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Stuffed Sweet Peppers
Initially, I was just going to repost an older recipe, along with a nostalgic essay I did on stuffed peppers called Pepperfest. When I checked the aforementioned post, I realized that the recipe has...
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Eat Like An Egyptian… The Enigmatic Pyramid Cake
Ages ago, when we had almost unlimited time on our hands and the living was easy, a friend suggested this recipe to me as “quick and simple, but very impressive”. I trusted her awesome baking skills...
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Spelt Blueberry Scones With Coconut
This recipe has been submitted to YeastSpotting on 9/6/2012. I never made scones before. I tasted scones, I saw many pictures of them, but it never occurred to me that I can make my own. Don’t know...
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Easy Win — Tandoori Chicken
I don’t like cooking in a hurry. Especially if I have to concentrate on making something new. This is why dishes like this one are perfect: you prepare them in advance, stick them in the fridge, until...
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Making Focaccia — A Sure Fire Crowdpleaser
This post have been submitted to YeastSpotting As you already know, about a month ago, I have entered a bread-making phase of my life. I now own more than enough books on bread making than I care to...
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Salmon Chowder With Chard
We’ve had dreadful weather outside for weeks now. Gloomy, muggy, wet mess of a weather. And although we are not technically yet in the soup season, I can already smell the fall creeping in. After...
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And on that farm he had some … cheese!
Growing up in Ukraine, we were consuming vast quantities of farmer cheese. It was a staple, the kind of thing that you almost certainly would find in anyone’s fridge. It was cheap, it was filling, and...
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Some Things Will Never Change…
Here it is — the mother of all homemade dishes. When mom cooked it, we were rushing back home from school, because we could smell it from the distance. It’s an epitome of comfort food and, if you are...
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Hats off to Julia. Again. Choucroute Royale
Just wanted to put in a quick post this time. Every time I cook something from Julia Child’s collection of recipes, I am amazed. I read through the ingredient list, glance over the instructions, and I...
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Quick And … Fancy? You got it!
One of the both weird and heartwarming customs of my native land was (and I hope still is), showing up at the door of your best friends on a whim. Sure, everyone is entitled to their privacy and down...
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Kharcho. A Hearty Soup From Caucasus That Will Warm Your Soul
It’s cold out there… Well, it’s cold out there somewhere other than Alabama. I scroll through my Facebook timeline and see posts of my remote friends about freezing cold, and knee deep snow, and I want...
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Happy Comebacks. Cooking in a clay pot.
To celebrate the last day of the National Soup Month, I made this quick and easy Spanish Sausage & Lentil soup. I’ve made it before several times. The major difference this time — I tried it in a...
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Effortless: Beef Short Ribs In A Clay Pot
Today is going to be just a quick post. No nostalgic ramblings, no gastronomical musings, no pseudo-scientific reports. This dish is effortless. I did no research, no recipe comparison, no option...
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Highly Addictive Substance Alert: Homemade Sourdough Croissants
This post was submitted to YeastSpotting on 2/3/2013 There is just something utmost special about croissants. I don’t know if it’s the shape, the warm buttery aroma, or the...
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Speedy Gourmet: Chicken Liver Pate
I like liver, and there is nothing you can do about it. When I cut up a whole chicken, I always save the chicken belly fat and liver for later. Then I buy another small box of livers and make this...
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Easy, But Not Simple: Making Welsh Lamb Soup
Are you sick of lamb yet? Well, I certainly am not, even though last week was kind of over-lambed for us. Yet I keep coming back for more. Today I found a neat little recipe for Cawl — a traditional...
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Sourdough Field Day — Pancakes For a Crowd
Quick post today, just a report, really. My trusted wild sourdough batch worked hard this week. We were invited to a Shrove Tuesday at our church and wanted to bring something other than the usual...
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Sunday Mornings Made Easy — Lazy Dumplings
Sunday mornings were fun when I was a kid. My sister and I woke up at 9:30 am, unceremoniously crawled into our parents’ bed, waking them up, and got ourselves ready for the weekly TV program called...
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Fish Roe Skillet Pie
Some time before we moved to the U.S., we decided to hire a tutor to brush up our English. The lady was a former compatriot of ours, who had emigrated a long time ago to the U.S., lived there for...
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Worth Your Trouble — Chicken Tapaka
First let’s get the formal intros out of the way — Chicken Tapaka is a simple dish from Republic of Georgia, a nice hospitable country in the heart of Caucasus Mountains. It’s called tapaka after a...
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