Cabbage is a great winter food, packed full of nutrients, and yummy in so many dishes. Two of our favourites are cabbage borscht and lazy cabbage rolls. As you know I like things the simple, the easy way. I make simple bread with almost no work and a lazy Pelmeni soup. Why do more work if less is ...
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Baked Chicken and Potatoes
Baked chicken and potatoes is a very yummy, very simple meal. Those two -yummy and simple -do not always go together. Here they do. It does not have to be just potatoes! Sweet potatoes, red beets (I add them whole with the skin on and peel afterwards), sliced buttercup pumpkins, all go well with ...
Rice with Sour Cream Zucchini Sauce
Summer time is zucchini time - if you grow zucchinis then you probably have lots of them. I find one plant can easily produce enough zucchini to eat for a family of 4. But sure, we grow more than just one plant - zucchini in overload! Zucchini is one of the plants that you want to grow at home from ...
Whey Water Bath
Do you enjoy a real spa treatment? I sure do. Preferably at home. In my own bath tub. On a cold day in the winter or after a day of work in the garden, there is nothing I would enjoy more. My favorite natural remedy for it is Whey Water. What is whey water Whey water is a by-product in cheese ...
Homemade Sausage Rolls
These rolls are great for lunches, they freeze well and travel well. I always bake version 1 for our son in college and version 2 for our daughter who takes them with her to work. Both love them, as long as I do not get mixed up with who gets version 1 and who gets 2 ;). Again, I let my ...
Lazy Pelmeni soup
The weather has gotten cold and uncomfortable.Time for some soup – easy soup, easy and yummy. Lazy pelmeni soup is just that. Easy. Yummy. Comforting. Do you know what real pelmeni is? They are a great traditional dish - so good and so much work. It is said that 95% of Russian households have at ...
Noodle Pilaf or Casserole Recipe
Pilaf (also known as pilau and plov) is a rice dish that we really like, I will share our recipe another time. This is a diversion of the original pilaf, and we call it noodle pilaf. This very simple recipe has done the job of feeding a large amount of hungry teenage boys, a needy family as ...
Delicious Minute Steak recipe
The first minute steak (or cube steak) I bought, I actually bought accidentally. I just wanted a steak, and this one had a good price :). But once I knew what they are and how to prepare a minute steak, we really started to love them. This minute steak recipe, baked in gravy, is all from scratch ...