Make them quick, before summer ends! ; )
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Lenin Avenue Billboard: Okroshka season is open! 10 kinds! |
Okroshka (окрошка) is a cold Russian soup. It's super easy to make and is perfect for hot weather. As you can see in the picture above, the weather isn't really hot here anymore but I still was eager to try making it after finding a
simple recipe on Red Star to Lone Star.
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basically salad + kefir + meat/egg |
Unlike the
holodnik, okroshka was a big hit in our household. I find the taste of kefir a little strange so I daintily spooned up the soup but D had no such inhibitions. He inhaled it. End of story.
The next recipe is also very simple and only requires two ingredients.
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Watermelon = aрбуз (Russian) = кавун (Ukrainian) |
A friend hooked me up with this fantastic Macedonian food blog,
Sitno Seckano. The blog has lots of unique ideas and I like how each recipe is written first in Macedonian, then English. Who knows, maybe
Macedonian will be my next language? Anyways, back to the recipe-
Orange Watermelon Juice. This was a breeze to whip up and I would make it year-round if I could. Juice in Ukraine tends to be sugar+water+concentrate so it felt much healthier to drink this orange watermelon juice. It's also
insanely delicious as a popsicle! Fortunately there's still another month or so before watermelon is out of season. We bought a watermelon at the grocery store today, enticed by the "50% today only!" deal (cost $1), only to cut into it five minutes ago and find it as green inside as it was outside :p
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summertime fridge: so healthy and colorful! |
One thing I used to make often in Alaska was homemade granola. The recipe has long since been lost, so this was one giant guesstimate that luckily turned out pretty well.
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Mix oats, honey, and olive oil. Put on baking tray and bake in oven. |
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Add nuts and dried fruit. Enjoy over yogurt! |
And finally, nothing less than the GREATEST pesto you will ever find on planet Earth!!!
In keeping with the less-time-in-the-kitchen theme, this recipe requires just a couple of spins with a food processor or mixer... and presto, pesto!
Cilantro Pesto Recipe
Do you have any favorite summer recipes? I'd love to hear them!
PS: A daring drama that unfolded 5 stories above the ground while I was preparing dinner. Can you believe he's barefoot with a rope around his waist?!
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