My family’s traditional Russian Ukrainian recipes make an appearance every Orthodox Easter when I can normally be found in our Siem Reap kitchen baking kulich or paska, making cabbage rolls, rolling out dough for pelmeni and vareniki, and preparing my baboushka’s pink beetroot potato salad, while I recollect the family feasts of my childhood. This … Read more
The best new cookbooks offer so much more than recipes, they tell stories, provide history and context, and share culinary traditions, rituals and memories, inviting readers into the lives of their authors. Great cookbooks like great recipes provide so much more than instructions to making delicious dishes. They offer opportunities to get a taste of … Read more
Our festive dukkah recipe gives a seasonal twist to the Middle Eastern spice and nut blend with Christmas spices, premium nuts such as cashews, macadamias and walnuts, poppy seeds, and the non-traditional addition of dried fruit such as cranberries and currants. This Christmas dukkah can be used for dipping, sprinkling, crusting and stuffing and makes … Read more
This easy Christmas trifle recipe makes a Christmas themed chocolate trifle with a taste of the tropics – layers of rum-soaked chocolate brownies, lychee jelly, fresh dragon fruit, fluffy pandan pudding, crunchy chocolate biscuit, and whipped cream. While they may look elegant presented in individual glasses, these single serve trifles are the easiest Christmas trifles … Read more
Our best Christmas cocktail recipes make Champagne cocktails, classic cocktails, and even a beer cocktail, which is perfect if you’re spending Christmas in the sultry southern hemisphere and enjoying Christmas lunch in the sun. Having a wintery white Christmas in the northern hemisphere? Turn up the heating or make our negroni with warming spices. Traditional … Read more