Butter is very common product in almost every family, it’s even hard to recommend how to eat it and with what. But actually we can focus more on the last issue. It's common to add butter to sandwiches, porridges, pasta, mashed potato, fish, caviar or cheese. But also there are smart recipes to cook enrich [...]
Trout is one of the most tasty and healthy kinds of fish. Dieting experts recommend eating trout at least once per week. This fish contains Omega-3 acids, healthy fats and well-balanced proteins, so it’s perfect for nutritious breakfast, tasty lunch or scrumptious dinner. Apart from that, Armenian apricots are the tastiest apricots in the world. [...]
Seafood. Can taste so different, but always delicious. I can be hardly surprised with mussels, rapanas or different kinds of fish, as I’m a sea city child. But it’ completely different story with scallops. This recipe of Grilled Scallops with Maitre d’Hôtel Butter perfectly fits in the popular French concept ‘sea-land’. The French are famous [...]
Porridge… No, not like that: ew, porridge… All of us remembered very well from childhood a dreadful picture - clouds of semolina porridge, brown mountains of buckwheat or milk rivers of rice. And flood of tears while sitting next to the full plate, all these endless spoons “for mummy, for daddy”, and grief about uneaten [...]
I am for freedom of choice! Someone likes blondes, someone prefers brunettes, and some people like men. People prefer to live in skyscrapers or in silent village, and someone travels all over the world and doesn’t have a home. That man’s choice depends of desires and ambitions. and someone chooses a vegetarianism as a lifestyle. [...]
Palatable pita bread. Looks like it was always present at the table. We just used to call it in another way. My grandma cooked lean dense flatbreads. We cut their sides, still hot and crispy, and generously stuffed the breads. With a jam, made of translucent ripe plums, golden honey, specially cooked liver pate – [...]
I’m almost sure you were once told that spinach and strawberry is not the best combination in food. If you were told so, well… forget it. Just cook this salad and show everyone that spinach and strawberry salad is the yummiest summer culinary adventure ever. Its appearance is a bit odd and unusual, but at [...]
Nowadays raspberry is not that rare thing anymore. All year-round available on the shelves of shops, it has no more of its former alluring unavailability. Mankind learnt how to synthesize its sweet delicious aroma and produce dozens of its different shades. But… But for me raspberry means the fingers pricked to blood, greedily tearing juicy [...]
Everything is mixed up in Hong Kong. You can easily meet a Hindu in the old-established Hong Kong restaurant, cooking high-Italian cuisine, there are skyscrapers with the holes for dragons to fly through and, at the same time, it’s not easy at all for a person to cross the road. In Hong Kong I stopped [...]
I love meat. I love it madly and tenderly. Juicy meat flesh surprisingly well combines harsh flavours of spices and delicate taste of fibers. Accurately chopped into even cubes, it gives a great mosaic-effect contrast with the bright green of cucumber. It can taste so differently: salty, flat, peppered, hot, sweetish or with a bit [...]
