Hi! I’m Lily and welcome to Gastro Senses, a blog about delicious recipes with step by step cooking instructions and beautiful photography! I’m so glad you’re here!
I started this blog in 2014 as a way to catalog my treasured recipes. Here you will find my foods I grew up with in Ukraine, as well as reinvented favorite recipes from around the world.
My husband Dmitriy, whom I met during the adventure of cultural exchange program in United States helps me with a technical side of the website. We have been navigating this crazy life together sharing our gastronomic enthusiasm with our kids Tihon and Zoey as well as one fur baby – Benji. They love food too and we love watching them have a healthy appetite.
In the beginning of 2015, I quit my full-time job to pursue blogging and food photography full-time. Now I have a privilege of being a stay at home mom and doing what I love most. Spending time in the kitchen is my “me” time, which inspires and challenges me. Because at the end of the day, sharing my passion for cooking and motivating others to be creative with food – is what makes me very happy.
A few of my other favorite things are eating late night treats with my husband, dancing with my kids and snuggling my fur baby. I’m constantly shifting focus to things that really matter in life, trying to be more mindful with people, and following Jesus.
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Most importantly, I want to thank you for dropping by to visit my blog, and maybe even try one of my recipes! It means the world to me, and I wouldn’t be here without you.
hello there, lily from uk, what a pleasurable co incident, that we both have same names, haha just sending a message to let you both know that i love your recipes, they are both beautiful and delicious, i made the Russian meatball, today for my family, well I’m being a vegan and all i was confused what to cook for the non vegetarian guests, that’s when i came across yours and simple dinner served, with other things too! they said it was delicious.. well thanks to your recipe, have a wonderful day ahead,cheer!
Hi Lily from UK 🙂 Thanks so much for your lovely feedback! Makes my heart melt when I hear someone enjoyed one of my favorite recipes!
Лили, здравствуйте. К сожалению, не знаю, понимаете ли вы по русски, если да, то как с вами связаться можно? У меня есть вопрос по вашемв рецепту потрясающего свиного рулета. Спасибо за ответ, Ольга.
Спасибо, Ольга! Обращайтесь еще!
Hi. Just stumbled across your site.
Fantastic recipes.
I think the next dinner party I have with special friends will be an all Ukrainian (& Russian) menu.
So different for us down here where to be honest the Asian and Australian fusion rules.
James (Australia)
So great! Thank you so much James! Love hearing that!
Nice to meet you, I’m a fellow FBCigers 🙂 How takes the pics? What camera/lens combo do you like to use?
Have a great week-end!
Wow amazing site and the pictures are so beautiful. I will try to make some of your recipes soon.
I am a cat lover, but your two dogs look soo cute.
Best wishes from
Marissa from Denmark
Peter says,
Now I understand more fully that when Russia had 64 Republics recipes got reworked or conformed to taste.
The Okroshka summer soup with vegtables and herbs and meat and potatoes sounds decidedly different, my parents both came from Russia one my mom Anna from Minsk and my dad Pavel from Rudniki as a child of three in 1935 mama made Kvass our cold summer soup, you take a hand full of dill and chop it up fine, the 6 green onions cut up fine into a soup bowel you put the onions then the dill and a table spoon of salt sprinkled over the top
you than take a potatoe masher and mash this till its blended and waterery next into a large 3 quart pot you put 4 cups cold water and 1 cup half and half into this you stir in the mashed onions dill and salt, next you take 2 large cucumbers peal quarter and dice each one as the cutting board will be full after one put that in the pot, do the second cucumber now add a third of a cup of vinegar to the pot next take about a dozen cubes of ice and add this to the pot stir and set in the refrigerator now peel 6 medium potatoes and add teaspoon of salt and boil till a fork will easily pierce a potatoe drain and this is your side dish with the Kvass it must be good because everyone from everyone of all nationalities here in Colorado who my wife gave the recipes too call it summer soup.
Fantastic recipes.
Hi Lily,
My brother and his wife have just had a new baby and so in order to help I made 14 packs of your beef and chicken Masala for them. What a terrific recipe certainly one of the better ones using fresh basic ingredients. I purchased a 20 dollar slow cooker from Kmart and added a few extras to the mix such as chopped cashew nuts, carrots and potato. I left it for 5 hours and what a hit it turned out to be. I found the slow cooker allows the flavors to infuse into the meat. In addition I used golden syrup and some honey as a source of sugar. All in all it was a great result.
Regards
David from Perth Western Australia
Marvellous blog! Beautiful styling! Many thanks!
We bought a half beef order from a butcher which has been great! But we have a lot of stewing beef ( family getting tired of irish stew ). What are your favourite cubed beef recipes? Not really anything we don’t like. We are open to different tastes. Thank you so much!
Thanks much for the Uzbek Shurpa soup recipe. In exchange, I suggest you try Kaddo Bowrani (Afghan) pumpkin dish.
Hello from Detroit,
Your recipe for the Ultimate Scalloped Potatoes with Pork is the bomb.com! Would you be kind enough to repost it along with the directions? This recipe is one of my family’s favorites. Thank you so much!
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