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Cooking for the family

Drinks

Kiwi Melon Smoothie

Kiwi melon smoothie is a perfect summer drink with sweet and tropical flavors. It is a healthy and enjoyable smoothie which takes almost no time to prepare. Summer is smoothie season for us. We usually make it with my son. I prepare the ingredients and he likes to be the food processor operator. When we let him help us in the kitchen, he feels great. Actually, he is really good at mixing and tasting. If he doesn’t like the taste, that recipe never appears on the blog!  We really appreciate ... continue reading...

Chocolate Drinks

Cold Chocolate Milk

Liquid consumption plays a crucial role to maintain well being of your body especially in these boiling summer days. With thousands of alternatives, beverages can either be very helpful or harmful to your body. This cold chocolate milk is the sweetest way to have a cooling beverage experience. Bottled, canned or cartooned, almost all processed beverages include additives or preservatives. Fizzy drinks, energy drinks and even canned fruit juice may be harmful for your health. I’m not even ... continue reading...

Drinks

Blackberry Watermelon Smoothie

Call of the opposites.  Unexpected accordance and smooth transitions between opposites sometimes make great combinations. This blackberry watermelon smoothie is a scrumptious combination of opposite tastes and colors. Black and white, sweet and sour. These opposites make a perfect summer drink when they come together in this blackberry watermelon smoothie. I bet this is the best way to make a watermelon smoothie recipe. ... continue reading...

Dinner Ideas Salads

Chinese Tuna Vermicelli Salad

A large bowl of salad makes a great lunch or dinner on a hot summer day. With this Chinese tuna vermicelli salad, you will have a healthy and satisfying salad experience. There are various types of vermicelli. For this recipe I used Chinese rice vermicelli, which is thin and white in color. Actually, it becomes almost transparent after cooking. There are also thicker and more yellowish types of it, but in Chinese cuisine it is usually white. In markets they may be relatively higher in price, ... continue reading...

Snacks

Grilled Okra and Chili Skewers

The best way to cook these ladies’ fingers is to grill them with something you like. This grilled okra and chili skewers recipe tells you how you can grill and serve okra in an unusual way. Okra is one of the vegetables heralding the arrival of summer. Maybe that is the reason why I like these little yummy things so much. When the season comes, I usually cook okra in two ways: I grill them or I make one pot okra chicken stew. The first is a great snack especially when wrapped in tortilla with ... continue reading...

Snacks Vegetarian

Chili and Garlic Flavored Corn on the Cob

Summer is my favorite season because it is the season of fresh corn. With its hot and sweet taste, chili and garlic flavored corn on the cob is the best way to grill fresh corn. My grandfather was a farmer and every summer all the cousins used to meet in the grandparents’ farmhouse. There were seven of us who made those days a kind of festival! All the games we played and stories told are still so vivid to me and I miss those beautiful days a lot. It was corn time at least two times a day. If ... continue reading...

Dinner Ideas Soups Vegetarian

Cold Wheat Yogurt Soup

Making and having soup is usually attributed to cold winter days. People have a bowl of soup to feel warmer on a freezing winter day. It is hardly ever considered as a main course, or as a summer dish. But with this cold wheat yogurt soup recipe, you can include it into your summer lunch or dinner menus. In Asian cultures, soup is even served as a breakfast regardless of the season. Asian soups usually include noodles, seafood and are served hot. This cold wheat yogurt soup, however, is ... continue reading...

Dinner Ideas Pastas

Squid Ink Pasta with Calamari

Pasta and seafood are great when they come together. Think about all the variations: Shrimp, mussels, octopus, clams, scallops, anchovy, and so on… they all make healthy and delicious complements for a pasta recipe. But this recipe goes one step ahead and tells you how yummy a squid ink pasta with calamari recipe is. Use of squid ink in the kitchen and squid ink pasta dishes are so popular among Mediterranean countries, especially among Greek islanders. However, we had the chance to taste ... continue reading...