The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
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
Our best New Years Eve recipes will make you everything from homemade dips, crisps and crackers to delicious finger food, elegant takes on old-fashioned hors d’oeuvres, tasty snacks, and more solid dishes to soak up the liquor. This compilation of New Years Eve party food ideas features some new recipes, along with some old favourites. … Read more
This spread of chilled cooked prawns with prawn dipping sauces comes together quickly but should be leisurely enjoyed, guests peeling their own prawns and dunking them into dipping sauces or piling them onto warm buttered bread or garlic toast. Provide lime or lemon wedges for squeezing onto the prawns, finger bowls of water and napkins, … Read more