Hmmm… it’s dinner time and there’s a tiny grumble in your tummy that says the simple salad you had for lunch might not take you all the way through the day. Instead of reaching for that dubious bag of chips in your kitchen pantry (is it really the same bag of chips you saw there [Continue Reading…]
Meat Aspic (Kholodets)
Meat Aspic or Kholodets is another traditional vintage dish for various eastern european countries. It represents a simple healthy broth cooked from parts of meat which is then cooled down to jellify. Most recipes call for adding a pack of gelatin to jellify the broth, but I like my kholodets the old-fashioned, natural way by simply [Continue Reading…]
Cured Pork Fat (Salo)
Many countries have their own national varieties of cured pork fat – lardo, bacon, pancetta and many more. It seems that almost every culture has its own way of curing pork fat. Salo is the Ukrainian cured pork fat and is the ultimate national food of Ukraine. Salo is so important to Ukraine that if you ever [Continue Reading…]
Borscht
Borscht and Slavic cuisine is as Barcelona and Gaudi as Gagarin and the space and as New York and the Statue of Liberty. Although borsch is cooked by all Slavic people recipes differ from country to country and even from family to family. Ukrainians like to serve it with home made cured pork belly (Salo), sour cream [Continue Reading…]