Blogger - today this is not just a hobby, but a real profession. This is an occupation that, with the proper approach, investment of time and energy, can generate income, and not bad. However, for this you will have to work hard, create a truly interesting and useful website / blog, earn the sympathy and trust of a large Internet audience.
Everyone chooses a topic that is close and interesting for themselves and potential readers. One of the simplest and at the same time complex is the theme of cooking. To succeed in this category, you will have to “hook” with something visitors to your resource, stand out among a huge number of competitors (“culinary geniuses”) and keep the interest of an unstable public.
Anastasia Skripkina - one of the most popular culinary bloggers in Runet - chose a different path. Her recipes are as simple and straightforward as possible to an absolute “teapot” in the kitchen. With her ease and spontaneity in relation to cooking, she won the hearts and loyalty of the thousands of people on her site. And now she has released a book designed to help new cooks to master such a useful and interesting lesson without much effort. Her success and cause deserve the attention that we will devote to them in this article.
Briefly about the author of the site
Anastasia Skripkina is the simplest and most unremarkable resident of Novosibirsk. There she was born, started a family, started her own blog and gained popularity among quite wide circles of Internet users. She lives there today.
Say7.info is the culinary site of Anastasia Skripkina, which was born back in 2006, but still has not lost its relevance and relevance. During this time - for eight whole years - Nastya managed to give birth to a son and daughter, write and publish a full-fledged best-selling cookery book and increase the number of her readers tenfold.
The Skripkina family is her husband Sergei (they have been together for over eleven years), Denisk's son (born in February 2010) and Dasha's daughter (in July 2012). The family supports her in this lesson and gives inspiration for new recipes and ideas. And Anastasia has more than enough of them! Let's take a short tour of her site, get to know the book, and in the end we will find out some interesting recipes for a full day menu. Go!
Walk on the site Say7.info
This extensive resource contains all the culinary recipes of Anastasia Skripkina, which she shares with her readers. It is quite convenient and understandable, therefore it will be easy to learn for anyone who has first looked into this "pantry". The main page contains the most beloved dishes by visitors, as well as new items published recently. A preview of each recipe is accompanied by a photograph and a name, which simplifies the choice of the reader. On the side is a column of categories, if you need to find something specific.
All recipes from Anastasia Skripkina are divided into the following sections:
- picnic and salads;
- snacks and sandwiches;
- first and second courses;
- Fish and seafood;
- pastries (sweet and unsweetened);
- pancakes, pancakes and cheesecakes;
- cakes and pastries;
- desserts and drinks.
Each of the presented categories has its own classification. So, you can choose salads depending on the desired component (for example, vegetables, cheese or mushrooms) or snacks in the form of soufflé, pastes, sandwiches, etc.
Recipes: description and photo
Any recipes from Anastasia Skripkina are provided with detailed instructions and photos. At the same time, for each of them there is a photo of the finished dish, all the necessary components and each step taken in the cooking process. This makes the process very understandable and simple even for those who first decided to stand behind the stove.
Before a specific instruction for a particular recipe, there is a small informative-incentive block that describes the taste and consistency of the dish, gives useful tips for replacing the ingredients, and also indicates the number of servings for the taken number of products. It is simply impossible to screw up with such support! Therefore, people are happy to use these recipes. With Anastasia Skripkina, they discover the previously unexplored world of culinary, which turns out to be so simple and interesting. And reputable gastronomic publications and fashionable culinary TV shows are left behind their attention. In this case, simplicity is the key to success.
Book "Best Recipes": mini-review
Over the long time the site has existed, Anastasia has accumulated many recipes that can safely be called win-win for any occasion. They were also included in the paper edition, published in 2011. This book is a desktop cooking guide, of course, with photos and step-by-step instructions. Detailed, but at the same time simple explanations make it easy to prepare for both beginners and avid cooks (for whom the process will turn out to be insanely simple, but still interesting).
Of course, if you have long mastered the initial stage and prefer to try complex recipes that require special skills and complex ingredients, then the book may seem boring and unnecessarily chewed to you. In this case, it is better to give it to your friend who is starting a culinary journey or who wants to learn how to cook a child on their own - it will be extremely useful for them and will make it easy to enter this interesting and fascinating world of delicious dishes.
Book's contents
What categories did Anastasia Skripkina collect in the book? "Best recipes" is a practical publication that includes all the most successful dishes, starting with cold and hot appetizers, salads and ending with desserts and drinks. Only the best and only win-win options. In addition to the cooking instructions themselves, the book contains other useful information - instructions about the sizes and diameters of the pans, the volume of the pots, the number of servings, etc. There are also tips in case there is no product: how to replace it, how to do it, what’s the result will work out. Some of them are not without humor, which pleases.
Let's try some of Anastasia Skripkina’s culinary recipes for preparing a three-course spring lunch. We will prepare the following: a vegetable salad with poached egg, vegetarian cutlets and a healthy dessert of apples.
Snack: light salad
It is worth warning that salad recipes from Anastasia Skripkina is one of the most voluminous categories on the site. Each subcategory (for example, vegetables) is divided into others - even smaller sections (carrots, cucumbers, etc.). And as a result, you get a huge list of dishes with the specified component, from which you can choose endlessly. In this case, we settled on a light but satisfying salad, which is ideal for a spring lunch. The main "highlight" here is a poached egg, which makes the dish more nutritious and interesting.
For cooking, we need:
- cherry tomatoes - about 25 pieces;
- mozzarella balls - 20 pieces of small size;
- green salad (for example, romaine) - 100 grams;
- lime juice - from half the fruit;
- vegetable oil - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- salt and pepper.
Cut the tomatoes and small balls of mozzarella into halves. Break the salad with your hands and put in a bowl, on top - vegetables and cheese. Make a dressing: mix oil with lime juice and seasonings, pour salad over it.
Poached eggs: how to cook
Now you need to cook the eggs, for which you will need:
- water - liter 2;
- salt - a teaspoon;
- vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- eggs - 2-3 pieces.
Salt and vinegar in this case are needed in order for the protein to curl better and envelop the yolk correctly. Boil water, salt, pour vinegar. Each egg is first broken into a separate bowl, and then thrown into the water (for a better result, you can make a funnel with a spoon). We cook for three minutes, and then we get a slotted spoon and put it on the salad. We pierce the eggs with a fork or knife so that the yolk flows out. If necessary, add salt and pepper, serve to the table. Salads from Anastasia Skripkina are quite simple, but at the same time interesting in taste. This recipe is the best confirmation of this.
Second: vegetable cutlets
Today, many people are trying to reduce the consumption of meat and include more vegetables in their diet. Especially for these, Anastasia has a recipe for vegetarian cutlets, the main components of which are potatoes and mushrooms. At the same time, the dish turns out to be satisfying and healthy, and the sour cream sauce well complements and emphasizes its taste. For cooking you will need:
- potato - a kilogram;
- mushrooms (champignons or others) - 300 grams;
- onions - 150 grams;
- milk - 100 grams;
- butter - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- an egg is a thing;
- breadcrumbs, vegetable oil, seasonings - by eye.
Finely chop the mushrooms and onions. Fry them in vegetable oil for 10 minutes. We clean the potatoes and boil until cooked, add butter and warmed milk, and mash. Salt and pepper to taste, then mix the onion-mushroom frying in the potatoes. Beat the egg in a separate bowl. From the minced meat we form cutlets, dip them in the egg and roll in breadcrumbs. We spread it in a pan and fry on both sides until golden brown. We spread it on a flat dish.
Make the sauce
Next, we take up the preparation of the sauce. They will understand for him:
- sour cream - 250 grams;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- greens and salt to taste.
Finely chop the herbs, chop the garlic. In a bowl, mix sour cream and other components, salt to taste. We put two cutlets on serving plates and generously pour them with sauce. Here is such a simple, but incredibly delicious recipe Anastasia Skripkina offers its readers. Try it, you won’t regret it.
Dessert: apples in the oven
Not all desserts are high in sugar and fat. There are those that are not only safe for the figure, but also healthy, tasty, and more than affordable. Anastasia’s website has a large number of recipes of this kind, many of which use fruits as the main ingredient. Today it will be apples that we will bake under a delicious crisp crust - shtreisel. For cooking you need:
- sweet and sour apples - 500 grams;
- lemon juice - from half the fruit;
- almond petals or any crushed nuts;
- cinnamon to taste.
Cut the apples into cubes, pour over the lemon juice and sprinkle with cinnamon (you can not use it, if you do not like it), mix. Spread them in a small refractory bowl. Then prepare the shtreisel. For him we need:
- sugar - 100 grams;
- flour - 100 grams;
- butter - 100 grams.
Despite the complex name, this topping is very simple to prepare. First, flour and sugar are mixed, then softened butter is added to them. The mixture is kneaded with hands and kneading so that it turns out crumbs. Sprinkle with it already prepared apples. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and set our dessert. It takes about 25 minutes - until a golden crust appears. Top the dish sprinkled with chopped nuts or almond petals. You can serve. In a warm form it is ideally combined with a scoop of ice cream.
Conclusion
Surely you have visited the Say7.info website at least once in search of a suitable recipe. Now you know who is behind this site and why it attracts so many visitors (after all, you liked it, right?). All thanks to the simplicity with which Anastasia goes with each Skripkin recipe. The photos that she supplies with each of her instructions make it easy to master even seemingly complex multi-component recipes and beginners to learn culinary skills in this matter. Let’s say “thank you” for this and prepare something special from the whole variety of dishes offered to our attention on the popular site.