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Holiday Cheers from Recipe Studio
Dear Friends! After a long break, our family cookbook, RecipeStudio.com, is back online. Lots of things happened in our family since we posted, and a lot of changes in the world around us. We are happy to share our family recipes with each other and with you yet again. I rediscovered the value of this…
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No-egg Dairy-free Dough for Pirozhki
This year I’m making yet another attempt to observe the Nativity Fast. During this fast one cannot eat anything of animal origin. That means no omelette until Christmas (!), no milk in my morning coffee (!!), no butter on a toast (!!!), and no roasted chicken. 😦 Imagine how challenging it is for a person…
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Baked Apples with Dandelion Honey Cream
This simple dessert of baked apples topped with buttery crumbles and sweetened sour cream is one of those treats that you cook on the days when you hm… don’t want to cook. It was one of those days for me: after digging and planting in the garden, I was not inclined to cook at all (got…
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Sour Spinach Soup
This spinach soup is a nostalgic effort to reproduce one of my favorite soups from the past times. When we bought a house in the US, I was full of dreams and plans about my own organic garden. I tried to grow many things, from greens to strawberries, and once even cantaloupe (that was relentlessly…
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Simple Banana Nut Bread
Banana bread is a classic American dish. I’ve been going to make it for a long time, and now that I have I almost regret it, because it is absolutely addictive! Having one slice is just not an option. Given that I usually don’t have this problem with desserts, this is surprising. Are you brave…
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"Bewildered Turkey" Meatballs
Meatballs is not quite the right word. In Russian, тефтели (pronounced: tef-teh-lee) is the name for meatballs that contain a large portion of rice or potatoes in addition to meat. This recipe uses turkey meat, which is lower in fat and has a milder flavor than beef. To make up for this mildness, I went…
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Your Two Casual Chefs
Who are we? We are mother and daughter, living our lives in suburban Massachusetts and in New York City, cooking our pleasure in our separate kitchens, and sharing it with each other over cell phone conversations. The cutting board is our palette, the kitchen – our studio, where we create the quick and the decadent,…
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