Carved Cucumber Cups filled with Cucumber, Sour Cream and Dill Salad

Apple-cinnamon hand pies are perfect for fall baking: easy to make and great for any meal.

Individual apple cups with bubbles of fruit and berries.

Mama's chicken and turkey soup with giant meatballs that are juicy, sweet and rich, and smoothing and flavorful broth.

Gourmet Restyle: How to transform regular baked potatoes to a potato-rose bouquet.

Russian stuffed cabbage rolls "Golubtsy" with ground meat and rice in tomato-sour cream sauce.

Traditional Russian spring carrot and egg hand pies

Warm quinoa salad with roasted cauliflower is a wonderful winter-to-spring transition dish

Classic Russian dumplings (pelmeni) with three kinds of meat. Serve hot with sour cream!

Sauerkraut pancakes are easy to make and best served hot with sour cream.

Galushki/halušky – thick and soft noodles or dumplings cooked in water, broth or milk.

This Russian porridge with cream and dried berries is baked in a pumpkin and it makes a great holiday breakfast!

This is a great Thanksgiving appetizer: dark bread, roasted beets (common in Russia), colorful butternut squash, walnuts, balsamic sauce.

Ricotta toast on mini baguette with fresh quince and candied walnuts.

“Herring under a fur coat” ("Seledka pod shuboi") Russian salad in two ways: as a main dish and as an appetizer!

For this vegan blini recipe I used almond-coconut milk instead of regular milk, and flaxseed flour as an egg replacement.

simple snack with mozzarella, tomatoes and herbs