You have to forgive me for giving you a false start of the soup season earlier this fall, in 85 degree weather. I hope you’ll be understanding because soup is my favorite thing. But now I no longer have any formal restrictions. We are officially in the end of fall folks, even here in the […]
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Nostalgic Posts: Oatmeal Cookies
We didn’t have a lot of cookies growing up. This whole love affair with cookies is more of an American phenomenon. What we did have was more like crackers — dry and crunchy things of various shapes, flavors and colors, which my grandpa in the very old-fashioned way called biscuits. We loved them. When I […]
Substitution Magic: Pasta With Sausage & Broccolini
How far do you think you can deviate from the original recipe and still be able to recognize it? I mean, there are hardly any real people out there that have all ingredients on hand at all times. We are bound to substitute here and there, even omit some stuff, but can we still call […]
Enough with the cravings, already! Making Russian Bagels, circa 1935
Gosh, I got so excited yesterday while typing up the 12-Kopeck Sugar Buns, that it put me in the next bout of cravings immediately — bagels. Pfft, you may say, what’s so special about bagels? You can get them anywhere. Well, that’s just the thing: first of all, there are no *good* bagels in 80 […]
Nostalgic Baking: 12-Kopeck Sugar Buns
In the years of being immersed in another culture I have learned to substitute most of the foods I missed about my native land with local versions of one kind of another. Some products I learned to replicate quite successfully. Take kefir for example. I am now making a very nice creamy version of kefir […]
Spinach & Pumpkin Seed Pesto Chicken Pasta Bowl
There are dishes that appear to be very complicated, while they are not. As it was the case with my last night’s dinner, whose labor-to-yum ratio is extremely favorable. The whole meal start-to-finish took about 20 minutes to put together. It’s robust, bright in both color and flavor and irresistibly good looking. The secret is […]
Oldies But Goodies — Mandlech
It’s officially cold and flu season. Don’t know where you are reading this, but in our area temperatures had dropped about thirty degrees on average. And that means, sniffles are coming. In fact, my daughter had already made it through her season change cold, and I am battling one right now. The upside of every […]
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