Spinach Crepe Rolls with Smoked Salmon and Potato Cream

Inspired by a tempting smell of smoked food. Mashed potato, salmon, and spinach make a decent classical dinner plate for the fish lovers. The recipe you are about to explore has all three components, except that a dinner concept is transformed into an appetizer. The gorgeous look (forgive my pride) of the appetizer gets all…

Butter Dough Rolls with Swiss Chard, Pine nuts, and Apricots

Inspired by laziness  Butter dough rolls are a lazy version of the Russian mini pies “Piroshki”. The idea is to make one big long roll with a filling, slice it into pieces, bake them and enjoy. Soft and pliable dough, thanks to butter and milk fats, is a pure joy to work with. And no…

Piroshki with Wild Mushroom Caviar

Inspired by the mushroom picking memories of my childhood Piroshki, or mini pies, is a fundamental dish of Russian traditional cuisine. Somewhere in very dark ages, the peasants’ wives were making enormous closed pies with nutritious filling. They would break the pies into pieces and share among the family members with the largest piece for…

Cheesy Piadinas

  Inspired by my dear Italian friend Simona Piadina is a traditional dish of Emilia Romagna region of Italy known at least since a late medieval period. In nowadays piadina is widespread across Italy and a bit less so across the world. An honorable member of a flatbread family. Italians buy it freshly made in little…