Baked Tilapia with lime dressing and herbs

Just a quick recipe before I go to bed! I tasted for the first time Tilapia when I came to the States and I just fell in love with the delicate, buttery flavor of this fish! It’s just so light, I couldn’t believe that it was fish at all. I mean there is fish that…

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Salmon with white wine sauce and vegetables

I love salmon! The nice, juicy, flaky red fish is one of my favorites and my kids prefer it than any other fish, so I cook salmon often. One of my son’s favorite recipes is salmon with white wine sauce ans vegetables. I hope you like it! It’s really easy to prepare and it takes…

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Warm mushroom and zucchini salad

I was always skeptical of warm salads, but I really, really enjoyed this one. It has distinct flavor, but be careful not to overcook it! It’s supposed to be warm, not boiled. When you prepare it right, a warm salad is a nice companion to a glass of red wine and a pleasant start to…

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Albacore salad

There are many ways to prepare Albacore but I mostly prefer it in a salad. It is great if you can find fresh one, steam it, let it cool down and then add it to the salad, but if you can’t find one, you can just use canned. Since finding fresh is more difficult and…

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The 30 min Ratatouille

I’ve promised to continue the tradition with the movie food, and while I am still making more cards and boxes for my next show ( 13 and 14th of Nov), I decided to catch up in the food corner, since I haven’t published a lot of new things lately. What can I publish, I was…

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Martha’s Alphabet Soup in 3 easy steps

You’ve probably seen the PBS Kids show Martha Speaks, but in case you haven’t check it out! My kids are crazy about Martha! And as I mentioned before in my previous posts they love to eat whatever people( or else) are eating in the movies they watch. So, here is my Martha’s alphabet soup, the…

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For the cast iron fans- Chicken with pearl onions

I’ve told you before I fell in love with my cast iron pan the first time I used it, but I haven’t posted new things made with it. It so happened I could never take pictures of the things I made in it, until today! We had an awesomely flavorful chicken for dinner! You will…

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Sour cherry compote

If you are like most people in the US and you you don’t have an idea what a compote is, here is the definition from Wiki for you. 🙂Basically, it’s a fruit preserve that you make similar to jelly, but it’s liquid and you can drink it afterwards as a juice. It so happens that…

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Time for preserves- White cherry jam

You are so lucky! Thanks to one of Alex’s colleagues, we found this awesome farm that allows you to pick your own cherries, plums, apples, all kinds of berries, cucumbers, onions, zucchini etc.We went last weekend and the kids had a blast! It was their first time picking up cucumbers and they loved it! 🙂…

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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have a sin to confess!I have NEVER EVER baked chocolate chip cookies before!Yep, that’s right!Not that I don’t like them, I LOVE THEM! But in my country they are not popular and I thought of them as something extremely hard to make.Since I got this AMAZING book ( “The Dessert Bible” by Christopher Kimbal)…

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