Irish Potato and Apple Muffin
The Irish, in terms of potato cooking skills, are probably the most progressive part of humanity. Such a number of recipes with potatoes, as in Ireland, you will not find…

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Champagne Pizza
The key ingredient in this cheery pizza recipe is champagne. It is in the dough, and in the tomato filling. It delicately changes the taste, but of course the main…

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Pancakes at Shrovetide
Ever since pagan times, the pancake in Russia is a symbol of the sun. It was believed that the more you cook pancakes on Maslenitsa, the more fertile the land…

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Chocolate Desserts without flour
Many baking recipes do not suffer at all if the flour in them is replaced by other components. What for? Baking without flour is interesting. She is unusually tender, she…

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Interesting facts about cooking

Fact No. 1. American scientists conducted research, during the course of which it was found that while classical music was playing in the restaurant, the guests make an order for about $ 50. At a time when the restaurant included Britney Spears songs, orders fell sharply and became much cheaper. After the music was turned off altogether, the order amount dropped to 30 dollars.
Fact number 2. This kind of sausage, as a doctor, was developed in 1936. Sausage was named so because it was intended “to improve the health of those affected by the arbitrariness of the tsarist regime.”
Fact number 3. In China, the soup with the name “swallow nests” is very popular. Soup is so called for a reason: the whole point is that it is prepared from real nests of swifts.
Fact No. 4. A delicacy such as halva was known as early as the 5th century BC. – from the time of the Greco-Persian Wars. In Iran, people who masterfully master the art of making halvah are called kandalatchi. By the way, halva has hundreds of species!
Fact number 5. The very first cookbook in history was written in Greece. Basically, the recipes in it were seafood.
Fact number 6. French chef Lucien Olivier, who lived in Moscow, invented the recipe for the famous “Olivier” salad in the 19th century. However, the recipe has been lost. Only in 1904 they tried to restore the recipe: veal tongue, 2 hazel grouses, half a pound of fresh salad, a quarter pound of pressed caviar, half a can of pickles, 5 hard-boiled eggs, 25 pieces of boiled crawfish, 2 fresh cucumbers, half a can of soy kabul, a quarter pound of capers.
Fact number 7. In 1902, a magazine called “Mistress” published a recipe for scrambled eggs, which was prepared from 5,000 eggs. A note in the journal reads as follows: “Several years ago, sparrows appeared in an incredible amount on the sown fields of Tunisia. Fearing that this cute little bird would not destroy the crops, the farmers sent a battalion of soldiers to the field to collect their nests. After a long search, they managed to collect 5 thousand testicles, of which someone offered to make an omelet. No sooner said than done. Having consumed several kilograms of fat, the soldiers made an omelette, which had 2 m in circumference. The soldiers later recalled this delicious breakfast for a long time. ”
Fact number 8. Note to the housewives: boiled vegetables contain exactly the same amount of vitamin A as raw.
Fact number 9. Once, the Russian Tsar decided to have breakfast in the tavern of Pozharsky. He ordered veal cutlets; however, the innkeeper did not manage to get the meat. The innkeeper’s wife advised him to cook chicken cutlets. So did the innkeeper, while he gave the chops the form of calves and breaded in pieces of bread. The king was delighted with the cutlets and ordered to be called from the firemen. He also decided to include favorite cutlets in the royal menu.
Fact number 10. At the time when a person consumes celery, it spends more calories than it receives.

Apple and Meat Pie and a few general considerations about savory apple dishes
Autumn is coming, apples fall from the branches. Have you thought about using apples not for pie, jam and cider, but for some non-sweet, not dessert food? Yes, maybe you…

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Mint julep
Mint julep is one of the oldest and most famous cocktails. It is not clear when it was precisely mixed for the first time, but it is reliably known that…

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