This potato latkes recipe with smoked salmon, caviar, sour cream, and fresh dill makes the potato fritters or crispy potato pancakes traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. My recipe is based on my non-Jewish, Orthodox-Christian, Russian-Ukrainian grandmother’s recipe for potato latkes, which she called ‘potato fritters’. Whatever you want to call them, they’re addictively … Read more
The best Bangkok riverside hotels on the Chao Phraya River range from one of Bangkok’s oldest hotels, the legendary ‘Oriental’, now the Mandarin Oriental, to the city’s most luxurious lodgings, The Siam, and everything in between, from sprawling riverside resorts with enormous swimming pools and sleek boutique hotels offering spectacular temple views from breezy rooftop … Read more
Our recipes to cook in December 2025 include loads of recipes for dishes for the festive season, for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. We’ve got recipes for everything from homemade dips for crackers and crudités and cocktails for casual gatherings and festive parties to vibrant salads, vegetable sides and … Read more
The 30 most popular recipes of November 2025 once again included a real variety of recipes, from newer recipes of recent years for dishes such as my Spanish-inspired pasta with potatoes and peppers, crispy Korean coleslaw, a spicy Calabrian sausage pasta, and Southeast Asian corn and crab rice cooker congee to recipes for long-time reader favourites like … Read more
This easy salmon soup recipe for Karelian lohikeitto makes a rich and creamy salmon soup packed with vegetables. It has a gentle warmth due to allspice and a freshness of flavour and fragrance thanks to dill, the beloved herb of Russian, Finnish, and other Nordic and Baltic cuisines. Can’t source salmon or you’re not a … Read more