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Broiled Mackerel or Mackerel Preserves

Broiled Mackerel or Mackerel Preserves by Helenscooking

This dish is better than sardines preserves, it contains a lot of important components for a healthy diet. Mackerel is a great source of protein and minerals, such as magnesium (21 percent of daily value), phosphorus (24 percent of daily value) and especially selenium (71 percent of daily value). Remembering all this, you shouldn't…

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Homemade Sauerkraut with cranberries!

Homemade Sauerkraut with cranberries! by Helenscooking

I bet you bought sauerkraut in the closest supermarket to make hot dogs. It is sour…mmm, very sour, with lots of liquid in a bag…generally sauerkraut sold in stores aren’t to my taste, I guess you noticed it. And maybe there’s nothing wrong with, just I love sauerkraut with cranberries and onion and sunflower/or olive oil. It’s the…

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Green beans with sesame seeds: great vegan dish!

Green beans with sesame seeds: great vegan dish! by Helenscooking

I love this recipe in winter and summer; you can cook those with fresh or frozen beans. Easy, fast and delicious! Good for the holiday table and for an everyday meal.

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12 Cookies of Christmas: Sugar cookies

12 Cookies of Christmas: Sugar cookies by Helenscooking

he 11 days before Christmas are dedicated to cookies. At the end of the day you have to choose the best cookie recipe to treat Santa! So this is my first and favorite cookie recipe! Sugar cookie recipe: Sugar cookie recipe is very simple and yet delicious. It is cooked by my mom for at least 2 decades now. The recipe is good for any…

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Healthy and Easy Vegan beet salad with prunes!

Healthy and Easy Vegan beet salad with prunes! by Helenscooking

Beets are like Cinderella, we think that they are not as delish as they are, we rarely cook them and generally, we think that this it is not essential for us. But in reality, there’s much more to it than we think. Beets provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxification support.In recent lab studies on human tumor cells,…

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Soup with meatballs, mushrooms,spaghetti and cheese

Soup with meatballs, mushrooms,spaghetti and cheese by Helenscooking

This is a great warm winter soup. It takes only 30 minutes to cook, but it vanishes even faster than it took you to cook it.

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Turkey soup with tomatoes and herbs.

Turkey soup with tomatoes and herbs. by Helenscooking

Great soup, if you have turkey leftovers from holidays or if you just wish to have a rich, hearty soup for lunch. Any part of turkey will be good (I cooked mine from turkey neck and some leftovers). It takes 30-40 minutes to cook and the taste is amazing. The key to great taste are tomatoes and herbs.

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Vegan spicy sautéed mushrooms in 10 minutes.

Vegan spicy sautéed mushrooms in 10 minutes. by Helenscooking

It is mushroom season, and I wrote a lot about (button) crimini mushrooms lately. Button mushrooms have an excellent amount of selenium, zinc and manganese; all three are great antioxidant minerals. Also daily intake of crimini mushrooms for 1-2 months can reduce levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and TGs. And if you are…

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Button Mushrooms stuffed with minced meat with lemon basil and grapes.

Button Mushrooms stuffed with minced meat with lemon basil and grapes. by Helenscooking

This recipe is really amazing and fast to cook, considering the fact that button mushrooms contain 17 different vitamins, the benefits from this dish increase dramatically. This dish has a long history in my house, it was cooked without cheese and…

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Healthy Fall Dessert: Baked apples with walnuts, honey and cinnamon.

Healthy Fall Dessert: Baked apples with walnuts, honey and cinnamon. by Helenscooking

This recipe is as easy as it can only get. I think the hardest part is to take the apples’ seeds out, so that the apples would be intact. I am cooking these apples since the time I remember myself cooking. My Daddy cooks these apples in red wine,…

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