Roasted chicken fajitas

My journey through Mexican food continues. After making tacos I decided to try and make fajitas. Actually, I prefer soft tacos to crunchy ones so the idea of using nice soft tortillas sounded good to me. 

Chicken is one of our all time favorites so I decided to make chicken fajitas. The only question was how to prepare chicken. I am trying to avoid fried stuff, and boiled chicken sounds dull and reminds me of plain soup at elementary school. Roasting sounded just perfect. 

Kitchen globalization: Russian beetroot salad and nachos cheese sauce

When Lent is almost over and real spring (summer for me) is already here in California I realized I never made Russian beetroot salad aka “винегрет” that has been one of me all time favorite winter vegetarian dishes. My Russian friends may want to skip this part of the post, but for my foreign friends it might be something interesting: this is an easy recipe from ingredients you always have in your fridge/pantry and it is pretty satisfying. I’d probably put it under the ‘comfort food’ category.

Unplanned tacos night

crispy tacos

Normally, I don’t cook Mexican food - it is not the first thing that comes to my Russian mind, but living here in California I enjoy having it once in a while. Last Sunday we stopped at a grocery store to get some tomato sauce as I was planning on using some ground beef I had left after making pelmeni and making spaghetti bolognese. Dave mentioned tacos though, and I thought why not. Instead of going Italian we decided for a tacos night.