I never thought it’s so easy to prepare! Just needs sushi grade log of tuna, sesame seeds, black pepper and optional ginger. Pat dry your
Category: Easy
Brisket Alternative
It is turkey alternative for those who avoid red meat. And with this dish – they won’t lose much. Hard to believe that lean dry
Oatmeal Is Not Punishment
And it doesn’t have to be boring. Here is how I make pure oatmeal muffin with no flour, no eggs – just rolls of oats
Roasted Cauliflower
Gorgeous side or even main dish – easy, tasty, pretty and healthy.
Pumpkin Gnocchi
Ingredients:
- Roasted butternut squash puree – 2-3 tbsp
- Farmer cheese (tvorog) – 1.2 lbs
- 1 egg (can be 2 if small)
- Flour – 4 tbsp
- Salt 1/3 tsp
- Butter – 2 tbsp for garnish + sage leaves
Directions:
- Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix really well with spoon forming sticky dough
- Put the dough on well floured board, flour your hands too.
- It should be sticky, but workable, there is no need to kneed it, but you should be able to form about an inch wide log with your hands
- Cut the log into small pieces
- Put pot with water on medium to high heat, add 1 tsp of salt and bring to a boil. Do not reduce the heat!
- Place several dumplings into boiling water, don’t overcrowd the pot.
- Boil the dumplings for 2 minutes
- Remove from the pot with a skimmer spoon
- Melt butter in a small pan, add couple of sage leaves (or dry sage), pour over gnocchi
- Serve hot
Grilled Eggplant Spread
The best tastes of summer in one dish, just grill, chop, add olive oil, salt and pepper.
And if you don’t have peppers – t’s fine too. Actually my mom was doing it with just 3 ingredients: eggplant, tomatoes and onion. The amounts are very flexible, but the important is – don’t use a blender, it should not be pulverized, just finely chopped.
Ingredients:
- 1 Midsize Roasted/grilled eggplant
- 1 Large Roasted bell pepper, red or yellow
- 3 – 4 mid size tomatoes or use 2 small ones
- 1 Shallot
- 2 gloves of garlic
- 1 tsp of Salt 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/3 cup Olive Oil
Directions:
- Peel grilled or roasted eggplant (grilled is always better), poke eggplant with a fork before grilling/roasting so it doesn’t explode
- place it in the sieve to drain extra liquid.
- Chop the eggplant into small chunks about 1/8 inch.
- Do NOT use food processor, it completely changes the taste.
- Peel tomatoes, use your knife to bruise tomatoes (forcing the juices to the skin) so it’s easier to peel and chop them to the same size as the eggplant
- Chop grilled bell pepper. I leave the skin on intentionally, it is part of the taste in my opinion.
- Finely chop shallot and garlic
- Add salt, pepper, olive oil and mix it all together with a fork or a spoon.
- Check for seasoning and add if needed.
- Serve room temperature as a dip with bread, the best way in my opinion to consume it – as side dish with any meat or fish.
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Caprese Salad Alternative
Mozzarella replaced with feta cheese, basil with cilantro. Happy Summer!
Zucchini soup
Looks fancy, tastes delicious, cooks fast!
Ingredients (2 servings):
- Small onion or shallot
- Zucchini 2 medium
- Sour cream – 1 tbsp
- Chicken/vegetable broth – 1-2 cups
- Light olive oil – 1-2 tbsp
Directions:
- Chop onion/shallot
- Chop zucchini to half inch cubes
- Put your pan on a medium high heat, add olive oil
- Start frying onion
- When onion is translucent add chopped zucchini to the pan, mix with onions
- Saute zucchinies with onion for about 10 minutes, till golden color, stirring occasionally
- Add sour cream, mix in with the vegetables
- Keep sauteing for a couple more minutes
- Pour stock, bring to a boil
- Add salt and pepper and turn the heat off.
- Puree with emerging blender or pour the soup into a regular blender and puree.
Serve hot, garnish with roasted pancetta, prosciutto or feta cheese
Another tomato salad
Garden tomatoes with anchovies – another winning salty and sweet combination!
Super healthy sandwich.
Start with the rolls, loaded with seeds inside and out, they almost have more seeds than flour and even flour is a combination of rye,
