The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
This creamy mushroom Stroganoff recipe makes a vegetarian version of my beef Stroganoff recipe, based on my Russian-Ukrainian family’s Stroganoff and the earliest documented Russian beef Stroganoff recipe by Elena Molokhovets in A Gift to Young Housewives, dating to 1861. Not everyone could afford beef and mushroom Stroganoff was quite common. I also provide tips … Read more
This comforting Russian buckwheat kasha recipe with caramelised onions, bacon lardons, pan-fried mushrooms, and soft-boiled eggs makes my heartier take on my baboushka’s traditional Russian- breakfast. Buckwheat or grechka is the key ingredient of this kasha, a savoury porridge that I serve with a dollop of sour cream and plenty of fragrant dill. If you … Read more
Make our classic smashed avocado toast recipe with poached eggs for an Australian café style breakfast at home. Just add sourdough toast, Vegemite, freshly squeezed OJ, and good coffee, and you’re set! This is the perfect weekend breakfast to make if you’re in lockdown and missing your favourite café. Or you’re missing Australia. This classic … Read more
Our avocado pasta recipe makes an easy creamy avocado pasta sauce that you can serve at room temperature or heat up, combine with any fresh or dried pasta of your choice, and jazz up with grilled chicken or smoked salmon. A popular Italian-Australian pasta of the 1980s and 1990s, we think it’s time this retro-classic … Read more
This mango smoothie recipe makes a super-easy creamy mango shake that is as delicious as it is healthy. If mangoes are in season where you are or you have a freezer filled with frozen fresh mango flesh that you froze at the end of mango season, then this is what you can do with it … Read more