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Easy shredded pie with cherries (or jam)

Easy shredded pie with cherries (or jam) by Helenscooking

In loving memory of My Grandmother Maria. This pie was a signature recipe of my Grandmother Maria, today would be her birthday , so I decided to bake this pie for the first time in my life. I ate it hundreds of times, but never thought that this deliciousness is so simple to cook.

2 votes
2257 views
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,…

2 votes
4584 views
Simple fast salad with romaine, tomato and pickles

Simple fast salad with romaine, tomato and pickles by Helenscooking

This is simple and fast dinner salad. The key to it are pickles, which make it sour and not bland.

1 vote
1188 views
Lazy homemade pasta with minced pork and beef meat

Lazy homemade pasta with minced pork and beef meat by Helenscooking

This recipe is as simple as 1-2-3! You can make it with pasta from a store but it’s more tender and delish if you cook it yourself

1 vote
2491 views
Deep fried beef steak

Deep fried beef steak by Helenscooking

In Ukraine we don’t have steaks, no seriously! Ukrainians just don’t have this dish; we eat braised meat and meatballs. So I had to learn how to cook steak, my own way.

1 vote
2105 views
Fried cauliflower.

Fried cauliflower. by Helenscooking

You know that I love cauliflower, I had the whole day dedicated to cauliflower in my ***good food*** section on Helen’s Cooking Facebook fan page. Cauliflower is very nutritious, easy to work with and Surprise! Surprise! It’s delicious. This is a signature recipe of my Mom, she cooks cauliflower this way very often. When I was a kid…

1 vote
2407 views
Fried zucchini with mayo-dill sauce and tomato

Fried zucchini with mayo-dill sauce and tomato by Helenscooking

This is a traditional recipe in my family, as well as in pretty much any Ukrainian family fried zucchini with tomato and mayo-dill sauce. It’s resembles a lot the eggplant recipe, but, zucchini, as a base component gives it a different twist.

1 vote
1594 views
Fast and simple baked chicken with apple and strawberries

Fast and simple baked chicken with apple and strawberries by Helenscooking

This is my invention: apples give the chicken sweetness and honey flavor, strawberry adds bit of acidity to this combination. You can have this this dish ready literally in 45 minutes. Preparation takes 15 minutes, cooking about 30 – depending on if you marinated you chicken in advance or just before cooking.

1 vote
1826 views
Chocolate chip cookies, easier that buying:-)

Chocolate chip cookies, easier that buying:-) by Helenscooking

These chocolate chip cookies recipe were borrowed from Allrecipes.com website. I have changed the ingredients list a little bit, but the best part of this recipe is it’s very fast, very simple and may be cooked with your eyes closed. You kids will <3 this cookies, they are” crispy on the edges and chewy inside”, as the author Dora…

1 vote
1571 views
Rice and Crab salad fast and easy!

Rice and Crab salad fast and easy! by Helenscooking

This salad recipe is good with crab meat and shrimps (or you can use both), corn adds sweetness to the salad, rice works as the base of this salad. You can cook it without rice if you wish, but I prefer it with rice, and herbs (dill and parsley, or just dill) are important. This recipe appeared in my cookbook, when we lived in…

1 vote
2040 views