This Easter Bread Kulich-Cruffin is a modern take on traditional Orthodox Easter Bread. Flaky dough of croissant meets moist muffin meets flavourful Kulich! This Easter Bread will surely impress! It’s been more than 24 hours since I took this Easter Bread Kulich-Cruffin out of the oven, but my kitchen still smells like vanilla, orange, almond and [Continue Reading…]
Sweet Cheese Qatayef Asafiri
Qatayef Asafiri is a delicious, fragrant and beautiful Arabian pancake stuffed with sweet cheese filling and ground pistachios. A great addition to your pancake repertoire! Happy Friday, friends! And happy Maslenitsa! If you are not familiar with Maslenitsa, or a pancake week, it’s a Slavic festival that celebrates the end of winter and the start of [Continue Reading…]
Coconut Rice Pudding with Mango Spheres
This Coconut Rice Pudding with Mango Spheres is a perfect dessert for Valentine’s Day or any occasion when you want to wow your loved one. And just like that, welcome to February! Are you excited for Valentine’s Day? I sure am because I am a holiday loving type. The type that tries and makes a [Continue Reading…]
Mango Spheres
These impressive mango spheres are sure to be a hit at your next party! Dress them up on the serving spoons or put on top of your favorite dessert. There is nothing more multi-sensory than food and drink, stimulating our sense of taste, smell, touch, vision, hearing and on occasion even pain – just think [Continue Reading…]
Honey Glazed French Cruller Doughnuts
Honey Glazed French Cruller Doughnuts are light, airy and eggy clouds of sticky glazed dough. Unlike classic yeast doughnuts, these honey glazed French cruller doughnuts are cooked using a choux pastry dough technique. You will be in love with the distinctive twisted ridges and the extra light interior of these delicious doughnuts! These are possibly [Continue Reading…]
Buttermilk Pumpkin Pancakes
These Buttermilk Pumpkin Pancakes is everything you love about fall, with hints of cinnamon, allspice, ginger and pumpkin flavor! It’s Friday! You know what that means: it’s time to think about weekend breakfast. So tomorrow, when you get up, put on your robe and slippers, get a hot mug of coffee, and let everyone know [Continue Reading…]
Creamy Stuffed Mushrooms
These creamy stuffed mushrooms are so easy to throw together. They’re great for parties, and the variations are endless. You all know I love mushrooms, like a LOT. I even go in the woods foraging for them. To honor the mushrooms of fall I stuffed them with my all time favorite combination of ingredients for this recipe: few [Continue Reading…]
Easter Bread – Kulich
This traditional Easter Bread – Kulich or Paska is enriched with plenty of egg yolks, milk, butter, vanilla and raisins. I love all things Easter so I am beyond excited about this traditional Orthodox Easter Bread – Kulich. It’s enriched with plenty of egg yolks, milk, butter, vanilla and raisins. The sweet, eggy, buttery taste is complex, [Continue Reading…]
Classic All-Purpose Crêpes
Happy Maslenitsa, my friends! Maslenitsa or Pancake Week is a eastern european religious and folk festival that celebrates the end of the winter and the start of spring. In Orthodox tradition it is the week of preparation before the start of Great Lent, a time to eat all the cheese and dairy and animal products forbidden during [Continue Reading…]