Cheese truffles - feta cheese and toasted walnuts, flavored with garlic and caraway, and rolled into delicious, festive-looking, cheesy bites, perfect to serve for the holidays. Today's post will be short and sweet, as all posts around this time of year tend to be. With so many things still left to do, I am feeling completely pressed for ...
Pumpkin strudel
Tikvenik is a traditional Bulgarian pumpkin strudel made of sweet, juicy pumpkin, gently kissed with cinnamon, then tossed with walnuts and rolled into crispy, buttery phyllo dough parcels. Pure, simple, and utterly divine. Nothing spells out fall, quite like the sight and taste of pumpkin! And there is no busier, or more exciting time in ...
Bulgarian Easter bread {kozunak}
Bulgarian Easter bread, a.k.a. kozunak, is a traditional, sweet yeast bread - cotton-soft, sugar-crusted, studded with rum-soaked raisins, and perfumed with vanilla and lemon zest - incredibly delicious on its own, it's the ultimate Easter treat. Growing up in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, Easter for us didn't mean egg hunts for ...
Nettle and green garlic soup
Nettle and green garlic soup - this creamy soup tastes like the spring, with flavors of mild garlic, aromatic dill, and fresh lemon, and is packed with cleansing nutrients and minerals. We're officially (and finally) in spring! This whole winter season has dragged on for too long this year. In fact, in true March fashion, we are back to the ...
Feta cheese quick bread
Feta cheese quick bread - fluffy, moist and buttery, this savory quick bread recipe is ideal for breakfast, snack or even dinner. What do I make for dinner tonight? This is my every day dilemma, and not so much for lack of ideas, but for finding that tricky, elusive, ever-changing common ground where all picking eaters in the house can be ...
Beet and carrot salad {mustard garlic vinaigrette + dill}
Beet and carrot salad with mustard garlic vinaigrette - boiled root veggies, tangy pickles and lots of fresh dill drizzled with a lovely mustard garlic dressing - a fantastic winter salad that's easy on the calories, yet filling and satisfying. Well hello there, and a happy new 2017 to you!! I hope this week goes easy on you (it's a short ...