Easy Family Recipes

Strawberry jam

Natalia — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:36:06 +0000

Judging by my experience of making jam (I’ve been preparing jam for several years already), I can say that the most delicious jam comes out of the last harvest. At that time the berries are the sweetest and the most suitable for jam.

Today I’m going to tell you a secret how to make jam but not porridge. If you stick strictly to the following instructions you will succeed in making your jam delicious.

Ingredients:

Strawberry, 1 kg.
Sugar, 1 kg.

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The recipe of tasty dumplings.

Natalia — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:31:04 +0000

Yesterday was the day when I decided to spend minimum efforts and to make a delicious and healthy dinner. Frankly speaking, I’m a little bit sick of all these meat, fish and chicken dishes. That’s why dumplings were exactly what I needed.

Dumplings can be served with sugar, jam, sour cream or just mashed berries. And also the dish will taste especially delicious if you fry them till a golden colour after boiling.

Ingredients:

Cottage cheese, 150 gr.
Flour, 2-3 table spoons.
Sugar, 2 table spoons
2 Eggs
Butter, 1 table spoon.
A punch of salt

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The recipe of cake with bilberries

Natalia — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:27:16 +0000

Firstly, I was about to make a cake with strawberry. I’ve decided to take the standard recipe of a cake and add some berries there.

But I’ve changed my plans when I was preparing the dough. I’ve decided to take bilberries instead of strawberries. As a result I came to a conclusion that, if I had used strawberries, the cake would have been not so tasty. Strawberry, when used in baking, becomes soft and watery and looses its taste. But with bilberries it’s quite the opposite.

Ingredients:

4 eggs.
Sugar 1 1/3 glass.
Flour, 2 glasses.
Butter (soft), 175 gr.
Sour cream, 1 glass.
Baking powder, 2 tea spoons.
Vanillin
Bilberry, 1 glass.

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Berry cream

Natalia — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:25:27 +0000

This light summer cream is suitable for sandwiching cakes, puffed light cakes, shortcakes and sponge cakes. The cream will also go as a wonderful filling for scalded cakes.

Ingredients:

Fresh berries, 100 gr.
30 % -fat cream,100 gr.
Sugar, 100 gr.

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Pork rolls with surprise

Natalia — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:21:20 +0000

It is really quite difficult to prepare pork in order to make it soft and delicate. Frankly speaking, I’m a little bit sick of ordinary pork chops and that’s why today I offer you a recipe of rolls with prunes.

If you don’t like prunes, you can use nuts or mushrooms instead.

Ingredients:

Lean pork, 500 гр.
Salt
Black milled pepper
Oregano, ½ tea spoon.
Prunes,300 gr.
2 onions.
Vegetable oil, 2 table spoons.
Garlic, 1 clove
Aluminium foil.

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The recipe of vegetable rolls

Natalia — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:18:04 +0000

Summer is wonderful time of the year when you can refresh your body with vitamins.

Last week I prepared vegetable rolls. Frankly speaking, my husband didn’t understand at first that he was eating healthy and substantial food which didn’t contain a gram of meat.

Ingredients:

   1. Cabbage, 500 gr.
   2. Carrots, 200 гр.
   3. Sweet pepper, 300 gr.
   4. Onion, 200 gr.
   5. 1 garlic
   6. Vegetable oil, 50 gr.
   7. Sour cream, 200 gr.
   8. Salt
   9. Black milled pepper

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Cauliflower as a side dish

Natalia — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:14:41 +0000

I like summer because it gives a wonderful opportunity to get all the vitamins from vegetables, fruit and berries. And it is summer when we can enjoy dishes of cauliflower.

Generally speaking, cauliflower is healthy and good both for children and adults. I’ve recently got to know that cauliflower protects from harmful substances and removes toxins.

Ingredients:

Cauliflower, 500 gr.
Flour, 1/2 glass.
Vegetable oil
Salt
Black milled pepper

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Salad “Jewish”

Natalia — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:07:00 +0000

My husband is fond of having lunch and dinner at my mum’s. She treats him with his favourite salad—Jewish. This salad is very simple and its ingredients are similar to salad “Olivje”. Though my husband tends to find faults in food, he likes the salad. That’s way you’ll enjoy the salad, too.

Ingredients:

4 Potatoes
1-2 Carrots
2-3 pickled cucumbers.
Onion
3 Eggs
Marinated herring (fillet), 300 gr.
Boiled or tinned haricot beans, 150 gr.
Vinegar, 2 table spoons.
Sugar, ½ tea spoons.
Salt
Black milled pepper
Mayonnaise, 200-250 gr.

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Orange jelly with fruits.

Natalia — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:48:39 +0000

Personally I didn’t have self-made jelly in my kitchen for a long time. As a rule I buy it in packets, which I wouldn’t make if it were not for my husband.

The recipe is delicious and healthy as there are fresh and natural ingredients: juice and fruit.

Ingredients:

Orange juice, 750 ml.
Gelatin, 5 heaping tea spoons.
Grapes, 150 gr.
Sweet cherries, 200 gr.

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“Green” borsch with sorrel

Natalia — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:42:56 +0000

My husband and I usually have lunch not at home. He goes to a restaurant (3-4 dollars is enough for a complex lunch). I have lunch at work. We have a small kitchen in our office. Not long ago my workmate treated me with borsch.

It was red, as it should be traditionally, but its contents had not much in common with borsch. And, of course, I asked her mum for the recipe of this wonderful soup.

There is sorrel instead of cabbage in the recipe of the borsch. The only standard ingredients are beet, potato and carrot. It resembles the usual borsch, but has a specific taste of its own, because of the sorrel.

The advantages of the dish: fresh vegetables, lightness of the soup, the new taste (that you can enjoy only in summer). But, be careful, don’t make stains!)

Ingredients:

Potatoes, 0,5 kg.
1 Carrot.
3 Beets.
1 Onion.
Sorrel, 500-600 gr.
Sour cream, 100 gr.
Butter, 50 gr.
Flour, 1 table spoon.
Vinegar, 1 tablespoon.
Sugar,1 tablespoon.
Salt
Peas of pepper
Bay leaf.
Green dill and parsley

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