This easy Skillet Tuna Pasta Recipe is perfect with you’ve run out of time, but need to make dinner for your family, and it’s large enough for leftovers. It’s made with basic ingredients that most of us have in our pantry, and still tastes great! I don’t usually cook dinner using condensed soup cans as the…
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Pelmeni Recipe (Russian Dumplings)
What Are Pelmeni Dumplings? Pelmeni (Пельмени) are Russian meat dumplings with a juicy meat filling, classic Russian comfort food. It’s found in every Russian’s freezer, and around the former Soviet States. It’s part of the group of Eastern European dumplings like Vareniki, Pierogies, Uszka, and even Manti. I consider this meal the national food of…
Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo is a delicious comfort food, packed with carbs, cream and cheese. And the best part, you can save dishes by making this all in one pot! It’s the perfect recipe to eat with a Cheesy Garlic Pull-Apart Bread! This is my mom’s Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo recipe that I remember eating as a…
Pumpkin Mac and Cheese
Pumpkin Mac and Cheese with Bacon is a the same delicious comfort food we all know, made healthier baked inside a pumpkin. Now the pumpkin doesn’t reduce the fat content or regular mac and cheese, but adds lots vitamins, antioxidants and minerals, and is low in calories. I think that’s a welcome addition or Macaroni…
Chicken Tortellini Soup
Easy Chicken Tortellini Soup is a fun way to enjoy delicious vegetable soup. You can add any garden vegetables that are in season to this soup. It’s really just a version of Minestrone Soup, but with added tortellini, taking it to the next level. It’s always best to make chicken stock from scratch, but if in…
Kotleti with Podlivka
Kotleti with Podlivka is a comfort food enjoyed by Russians for generations. You got the comfort food trifecta, meat, carbs and sauce. Kotleti are like Russian Meatballs or Rissoles, or something in between. Kotleti with Podlivka, is a whole other level of meaty goodness. I have 2 kotleti recipes you can make, Classic Beef Kotleti…
Pesto Chicken Pasta
This Easy Pesto Chicken Pasta recipe is incredibly easy to make, another great meal if you’re in a rush to make dinner. When you’re in a rush, I’m a big fan of using a supermarket ready cooked roast chicken from the deli to make a variety of meals. I use it to make a quick…
Manti Russian Dumplings
This Manti Steamed Dumplings Recipe (Манты) is one of the many recipes that reminds me of my childhood. It’s really fun creating a website of my favourite recipes that we eat. I just love all this food, and Manti are no exception. Manti are very common in Central Asia/Eurasia from China, Russia, the Stany countries…
Easy Vegemite Stroganoff
Easy Vegemite Stroganoff is made from Australian Vegemite with Russian Stroganoff served with rice, Fusion at it’s best. How can I explain Vegemite, if you have never heard of it? Vegemite is a breakfast staple in Australia, one which Aussie kids grow up on. According to Wikipedia, Vegemite is a dark brown Australian food paste…
Lagman Recipe (Лагман)
This Lagman recipe is a traditional hand pulled, stretched noodle stir fry of the Uyghur people. Uyghurs live in the Xinjiang region of Northwest China. Situated en route the Silk Road, this recipe went far and wide. This is the region where my parents were born and lived. My grandparents (from both sides) fled from the…
Chicken Stroganoff
Stroganoff (бефстроганов) is the ultimate Russian comfort food for me, usually made with strips of beef, served with a starch. There is no direct translation for Chicken Stroganoff in Russian. It literally translates to Beef Stroganoff from Chicken in Russian. Traditionally in Russia, it was served with thin fried potato straws, almost like a shoestring…
Italian Minestrone Recipe
I love Jamie Oliver’s Italian Minestrone recipe from his Venice Food Escapes show, but have historically I’ve always hated Minestrone soup. Maybe I’ve just had bad Minestrone as a kid? You know, the commercialized canned Campbell’s soup variety with an acidic tomato paste taste. I wasn’t even willing to give this soup another chance, until…
Pelmeni using a Mold
This recipe shows you how to make Pelmeni using a Mold (Пельмени) called a Pelmenitsa. Pelmeni is my all time favorite food. Ever. That’s a big statement, but nothing evokes the comfort food feeling better than Pelmeni for me. Anglo cultures have their typical meat, potato and vegetable meals, Italians have their pasta meals, but…
Meat Lasagna Recipe with Chorizo
I love this Italian Meat Lasagna recipe, made tastier with spicy Chorizo and Ricotta cheese. This is my favorite lasagna recipe. The chorizo adds a smokey flavor with a hint of spiciness. Chorizo is a sausage that has roots in Spain and Portugal, and is popular around the world. When I first tried lasagna, I…
