The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
My easy Russian eggplant caviar recipe for ikra – which was known as ‘poor man’s caviar’ in the USSR – makes a deliciously-rich version of this traditional Russian side dish, dip and spread that’s somewhere in between the ikra my baboushka made that was sumptuous and velvety and the ikra popularised during the Soviet era … Read more
This Russian potato salad recipe for Olivier Salad or ensalada Rusa makes a Russian salad dating to the 1860s, when it was invented at a celebrated Moscow restaurant. Served at family meals, especially at Russian Easter and Christmas, it’s a fantastic summer salad for barbecues and picnics and filling winter salad served as a side … Read more
This Russian okroshka soup recipe made with kefir (Окрошка с кефиром) makes a cold summer soup you can slurp any time of year. It’s winter where you are? Turn up the heating. Seasonable vegetables such as cucumber and radish can be substituted with whatever’s available that’s crisp and crunchy. This chilled soup is healthy and … Read more
This Russian cabbage soup recipe makes shchi (Щи), the most Russian of soups. If my baboushka wasn’t making borscht, she was cooking a big pot of shchi. A very old soup that was eaten by nobles and peasants alike, the wealthy would include meat in their shchi, while workers made a vegetarian soup, shchi vegetarianskiye, … Read more
My Russian French toast recipe makes grenki (Гренки) just like my Russian-Ukrainian grandmother and mother made. This Russian take on French toast is easy to make, with just a handful of ingredients. Eaten for breakfast, brunch or dessert, you can serve grenki sweet, with sugar, honey, golden or maple syrup, sour cream, fruit jam or … Read more