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Learning How to Coupon!!!

My trip to Target today was very successful. My total with tax was $5.03 for all these items! Suppose to be $2 less, cause one of the coupons did not work. Oh well, still not bad I think.

My Valentine!!!

My Valentine!!!

No nail polish look

My nails are so weak. Letting them to have a break from nail.polish. Just used stamp and Nail Tek Intensive Therapy.

Crab Meat Salad Recipe

1 lb  crab meat
6 hard boiled eggs
2-3 celery sticks
3 green onions
1 can of sweet corn
1 cup of cooked rice
Mayonnaise
Salt and pepper


Cook 1 cup of rice in 2 cups of water and let it cool. Chop eggs, crab meat and green onions. Shred celery sticks. In a large mixing bowl mix rice, eggs, crab meat, green onions, corn, celery with mayonnaise, salt and pepper.

Tonight's Dinner

Today we had some baked salmon with asparagus and crab meat salad. Yummy!!!
Will be posting salad's recipe next.

Mushroom Soup

1 box of mushrooms (I prefer Shiitake mushrooms)
3-4 potatoes
1 carrot
1 onion
1 cup of barley
Olive oil
Bay leaves, salt and pepper

 In a large pot start to boil the water. Clean, peel and cut potatoes into cubs. Add them to the pot. Shred carrot and slice the onions, saute them together on the skillet with olive oil until browned. When potatoes will be almost ready add a cup of barley, sauteed carots and onions, sliced mushrooms, bay leaves, salt and pepper. Cook until barley and mushrooms are cooked (about 25-30 min). Add fresh dill or parsley if you like. Serve with sour cream.

Layla Magneffect Review and Swatches

Layla Magneffect 07 Metallic Sky

My friend Viktoriya recommended this nail polish to me. So I decided to give it a try and I purchased it on eBay. It gives nails really cool effect, almost like 3D design. You can wear it with one coat only, it looks almost just as good as two coats, you can see by the pictures. Its very easy to use, I think this nail polish is perfect when you don't have a lot of time on your nails, but still want to have something fun. All you have to do is apply the nail polish one nail at the time and place the magnet really close to the nail (without touching it) before the nail polish will dry and hold the magnet for 5 seconds.
It comes I believe in 12 different shades, but I got just one to try it out its called 07 Metallic Sky.

 Layla Magneffect 07 Metallic Sky

Layla Magneffect 07 Metallic Sky just one coat without magnet effect 

You have to place the magnet close to you nail to get the effect

Layla Magneffect 07 Metallic Sky one coat with magnet effect

Layla Magneffect 07 Metallic Sky two coats with magnet effect 

Potato Latkes

This recipe is per request from my friend Roxy. In Russia we call it "Draniki". I will post picture when I will be making them next time. Using same recipe, but using zucchini or squash instead of potatoes, you can make other vegetable pancakes. Here is a picture of squash pankaces that I've made before.

5 grated potatoes
1 grated onion
1 egg
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoons salt
Olive oil for frying

 I like to grate my potatoes and onion in blender, its so much easier then using a standard grater. In a medium bowl stir the potatoes, onion, eggs, flour and salt together. Heat the olive oil in skillet until hot. Place large spoonfuls of the potato mixture into the hot oil, they should look like small pancakes. Brown on one side, turn and brown on the other. Serve hot with sour cream.

Lets get it started

Hello everyone,
This is my first official post! I am very excited!
Today is very yucky outside, so I decided to make some comfy food. I made Potatoe and Beef Stew (in Russian we call it "Zharkoe").

1 lb beef 
2 onions
2 carrots
5 potatoes
Couple of bay leaves, olive oil, salt and pepper


Heat up some olive oil in dutch oven. Add beef cubes and cook it until browned on high. Cut onions, shred carrots and add to the meat. Add some salt, pepper, bay leaves and cook it until all the juices run out. Meanwhile peel and cut potatoes into cubes and add them to the meat. Add some water and cook it on low for about 30-40 minutes.