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Everyone knows how healthy pearl barley porridge is. However, not every housewife can cook it. And it takes a lot of time to prepare such a dish. Precisely because you don’t have to fuss around the stove every time you want to pamper your loved ones with tasty and healthy food, you should prepare pearl barley porridge with chicken for the winter.

In winter, cabbage will be the most delicious, crispy treat. It is added to a vinaigrette, made into a potato salad and simply sprinkled with vegetable oil. What if she is also beautiful? If you want to surprise your family, make pickled pink cabbage with beets, carrots and peppers.

The last tomatoes on the bushes are never large, but they are the most delicious, as if all the aroma of summer had gathered in them.Small fruits ripen, usually unevenly, but these autumn tomatoes are very tasty in marinade in small, usually liter, jars.

Pickled onions are an unusual preparation for the winter. You start thinking about it in two cases: when you don’t know where to put a large amount of small onions, or when there are clearly not enough pickled onions from tomato and cucumber preparations. Let's try to pickle small onions for the winter with beets using this recipe with photo.

Delicious homemade stew is a real find for any housewife. This preparation is a good help when you need to whip up dinner. The proposed preparation is universal, not only due to the minimum amount of interchangeable meat ingredients, but also due to its ease of preparation.

Homemade ketchup is a delicious and healthy universal sauce. Today I will not be making ordinary tomato ketchup. Let's add apples to the traditional set of vegetables. This version of the sauce goes well with meat, pasta, and is used in making pizza, hot dogs and homemade pies.

Many recipes tell you how to properly cook tomatoes in gelatin, but, oddly enough, not all tomato slices turn out firm. A couple of years ago I found this simple recipe for a preparation with sterilization in my mother’s old culinary notes and now I cook only according to it.

When the mushroom season comes, you certainly want to cook something delicious from nature’s gifts. One of our family’s favorite dishes is pickled porcini mushrooms. A step-by-step recipe with photos will tell you in detail how to properly marinate mushrooms.

In winter, we so often lack warmth, sun and vitamins. During this harsh period of the year, a simple glass of delicious tomato juice with pulp will replenish the vitamin deficiency, lifts our spirits, reminding us of the warm, kind and generous summer that is already close.

Small onions do not store well and are usually used for winter storage. You can marinate the whole onion with garlic and hot pepper and then you will get an excellent cold spicy appetizer for the holiday table.

During the conservation period, many housewives like to stock up on eggplants for the winter, which is not surprising. The benefits of such preparations are significant. And there are many options for preparing blueberries (another name for this vegetable). They are added to winter salads, fermented, salted, fried, pickled.

“To get really tasty preparations for the winter, the whole procedure must be carried out with love,” as famous chefs say. Well, let's follow their advice and start preparing pickled gherkins.

Even a beginner in this matter can prepare such a delicious winter vegetable salad. After all, preparing for the winter is done quite easily and quickly. The final taste of the salad is unsurpassed due to the good combination of vegetables, marinade and spices. The preparation is simply indispensable in the winter and will make it easier for the housewife to create a menu.

The recipe for making crispy pickled zucchini is very simple, but preparing it for the winter turns out very tasty. The advantage of this method of canning is that large, overgrown specimens can be used.

Many housewives like to prepare thin, small-sized cucumbers for the winter, which have a special name - gherkins. For such lovers, I offer this step-by-step recipe that will help you easily prepare hot and crispy gherkins at home.

An appetizing juicy stew of chicken quarters, prepared in a slow cooker according to this simple recipe, can easily compete with store-bought stew. This stew is prepared without adding fats or preservatives,

Very tasty canned herring in tomato can easily be prepared in a slow cooker. Their recipe for preparing them at home is simple, and having a multicooker significantly reduces the cooking time.

Salted smoked hams are well preserved for a long time and although they are tasty, the meat turns out to be quite tough. Not everyone is happy with this. The way out of this situation was simply cooking smoked meat. Boiled hams turn out to be very tender because when the water boils, most of the salt is washed out of them, and the meat itself becomes softer.

Any hot salting of lard is good because the prepared product is ready within a few hours. Quick preparation of lard is the main advantage of this method over cold salting, which requires at least 2 weeks to fully prepare the product. The hot salting recipe, in addition to the fact that lard is prepared quickly, makes it possible to prepare a tasty, soft and extremely tender product. Onion peels and liquid smoke give it a wonderful color, smell and smoked taste.

This cooking method, such as cooking in a marinade, is used for pickling any mushrooms. As a result of this simple heat treatment, the mushrooms are saturated with spices and become piquant.