This quick and easy Russian crab salad recipe makes a nostalgic Soviet-era crab stick salad that’s one of the most popular Russian salads over Christmas-New Year. Starting out in life as a salad of fresh crab and mayonnaise, canned crab was later used until imitation crab or kanikama was invented in Japan in 1974. While … Read more
This spinach ricotta gnocchi recipe with creamy pesto, asparagus, broccolini and dukkah makes a delicious pasta with store-bought gnocchi that comes together in no time. Pan frying the gnocchi gives the pillowy pasta a crispy exterior, while the creamy pesto sauce is loaded with flavour and texture thanks to the fresh just-cooked green vegetables, crispy … Read more
My fancy sardines on toast recipe with pickled onions, celery and dill makes toasted sourdough fingers, generously spread with crème fraiche, topped with sardines, with a crunchy, sour, salty, and zingy mix of finely diced pickled onions, celery, capers, and dill in extra virgin olive oil spooned onto the sardines. It’s a fantastic snack, breakfast … Read more
Our banh mi xiu mai recipe makes a Vietnamese meatball banh mi or meatball baguette sandwich filled with xiu mai, moist Vietnamese style meatballs in a rich tomato sauce. ‘Banh mi’ means ‘bread’ in Vietnamese but has come to refer to both the Vietnamese French-style crispy baguette and Vietnam’s famous sandwiches made with those baguettes, … Read more
The best mango recipes to make the most of the mango season harvest include everything from mango drinks such as mango smoothies, mango lassis and mango daiquiris to savoury dishes such as green mango salad, and mango desserts, such as mango jam, and mango desserts, such as mango sticky rice, mango sago, and a tropical … Read more