These creamy stuffed mushrooms are so easy to throw together. They’re great for parties, and the variations are endless. You all know I love mushrooms, like a LOT. I even go in the woods foraging for them. To honor the mushrooms of fall I stuffed them with my all time favorite combination of ingredients for this recipe: few [Continue Reading…]
Curry Meatballs
If I had my choice in life, I would want to eat these curry meatballs everyday. Simple, uncomplicated dish that is full of flavor. You know the times when you need a recipe that is quick, easy, and tasty – and you don’t have time to plan a meal or do the research. You’re sitting [Continue Reading…]
Savory Fried Pirozhki
Alright everyone, gather around. I’d like you to meet someone. It’s these classic savory fried pirozhki – fluffy and soft pastries with golden fried exterior and a savory meat filling. I don’t know a single soul who does not like a good pirozhki. Sure, some prefer them baked, some fried but either way it seems everyone loves [Continue Reading…]
Classic All-Purpose Crêpes
Happy Maslenitsa, my friends! Maslenitsa or Pancake Week is a eastern european religious and folk festival that celebrates the end of the winter and the start of spring. In Orthodox tradition it is the week of preparation before the start of Great Lent, a time to eat all the cheese and dairy and animal products forbidden during [Continue Reading…]
Asian Eggplant Salad – Xe
During the colder months I feel like I turn into a little bear that does nothing but eats warm and comforting foods and lays in bed all day. So, to try and move myself out of the exhaustion that approaches with sundown, I decided to try to eat a little differently for a few days. I basically ate like [Continue Reading…]
Homemade Pizza with Killer Sauce
Fri-daaaay. Good to see you, my friend. I mean if we muuuust have the pizza today then so be it. It is Friday after all and correct me if I’m wrong but in the How To Live Life Correctly book you should be eating this homemade pizza with killer sauce today. Because this homemade pizza crust topped [Continue Reading…]
Easy Beef Belyashi
You know sometimes when you’re just doing your thing, like sweeping the kitchen floor and singing “Love me like you do” into the tip of the broom, and a random taste appears in your mouth out of nowhere, and you’re like WHAT IS THAT. WHAT. IS. THAT. And it’s not an actual taste, but it’s [Continue Reading…]
Ukrainian Pork Kielbasa
Oh my gosh, you guys look. I made a meal my grandpa would LOVE. I know I say this a lot, but I can’t believe I haven’t done this recipe for homemade Ukrainian Pork Kielbasa yet! A traditional delicacy, which comes from a time before cooks tried to think of ways to trim a few calories, but [Continue Reading…]
Wheat Berry Pudding (Kutia)
Z Rizdvom Khrystovym! Merry Christmas! There is no Christmas in Ukraine without Wheat Berry Pudding called Kutia. It’s one of the twelve traditional dishes on the Christmas table along with sweet bread Kalach, pierogies and cabbage rolls. The 12 dishes symbolize the 12 apostles and with the appearance of the first star, which symbolizes the birth of Jesus, the [Continue Reading…]