Category: Russian Soul Sundays

Russian Soul Sundays

You Need to Buy the Mandarin Chicken from Trader Joe’s. Now.

So, Trader Joe's recently released its 10th Annual Customer Choice Award Winners. It's not a list I actively follow and honestly, I just found out about it this year. Some of the stuff on the list I've tried before so it wasn't a surprise. As many times as I've been in Trader Joe's, however, I never really paid too much attention to the Mandarin Chicken. Now we do try
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Waka Latke Flame

Okay, so I had to come up with a title for my first-ever latkes recipe and I figured this was corny enough, right? Ba dum tsss! Anyway, my best friend, Ricci, is Jewish, and we celebrated Hannukahimas together (I hope I don't have to explain Hannukahimas). I went over to her house to cook the latkes as she explained to us the meaning of Hannukah and why there are 8
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Homemade Au Gratin Potatoes

I used to buy au gratin potatoes via the box. I figured it was easy. Just do this and that and voila, I have my potatoes. Then I discovered once you start cooking more, you tend not to buy convenience foods as much as you used to, if at all. Making au gratin potatoes by scratch took a lot less time than I thought it would. For that reason
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Homemade Moist Cinnamon Rolls

So, over the weekend, I made cinnamon rolls. I have a lot of yeast and I'm not entirely sure why I bought it to begin with. I was lucky enough to find homemade science experiments that needed yeast but other that, I just had it chilling in my kitchen. One of my good friends, Estella, recommended I use my yeast for homemade cinnamon rolls. I figured, why not? I've
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Garlic Parmesan Crescent Rolls

So, a funny thing happened the other day. I decided to make pasta for dinner and I was on the hunt for garlic bread. I went to one store and they were sold out. So, I went to another store. No luck there. I wasn't about to try my luck at a third store. I remembered an old trick a friend's mother used to do when she didn't have
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Homemade Mediterranean​ Chicken Recipe

Eating healthy can be a challenge since convenience food is so easy. After all, why spend hours in a kitchen when you can spend minutes in a McDonald's drive-thru? However, I am on a mission to making healthier eating choices not only for myself but for my entire family. While Bear is still not quite on board ( a kid loves his mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, and hot
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Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

I'm going to keep it one hundred - I haven't purchased store bought spaghetti sauce in well over three years. Once I figured out (by accident), I could make the same sauce without the junk and crap that goes into preserving a store-bought one, I was sold. Now, I'm going to share that recipe with you. This sauce can be made with or without meat. Bear prefers his spaghetti
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Trader Joe’s Just Chicken Recipes

I love Trader Joe's. While I have to go out of my way to get to one sometimes (and for whatever reason every Trader Joe's seemingly has awful parking), I love the variety and selection of food I can find there. I want to talk about the Just Chicken package. That's what it is - Just Chicken. No spices, seasoning, or sauces. It's just chicken you can use for
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Tempeh Taco Salad

I know, I know... It's been a hella long time since I posted anything vegan on here. Laziness is really the excuse. Now that's out of the way, lol, let me talk to you about a recipe I just found - tempeh tacos. I noticed a lot of vegan recipes use a lot of the same ingredients - tofu, tempeh, and jackfruit - in various forms. While it might be exciting at