Make it delicious!

The spirit of the New Year is elusive, but it is it that creates that wonderful atmosphere from which the heart begins to beat in joyful anticipation of the winter miracle. It’s easy to strengthen and prolong the festive mood - to do this, you can download screensavers for the New Year’s desktop with the main symbols of 2015.

Funny, kind, very positive and helpful. Calendars with kids and sheep will delight the eye and help you not get lost in time. It’s easy to download the themed calendar before the onset of 2015 for free on our website right now.

Dried apples, or simply drying, are a favorite winter treat for many not only children, but also adults. They, alone or in combination with other dried fruits, are used to prepare wonderful aromatic compotes (called uzvar) and jelly in the winter. And craftsmen even prepare kvass.

Everyone knows the recipe for making smoked lard at home in Transcarpathian and Hungarian villages: from old to young.Smoked lard and pork legs hang in the “bottom line” in every home. In this recipe, we invite you to adopt our experience and learn how to make natural, tasty and aromatic smoked lard at home.

How to open a tin can? – a seemingly banal question. But if you have a can opener, then everything seems easy and simple. Although in this case not always and not for everyone.

Canned meat, which is most often called briefly - stewed meat, has been included in our diet for a long time and, probably, forever. Nowadays, without the use of canned meat, it is difficult to imagine not only food in the army, but also food on tourist trips, the life of students, and even homemade stew is a frequent guest on the table of ordinary citizens. After all, canned meat is a finished product that, after opening, can be immediately consumed.

Pickled beets are good in winter as an independent snack, as a base for soup, or for adding to vinaigrette and other salads.

Autumn has arrived, beets are ripening en masse - it’s time to make beet preparations for the winter. We offer a delicious and quick beet salad recipe.Beets prepared according to this recipe can be used in winter both as a salad and as a dressing for borscht.

Korean pickled cabbage with carrots is so tasty and easy to prepare that once you try it, you will come back to this recipe again and again.

Cabbage is one of the main foods on our table almost all year round. When fresh, when pickled, when stewed, when pickled... in form. You can’t remember all the ways we eat cabbage right away. We suggest you try to prepare a very tasty recipe “Georgian marinated cabbage with beets”.

Pickled cabbage, unlike sauerkraut, reaches the stage of readiness in a much shorter period of time due to the use of vinegar and sugar in the marinade. Therefore, if using vinegar does not harm your health in any way, but you want to try sour cabbage as soon as possible, then this recipe for instant pickled cabbage is for you.

Natural grape juice is a vitamin-rich, healthy and very tasty drink given to us by Mother Nature herself. It is suitable for both children and adults.And freshly squeezed grape juice has long been used by healers and doctors as a strong tonic, as well as an additional treatment for the kidneys, liver, throat and even lungs.

Real adjika, Abkhazian, is made from hot hot pepper. Moreover, both from red, already ripe, and from still green. This is the so-called raw adjika, without cooking. Adjika in Abkhazian style is made for the whole family, because... this preparation for the winter is seasonal, and in Abkhazia it is customary to prepare adjika for the winter; by our standards, there is a lot of it and one person cannot cope with it. Abkhazians are very proud of their adjika and defend their authorship to Georgia.

Adjika is a paste-like aromatic and spicy Abkhazian and Georgian seasoning made from red pepper, salt, garlic and many aromatic, spicy herbs and spices. Each Caucasian housewife has her own set of such spices.

Tkemali plum sauce is one of the many culinary masterpieces of Georgian cuisine. Tkemali sauce prepared for the winter according to this recipe has a sour-spicy or maybe hot-sour taste, depending on your taste. But, in any case, this Georgian plum sauce has an unusually tasty bouquet. What do you eat Tkemali sauce with? - you ask. Yes, for barbecue or other meat, in winter, you can’t imagine anything tastier.

Before moving on to the description of the recipe for this preparation for the winter, I would like to note that lecho belongs to the dishes of classical Hungarian cuisine and over time has spread throughout the world. Today lecho is prepared both in Bulgarian and Moldavian, but here we will give the classic recipe: with peppers and tomatoes.

A winter preparation like pickled peppers is a recipe that should be in every housewife’s arsenal, along with lecho, squash caviar, eggplant with garlic or pickled crispy cucumbers. After all, all these tasty and simple preparations for the winter will be very useful in every home during the period of cold and frost.

Pitless plum jam is loved by many. Plum jam prepared according to this recipe can be made from any variety of plum, but it is especially tasty from the “Hungarian” variety. Let us remind you that prunes are made from plums of this variety.

The tomato season has come and it’s simply a shame not to make homemade tomato ketchup. Prepare ketchup according to this simple recipe and in winter you can eat it with bread, or use it as a paste for pasta, you can bake pizza, or you can add it to borscht...

It is believed that preparing tomato juice at home is a long and labor-intensive process. This is how it is if you cook it the traditional way, so to speak, according to the classic recipe. I offer a simple recipe; you can prepare delicious homemade tomato juice very quickly.