Tag ‘summer’

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 »»

086. Mojito (recipe)

The combination of sweet, refreshing citrus and mint, added to rum to disguise its strength, made the cocktail one of the most popular summer drinks. In a virgin mojito the white rum is replaced with water and brown cane sugar, but I'll tell (and show) you the recipe for the alcoholic mojito — almost in its classic form. 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 »»

084. Cabbage cutlets (recipe)

After making the Basque-style gratin with eggs I felt like continuing the healthy-food theme and giving you a recipe for cabbage cutlets. They taste a bit like cabbage pirozhki and can be served not just as a side to any meat dish but on their own — with sour cream or a cream sauce. Interested? Read the details under the cut! Read more »»

089. Grandma's lemonade (recipe)

Even though summer is over on the calendar, one wants to stretch out the last sunny days. This time I decided to tell you about "grandma's lemonade". Why grandma's? Because that's exactly how this lemonade was made last century — mixing a syrup of real lemons with plain water. Want to remember the taste of childhood? Welcome under the cut. Read more »»