This Easter Bread Kulich-Cruffin is a modern take on traditional Orthodox Easter Bread. Flaky dough of croissant meets moist muffin meets flavourful Kulich! This Easter Bread will surely impress! It’s been more than 24 hours since I took this Easter Bread Kulich-Cruffin out of the oven, but my kitchen still smells like vanilla, orange, almond and [Continue Reading…]
Seafood Bisque
Shrimp and crawfish combined with cajun and old bay spices give this seafood bisque its fabulous flavor. A pinch of cayenne adds the faintest zing that brings everything together. Lately I’ve been craving a rich, hot, spiced bowl of soup. I knew I wanted a seafood bisque, but I could not decide on whether I [Continue Reading…]
Ukrainian Holiday Bread (Kalach)
In Ukraine Christmas Eve is called ‘Sviaty Vechir’ (Holy Evening) or sometimes it is also called ‘Sviata Vecheria’ (Holy Supper). The supper would usually start in the evening after the first star appears in the sky, which symbolizes the birth of Jesus. My most memorable childhood holiday traditions are revealed around Christmas Eve in little Ukrainian village with my [Continue Reading…]
Homemade Creamy Ricotta Cheese
Have you ever tried making ricotta cheese? Try this recipe for homemade creamy ricotta cheese and you will be amazed how simple and delicious it is! Ricotta is very similar to farmers cheese that I’m used to from back home. Farmers cheese is the Eastern European ricotta except milk is left to ferment and curdle first before [Continue Reading…]
Banana Nut and Date Bread French Toast
There are a lot of good reasons to make banana bread: You have a pile of sad bananas in your fruit bowl that are near the end of their life expectancy; You like things that are undeniably delicious and go very well together with peanut butter, Nutella or condensed milk; It’s cold outside and you need something [Continue Reading…]
Zucchini Caviar
We experience food not just with our palates, but with all our senses. We taste first with our eyes, embracing the colors and shapes of a dish and imagining the flavors to follow. If a dish has history or deep cultural meaning, we also taste intellectually. Zucchini caviar aka Kabachkovaya Ikra definitely caries cultural meaning [Continue Reading…]
Gluten-Free Bread
When I learned that gluten is my body’s enemy, the first thing that brought tears to my eyes is the thought of giving up bread. Thats when my journey of exploring new and nourishing foods began. I stepped on the road of natural way suppling our family with more whole grains, vegetables, fruits, lean proteins, legumes, [Continue Reading…]