Sriracha Mayo

I will be eternally grateful to one of my favorite people for introducing me to this! So simple and so good. I'm embarrassed to say it goes on pretty much everything when I've got some in the fridge...

Chicken Shell Soup

First off the bat, no, this recipe is not trying to reignite the chicken or the egg debate, it just shows my pasta of choice in its name! It's just started snowing again here in Saskatchewan - a month after our first snowfall! - and so naturally my favorite fall soup came to mind! I wasn't feeling the version with rice I often make though, so this is my attempt at a chicken noodle soup. I hope you like it as much as I do!

Lazy Day Blueberry Pancakes

This is truly the laziest of lazy day recipes once you've moved past a bowl of cereal or DoorDash! Super easy, super yummy, and quite flexible if you want to add extras!

Ful Medames with Berberé

Ful medames has been a favorite of mine from my first samplings, the very first on a holiday in Egypt and the second during a visit to friends in Tigray in northern Ethiopia. I fell in love with both versions, and woke up recently with a craving for Ethiopian-style ful. What follows is my own recipe based on my (admittedly very rusty!) memory, what I had in the pantry, and it being a fast day when I made it.

Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup

This is another blend of a couple of recipes, from here and here. Ham seems to be a popular add-in to split pea soup in North America, but more often than not I make it as below for days when I'm vegan. I think this recipe is delicious as is, but feel free to add some ham or bacon if you're wanting that richer flavor in the end product!

Broccoli Chicken Casserole

I was catching up on the videos of one of my favorite YouTubers, Beryl Shereshewsky, and she reminded me in one of her recent videos about the existence of one of those classic staples of the church potluck, the broccoli chicken casserole! The video as a whole really took me back to that world of very classically American potluck cookery, and left me with a craving for some broccoli chicken casserole in particular! (Also, I had some broccoli and chicken that I needed to use up...)

Basic Borscht

Borscht is a nostalgic dish for me, something that always brings back memories of days spent at my godmother's house, where there would often be a giant pot of borscht bubbling away on the stove. She was from an area in southern Russia very close to what today is southeastern Ukraine, so her borscht was a bit different from what's more often considered standard by Russians and Westerners alike.

Spiced Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bakes

 This recipe is another old favorite that I'm putting up so that I don't have to wonder about exact measurements if the original recipe ever gets taken down. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have over the years!

Zupa Ogórkowa

This creamy dill pickle soup is an old Polish favorite from this wonderful blog that I've long enjoyed, especially in the wintertime.  I've made minor modifications based on my own preferences, so feel free to adapt from here or follow the link to give the original a try!

Easy Tater Tot Casserole

This is a classic of North American cookery and a personal favorite! The following is based on the lovely "tater tot hot dish" recipe from the wonderful cooks of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Narol, Manitoba, as recorded in their 2011 Centennial Cookbook. I've made my usual modifications - lets be honest, primarily copious amounts of garlic! - but the core is unchanged. Narol's master chefs dedicated their cookbook to the founders of their parish, Orthodox Ukrainians from what in 1911 was the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. May their memories be eternal! Вічная пам'ять!

Broccoli Potato Soup

I'm always a fan of broccoli cheddar soup, but I wanted something a little less heavy the other day and this turned out gorgeously! The recipe is largely lifted from Vegangela, but I made slight modifications to better fit my tastes. I hope you enjoy as much as I did!

Salsa Scrambled Eggs with Sausage

 I'm sure there a million much better, more authentic versions of this out there, but this was born from a craving for a fusion of the pre-Lent indulging going on right now, Tex-Mex, and my favorite Chinese breakfast, xīhóngshì chǎo jīdàn. (Which is not a breakfast dish per se, but became a go-to breakfast for me when I was living in Manchuria.) I hope you enjoy what resulted as much as I do!

Coconut Rice Pudding

I've been playing around with rice pudding recipes, and so far this is my favorite! It is largely this recipe with a few additions. I hope you like it as much as I do!

Thai-style Pumpkin Soup with Shrimp

In my family it's a tradition to have pumpkin soup on New Year's in honor of Haitian Independence Day. Due to my limited access to certain ingredients over the years I've played around with my recipe quite a bit. What follows is my favorite experiment so far (a slight adaptation of this recipe), and possibly my recipe from here onwards despite its distance from more traditional Haitian recipes. I hope you like it as much as I do!