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Soups

Beef Tongue Soup

Ingredients: 1 large fresh beef tongue 2 tsp salt or to taste 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon freshly clopped parsley 2 cloves garlic 1 chopped onion 2 cups baby carrots Directions: Poke beef tongue with a knife so that it does not float in water.  Then place in a large pot filled with water.  Rapidly …

Sauces

Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe

Ingredients 1 large egg 1 tbsp mustard 1 tbsp  white wine vinegar 1/4 tsp fine salt 1 cup vegetable oil Directions Add egg to food processor and process for 20 seconds. Add mustard, vinegar, and salt; process another 20 seconds. Scrape bowl, then with processor running, slowly drizzle in oil, starting with tiny drops until …

Cookbooks Desserts

Bulgarian Tikvenik

PREP 25 minutes COOK 20 minutes Tikvenik is a Bulgarian style pumpkin pastry made out of phyllo dough. It is the sweet version of their well-known banitsi made out of feta cheese. Although this recipe calls for canned pumpkin, most Bulgarians would use fresh grated pumpkin and even more impressive the older generations make their …