Category ‘Recipes’

166. Quesadilla with avocado and creamy chilli sauce (Mexican recipe)

Where I can, I try to dilute recipes for sweet desserts with something spicy and filling. Today you can learn to make a not very well known but still fairly popular Mexican dish – a quesadilla with avocado and a spicy cheese and chilli sauce. The main difference from a burrito is that the quesadilla tortilla is folded in half rather than wrapped around the filling, and it sticks together thanks to the layer of cheese. Details under the cut. Read more »»

163. Green curry paste with chicken (Thai recipe, Green Curry Paste)

I've already made an authentic Thai soup, but curry is a category of its own, closer to meat or vegetables in a sauce. The base of green curry paste is a wet mixture of spices ground in a stone mortar which underlies a great many recipes dearly loved both by the locals and by pale-faced farangs. The details of making this spicy dish, and photos, are under the cut. Read more »»

165. Fruit baskets with fresh berries (recipe)

In the summer heat, when you don't feel like tiring yourself out making complicated hot dishes, you can treat yourself to simple but very timely desserts. Today I'm sharing the recipe for shortcrust baskets with fresh berries; photos and the step-by-step method are under the cut. Read more »»

162. Marbled beef steak (recipe)

I've already cooked pork or lamb ribs; now it's the turn of beef tenderloin. Below you'll find not only the classic recipe for marbled beef steak, but also a number of tips that make cooking this seemingly straightforward dish easier. Photos and the recipe are under the cut. Read more »»

164. Chocolate brownie (American recipe)

If you're bored with rare steaks and Thai cooking, it's high time to make something sweet. I've already posted recipes for small cakes and muffins, but today I'm publishing the authentic way to make one more quick dessert — a chocolate brownie with walnuts. It's something between a biscuit and a cake. Under the cut are photos and the recipe. Read more »»

160. Lyulya-kebab with pickled onion (Azerbaijani recipe)

After several recipes with pork, let's move on to more traditional dishes. Under the cut today is a dish traditional for the people of the Caucasus that resembles both cutlets and shashlik at once — lyulya-kebab. These days lyulya-kebab is made not only from lamb but from other kinds of meat, from poultry and even from walnuts, but we'll stick to the authentic recipe. The recipe also comes with a step-by-step method for making pickled onion Read more »»