Feature: Vegetarian (lacto-ovo)

Lacto-ovo vegetarian dishes do not include meat, poultry, fish, seafood, but can include eggs and diary products.

Limoncello

Desserts

You know I buy certain products directly from farmers so it’s always (naturally) a larger volume than I get in the supermarket. Here I recently received a crate of the...

Kateryna Maznikova

22.02.2023

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Zuckerschoten or Snow Peas with Garlic Chips

Vegetables

Signature Cuisine

Snow peas (en.: Snow Pea, Chinese pea, de.: Zuckerschote, lat.: Pisum sativum var. macrocarpum) are flat green pea pods that can be eaten raw and the whole piece. Snow peas...

Kateryna Maznikova

22.02.2023

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Moroccan Beet Salad

Cooking Time: 15 min

Vegetables

Signature Cuisine

Moroccan cuisine is rich not only in great meat dishes but also in its salads with fresh and bright flavors. Take, for example, the Moroccan salad of boiled beets. Bright,...

Kateryna Maznikova

19.02.2023

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Fermented Celery Root

What are our best helpers in the kitchen? The microbes, of course! Easy, I mean fermentation or souring. 🙂 There is much talk about now, and rightly so! As a...

Kateryna Maznikova

19.02.2023

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How to Cook Buckwheat

Cooking Time: 15 min

Cereals & Legumes

Ukrainian

Just don’t laugh 🙂 It would seem, well, what a recipe, simple as that. But, as in any simple recipe, the details are crucial! Besides, I really want to write...

Kateryna Maznikova

16.02.2023

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Beet and Prune Salad

Cooking Time: 15 min

Vegetables

Perhaps some of my readers are surprised that I am posting well-known recipes of Soviet cuisine. To explain, on the one hand, I want to acquaint my international audience with...

Kateryna Maznikova

26.01.2023

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Eggplant with Tahini and Mint Served Iranian Way

Cooking Time: 15 min

Vegetables

Signature Cuisine

Vienna has a restaurant &flora with a lovely modern interior and a fireplace, fragrant natural wines and great food made from regional products with an oriental touch. The chef here...

Kateryna Maznikova

26.01.2023

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A Danish-style Italian Salad, AKA Italiensk Salat

Cooking Time: 25 min

Vegetables

Danish

In Denmark, they have a salad called Italiensk Salat (Italian salad), considered a relative of the Olivier salad. Maybe so, but I wouldn’t dwell on it. It’s an entirely different...

Kateryna Maznikova

09.01.2023

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Herring Salad, AKA Herring Under a Fur Coat

Cooking Time: 30 min

Fish & Seafood

Herring Under a Fur Сoat was one of the pillars of the New Year table in the former Soviet Union. For many families, even now, it’s unthinkable to celebrate New...

Kateryna Maznikova

08.01.2023

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Rich Kutya with Chocolate Based on Whole Oats (gluten-free)

Cooking Time: 1 h

Kutya or Kutia is a ritual Slavic dish made of boiled wheat or barley with honey and poppy seeds. People in Ukraine make Kutya for certain holidays. For Christmas Eve...