Yearly Archives: 2018

Sweet cheese balls with breadcrumbs (Ukrainian hombovtsi)

 

If you decide to travel to the Transcarpathian region, don’t miss a chance to try a wonderful dessert with a queer name – hombovtsi. This dish has Hungarian roots and represents ball-size sweets made by kneading and forming cottage cheese. Some recipes also include the...

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Poppy seed pie

Do you like simple desserts like biscuits, light and airy with no hard sauce? Then this recipe can make your dinner!

This pie is juicy and tasty on its own...

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Ukrainian Christmas kutia with raisins, poppy seeds, and nuts

 

Kutia (kutya) is a traditional Ukrainian dish, a sweet grain pudding that is served on Christmas Eve dinner (also known as Svyata Vecherya). Kutia symbolizes fertility and abundance, and it is believed that good luck will come to every home where it is served. The richer...

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