A healthy and easy carrot-outmeal breakfast (carrot-outmeal pancakes recipe)

A very interesting and easy at the same time recipe and a really yummy dish! Besides, it's healthy! Outmeal gives a specific taste and you won't regret if you try to cook it!

For carrot-outmeal pancakes you need

200 g of outmeal

200 g of carrot

300 g of warm milk

100 g of flour

3 eggs

salt to taste

Muffins with wallnuts - If you are a guest

Even the smallest people need a company especially if it's their relatives. It's how we were invited to visit husband's cousin who has 1.5-year-old son (the same age as our son's, his second cousin). Besides, they had some problems with their computer and we were ready to help combining business with pleasure.

We couldn't be empty-handed guests so i decided to bake some muffins! It's not hard to do but everyone can enjoy it - adults and kids!

For muffins with wallnuts you need

150 g of margarine or butter

5 tablespoons of sugar

2 teaspoons of baking powder

5 tablespoons of flour

3 eggs

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

60 g of any juice (i used multifruit)

40 g of wallnuts

sugar powder for decoration

Semolina breakfast

Very easy to do and very tasty to eat - that's all i can say :)

For semolina breakfast you need

1 glass of semolina

1 glass of kefir

3 eggs

3 onions

2 slices of white bread

sausages (to taste)

salt (to taste)

Our family journey to the ostrich farm!

When you have a baby under 2 you hardly have much free time and opportunity to travel somewhere far away from your home. Especially if it's a cold winter behind your window. But anyway, fresh air is very useful for everyone and for the baby in particular.
It was a cold (-10°C) Saturday morning, January 19, when we decided to make a little family journey to the ostrich farm (Kozishche, Brest region, Belarus) in about 20 km from our town. This farm is the only one in Belarus, the greatest one in CIS and one of the largest one in Europe and was founded in 2003.
After putting warm clothes on and taking good expectations with ourselves we set out at 9.10 a.m.

Our road looked like this:

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Spoons and glasses instead of weigher (how many grams are in a spoon?)

Sometimes reading a recipe i feel myself confused without knowing how many grams are in a spoon of flour, for instance. And yah, i found this picture very helpful, you might like it too.

I've translated a Russian variant of this image into an English one.

Pizza in 15 minutes. Quick cooking

If you've tried cooking pizza in due form you might know that it takes enough time: making dough, leave it for some time, forming a shape and cooking itself. It can take even more than an hour of your time. But, surely, someday you'd have a wish to eat pizza but no power to cook it that way and you'd rather say "No" for a ready pizza from a store. 

Then you'll definitely like this recipe: it's super simple, it takes about 30 minutes (slicing, making a dough and cooking itself) and (the main important part) it's really tasty! 

As for me, i like fast recipes and, besides, i wanted to check it out: "Is it like a real pizza?" You can use this recipe for breakfast, brunch or snack. And it sounds really good :)

For pizza in 15 minutes you need

4 tablespoons of mayonnaise

3 tablespoons of sour cream

1 tablespoon of ketchup
6 tablespoons of flour

2 eggs

cheese

and whatever you like for pizza (cheese, mashrooms, sausages, etc.)

How to cook chicken hearts

Chicken hearts cooking itself doesnt take much time - it takes their preparing. A membrane department, venticles cleaning and deferents cutting of 1 kg of hearts may take about 40-60 minutes. But this dish worths that!

For chicken hearts with sour cream you need

1 kg of chicken hearts

4 onions of middle size

2-3 full tablespoons of sour cream

spices

2 full teaspoons of flour

"Envelopes for a loved one" (an easy recipe for breakfast)

I had some dough in my fridge after making another dish and i needed to cook something out of it. The idea came naturally: "What if?.." That's how i decided to make "envelopes for a loved one" (it's how i called it :) ).

For "envelopes for a loved one" you need

flour

water

onion

eggs

filling (potatoes, mushrooms, onion, eggs, cheese - whatever you like most!)

Chicken in the oven with vegetables (dinner for a large family)

Chicken in the oven is a super easy and tasty dish! It's a good choice for cooking for a large family. Let me tell you how i cook it with onion and carrots.

For chicken in the oven with vegetables take

chicken (a full one or pieces)

onion 

a big carrot

spices

water

Easy nutritious Saturday breakfast (draniki recipe)

It was -10 C but we decided to spend some hours outdoors. So, we needed much energy in order to keep warm. Yeah, the answer was a nutritious breakfast again! And draniki were our choice.

Draniki is potato pancakes, a dish from Belarusian national causine. Every housewife may have her own recipe for this dish, i want to show you mine.

For draniki you need

potatoes

1 egg

flour

onion (to taste but not too much)

salt (to taste)

Easy candy recipe

When i found this recipe i didn't believe these candies can be tasty. But I'm curious enough to try!

For making these candies you need

3 glasses of flour (yes, flour!)

1 glass of sugar

150 g of butter

milk,

vanillin, cinnamon (to your taste)

nuts, halva, almond - whatever you like for filling

decoration

First of all you need to fry flour until it has color like this (takes about an hour):

After that take your pan off the fire and mix it with sugar, butter, vanillin, cinnamon and filling (important: it must be crushed) as well as possible. Then little by little add milk to get the mass that can be easily molded. Make balls or other shapes out of your mass. Decorate it how your imagination suggests you!

Let it cool down completely or put into the fridge for some hours (then it'll be even more tasty!).

I've made candies with crushed halva inside and outside :) (see picture above).

My family is pleased :)

Best for eating with a cup of tea or milk!

Bon appetit!

P.S. Be attentive: these candies are very nutritios 'cause of flour!

Easy nutritious Sunday breakfast

This easy breakfast is perfect if you have your own family and like spend days off together walking outside during many hours, or if you've planned lots of things to do during the day, or if you have a large family, or if you simply like nutritious breakfasts :)

Cooking of this breakfast took about 30 minutes of my morning time.

For nutritious Sunday breakfast you need

2 onion of middle size

some pieces of bread

some of pasta

3 eggs

2 dessert spoons of flour

100 g of kefir

Ingredients amount depends on how much you want to make, family members amount, your pan capacity and your own taste. My breakfast was cooked for 3 adult men and myself.

Borsch recipe

Borsch is a kind of soup, a dish from Ukrainian kitchen. They say, "Woman who is able to cook borsch, is gonna be loved" :)
I wanna show you my recipe variant for this dish. It's super simple and super tasty as well!

For cooking borsch you need:
1 beet of medium size                                                                                                                                
6 potatos of medium size
1 big carrot
onion
some of cabbage
some of meat with meat bouillon
Amount of ingredients depends on your casserole capacity, i used the one i told about in this post.

Searching for the best diaper

When our baby was just born i had listened to commercials and decided to use Pampers. Through some time i found out that our son had allergy reaction on this diapers. A very good friend said that Huggies may give the same affect on the skin, so i rejected from these diapers as well. The same friend adviced using Happy as these diapers are no allergic. Indeed, the baby had no bad reaction on it. We were using them for about a year, maybe a little more. But i was worrying about baby's skin, it was a little wet all the time...

Recently, when we had New Year holidays, our Happy diapers were ending and we found out that we couldn't find them in the stores... So, we decided to try another kind of diapers for a while. It was CanBebe, rather cheap, just to use it for about a week, while we'd be able to buy our Happy. 

I'm not pleased with CanBebe at all. Perhaps, the cheap is very bad in this case. Baby's fanny is very wet and i have to change a diaper every 1-2 hours because it's filled up too fast. It wasn't a way out. 

Next diaper to try was Baby Life. 

The diaper itself looks like Happy's one. After a night using this diaper i was surprised! The skin was dry and the diaper was a very little bit wet (the baby has just done his pipi job :)).

The price of Baby Life is very good, alike Happy's one, and it's found out to be even better!

My simple meatless pickle soup

Pickle soup is a dish from a Russian kitchen, very delicious in my opinion! It differes from an ordinary vegetable soup in using pickled cucumbers and pickle itself and groats. Let me tell you how i've cooked it recenty.

All you need is:

200 g of pickled cucumbers
200 g of pickle
big carrot
onion
potatos
200 g of pearl barley

Put a casserole with water on fire. Chop onion and rub a carrot on a grater and put them to the hot pan, make fire less and mix time after time. 

Chop cucumbers into pieces, put them into a hot pan with some water, stew it.

Put pearl barley into boiled water, chop potatos into pieces and put them into a casserole as well. Through about 15 mins put both pans contents into a casserole and add pickle. Add spices and salt if needed. Through 3-5 mins soup is ready!

It's best with feeding with sour cream!

Bon appetit!

P.S. Traditionally, pickle soup is cooked with meat, but this is my vegetarian variant for the fasting.