This celery and apple salad is a winter classic of mine. This year there was, let’s say, an upgrade to the recipe so I’m posting again! What’s new about it?...
The Bulgarian dish Popska Yahnia is my favorite New Year’s Eve and post-holiday dish from my childhood. I’m not sure how to describe its taste and fragrance, but it combines...
Another family recipe! The story is the following: this autumn, when I was going by my neighbors’ garden with green tomatoes on my way to work, I’d remember my mum’s...
This is a holiday food from my childhood. It always seemed mysterious to me: Oriental spices, sweet and sour at the same time, a combination of quince and sweet pepper...
I wouldn’t say that making a good picture of this dish was easy peasy… 🙂 Despite not being a picture of photogenicity, pickled aubergines stuffed with carrot is one of...
Do you make quick pickles? I couldn’t help but share a philosophical quote: “How to tell that you’re a grown up? You now enjoy foods that you hated as a...
Vienna has touched almost 40-degree Celsius today – the high time to make cold soups! And when the heat is so extreme, what best refreshes you is a Belorussian cold...
Fruit vinegar is a very interesting topic! A lot has been written about benefits of home-made vinegar. Apple cider vinegar and its properties have been described in books. Here is...
This salad is one of those unforgettable “tastes of childhood” that despite their simplicity have a magic power to spark memories and have us go back to them. Such sauerkraut,...
Kutia – is a traditional Slavic dish made from boiled what berries (or barley, sometimes rice) and poppy seeds dressed with honey. Kutia is served for during the winter holidays...
