My hard boiled egg recipes
June 26th, 2010 in Cold Soups, Soup Recipes by MeCooking Are you suffering from hot weather like me? When outside feels like in the oven there is no better food to eat than cold soup. Lithuanian borscht is a nice refreshing buttermilk based cold soup you can put together without any extra hassle and then enjoy it sitting on the patio.
The real trick to Lithuanian borscht is to find good butter milk – it should be original buttermilk which hasn’t been flavored with any tastes, not salted and not sweetened. I used plain unsweetened kefir (buttermilk) from Lifeway and it worked out perfectly.
The rest of ingredients: vegetables (beets, cucumber and greens) and hard boiled eggs, are easy to get and not pricey at all. And btw, even though this soup is called a “borscht”, the only thing it has in common to other borschts, I guess, is the color.
Tags: beet, borscht, buttermilk, cucumber, dill, green onion, hard boiled egg, lenten, lithuanian, no meat, soup, sour cream, vegetables
June 19th, 2010 in Salad Recipes by MeCooking This is one of my favorite salads for fresh young cabbage – fast made slaw with eggs and cucumbers seasoned with fresh dill and mayo to taste.
Usually I take small white head cabbage or a half of it, however it will be the same good with red cabbage (the color will look interesting in this case too 
) or napa.
Don’t forget to cool down hard boiled eggs before adding them to the salad – it is not recommended to mix fresh vegetables with hot ingredients.
Tags: cabbage, coleslaw, cucumber, dill, egg, hard boiled egg, mayo, no meat, vegetables
January 16th, 2010 in Appetizers & Snacks by MeCooking Egg shells stuffed with mushrooms, eggs and onions mix is an appetizer I asked my mom to do for each celebration, we had, when I was little.
It is still my favorite dish; now I cook it myself when have enough time and special state of mind to stub some eggs and dice everything into little pieces
To get empty egg shells is the most tricky part in making stuffed egg shells: you may waste one or two eggs while learning to do so, just be brave and persistent.
You are lucky if chickens, which produced eggs you are planning on using to prepare this appetizer, have had enough calcium in their diet, that will make the whole deal with getting nice looking egg shell halves much more easier. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a case for me: the shells of eggs I had were crushing when breathed on.
That didn’t do any bad for taste (believe me!), just made pictures a bit less nice looking than I expected, but I hope you will still like the recipe enough to try it out.
Tags: appetizer, dill, hard boiled egg, lenten, mushroom, shallot, stuffed
January 9th, 2010 in Salad Recipes by MeCooking Mimosa, as a fish layered salad, is very popular in all countries of ex-USSR. As well as Herring Under Fur Coat and Salad Olivier, Salad Mimosa finds its place on the table for big holiday celebrations, such as New Year, Christmas, birthdays and others.
It is easy and fun to cook, and due to the layered structure of the salad it should be prepared several hours in advance before serving to allow layers to soak. So the good idea would be to assemble the salad a night before you are going to put it on the table.
By the way this salad name – Mimosa – comes from the bright yellow color and a texture of its last layer which looks very similar to the yellow blossoms of the plant called “mimosa” in Russia.
Tags: boiled rice, carrot, christmas food, fish, green onion, hard boiled egg, lenten, mayo, salad, sea food, ukrainian
August 29th, 2009 in Cold Soups, Soup Recipes by MeCooking Okroshka is traditional russian cold soup. It is perfect meal for hot summer weather as it is prepared on the base of kvass – russian bread drink – and it is light and very refreshing.
Finding good fresh kvass for okroshka can be challenging outside of former-USSR. You may try russian or ukrainian shop, or, of course, you can prepare kvass yourself. But If you are not lucky with any of these, you can also replace kvass with mineral water, kefir diluted with boiled cold water or even light beer.
Tags: bologna, cucumber, dill, green onion, hard boiled egg, lunch, peas, potato, radish, russian, soup, vegetables
July 11th, 2009 in Salad Recipes by MeCookingYou can take any kind of cabbage for this salad, however I prefer napa cabbage (one of variants of Chinese cabbage), as it is more soft and tasteful.
In general this salad is easy to make (as I think any slaw is), very fast to do and of course is nutritious: napa cabbage is rich on vitamin A/Carotene and vitamin C.
If you use napa cabbage, don’t make more salad than you will eat for one meal, napa cabbage salads are best to be eaten fresh and loose taste after stored in fridge.
Tags: cabbage, coleslaw, dill, hard boiled egg, lenten, mayo, no meat, salad, vegetables
March 29th, 2009 in Salad Recipes by MeCookingRadish and Fresh Cheese Salad is a tasty way to feed yourself and your family a bit of calcium
I did have some troubles finding a suitable fresh cheese for this recipe, it should be fresh white quark (russian: tvorog), neither cottage cheese nor cream cheese will work here.
So if you have the same problem finding quark style fresh cheese like I had, try local Russian / Ukrainian / Polish store, most probably they have it. Of course, you can also make homemade soft cheese yourself, but guess I am too lazy for this, who isn’t?..
Tags: dill, fresh cheese, green onion, hard boiled egg, lunch, mayo, radish, salad, vegetables
