Nuts

Ingredients:

1 lb green beans, fresh or frozen
3-4 garlic cloves
1 cup ground walnuts
Salt, spices, and Mayonnaise on taste

Method:

Boil green beans for about 20 minutes.
Drain, and place in a deep dish.
Put the pressed garlic in the dish, salt, ground walnuts, pepper (optional), kchmeli-suneli spices mix (optional), stir well.
Serve immediately or let to sit for half an hour.

Ingredients for 2:

1 lb beef tongue
¾ lb mushrooms
1 cup peeled walnuts
2 large onions
1 lb sour cream
2-3 garlic cloves
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:

Put beef tongue in hot, salted water, bring to boil, and boil with low heating for about 3 hours.
Peel, cut into medium cubes and put in an oven-safe saucepan.
Peel mushrooms and onions, cut into slices, and stir-fry for about 10 minutes, until the water evaporates, then put them in the saucepan.

Ingredients for 4:

1 lb asparagus
½ cup ground walnuts
2 garlic cloves
Dill and parsley by 5 stalks
2 stalks coriander
Apple or raspberry vinegar and ground pepper on taste.

Method:

Cut every stalk asparagus into 3 parts.
Steam an asparagus for about 5-7 minutes, until ready.
Cut dill, coriander, and parsley into small pieces, press garlic, and mix together greens, garlic, and walnuts. Stir well, add vinegar, and stir more.

Ingredients:

1.5 lb dried black prunes
2 cups ground walnuts
1 cup sour cream
3 tsp sugar

Method:

Soak black prunes in warm water for 8 hours.
Drain using paper towels, and pit (remove seeds).
Grate walnuts until they turn to paste.
Stuff every prune with walnut paste.
Put in a salad bowl.
Whip sour cream with sugar, add to prunes, and mix carefully.

Ingredients:

1 cup small Mozzarella balls
1 cup small honedew or watermelon balls
2 envelopes (1 oz) gelatine
2 cups any fruit juice (but not kiwi one!)
0.5 cup sliced green olives
0.5 cup pine nuts

Method:

Put Mozzarella balls, honedew balls, and green olives slices on the bottom of a large mold, or in small jelly molds.

Ingredients:
2-3 large apples
1 cup grated cheese
0.5 cup sour-cream-sauce
1-2 tbsp ground walnuts or pine nuts

Method:

Peel and grate apples, and mix with ground cheese and sour-cream-sauce.
Sprinkle with nuts, and serve.

For sour-cream-sauce:
Whip cold sour cream with salt and your favorite spices (pinch of "Five spices", for example).

Ingredients:

1 cup cooked rice
1 can sprats
1 can corn
4 hardboiled eggs
2 medium onions
½ cup peeled walnuts
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp Mayo
1 cup grated cheese
Greens on taste
1 tbsp margarine

Method:

Grease an oven-safe dish with margarine; put a layer of cooked rice on the bottom. Then add a layers of sprats, corn, cut into rings eggs, rings of onions, and walnuts.

Ingredients:

1 cup long-grain white rice
2 tbsp currants
4 medium prunes
4 tbsp of butter
0.5 cup of dried apricots
1/4 cup of finely chopped silvered almonds
1 tbsp honey

Method:

Pit prunes, cut lengthwise into thin strips, and soak in a warm water for about 15 minutes, then drain on paper towels.
Soak currants in a bowl of warm water for 15 minutes, then drain them on paper towels.

Ingredients:

For dough:
5 eggs
100 g sugar
150 g flour
2 tbsp butter or margarine (to grease baking shape)
Salt on taste

For crème:
150 g chocolate
250 g butter or margarine (warm to whip)
100 g sugar powder
4 egg yolks
2 tbsp rum or brandy

For decoration:
1 tbsp grated pistachios
Cherries, fresh or maraschino
Sugar powder
Salt on taste

Method:

Ingredients:

0.25 lb butter
0.25 lb sugar powder
1 egg
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
0.5 lb flour
1 egg white
Nuts in taste

Method:

Whip butter and sugar powder together.
Add vanilla, egg, and flour, and make dough fast. Do not over make, just make it for 2-3 minutes.