This Russian Borscht recipe (Красный борщ) is an authentic soup recipe. It’s made without many of the strange additions and shortcuts you can find in many borscht soups today. Don’t be fooled with weird additions, trying to pass off as traditional borsch recipes. I’ve heard people added Ketchup, added brown sugar, and even balsamic vinegar,…
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Kulich Easter Bread (Paska)
Kulich (кулич) bread (Paska) bread is a Russian and Ukrainian festive bread baked at Easter, and is traditionally eaten only on Easter Sunday. The Kulich is a symbol of the atonement of Christ on the cross. The frosted top of the bread drizzles down, which reminds us of Christ’s crown of thorns. Sometimes you will…
Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls
This one pot meal, rustic and easy to make, Lazy Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls (Ленивые Голубцы) is perfect to make when you’re in a hurry. If you love eating traditional Cabbage Rolls, but are too busy with life to spend 3 hours making them, then I’m talking to you! Don’t get me wrong, traditional Cabbage Rolls are so…
Strawberries and Sour Cream
This Strawberries and Sour Cream Dessert brings back great childhood memories. I love eating fresh strawberries. As a child, we went to u-pick strawberry farms, where we would pick strawberries in a field and pay by weight for what we picked. Usually we would eat more than what we picked in the basket, or at…
Sharlotka Apple Cake
There are many variations of Sharlotka Apple Cake out there. It’s a basic apple cake made with simple ingredients. Some recipes only contain only 4 ingredients! This is not like my American Apple Pie, which is worth checking out, but it’s definitely a cake. This is my wife Rita’s Sharlotka recipe, and I’m grateful she shared the recipe…
Tuna Rice Salad
Salads like a Russian Tuna Rice Salad (рыбный салат) are very different from the salads we eat in our western culture. They tend to be very hearty, heavy, meaty and filled with mayonnaise. Western salads are very green, leafy, and light in comparison. Many Russian salads have meat or fish in them, with beetroot, carrots and…
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…
