These easy beef belyashi are absurdly good! Soft on the inside with a crispy outer shell and incredibly flavorful juicy filling.

This is a classic attractive Russian salad that’s healthy and delicious. It will wow vegetarians, vegans and even impress non salad eaters.

The creamiest homemade ricotta cheese in half an hour!

These Vegan Butternut Squash Stuffed Pinwheels require only a few ingredients and would be the perfect addition to your holiday table.

Classic, airy and lacy Russian Kefir Crepes, or as we call them bliny, served with caviar. Super simple choux batter technique!

Cabbage Rolls with Tomato Cream Sauce–enjoy this traditional comfort food made with sour cabbage.

Hearty, delicious black bread flavoured with coffee, cocoa powder, caraway and molasses.

These Swiss chard roll ups have a hearty and luscious Eastern European inspired filling. Perfect as an appetizer, side, or light supper!

Strands of cabbage are smothered in a smoky onion, tomato and pepper sauce, and cooked into submission by the heat of the flame.

A warming cooked salad from Eastern Europe using carrots & parsnips. My mother’s own recipe, delicious.

Cilantro and onion flavored turkey meat wrapped in filo pastry. Serve bureks as appetizers or snack.

Dessert crepes for Mother’s Day! Stuffed with agave-sweetened ricotta cheese filling and blueberries! It’s like a Spring in a crepe!

Babushka Eggplants: Georgian-style vegetarian eggplants stuffed with carrot, parsnip & green peppers baked in a tomato sauce.

Classic Beef Stroganoff, an authentic dish by my Russian mother with gorgeous mushrooms and tender strips of beef.

Borscht, Ukrainian Beet Soup, a family recipe.

These sweet crispy treats are not only beautiful but very addictive.

Daring Bakers’ make Povitica for the month of October. A traditional walnut filled Povitica and a poppy seed one.