The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
This chickpea, pasta and chicken soup recipe makes pasta e ceci but with chicken or pollo. The iconic Roman dish pasta e ceci or pasta and chickpeas is not traditionally made with chicken, but it’s so incredibly delicious with chicken. Just don’t tell your Italian friends. While the Roman version is more like a hearty … Read more
This creamy shrimp pasta recipe makes a quick and easy prawn spaghetti with parsley and sumac that comes together in 15-20 minutes. It can be made with fresh or frozen shrimp or prawns and is super versatile. Add fish or clams, canned seafood such as smoked mussels, and use smoky or sweet paprika or chilli … Read more
My traditional Russian food recipes for Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas lunch will make you the dishes my Russian-Ukrainian baboushka spent days in the kitchen preparing for our family feasts over the festive season. In the lead-up to Christmas, Baba made big batches of borscht and piroshki, Russian pelmeni and Ukrainian vareniki, then … Read more
This quick and easy recipe for crispy pan fried pumpkin gnocchi with brown butter sage sauce makes my take on the classic Northern Italian pasta. We use shelf-stable pumpkin gnocchi instead of fresh gnocchi for texture and crunch, and while the brown butter sage sauce is authentic, we bump up the sage for more flavour … Read more
This smoked trout blini with caviar, crème fraîche, cucumber, radish and dill makes a variation on the traditional Russian blini or pancakes with smoked salmon and caviar. The blini are spread with cream cheese. Smoked trout is piled on top with a side of cucumber, radish and dill, followed by dollops of crème fraîche and … Read more