There is really not much to it. You take colorful bell peppers at the peak of their ripeness. You line them up on a baking tray and broil them until blistered and lightly charred. Then you let them cool. The magic begins right after the peppers are cooled off. The scorched skin readily peels right […]
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Salad Challenge, Day 5: Arugula, Roasted Peppers and Feta
A few days ago I decided to dive head first into a thirty-salads-in-thirty-days-adventure. I find that my salad repertoire, however tasty, is always rotating around same basic things, so current challenge, in part, is an exercise in beefing up my salad portfolio. Vegetables are at their peak right now, so what can be better than […]
Scary Stroganoff
Ever cooked scary food? I used to cook it all the time back home, but now I have to adjust my scary food cooking schedule for local availability and my American family taste. What’s scary food? You know. I am talking liver, kidneys, brains, heart, feet, tongue, bone marrow, and other such things that typically […]
Flounder with Lemon Sauce and Sauteed Garlic Squash
Had a nice trip down the memory lane today. We picked up a nice size flounder at a farmer’s market. Flounder has a special place in my gastronomically inclined heart, because I grew up eating it almost every other week. Flounder came in two sizes and colors in my town — large black ones, the […]
Ham Omelette with Vegetables, Feta and Herbs
I like omelettes. Plain ones, vegetable ones, Greek ones, ham ones, cheese ones, mushroom ones… I like them mostly when they are prepared for me, not by me. But there are exceptions. For example, this morning. I slept plenty of hours, there was no place I had to be by 8 a.m, no rush to […]
Open Face Lamb Pie
Oh, yes, my friends. Sometimes the fortune just smiles upon you. And things work out the way you never thought they would. But much better. Hundred times better. We are talking, blog-worthy better. We are talking good pictures, and good recipe at the same time. On the same day. And even your five-year-old volunteering to […]
Poetic Soup — Cooking by the Book
Growing up, among my favorite books one could find a collection of poetry for children by Polish authors. It was wonderfully translated into Russian by various talented Russian writers. I loved many of the poems and you could hear me reciting some of them quite frequently.
Eat Already!
Eat Already! 
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