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Pink Summer Salad with Gooseberries and Mozarella
View recipe: Pink Summer Salad with Gooseberries and MozarellaIt’s Saturday, it’s summer and the sun is shining in Zurich. Because I live alone these days, I hardly ever cook anything interesting (except for parties, when things get too hectic to make pictures). When I do cook, my…
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Baked Apples with Dandelion Honey Cream
View recipe: Baked Apples with Dandelion Honey CreamThis simple dessert of baked apples topped with buttery crumbles and sweetened sour cream is one of those treats that you cook on the days when you hm… don’t want to cook. It was one of those days for…
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Strawberry Tart with Ginger and Lemon
View recipe: Strawberry Tart with Ginger and LemonStrawberries sitting in my fridge were meant to accompany the ice cream, but it seemed too simple for the Mother’s Day weekend. So I changed my mind and made this strawberry tart for all mothers of the world, including…
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Goat Soup with Dumplings
View recipe: Goat Soup with DumplingsI didn’t know what the goat meat tastes like until I made a refreshing Saturday morning trip to Blood Farm in West Groton, MA, and cooked the goat meat soup for the first time in my life. I was…
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Health Nut's Raw Vegetable Relish
View recipe: Health Nut's Raw Vegetable RelishConsuming sinful Parisian pastries on my latest trip drew my mind to healthier things – fresh vegetables, spring herbs, vitamins, the stuff of life. Today’s recipe is for an ultra healthy relish of carrots, tomatoes, peppers and rhubarb marinated…
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Napoleon Cake
View recipe: Napoleon CakeLayered Napoleon cake is our family’s heirloom recipe. The number one cake. It can also be called mama’s signature cake. Nobody she shared this recipe with could reproduce what she did. Luckily I wrote it down in my recipe…
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Baked Omelet (Drachona)
View recipe: Baked Omelet (Drachona)I loved baked omelet that was served in Russian canteens, the common lunch place of the Soviet era. It was one of very few eatable and even enjoyable dishes among an array of unattractive food. They used to make…
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Hot Non-Alcoholic Fruit Punch
View recipe: Hot Non-Alcoholic Fruit PunchAs soon as I came to Zürich two weeks ago the weather turned foul and hasn’t even once cleared up (until today, yay!). It was also cold, and being optimistic about spring I didn’t pack anything warm enough. Under…
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Frikadellen Soup
View recipe: Frikadellen SoupMy German Nanny was not a good cook, but it was she who introduced this simple Fricadellen soup recipe to our family. Too little to help, I used to hang around kitchen looking how she was grinding, peeling and…
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Fresh Beet Smoothie
View recipe: Fresh Beet SmoothieBeet Smoothie?.. If somebody told me about it a few years ago, I would be very skeptical. Once I tried it though, it became one of my preferred smoothies any time of the year. It is very timely after…
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