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Best Recipes from Eastern Europe: Dainty Dishes, Delicious Drinks
Recipes from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Moldova, and Beyond
Turn everyday ingredients into extraordinary flavors with Best Recipes from Eastern Europe: Dainty Dishes, Delicious Drinks. More than just a cookbook, this collection introduces time-honored culinary traditions in a way that's simple, approachable, and perfect for beginners.
Authentic, Easy-to-Make Meals for Every Occasion
Discover old-world cooking secrets through clear instructions, must-know tips, and creative presentation ideas. Whether preparing a hearty family dinner or crafting an elegant feast, these dishes bring generations of culinary legacy to your table. Inside, you'll find selections of time-tested favorites, including:
- Appetizers—savory snacks, fresh salads, and homemade pickles
- Soups—hot bowls of red or green borscht, rassolnik, and galushky, along with refreshing cold soups like okroshka
- Main Courses—succulent meat and liver dishes, flavorful fish recipes, egg-based meals, vibrant vegetable sides, hearty grains, and more
- Drinks—refreshing kvass, kissel, and stewed fruit drink, plus strong homemade infusions
- Desserts—indulgent sweets, from home-made "honey" to cocoa "potatoes"
- Muffins & Pies—traditional baked goods, including keks and fried Charlotte cake
- Preserving—both sweet and salty preserves to enjoy seasonal flavors year-round
- Holiday Foods—special dishes prepared for Orthodox Christmas and Easter
Immerse yourself in the richness and warmth of a cuisine that blends history, culture, and comfort in every bite.
Enjoy the timeless tastes and create unforgettable dining experiences!
Turn everyday ingredients into extraordinary flavors with Best Recipes from Eastern Europe: Dainty Dishes, Delicious Drinks. More than just a cookbook, this collection introduces time-honored culinary traditions in a way that's simple, approachable, and perfect for beginners.
Authentic, Easy-to-Make Meals for Every Occasion
Discover old-world cooking secrets through clear instructions, must-know tips, and creative presentation ideas. Whether preparing a hearty family dinner or crafting an elegant feast, these dishes bring generations of culinary legacy to your table. Inside, you'll find selections of time-tested favorites, including:
- Appetizers—savory snacks, fresh salads, and homemade pickles
- Soups—hot bowls of red or green borscht, rassolnik, and galushky, along with refreshing cold soups like okroshka
- Main Courses—succulent meat and liver dishes, flavorful fish recipes, egg-based meals, vibrant vegetable sides, hearty grains, and more
- Drinks—refreshing kvass, kissel, and stewed fruit drink, plus strong homemade infusions
- Desserts—indulgent sweets, from home-made "honey" to cocoa "potatoes"
- Muffins & Pies—traditional baked goods, including keks and fried Charlotte cake
- Preserving—both sweet and salty preserves to enjoy seasonal flavors year-round
- Holiday Foods—special dishes prepared for Orthodox Christmas and Easter
Immerse yourself in the richness and warmth of a cuisine that blends history, culture, and comfort in every bite.
Enjoy the timeless tastes and create unforgettable dining experiences!
223 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 25, 2015
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March 22, 2015
This is a wonderful book - a real appetizer! Nice photos with charming decorations are making you really hungry. I'm self a cook and learned a lot about better and healthy cooking. I can recommend this impressive book!
June 7, 2015
This book is a large collection of interesting recipes, many of them are exotic and unusual. I am sure the author put her heart into creating this guide. Amazing photography, illustrations are making you hungry. Most dishes are very easy to cook, and truly tasty! My favorites are fish-cutlets, salty corn, shaslik, ragout with meat and eggplant "caviar." My children's favorites are some of hot soups and fruity kissel desserts.
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June 17, 2015
A great cookbook with so many wonderful recipes. The pictures are fabulous. The recipes have easy to follow directions and so tasty.
June 20, 2015
Many great recipes. Eastern Europe food is very delicious. This book will provide many new and tasty recipes for our and your family meals.
August 7, 2015
Sahara Sanders' book presents a wide range of surprising and unusual recipes drawn from the eastern European tradition. These are not restaurant foods either, but homestyle recipes. (I say this because I have not seen these foods on restaurant menus during my visits to Eastern Europe, although that could perhaps be because I went to different countries than Sahara draws upon.) The recipes are not laid out in a traditional cookbook style, with a list of ingredients each on a separate line, but instead are written in conversational paragraphs. Except for some salads, the food is overall very heavy; this is not a book of diet recipes, but that doesn't bother me at all, since cooking a new recipe is a special-occasion thing for me anyway.
Sahara clearly excels at food styling, for she supplies a very large number of brightly colored images of the recipes arranged decoratively. I've rarely seen a cookbook with so many color photos of the same dishes in completely different presentations. This is sure to be a hit for those who eat with their eyes.
I am only partway through the book but have already seen a number of recipes I would like to try at home. Some ingredients will take effort to get hold of, but most of the recipes can be well-supplied simply from the grocery store.
Sahara clearly excels at food styling, for she supplies a very large number of brightly colored images of the recipes arranged decoratively. I've rarely seen a cookbook with so many color photos of the same dishes in completely different presentations. This is sure to be a hit for those who eat with their eyes.
I am only partway through the book but have already seen a number of recipes I would like to try at home. Some ingredients will take effort to get hold of, but most of the recipes can be well-supplied simply from the grocery store.
July 29, 2016
I found lots of fabulous recipes of tasty dishes and drinks, in this very unusual and authentic cookbook. Highly recommended!
April 13, 2016
This is a beautiful book. The food presentations are amazing; almost too beautiful to eat! I love experimenting with the cuisine of other cultures! There are a few recipes I would like to try.
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