen, twarog, tvaroh) is curd that is…
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Fresh Berry Tart
View recipe: Fresh Berry TartToday’s recipe was not composed by me, but it comes from a book that I gave my mom for Christmas this winter: The Tassajara Bread Bookby Edward Brown. I have not tried many recipes from it, but I did…
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Gigantic Potato Pancake
View recipe: Gigantic Potato PancakeSimply put, this is a big (the size of a frying pan) Jewish latke(s), also Belarusian dranik(i), Ukranian derun(i), German Kartoffelpuffer, and Swiss Roesti. I looked this recipe up on one of cooking shows and decided to give it a try. Alex was…
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Classic Russian Cotletas (Cotelettes)
View recipe: Classic Russian Cotletas (Cotelettes)Russian cotleta is not to be confused with American cutlet. Cotleta (french cotelette) is one of Russian traditional and very much loved dishes made of ground meat. It came to Russia from Europe and initially was a deep-fried slice of meat with rib bone, but…
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Avocado, Zucchini and Watercress Salad
View recipe: Avocado, Zucchini and Watercress SaladNext to mama’s elaborate posts informed by years of experience and accompanied by beautiful photos, mine are beginning to look more amateur than I would like. But there is not much that I can do about the scarcity of…
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Buttermilk Cookies
View recipe: Buttermilk CookiesTime for baking! This is one of kitchen activities that is relaxing, comforting and satisfying for me (grandfather’s genes, maybe). I love to knead, to pat and touch dough, especially yeast dough, when you can feel how the dough is…
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Wild Strawberries Thrill
View recipe: Wild Strawberries ThrillYou are not mistaken – these are wild strawberries. I’ll tell you more: those strawberries were unexpectedly found by Alex when he was moving the lawn and ran into a small strawberry field that spread between two lots. It is beneficial…
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