The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
Our best beet recipes are easy beetroot recipes for salads, dips and soups. They include recipes for a beetroot salad with feta, rucola and pistachios, a Middle Eastern style beetroot hummus recipe, my Russian-Ukrainian grandmother’s deeply flavoured borscht recipe, as well as her beet potato salad recipe for vinegret, a creamy pink potato and beetroot … Read more
My cucumber sour cream salad recipe makes a creamy cucumber salad that has crunch from the cucumbers and shallots, zing from lemon and vinegar, tang from pickles and sour cream, and fragrance from fresh dill. The Eastern European style salad makes a fantastic addition to a zakuski table or delicious side dish for roast chicken, … Read more
This speedy blistered green beans recipe with toasted almonds makes a delicious vegetable side dish of fast wok-fried green beans that are only lightly blistered so that they’re still vibrant green and tender but firm. Stir-fried with toasted almonds for a little crunch, the green beans are piled onto a creamy garlic white bean purée for … Read more
This simple caramelized Brussels sprouts recipe makes melt-in-the-mouth browned Brussels sprouts with crispy bacon for the best Brussels sprouts ever. Made in thirty minutes, the Brussels sprouts are thrice cooked – boiled until tender, wok-fried in bacon fat until almost charred, then simply seasoned and roasted with crispy bacon. They make a perfect side for … Read more
This easy braised chicken recipe makes the juiciest chicken with crispy skin from just seven ingredients – stock, olive oil, lemon, garlic, a homemade chicken seasoning, and butter. It’s a foolproof dish with little work required other than basting. Whether you cook it on high, go low and slow, or reheat it, the chicken remains … Read more