This Ukrainian sweet varenyky recipe with summer berries and sour cream makes delicious boiled dumplings filled with farmers cheese and berries served with a sweet, syrupy fruit jam-like sauce of raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and red currants, called pyatiminutka (five-minute jam) to drizzle on the dumplings, and dollops of sour cream. Also eaten in Russia, where … Read more
Our best chicken curry recipes include quick and easy chicken curries, low and slow chicken curry, a curried chicken pie, and braised chicken with curry gravy. Our curried chicken recipes are all fantastic chicken dinner ideas for mid-week meals in autumn when you want one-pot meals you can set and forget that are comforting, warming … Read more
This baked cabbage roll casserole recipe makes an unstuffed cabbage roll casserole or lazy cabbage rolls. Blanched cabbage leaves are layered lasagna-like with a rich tomato sauce, farmer’s cheese, and a cabbage roll fried rice made from the savoury ground pork, onion, garlic and carrot filling usually stuffed in the cabbage leaves to make traditional … Read more
My recipe for jammy soft-boiled eggs on sourdough with dill cream cheese and homemade pickles will make you a less fancy, shareable, snack version of my recipe for slow fried eggs with creamy dill spread on sourdough toast with dill pickles, radishes and sweet paprika, inspired by my late grandfather’s daily breakfast. A warning: it’s … Read more
This easy panzanella salad recipe makes the delicious Tuscan style bread and tomato salad that tastes of summer in Italy. A bread salad with onions and cucumbers before tomatoes arrived in Italy, it makes use of stale bread, the hallmark of povera cucina, the no-waste cooking of the countryside. A traditional recipe, it’s versatile – … Read more