Recipes

These caramelized, candied walnuts are quite a treat. Toss them into your salad, over popcorn, or straight into your mouth. Crunch. Crunch.

Desserts

5 Minute Candied Walnuts

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A white bowl of beef, barely and pickle soup with bread in the background

Soup

Beef, Barley and Pickle Soup (Rassolnik)

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These baked piroshki are ultra soft. I made half of them with caramelized apples and half with braised cabbage and beef. Both were excellent fillings.

Desserts

Baked Piroshki Recipe (2 Filling Options: Sweet or Savory!)

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A close up of a green bowl of cabbage, carrot and cranberry salad

Salad

Cabbage, Carrot and Cranberry Salad Recipe

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These Kielbasa and Cucumber Crostini just hit the spot. Simple and inexpensive to prepare and the recipe can easily be doubled for a hungrier crowd.

Appetizers

Kielbasa and Cucumber Crostini + Canapé Roundup!

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This prune honey cake rose beautifully and was stunningly tall. The layers are fluffy, moist, creamy, and studded with sweet prunes.

Cake

Prune Honey Cake Recipe

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This sweet cranberry apricot loaf made our house smell like Christmas morning. It is soft, moist, crumbly and loaded with tang of cranberries and apricots.

Breads

Cranberry Apricot Loaf (A Keks Recipe)

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These Meringue Acorns are a real show stopper and taste heavenly. Vanilla meringue surrounded by melted chocolate truffles and covered with salty nuttiness | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Meringue Acorns with Salted Pistachios and Chocolate

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This Beef and Mushroom Pot Roast is so easy to cook and makes a great party dish, you can prepare it ahead of time. The meat is super tender when it's done.

Beef

Beef and Mushroom Pot Roast (a Slow Cooker Recipe)

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A moist Pomegranate Cake with a crown of glistening pom seeds. Pomegranate cake is fantastic top to bottom and makes for a stunning Christmas Cake! | natashaskitchen.com

Cake

Pomegranate Christmas Cake Recipe

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A blue bowl of crab salad with cucumber and tomato with a wooden spoon in it

High Protein

Crab Salad with Cucumber and Tomato Recipe

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These turkey crepes (savory nalesniki) are delicious and yet another way to use up that leftover turkey. Yes!! This recipe turns out perfect every time.

Breakfast

Turkey Crepes (Savory Nalesniki) Recipe

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This shrimp and mushroom sauce is luscious, juicy & just succulent. It's delicious over mashed potatoes, rice or pasta, making it an all-around great dish!

High Protein

Shrimp and Mushrooms in a Garlic Bisque Sauce

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Desserts

Peach Cream Cheese Braided Danish Video Recipe

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These cottage cheese cookies are lightly sweet, crisp and crumbly. They are just right with a hot cup of tea, coffee or just enjoy them with milk.

Desserts

Cottage Cheese Cookies Recipe

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You can take this Taco salad dip to any party really. It's just an all-around-amazing dip; sort of like the 7-layer dip, but it holds it's own.

Appetizers

Taco Salad Dip Recipe

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This Creamy Mushroom and Leek Pasta is scrumptious. Leeks add color and fantastic flavor. It was really, really good and it re-heats really well!

Main Course

Creamy Mushroom and Leek Pasta Recipe

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Green tomatoes in this canned green tomato salad are marinated and made into a salad with carrot and onion. They taste tangy and sweet. Give them a try.

Recipes

Canned Green Tomato Salad Recipe

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Breakfast

Almond Croissants Recipe (French Bakery Style)

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A clear glass jar with pickled stuffed green tomatoes

Sides

Pickled Stuffed Green Tomatoes

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This Cheese Chocolate Cake has a generous layer of farmers cheese sandwiched between two layers of chocolate crust and covered with a chocolate glaze.

Cake

Farmers Cheese Chocolate Cake

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A close up of a plate of California Sushi Rolls

High Protein

Sushi Rice and California Rolls Recipe

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If you've never tried this Selyodka recipe, you're missing out. You could compare it to Italian anchovies. It's strangely good and really easy to make.

High Protein

Selyodka Recipe (Pickled Herring or Trout)

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A close up of Moroccan vegetable skewers on a grill

Sides

Grilled Moroccan Vegetable Skewers

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A plate of grilled Moroccan chicken

Chicken

Grilled Moroccan Chicken Recipe

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These shrimp and cheese canapes are a keeper; uber delicious and so easy to make. The shrimp spread on these tea sandwiches is perfect.

Appetizers

Cheesy Shrimp Tea Sandwiches (Canapés)

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This oven baked glazed salmon recipe has a well-seasoned, tangy crust and it's so easy to make. The glaze seals in the wonderful juices in this oven baked salmon.

High Protein

Oven Baked Salmon with a Tangy Glaze

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A green bowl of sauerkraut garnished with apples

Salad

Homemade Sauerkraut Recipe (Kvashenaya Kapusta)

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The cherry surprise in these Honey Cupcakes makes me ridiculously happy. This recipe yields 24 cupcakes. The softest honey cupcakes!

Cupcakes & Muffins

Cherry Surprise Honey Cupcakes Recipe

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An open-faced eggplant and tomato sandwich garnished with basil on a green plate

Recipes

Open-Faced Eggplant and Tomato Sandwiches

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These chicken zucchini fritters are healthier than regular kotlety; being half meat and half veggie and they are super juicy and flavorful. Kids love these.

Chicken

Chicken Zucchini Fritters Recipe

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Learn how to make marinated red bell peppers. They’re great side dish along mashed potatoes and good to nibble on straight too.

Sides

Canned Bell Peppers Recipe

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Eggplant Caviar makes a great party appetizer. It's an old Russian favorite. You can enjoy it as a spread over toast for breakfast, lunch or even dinner.

Appetizers

Eggplant Caviar Spread Recipe

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The naturally sweet carrots in this Healthier Carrot Cake, combined with honey and applesauce take it to a whole new, and quite nutritional, level.

Cake

Carrot Honey Cake Recipe

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Two jars of canned tomatoes next to fresh tomatoes on the table

Recipes

Canned Tomatoes Recipe

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Not only this Fresh Peach Salsa is it yummy as an appetizer with chips, it's also really good as a topping for fish or pork; who would have thought?

Appetizers

Fresh Peach Salsa Recipe

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A peach pie with a spatula, plates, forks and fresh peaches beside it

Desserts

Deep Dish Peach Pie with Cream Cheese Crust

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Lattice Pie Crust

Desserts

How to Make a Lattice Pie Crust

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This flaky cream cheese Pie Crust is my go-to recipe for pie crust. It bakes beautifully and doesn't become soggy. It can be used for any kind of pie.

Desserts

Flaky Cream Cheese Pie Crust Recipe

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Bake your own delicious, golden garlic pampushki. These garlic pampushki are crisp on the outside and so so soft on the inside. You'll love them!

Breads

Garlic Pampushki (Garlic Dinner Rolls)

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Braised zucchini is a great way to use up summers' best vegetables! There's a spicy kick to this braised zucchini spread. Serve with soft crusty bread.

Appetizers

Braised Zucchini on Crusty Bread

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Cucumber Tomato Salad Recipe

Salad

Cucumber Tomato Salad

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A plate of baked mushroom stuffed chicken thighs besides mashed potatoes and cucumbers

Chicken

Baked Mushroom Stuffed Chicken Thighs

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Best Cherry Lemonade! Combining club soda, cherry syrup and ice creates incredible fizz. Seriously, don't take your eye off this sparkling cherry lemonade! | natashaskitchen.com

Drinks

Sparkling Cherry Lemonade

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A piece of drunken cherry cake on a plate garnished with fresh cherries

Cake

Drunken Cherry Chocolate Cake

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The tangy sweet raspberry mousse over this Raspberry Mousse Cake is so good! It's so tasty and pretty straightforward to make. It's a keeper!

Cake

Raspberry Mousse Cake

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This stir fry is healthy and light with it's fresh orange sauce. The flavor is extremely satisfying and it's super quick to make with just 30 mins of prep.

Beef

Beef and Vegetable Stir Fry

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This apricot cherry galette is filled with the juicy apricots and sweet cherries with an easy and flaky pastry crust. Easy apricot cherry galette! | natashaskitchen.com

Desserts

Apricot Cherry Galette

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