One more recipe for stuffed sweet peppers, now with quinoa. Recipe inspired by Physique 57. Bright colors, bright taste. One secret ingredient adds a little kick for all stuffing.

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One more Russian dessert with potato starch. I grow sorrel in my backyard, it’s spinach-like leaves with sour taste. Apple adds structure and mint adds a little fresh kick. Recipe adapted from Russian blog.

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For these rolls I used homemade preserved apples. Great, not too sweet, soft apple filling and my favorite yeast dough with kefir made great dessert.

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Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter today. There are colored eggs, Kuliches and Paskha on Russian, Ukrainian and many more tables. We celebrate Easter with USA, so today I wished my mom happy Easter, made Mexican lunch (it’s Cinco de Mayo also!) and for dinner tea we had these Easter buns from Ukraine. Just because.

I have never met this bake before, but recipe looked very tempting. Two in one – rich and fragrant yeast dough and creamy cheese filling.

So I made it in my, lighter version, with new (for me) method, named in Russian circles Viennese dough. In this method, sourdough is made overnight, but without any flour.

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