Our best Russian pancakes recipe makes blini in the style of French crêpes if you’re looking for a quick and easy pancake recipe for Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday or if you’re celebrating Maslenitsa or Pancake Week in March, also called Crepe Week or Butter Week, an Eastern Orthodox holiday joyously observed by Russians. One … Read more
My Russian French toast recipe makes grenki (Гренки) just like my Russian-Ukrainian grandmother and mother made. This Russian take on French toast is easy to make, with just a handful of ingredients. Eaten for breakfast, brunch or dessert, you can serve grenki sweet, with sugar, honey, golden or maple syrup, sour cream, fruit jam or … Read more
This Thai mango sticky rice recipe by chef David Thompson from his Thai Street Food cookbook makes the much-loved Thai dessert kao niaw mamuang. Despite the detailed recipe notes it’s nowhere near as intimidating as it looks and this jasmine scented sweet will take you back to eating on the streets of Thailand. Making chef … Read more
Eton Mess recipe with mango, passionfruit and dragonfruit makes a tropical version of the traditional English dessert of broken meringue, fresh strawberries and whipped double cream – and makes use of the end of season mangoes. My Eton Mess recipe with mango, passionfruit and dragonfruit is simply a tropical take on this classic British dessert … Read more
I will always choose savoury over sweet, spice over sugar. My ideal dessert is something like this traditional chocolate Catalan treat, because it includes salt and olive oil. I’ll eat – and I’ll enjoy – dessert when it comes at the end of a degustation menu and I’ll happily test out Terence’s chocolate experiments (like this … Read more