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Sour Spinach Soup
This spinach soup is a nostalgic effort to reproduce one of my favorite soups from the past times. When we bought a house in the US, I was full of dreams and plans about my own organic garden. I tried to grow many things, from greens to strawberries, and once even cantaloupe (that was relentlessly…
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Beet Smoothie Soup
This recipe has been brewing in my mind for awhile – a smoothie and a cold soup in one. The best part – it is almost no-boil, where most of ingredients are fresh vegetables. And the best best part is – the proportions are quite arbitrary, just flow with your desires and you will be…
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Fiddlehead Fern Salad
This recipe is another experiment with fiddlehead fern salad. The first one was a complete fiasco. This time it was dashed off intuitively, with Asian cuisine in mind. To my taste, it turned out quite well. If you are in this particular mood, follow me… What you need: 1.5 cups fiddlehead fern 1 big clove…
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Curried Daikon Salad
No, it is not black caviar you are seeing. It’s roasted black mustard seeds. Working from home today (a luxury I sometimes allow myself), I alloted myself a small lunch break. Not appreciating this distraction caused by hunger, I rummaged through the fridge, uninspired and impatient to get back to work. There was daikon, sour…
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Daikon Salad
This favourite of ours was inspired by Asian salads that became popular in Russia in the 80-s. Korean salad, as we called it, was made mostly of carrots with the addition of garlic, red and black pepper, salt, white vinegar (there was nothing else in stores), and sunflower oil (also the only option we had at that time). Daikon, Japanese…
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Fish "On a Pillow"
On Saturday I was woke up by thunderstorm , and couldn’t get back to full sleep after that. The gloomy and pouring day dawned upon Boston harbor. I dragged myself out of the bed, since this very Saturday, when it rained cats and dogs, and when the best would be to sit at home at…
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Nettle Soup
Spring time is here, with all kinds of plants sticking from the ground, stretching for the sun and new life, many of them medicinal, among which some are quite edible and make a fabulous addition to one’s table. Stinging nettle is one of them. What?! – you might say, – How am I supposed to…
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