Category ‘Recipes’

132. Low-calorie salad with avocado (Thai recipe)

Not long ago I shared with my readers the recipe for ginger lemonade, which quenches thirst beautifully on a hot day. Time to add to the collection of summer dishes a very simple, low-calorie recipe for a Thai salad with avocado that will take you no more than ten minutes to make. Details and photos are under the cut. Read more »»

129. Banana muffins with chocolate (American recipe)

Muffins are small sweet cakes. You can serve them with tea or make them for a festive table. If there's no time to fuss with complicated cake recipes ("Three creams" or "Three chocolates", for example), these muffins will come to your rescue. There are two kinds of muffin: English and American. English muffins are made with yeast dough, while American ones have baking powder or bicarbonate of soda in the batter. Under the cut I'll share the American recipe with you. Read more »»

131. Toasts with cheese (recipe)

I've already shown you the recipe for home-made oladyi for breakfast. Today I'll tell you about toasts. Toasts are slices of bread that are either fried in butter or dried to a crisp in the oven. Most often they're served as a snack, but you can also make a filling breakfast out of them. Under the cut you'll find photos of a very simple recipe for cheese toasts that will fill you with energy for the whole day! Read more »»

128. Tacos with chicken and chilli (Mexican recipe)

Today I'll teach you to make one of the most popular dishes of Mexican cuisine — a spicy taco with chilli. The dictionary describes a taco as "a tortilla filled with spiced meat" and calls it a "light lunch". It's a sandwich made from a tortilla folded into an envelope and filled with all sorts of things: fried meat, seafood and even cactus leaves. So let's get started. Read more »»

130. Ginger lemonade (American recipe)

The calendar still says May, but outside proper summer is slowly arriving. Hot, isn't it? Last year I already shared two refreshing drinks — the recipe for an alcoholic mojito and the recipe for classic grandma's lemonade. Now it's time for a drink that is every bit as tasty and invigorating — ginger lemonade (a sort of non-alcoholic version of ginger ale). Details and photos of this sweet, heavily fizzy ginger-flavoured drink are under the cut. Read more »»

127. Samsa (Uzbek recipe)

Lately I've been making meat pies to various national recipes rather often. You may already have tried making perepechi with meat to the Udmurt recipe or zur-balish and peremyachi to the Tatar one. Time for one more popular dish — Uzbek samsa with a filling of spiced onion, chopped meat (usually lamb, but I used chicken) and fat-tail fat. Read more »»