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Category Archives: Salads and Vinaigrettes

Marinated Mushrooms – Recipe

Ukrainians looooove mushrooms. They incorporate mushrooms into numerous everyday recipes, but especially for their Christmas Eve 12-course meatless meal.

Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve menu will include mushrooms in Mushroom soup, varenyky filling (pierogi), Holubtsi filling (Cabbage Rolls), Vooshka filling (dumplings that accompany Ukrainian Christmas Borscht), mushroom gravy (referred to as, Machka, in some households), mushrooms with cabbage, and of course marinated mushrooms.

Nutritious Salad Dressing – Magic Green Sauce Recipe

In the past post I mentioned a very nutritious Quinoa salad flavored with this Magic Green Sauce. 
I am providing a link to its origin, but will also post the ingredients and directions in this post, in case the link stops working at some point, and because I made some minor adjustments to suit my taste.

The Fat Smash Diet – Phase One Foods

As I mentioned in my previous post about the Fat Smash Diet, there are 4 different Phases you go through during this program, and each phase has a list of suggested and excluded foods.
Just think, this phase is only 9 days long. We got this!

Some of the excluded foods in one phase are being reintroduced into your diet in the next phase, so for ideal success, you need to follow these food suggestions, eat 3-4 smaller meals per day, maintain the same eating schedule, and continue exercising.

Thomas The Train – Birthday Party Theme

Trains can be so much fun to watch in motion, but they also make a great birthday party theme for boys or girls.My youngest granddaughter loves trains, so of course it was a perfect party theme for her 2nd birthday.Today I will share several pictures from the different decorations her mom creatively put together for this party.