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The Great Turkey Challenge, Day Three: Turkey Bake with Dill
Sometimes you find things don’t always look picture perfect, and that’s the only thing that stops you from posting about them. Taste is there, texture is there, but the looks are just not reflecting...
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Scary Stroganoff
Ever cooked scary food? I used to cook it all the time back home, but now I have to adjust my scary food cooking schedule for local availability and my American family taste. What’s scary food? You...
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Eat Like An Egyptian… The Enigmatic Pyramid Cake
Ages ago, when we had almost unlimited time on our hands and the living was easy, a friend suggested this recipe to me as “quick and simple, but very impressive”. I trusted her awesome baking skills...
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Fail-proofing your New Year’s Resolutions
If you are one of the 38% Americans who decide to lose weight after New Year, you are probably smack in the middle of the buyer’s remorse period: the enthusiasm and hot-headedness of the first week of...
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Some Things Will Never Change…
Here it is — the mother of all homemade dishes. When mom cooked it, we were rushing back home from school, because we could smell it from the distance. It’s an epitome of comfort food and, if you are...
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Quick And … Fancy? You got it!
One of the both weird and heartwarming customs of my native land was (and I hope still is), showing up at the door of your best friends on a whim. Sure, everyone is entitled to their privacy and down...
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Turkey In Sour Cream & Dill Sauce
This is the way my mom always cooked rabbit. Rabbit was served for New Year almost every year, alongside Salade Olivier, Carp in Tomato Sauce, Beet Salad With Prunes, Green Apple & Celeriac Salad,...
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Easy Summer Refreshment: Cold Beet Soup
My grandma and mom used to make this refreshing soup very frequently in summer. It was typically made from young beets — tender bunch beets no larger than 2-3 inches in diameter. The idea here is to...
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Nostalgic Musings On Making Russian Napoleon Cake
From time to time, abiding by the unbending code of conduct of first generation transplants, I succumb to strong nostalgic cravings. In case you are not the first generation transplant, let me...
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Honey Cake With Prunes and Walnuts
I don’t remember how this recipe came about, all I know is that ever since I was introduced to it at around age fifteen, it was a hit every time it was served at our parties. The reason for this...
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