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These Cabbage Rolls – Holubtsi has roots in the Ukrainian dishes of my family using traditional inexpensive ingredients. Cabbage Rolls – Holubtsi Cabbage Rolls – Holubtsi is a traditional Ukrainian dish of cabbage leaves filled with a rice bacon onion filling then baked until tender. Recently I have been baking them 2 ways, one the…
These traditional Beef Leaf Holubtsi feature the best of season. Beets In The Garden When I plan my garden I have a few must have veggies that are top priority in my kitchen. Number one on that list is beets. Beets are the most versatile vegetable I grow. I use the entire plant, and especially…
Nalysnyky Ukrainian Crepes is a Ukrainian dish of cottage cheese filled crepes that are baked in cream until puffy and golden. When I began cooking I found myself being drawn to traditional Ukrainian foods. The labor intensive dishes that you not only cooked to eat that night but always made extra for the freezer. Things…
Traditional Borscht has it roots in classic Ukrainian dishes, made with inexpensive home grown vegetables. I feel a bit stuck right now. Not in a rut so much as just avoiding a place where I am not sure I am ready to go yet. But if I don’t now, when? Funny how death does that.…
Perishke is still one of my most enjoyed Ukrainian dishes I prepare. Perhaps because they do bring back such strong memories of when I was a child and first discovered them. They were the catalyst of what made me want to learn how to cook. It has been a roller coaster of a summer.…
One of the very first things I experimented with in my early days in the kitchen were perogies. I grew up eating them and knew I had to learn how to make them from scratch. Perogies are not hard to make but there is a definite learning curve when it comes to good perogy dough.…