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Tvorog, Russian Fromage Blanc
I like preparing food from scratch. I have been making my own stock, cured meats, cheese, bread, jam, soda, wine and liquor to name a few. Some of the recipes take months or even years before the final...
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Brynza, Eastern European Feta
Brynza, a cheese similar to feta, is made throughout Central and Eastern Europe. The word comes from brînză, Romanian for cheese. It is an important component of Ukrainian, Moldovan, Romanian and...
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Vladimir Poutine
Poutine is a dish from Quebec consisting of French fries and cheese curds topped with gravy. Not very Eastern European, you may say. I could argue that there’s nothing more Russian than a recipe...
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Imeretian Cheese, the Gateway Cheese from Georgia
So you want to make your own cheese but don’t want to break the bank buying a cheese press? You don’t want to spend your weekends monitoring the temperature of your milk, or get up in the middle of the...
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Sulguni, Georgian Mozzarella
So you’ve made your 10 pounds of Imeretian cheese and you’ve been eating grape and cheese salad for the past two weeks. You’re starting to regret letting me enroll you in that slow food movement....
View ArticleMingrelian Khachapuri, Georgia’s Double Cheese Bread
While Blini and Oladi, Russian Pancakes remains the most visited post on this blog, things are slowly changing. The top post for the past few months has been the Imeretian Khachapuri, followed by the...
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