Among the variety of species and hybrids of philodendrons, there are many plants, both gigantic and compact. But not a single species competes in unpretentiousness with the main modest - blushing philodendron. True, his modesty does not concern the appearance of the plant. Reddening stems and cuttings, huge leaves, long shoots, forming, although very large, but also strikingly elegant silhouette, look very elegant. Philodendron blushing requires only one thing - at least minimal care.

Thick Chickpea Soup with Vegetables and Egg is an easy recipe for a hearty first course inspired by Oriental cuisine. Similar thick soups are prepared in India, Morocco, and the countries of Southeast Asia. The tone is set by spices and seasonings - garlic, chili, ginger and a bouquet of spicy spices, which can be assembled to your liking. It is better to fry vegetables and spices in melted butter (ghee) or mix olive oil and butter in a saucepan, this, of course, is not the same, but it tastes similar.

Plum - well, who does not know her ?! She is loved by many gardeners. And all because it has an impressive list of varieties, surprises with excellent harvests, pleases with its variety in terms of ripening and a huge choice of color, shape and taste of fruits. Yes, somewhere she feels better, somewhere worse, but almost no summer resident refuses to grow her on her plot. Today it can be found not only in the south, in the middle lane, but also in the Urals, in Siberia.

“Each vegetable has its own time”, and each plant has its own optimal time for planting. Anyone who has experienced planting is well aware that the hot season for planting is spring and autumn. This is due to several factors: in spring, the plants have not yet started to grow rapidly, there is no sweltering heat, and precipitation often falls. However, no matter how hard we try, circumstances often develop in such a way that landings have to be carried out at the very height of summer.

Chili con carne in Spanish means chili with meat. This is a Texan and Mexican dish whose main ingredients are chili peppers and minced beef. In addition to the main products, there are onions, carrots, tomatoes, and beans. This red lentil chili recipe is delicious! The dish is fiery, burning, very satisfying and amazingly tasty! You can cook a large pot, arrange in containers and freeze - a whole week will be a delicious dinner.

Cucumber is one of the most beloved garden crops of our summer residents. However, not all and not always gardeners manage to get a really good harvest. And although growing cucumbers requires regular attention and care, there is a little secret that will significantly increase their yield. It's about pinching cucumbers. Why, how and when to pinch cucumbers, we will tell in the article. An important point in the cultivation of cucumbers is their formation, or type of growth.

Now every gardener has the opportunity to grow absolutely organic, healthy fruits and vegetables in his own garden. The microbiological fertilizer Atlant will help in this. It contains helper bacteria that settle in the zone of the root system and begin to work for the benefit of the plant, allowing it to actively grow, stay healthy and give high yields. Usually, many microorganisms coexist around the root system of plants.

Summer is associated with beautiful flowers. Both in the garden and in the rooms you want to admire the luxurious inflorescences and touching flowers. And for this it is not at all necessary to use cut bouquets. In the assortment of the best indoor plants there are many beautifully flowering species. In the summer, when they receive the brightest lighting and the optimal duration of daylight hours, they are able to outshine any bouquet. Short-lived or just annual crops look like living bouquets.

Pie with sardines and potatoes - fast, tasty, easy! Such a cake can be baked both on weekends and on weekdays, and it will also decorate a modest festive table. For the filling, in principle, any canned fish is suitable - natural with the addition of oil. With pink salmon or salmon, the taste will turn out a little different, with saury, sardines or mackerel, such deliciousness! The potatoes are put raw in the pie, so they need to be cut very thinly so that they have time to bake. You can use a vegetable cutter.

Summer is in full swing. Planting in gardens and orchards is mostly completed, but worries have not diminished, because the calendar has the hottest months of the year. The temperature scale of the thermometer often exceeds +30 ° C, preventing our plants from growing and developing. How can you help them cope with the heat? The tips that we will share in this article will be useful to both suburban and urban residents. After all, indoor plants during this period also have a hard time. In hot weather, plants need watering.

For many gardeners, slugs are a real nightmare. Although one might think, well, what's wrong with these, at first glance, peaceful sedentary creatures? But in fact, they can cause significant damage to your plants and crops. Not only do slugs persistently eat leaves, flowers and fruits in spring and summer, but with the onset of cold weather, these land mollusks move to the cellar and continue to destroy what you have so carefully grown and collected.

Spelled beef horns - a quick dish for dinner or lunch. Recently, spelled (spelled wheat) has become popular among supporters of proper nutrition and not only. Porridges, soups are prepared from this delicious cereal, spelled and pasta are made from it. In this spelled horn recipe, we'll make healthy navy-style pasta with vegetable and lean ground beef sauce. The recipe is suitable for those who follow their figure and like to cook healthy food at home.

Summer is a wonderful time of the year! So much can be done at the dacha in a few warm months - and work, and relax, and invite friends to barbecue. But as soon as the heat of the day subsides, our small, but real enemies, mosquitoes, immediately appear. In a rainy summer or after a strong flood of rivers, there are especially many of them and the attacks of small bloodsuckers become simply unbearable. Mosquitoes are an unpleasant squeak and bite that cause severe itching.

Incredible blooms on your favorite cacti and succulents are always made even more attractive by the amazing hardiness of the plants themselves. Luxurious bells and dazzling stars remind you that nature has many miracles in store. And although many indoor succulents need special wintering conditions to bloom, they still remain cultures that are content with minimal care and are suitable for everyone. Let's take a closer look at the most spectacular of them.

Summer appetizer with quail eggs and red caviar - a simple vegetable salad with a spicy sweet and sour dressing that goes well with eggs and caviar. There is an explosion of vitamins in the salad - fresh cucumber and radish, sweet pepper and ripe tomato, as well as creamy curd cheese, which perfectly complements the vegetable mix. This dish can be served before dinner as a light snack with toasted toast. For dressing, unrefined oil and balsamic vinegar are suitable.

Linden is planted in parks and squares, slender trees with a spreading crown perfectly purify the air and give long-awaited coolness on a hot summer day. She is loved for her amazing honey aroma, enveloping her in late May and early June, when the lime blossom appears. It has valuable medicinal properties, is used in many folk recipes, and retains its beneficial qualities for a long time. How and when to collect it, how to properly dry, store and use it will be described in the article.

I want to cook something special for the holidays. And offer a new reading of already known and beloved dishes. So it's time to check out some new culinary design ideas!

Our today's review is devoted to the creative cutting of dough - from the simplest to real masterpieces of flour production.

We put ideas in a piggy bank!

Buns from strips and layers of dough without filling

From the "sausages" of yeast dough, you can make beautiful buns. To prevent the strips from sticking together, the sausage must first be greased with an egg. And then wrap it with an ornate line according to the pattern you like.

From a small rolled strip, you can make a flower bun, a bow bun, a leaf bun.

For children, we definitely make pastries in the form of animals.

From a layer of puff pastry, you can make a stylish bun with a large bow.

Roll based baking

Original spikelets, buns and bread can be made on the basis of rolls. Here, various schemes for cutting dough with scissors are used.

We perform the spikelet as follows: sprinkle the “sausage” from the dough with poppy seeds. Then we make cuts in the roll at an angle of 45 degrees, and lay them out with a “pigtail”.

Similarly, we perform spikelets stuffed with poppy seeds or cinnamon with sugar.

You can make a ruddy wreath from a roll with sugar and cinnamon.

If you cut the roll into pieces and spread on a baking sheet, you can make cinnamon buns. When ready, fill the buns with chocolate icing, concentrated syrup, nuts with sugar or other delicious decoration.

Decorating the edge of the pie

Open pies and pizzas can be decorated in a special way by shaping the edge in advance and filling with toppings.

Original pies with filling

Pies are loved by adults and children. You can surprise and please your loved ones by making them in the form of roses, animals, curls, apples and other fruits and vegetables. Thus, you can make themed pies for a specific event or for a specific person.

stuffed pies

Large stuffed pies can be decorated in the form of a funny turtle. The relief on the shell can be made using prints of cups or dumplings.

Stuffed flower pie can be made with any sufficiently thick filling or with a combination of two fillings. We spread the filling on the lower layer - we form the center and the ring. Then cover with a second layer of dough and fix the center with a plate. We fasten the ring along the edge and make cuts, unfold the dough like flower petals.

We make a stuffed ring pie with a peeking out filling using special cuts in the center of the dough layer and bend it to the edge.

A stuffed pie in the form of a fish is made from puff pastry or yeast dough.

A country pie with minced meat and eggs is also quite beautiful and colorful. This dish is sure to impress your guests!

From small round pies with filling we form a bunch of grapes, decorate with carved leaves and a vine. Here is the finished culinary masterpiece!

Stuffed pie can be perforated. For such a pie, a thick filling of pieces of meat, cabbage, apples is suitable.

bicolor pies

Pies and buns made from two-color dough are very original. We make them according to the principle of the well-known Zebra pie, coloring half the dough with cocoa powder. And then it all depends on your imagination. You can put snow-white dough balls in a baking dish and pour the dark part of the dough, you can bake multi-colored cakes and make a cake out of them, or you can combine two layers of light and dark dough, make two rolls and colored butterflies from them.

decorative bread

It is our custom to greet guests with bread and salt. But where to get beautiful decorative bread? It turns out that it is quite possible to bake it yourself. There are a lot of decent options. Let's get to know them:

Open pies and pies

Open pies and pies can be decorated not only with the original edge.

We make puff pastry pies with the effect of an opening flower from two square layers, cutting the top one.

Charlotte with apples is now made in a new format. We spread the curd filling of the consistency of thick sour cream on the shortbread dough, decorate with roses from apples on top.

We decorate pies with berries and jam filling with decorative pieces of dough.

We make open puff pastry pies with meat filling.

We decorate pies and pies with an edge of dough and sausages. To do this, we put a sausage between the two layers, fix it, make cuts and unfold it.

With pieces of boiled sausage, you can make rose pies.

An open pie with pear and cottage cheese is very useful. We fill the base of shortcrust pastry with pears, cut into rings, without separating them. We spread them in the shape of a flower and fill them with a liquid curd filling. We bake.

We make a pear pie from a puff layer and half a pear. Original and simple!

Pie "Santa Claus"

For the New Year holiday, it is worth baking a cake with one of its symbols. We propose to make a cake with the image of Santa Claus.

Now, fully armed, let's start experimenting with original pastries!

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Sometimes you really want to improve your own culinary skills and get a unique dish that will appeal to all family members. The housewives place a special emphasis on desserts that both adults and children like. It is much easier to go to the nearest pastry shop and buy a treat for tea. But you can also make beautiful buns on your own.

Baking yeast buns

Wrapping, as well as finishing, require a careful approach. You can not twist strips of text arbitrarily. To decorate them beautifully, you need to be smart. An experienced culinary specialist manages to give an unusual and attractive shape to products in a matter of seconds.

Not everyone can bake twisted buns with original patterns on their own. But in reality, special skill is not required here. It is enough to follow each step of the recipe to achieve an effect that affects everyone. The shape of the buns will be perfect. The ingredients are as follows:

• 250 ml of milk;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 2 chicken yolks;
• 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
• 100 g butter;
• packaging of vanilla sugar;
• 1 kg of flour;
• 25 g yeast.

Another chicken yolk and 30 ml of milk will be required to lubricate the buns. If you intend to mold curly buns, how to wrap them correctly is a must-learn. The work is done as follows:

This is followed by the molding of buns. The recipe for making dough for buns is the same, but they can be shaped in various ways. Each recipe has its own characteristics, so you should not deviate from the algorithm of actions.

Nothing is more pleasing to the eye than a beautiful pastry. Methods for folding dough for pies, bagels with filling are different. Even people who do not have much experience in cooking enjoy sculpting some intricate figure such as a rose, for example.

Wickerwork

This form of buns is very popular. The finished products look very appetizing. How shape up:

The surface of the dough is smeared with a mixture and sprinkled with sesame seeds, sugar, poppy seeds. During molding, products are given a clear shape; this can be done using special devices.

Heart and butterfly shaped pastry

Most often, children like buns with jam. Such products will appeal to adults, as well as puff pastries. To mold such pastries correctly, you must follow the recommendations for wrapping products.

The dough is divided into parts. Roll out one half in the form of a cake, grease with butter. Sprinkle sugar on top.

Next, you need to roll the cake and connect the edges of the dough. The resulting roll is cut lengthwise so that a heart is obtained. It remains only to straighten it. This scheme is also suitable for all other types of buns that you plan to sculpt.

For a product in the shape of a butterfly, the dough mass is divided into parts. Roll out and sprinkle with sugar. A roll is formed, after which it must be twisted into a bundle. Connect the edges in the central part. Cut the roll 1 cm in the center and unfold the butterfly. Her wings should be turned to the sides. After that, you can consider the bun with sugar ready.

Features of baking beautiful buns

It will not be difficult for both professionals and beginners to make buns with their own hands. How to wrap them will tell you a step-by-step algorithm of actions. Dough products can be wrapped in the shape of a figurine. Such a bun will look beautiful.

After the formation of the rolls is completed, it is necessary to send them for baking in a baking sheet. You need to preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Baking takes approximately 10 minutes. After that, the temperature mark is reduced to 180 degrees. There is no need to take out the buns after this. You should also hold the products for 20 minutes.

Homemade pastry with filling

Rolls can be made in the form of beautiful roses. You can often see such products sprinkled with poppy seeds in stores. They are prepared as follows:

• Knead the dough and roll out.
• After that, it is divided into equal halves.
• 1 part is rolled out in the shape of a rectangle so that a not too thin cake is obtained.
• Lubricate it with vegetable oil and pour a small amount of poppy seeds on top.
• Roll out the dough again.
• Cut into pieces, the width of which should be 10 cm.

After that, it remains to form roses.

Braids and curls

The dough is placed on the surface of the table, a small amount of flour is poured. Roll out in the form of a rectangular layer. Sprinkle poppy filling on top and fold over. Cut into transverse strips. There should be 12 strips in total.

Twist them in spirals three times. Roll up in the form of rings. Baking with sugar will be ready 20 minutes after it is sent to the oven. The temperature in it should be at the level of 200 degrees.

Stuffed heart

Small cakes are made, smeared with vegetable oil and sprinkled with sugar. Poppy seeds are also sprinkled on top. You can also use cinnamon, it gives not only an exquisite taste, but also a good aroma. Roll the dough into a tube, fold and cut. Form a heart. After that, the buns are sent for baking. The finished result pleases with its originality and beauty.

Cooking sweet buns with apples

This recipe requires a slightly different set of ingredients. Have to take:

Flour is combined with dry yeast, sugar, salt and mixed. Add vanilla powder and knead the dough. Heat milk and add dry ingredients. Crack in a chicken egg.

Put softened butter into the resulting mixture. Stir with a spoon and continue kneading the dough by hand. Roll the dough into a ball, cover with a towel. The container is left in a warm place for 1 hour. After that comes the molding of buns. For baking apple buns with jam, you can also take fresh apples. To do this, they must first be stewed in a pan for several minutes. It is necessary to remove the core from apples, and then cut them into slices.

Braided fir-trees with jam

The dough is rolled into a cake and cut into medium-sized squares. The central part is filled with jam. Cut the squares into small pieces on the sides, not reaching the core. A space of 5 cm is left in the center, jam is laid out here. Form a braid.

To make a baked Christmas tree, roll out the dough in the form of a cake, cut into triangles. Each product is cut from 2 sides into fragments, a Christmas tree is formed. Grease the top of the baking with a mixture of yolk and milk. Form buns. Bake well in the oven so that they get a golden hue.

Spirals with jam and roses

Roll out the dough into large sheets. Put the stuffing on top. Complements apple jam with raisins. The edges are overlapped. The finished roll is cut into strips and across. Their width should be 3 cm. About 12 strips will be enough. Roll them up into a spiral shape. Put them, greased with jam, baked on a baking sheet with vegetable oil.

To make a rose from dough, first cut the apples into slices. Boil in water for 5 minutes, add citric acid. Roll out the dough into a layer and cut into strips. All strips are smeared with apple jam, sugar and cinnamon are poured on top.

The strips are placed in the center, after which apple slices are laid on them. The stripes are folded in the form of a rose with an apple.

Curd products

Few people are able to refuse cottage cheese rolls served with tea. This filling is very popular. You can bake not only sweet rolls. Even salted cottage cheese will be quite appetizing.

Beginners can start with the simplest recipe for cottage cheese envelopes. To do this, the dough is divided into squares. The curd filling is laid out in the center. Fold the corners in the center and bake until done. There are also more intricate options.

To make roses with cottage cheese, roll out dough cakes and cut into three parts, but not completely. Put the stuffing in the center. The edges are wrapped around the filling. Roll up to form roses.

For people who have some experience in baking, we can recommend cottage cheese buns recipe. To do this, roll out the dough into a rectangle. After that, you need to cut it into squares and put the filling in the center. Notches are also formed at the corners. The dough with the filling is folded and the edges are pushed into the holes. The second edge must also be wrapped. You can consider the products finished. It remains only to send them to the oven.

Many people love puff pastry for its tenderness and versatility. After all, you can make puffs with various fillings, ranging from jam to meat. Store-bought puffs are expensive and not always tasty, so many housewives prefer to buy puff pastry (or make it yourself) and bake at home. We will tell you how to wrap puffs in a variety of ways so that homemade cakes please not only the stomach, but also the eyes.

Triangle

This is one of the easiest and most popular ways to wrap puff pastry. So you can make puffs with cottage cheese, jam, jam, mushrooms, chicken, cheese and any other filling, because it will be inside the triangle. Folding the puff into a triangle is as easy as shelling pears:

1. cut the dough into squares. The size can be any, the main thing is to keep the shape of a square. Usually they make 10 by 10 cm;
2. put the filling in the middle. There should not be much of it (1 tbsp of filling per 10 by 10 square);
3. We close the edges of the puff tightly with our fingers so that the filling does not flow out.

Ready. When baking, the puff will swell and turn out lush. And even if you bite off the pie and do not immediately get to the filling, it will still be delicious, because the puff pastry itself is tender and light.

Cheesecake

You can wrap puffs in such an interesting way. Puff cheesecake differs from the classic one in its shape: it is not round, but square or diamond-shaped. For such a product, only thick (viscous) fillings are suitable, because liquid ones can flow onto a baking sheet. Learn how to make puff pastry:

1. fold the dough square into a triangle (without pressing);
2. make an incision, as in photo 3 (not completely);
3. open the triangle back into a square and coat the edges with an egg (for better gluing);
4. we cross the corners (as in photo 5);
5. put the filling in the center.

Puff pastry is ready!

Butterfly

A very unusual way of wrapping puffs, suitable for sweet products. The filling should again be viscous. Watch and remember:

1. it all starts, as in a cheesecake: a triangle, an incision, a sweep;
2. we grease the middle of the square with an egg;
3. as in photos 4 and 5, glue the corners to the middle;
4. put the filling in the resulting cells.

As a result, very beautiful lush butterflies are obtained, which, after baking, can be additionally decorated with powdered sugar and red currant berries, for example.

Bow

Many people remember puff bows from childhood. They did not have any fillings, but because of this, the products did not become less tasty, because the bows were sprinkled with sugar. It turns out that wrapping puffs in this way is not difficult at all:

turn a square into a triangle;

make 2 cuts as in photo 3;

the resulting tail is wrapped around the two side "ears", forming a bow.

Sprinkle the finished baked bow with powder or grease with liquid jam. Great light dessert for tea.

Kare

The ideal form of puffs for meat and mushroom fillings. The wrapping method is a bit like the cheesecake technique (at least it all starts exactly like that).

In the previous two parts, I told and showed what forms of buns there are and what can be beautifully molded from yeast dough. And in the third part of this exciting story, we will talk about puff pastry. After all, puffs are also different, different!

What to mold from puff pastry

From ready-made puff pastry, you can come up with, cut or mold so many beautiful, diverse products, which is simply amazing. I made a selection of puff pastry recipes that I have already prepared. All these puffs are on the site in the form of detailed photo recipes, so if you especially like something and want to take a closer look and cook, use the links to the recipes!

Puff corners, triangles

The easiest way to seal a puff is to place the filling in the center of a square of dough, fold it in half diagonally, and pinch the edges. It turns out a corner. They can be made sweet and savory, with cheese, with cottage cheese, with eggs and herbs, with berries and fruits.

How to make a puff envelope

You can also do this with a square of dough: wrap all 4 corners towards the center and pinch so that they do not open. You will get a nice “envelope”, which works well with a filling of apples, cottage cheese with raisins.

How to make croissants

Croissant in shape is the same bagel. So we take a triangular strip of dough, put the filling on the wide part and fold it. Please note: the shape of croissants depends on the width and length of the strip, they turn out to be different!

How to make puff tubes

If the previous puffs can be molded with a knife and hands, then for the tubes you need special molds in the form of metal cones. Narrow strips of puff pastry are wound slightly overlapping on them. Molds need to be lubricated with sunflower oil so that the tubes can be easily removed.

How to make flounces - puff pastry nests

Now let's move on to more complex shapes. Baking in the form of puff nests looks very original, in which you can put various fillings - from red caviar and fried champignons to strawberries with cream.
To make nests, we cut out a pair of circles from the dough - with a glass, for example. And then in half of them we cut out the middle with a smaller glass.

We put the baked rings on top of the circles, gluing them with cream, butter or mayonnaise, and fill the “nests” with the filling. Depending on the filling, you get an unusual snack or pastry for tea.

How to make the original form of puff pastries

And also try to make "wools" - they look very unusual. In the dough rectangles, make small cuts in a checkerboard pattern vertically - to the middle of the piece, leave the other half of the rectangle intact. Put the filling on it, then cover the top with an openwork half, slightly stretching, and pinch the edges. "Vuliki" are named for their resemblance to honeycombs, and work especially well with a bright fruit filling of cherries, apricots, pumpkins with sugar and cinnamon.

How to make a puff scallop

It is very easy to form such a nice scallop puff with a filling, for example, from chocolate.