The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
Our best Christmas starter recipes make elegant appetisers to add to your holiday menus that we guarantee will whet the appetites of your guests. We have everything from classic Christmas starters for my family, such as retro Russian devilled eggs and blini with smoked salmon, dill and sour cream to non-traditional Christmas appetisers that are … Read more
Our easy seafood recipes for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day menus for those of you celebrating the Feast of the Seven Fishes or a seafood-driven Christmas lunch in the sun, include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood … Read more
Our collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts include recipes for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. While cheap to make, these are food gifts that are rich in meaning. We guarantee they’ll get used, rather than … Read more
This rose lemonade recipe makes a fragrant floral refreshing beverage from the Middle East that’s wonderful in warm weather, but can be enjoyably sipped all year if you turn up the air-conditioning. Perfumed and sweet thanks to the rose syrup, lemon juice provides balance, and fresh mint add freshness, but it’s endlessly versatile. Make a … Read more
This potato latkes recipe with smoked salmon, caviar, sour cream, and fresh dill makes the potato fritters or crispy potato pancakes traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. My recipe is based on my non-Jewish, Orthodox-Christian, Russian-Ukrainian grandmother’s recipe for potato latkes, which she called ‘potato fritters’. Whatever you want to call them, they’re addictively … Read more