Archive for January 2012 | Monthly archive

115. Cottage cheese cake (recipe)

You may already have noticed that I love dishes with cottage cheese: among the recipes published here were the Australian cottage-cheese cheesecake and the cottage cheese doughnuts. This time I'll tell you about the cottage cheese cake my mum often makes. Photos and recipe under the cut. Read more »»

111. Christmas rice pudding (English recipe)

I'm not really keen on porridge, but this time I decided to make the English Queen's favourite dish — a rice pudding, timed for Christmas. It's a dish of rice mixed with water or milk, sometimes with other ingredients added. Depending on the occasion it's eaten either as a dessert or as a main course, most often at dinner. As a dessert it's usually served with sugar or another sweetener. Read more »»

114. Pork or lamb ribs in soy sauce (recipe)

A simple but amazingly tasty dish that can be made from the lamb (and other) ribs left over from cooking real Uzbek pilaf. Recommended to all lovers of spicy, aromatic meat fried to a crisp golden crust. Recipe and photos, as usual, under the cut. Read more »»

110. Banana and tangerine cake (recipe)

The New Year has already come, but the holidays go on. What to treat guests to when the only food you have left is fruit, kefir bought in advance and chocolates? Make a banana and tangerine cake! Photos and the festive recipe are under the cut. Happy New Year! Read more »»

113. No-bake cheesecake (Australian recipe)

I've already posted a recipe for cheesecake with cream cheese (in my case it was "Omichka"). Now I want to share a cheesecake recipe that is wrongly called Australian because it's based on cottage cheese rather than cream cheese. Why wrongly? Because Australia does have cheese :). But that misconception doesn't affect the delicate taste of this cottage-cheese dish in the least. Recipe and photos under the cut! Read more »»