Recipes by Helenscooking

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…

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,…

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.

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…

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…

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,…

Olivier salad: simple salad recipe you will love by Helenscooking

This is a traditional recipe for the parties and holidays in Slavic countries. No one knows where it came to former Soviet countries from,(we were a huge country with closed borders for decades), but this was the main salad of every celebration in almost every family for decades. I cook this salad very rarely and mainly in autumn…

Beef Cutlets Easy by Helenscooking

This recipe is very popular in European countries: in Austria it’s called schnitzel, in the US it’s called a cutlet. We cook cutlets with beef and pork, even with fish and chicken. The main thing the fillet/ or loin has to be thin. It’s a great dish for a weekday dinner, 5-10 minutes to cook if the meat is ready to work with (not…

Puff pastry dough made easy! by Helenscooking

I love puff pastry, do you? You can create literally hundreds of recipes with it and it’s ready in 15 minutes: Apple strudel, croissanrs, puff pastry baskets and puff pastry fish pie and much more. The recipe of this dough will help you create a lot of awesemly delicious dishes in minutes.

Lemon Victoria Sandwich Cake with Raspberries, Strawberries and Clotted cream by Helenscooking