This simple but festive Pistachios and Pesto Crusted Rack of Lamb with Pomegranate Sauce recipe would be an excellent choice for Christmas or New Years feast! Lamb tastes amazing pretty much anyway you season it. But there are some flavours that enhance the taste of the meat more than others, and my homemade pomegranate sauce [Continue Reading…]
Raspberry Almond Holiday Thumbprint Cookies
These Raspberry and Almond Holiday Thumbprint Cookies are known for melt-in-your mouth texture! Plus they look so wintry, with their powdery-white tops, contrasted against those deep, raspberry fillings. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Are you singing yet? The streets are lined with wreaths and lights, and Christmas music is on loop (it’s [Continue Reading…]
Citrus Moscow Mule
Holidays are almost here and this Citrus Moscow Mule is the main event on my cocktail bar table this year. If you’ve been following along with all of the recipes I’ve been pumping out this holiday season you might be wondering “but, where is the booze?” I’ve been a bit distracted with holiday meal mains, [Continue Reading…]
Pistachio Cranberry Snowflake Cookies
Tis the season! Pistachio Cranberry Snowflake Cookies – the perfect holiday cookies. Holiday baking at my house is in full swing. I am baking dozens of these Pistachio Cranberry Snowflake Cookies, donuts and cherry pie bars to give away to friends, co-workers and loved ones. I love this time of the year, when it’s crispy cold outside [Continue Reading…]
Rosemary Citrus Salmon Plait
If you’re looking for a fantastic fish showstopper this Christmas, this Rosemary Citrus Salmon Plait presented to you in the form of holiday wreath makes a mouthwatering centerpiece. As we are quickly approaching the holidays, this time of year can be crazy with last-minute shopping, catch-ups and work parties — let alone trying to tie up [Continue Reading…]
2017 Holiday Gift Guide
I am super excited to have the opportunity to share my first ever Gastro Senses Holiday Gift Guide this year! Here is a round up of all of my favorite kitchen things, fun gifts for foodies and life/play items I’ve encountered from the past year. Whether you’re shopping for someone else or making your own wish [Continue Reading…]
Cherry Pie Bars
These Cherry Pie Bars have a delicious shortbread base, a layer of juicy cherries, and a crunchy topping drizzled with sweet vanilla glaze. BRING IT ON, winter, you are totally getting me excited to bake all the things! Are you guys ready to embrace sugar cravings and gather with family and friends over some seriously delicious food? I am [Continue Reading…]
Cranberry Mushroom Pot Roast
Fall apart, ultra tender chunks of beef, bursts of fresh mushroom and cranberry smothered in the most incredible red wine gravy. My friends, this is not just another beef pot roast. This is an epic Cranberry Mushroom Pot Roast that takes this recipe to the next level! This Cranberry Mushroom Pot Roast is ULTRA EASY and [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…]
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…]