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…]
Easter Bunny Coconut Cupcakes
These adorable Easter Bunny Coconut Cupcakes are easy to make and they are great for family gathering or school party. You can even get the kids involved with this EASTER treat. There is something about having kids that brings out the holiday spirit in us like nothing else. Suddenly it’s okay to do dorky things [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…]
Holiday Cranberry and Pomegranate Pavlova
The sweetness and crunch of this holiday cranberry and pomegranate pavlova combined with the thick and sweet mascarpone cream is made for an ideal festive dessert. There’s something almost magical about the texture of baked meringue. The way it gets so crisp-yet-fragile on the outside, and a simple crack of the outer shell reveals the gooey, [Continue Reading…]
Winter Powerfruits and Brussels Sprouts Salad
I’ve got some good news for you! It’s called winter powerfruit and brussels sprouts salad shredded to a thin and light perfection tossed with cool chunks of sweet persimmon, ruby pomegranate and some dried blueberries. All dressed with a delicious honey mustard dressing and sprinkled with toasted pecans. Twenty minutes is all it takes to put this delicious [Continue Reading…]
Pomegranate Bracelet Salad
Now, every year I get crazy excited seeing the boxes full of big, bright red pomegranates in the grocery stores. They are my fall and winter power fruits. The juicy little bursts of ruby pomegranate seeds are so pretty, I wish I could have them as jewelry. An edible jewelry, like this Pomegranate Bracelet Salad! This salad blows [Continue Reading…]