Pizza Margherita

Typical Neapolitan pizza, made with tomatoes, mozzarella, fresh basil, salt and extra-virgin olive oil.

Here is a final result. Bon appétit! Hope to see you again. Also, would be very happy to receive your feedback or advice about my culinary creations.

Gremolata

Italian food not only taste good, but also sounds good. The best example of it is Gremolata, a chopped herb condiment classically made of lemon zest, garlic and parsley. Mine version, mostly followed the classical version recipe.

Ingredients: curly parsley, garlic, olive oil, lemon, salt and other seasonings.

I've used my manual chopper, mainly because it's very easy to clean.

Collected lemon zest, using my zest scraping tool, and added it to the chopper.

Normally, I would just use a lemon juice, but you can't scrape the bottle for zest,

so I've squeezed a real lemon to get the required lemon juice.

Here is a final result. Bon appétit! Hope to see you again. Also, would be very happy to receive your feedback or advice about my culinary creations.

"Watermelon Feta" salad

Today, made a watermelon Feta salad with mint. It was my first taste of watermelon-mint combination, and I liked it very much.

The ingredients for this salad: watermelon, Feta cheese, red onion, pitted black Kalamata olives, mint leaves, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and other seasonings.

To make it even more interesting, I've added a just a bit of 7 superfood blend.

Here is a final result. Bon appétit and hope to see you again!

"Olivier" sandwich

"Olivier" salad (Russian: салат Оливье) is a traditional salad dish in former USSR countries. It's also popular, under the different names, in many other European countries, Iran, Israel, Mongolia and also throughout Latin America. This sandwich is a homage to this popular dish.

The biggest challenge in creating this sandwich, was a problem what to do with the green peas, that are integral part of "Olivier". It's practically impossible to keep round little things inside the buns, so I've decided to mash them, with addition of some garlic mayo spread.

Here are the main ingredients of salad "Olivier' and my sandwich: mashed green peas, carrot, beef tongue, potato, eggs, sour pickles and salt.

I was using mashed green peas with garlic mayo, as a spread. Normally, in "Olivier" used bologna or some other meat, but my choice for today was a beef tongue.

The order of placing ingredients, does not really matter, but for me it was in this order: green pea spread, beef tongue, sliced potato,

sliced sour pickle, sliced egg,

carrot, garlic mayo and some dill.

For me it was a late breakfast, but it also can be a "take to work" lunch.  Bon appétit and hope to see you again!

"Levant" sandwich

When I've found Muhammara, as one of the ingredients in the eggplant dip, I was very intrigued, because it sounds like a Russian name of a poisonous mushroom. After googling it, I've decided to try making it. Manly, because i loved all the ingredients.

The key ingredients: grilled sweet red peppers, walnuts and garlic,

with addition of lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, salt and bulgur.

Here's what my Muhammara looked like.

Also, I decided to incorporate Tabbouleh in to my sandwich, which made from tomatoes, cucumbers and parsley.

Normally, it's a pain in a hat to chop, but with my new gadget it should be easy.

Tabbouleh, also contains lemon juice, salt and bulgur, which I've added in a final stage of preparation.

Now, once I've finished bottom and top part of my sandwich,

and I can start slicing my lamb roast.

The first layer in my "Levant' sandvich is "Muhammara",

the second is lamb roast and "Tabbouleh" salad is a third.

Here it is -- the Mother of all sandwiches! Bon appétit and hope to see you again!