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The 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! This 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 occasion: Christmas and Valentines Day, New Year or Halloween.

Ingredients included in this recipe are beets, pitted prunes, washed, chopped, vegetable oil, garlic, pressed (optional), salt, pepper.

Simple dessert kids will love to create on their own. Press the edges with a fork to seal. For a slight change, broil it to get the toasted feel.

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.

Great soup, if you have turkey leftovers from holidays or if you just wish to have a rich, hearty soup for lunch. Any part of turkey will be good (I cooked mine from turkey neck and some leftovers.) It takes 30-40 minutes to cook and the taste is amazing. The key to great taste are tomatoes and herbs.

I only make this dip on special occasions, like one year I made it for my 40th celebration and more recently just had it at my anniversary party . . . its quick and easy and it seems to go a long ways . . . enjoy!

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A fresh blend of tangy ingredients make this special cold appetizer that is eaten like a soup!

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 not convinced yet then you got to know that one cup of button mushrooms provides a good, very good, or excellent source of 18 different vitamins, minerals and antioxidant phytonutrients. So this recipe is fast and delicious , as well as nutritional and helpful.

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 grapes, but I decided to add the sweet twist to it. The bitterness of cheese and button mushrooms combined with sweetness of grapes and lemon basil make the combination very rich and the taste palette wider.

This healthy fall dessert recipe is as easy as it can get. I think the hardest part is to take the apples' seeds out, so that the apples would be intact. I have been cooking these apples since the time I remember myself cooking. My Daddy cooks these apples in red wine, but, let's not get too crazy here. I'm on a quest for a healthy, kid-friendly dessert.

This is the simplest recipe for rolls in the world. The dough is very easy to work with and it's very tender, almost melts in your mouth. This is also a very good dough for cookies.

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 frozen).

The last day of September is a double Birthday Day in my family. So I was looking for a cake that would be simple, fast and that wouldn't require a lot of time in the kitchen.

It's autumn and it means that it's time for a great pumpkin soup with shrimp that I just LOVE cooking. It doesn't require a lot of effort but it comes out perfectly smooth, bringing in the autumn flavors and colors into your kitchen. I tasted this soup long time ago in Europe, brought it into my kitchen and my family just loves it. Hope, you will too.

This recipe is inspired by classic deviled eggs plus a spiced version. It is my combination of delicious deviled eggs that conquered the hearts of my family members.

The potato baked with zucchini (squash), red bell pepper, onion, carrot, garlic and some meat is popular in Eastern Europe. (It is cooked in Poland and Hungary, in Ukraine and Czech Republic) In each region it has different twist though. Even in my family it is cooked differently. I like to experiment. I cook it with meatballs and sometimes with meat (beef, pork or chicken); I cook it even with bacon. The beauty of this recipe that it is impossible to spoil, seriously, if you aren not the perfect cook or if you are just short of time (and guests are about to arrive) this dish will just save you.

This salad recipe is good with crab meat or shrimp (or you can use both). Corn adds sweetness to the salad, and the rice works as the base. 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. I love to cook this salad on a day to day basis or for a dinner party. (Just serve the salad in puff pastry baskets). The ingredients for this salad are simple and may be found in every pantry.

The best part of this recipe is it is very fast, very simple and may be cooked with your eyes closed. Your kids will love these crispy and chewy cookies. You can also make these cookies with oatmeal and they will be fabulous! Just substitute chocolate chips with oatmeal.

Cauliflower is very nutritious, easy to work with and Surprise! Surprise! It's delicious. This is a signature recipe of my Mom's, she cooks cauliflower this way very often. When I was a kid and had a special diet, she told me that it tastes just like fried mushrooms (which I loved but wasn't allowed to eat). Since that successful introduction by my Mom I love the cauliflower and especially this one (fried). It's easy to cook and it will make a great appetizer.

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.

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.

Coconut lovers rejoice! Just the cake for you that is simple enough to make. You'll find a little slice of heaven in this sweet and moist cake.

This pie was invented some time ago, it's fast and simple to cook, and filling can be pretty much anything: mushrooms, braised cabbage, spinach, eggs, herbs, and meat, you name it.

This is how you make great southern sweet iced tea.