We enjoy marble rye bread from the store, but we are trying to make all of our own bread. Sometimes we do end up buying bread, but my goal for 2025 is to make all of our own bread at home, from scratch!! Homemade always tastes better and we can better control the ingredients we…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Natchinka – Baked Cornmeal
Natchinka or Natchynka (pronounced notch-ing-ka) is a Ukrainian baked cornmeal. This is a dish that my mom has made all my life and one my girls have been eating since they were toddlers. My girls often ask for “cornmeal in the oven” because it’s different than mămăligă cooked on the stove. It’s delicious and a…
Chocolate Raspberry Muffin Mix in a Jar
Every year, I give my daughters a mix-in-a-jar of something delicious! And I give them each a completely different recipe, so if they combine or compare recipes they’re all different! For Orthodox Christmas (also known as Ukrainian Christmas), we always make each other something. My daughter ‘H’ got the Apple Cinnamon Pancake in a Jar…
Apple Cinnamon Pancakes in a Jar
Every year, I give my daughters a mix-in-a-jar of something delicious! And I give them each a completely different recipe, so if they combine or compare recipes they’re all different! For Orthodox Christmas (also known as Ukrainian Christmas), we make each other gifts, so I decided to make this apple cinnamon pancakes for my daughter…
12 Days of Cookies… Year Two – 2024
It’s our second annual 12 Days of Cookies! That was a delicious way to start the holiday season! It is also a great way to have a bunch of cookies for the holidays – we always keep half and freeze half! Here’s what we made: Day 1 — Sugar Plum Shortbread Cookies Day 2 —…
12 Days of Cookies… Day 12 — Lebkuchen
It’s Day 12 — the last day of our 12 Days of Cookies. I can’t believe the 12 Days of Cookies is complete — and we have a freezer full of cookies for the holidays! We have had some pretty delicious cookies and these are no exception!! Lebkuchen is a soft and chewy German spiced…
12 Days of Cookies… Day 11 — Mrs. Claus’ Old Fashioned Fruitcake Cookies
I love that this is a recipe from the old days! These delicious old fashioned fruitcake cookies are lightly spiced, soft and chewy and packed with dried fruit. It has flavors similar to traditional fruitcake but, remind me of an old fashioned hermit cookie!! It’s Day 11 of our 12 Days of Cookies!! Let’s get…
12 Days of Cookies… Day 10 — Butter Tart Thumbprint Cookies
It’s Day 10 of the 12 Days of Cookies! And this cookie is based off of a Canadian classic — butter tarts! These thumbprint cookies have a shortbread-like cookie base and a gooey butter tart filling which makes such a delicious sweet treat! We added currants to the filling (because we typically add currants to…
