Eastern European Recipes

Cottage cheese dumplings with semolina, coated in sugary breadcrumbs – Romanian papanasi fierti. Last week I introduced you to one of my favorite Romanian desserts,…

Traditional Romanian fried doughnuts – papanasi (papanash) – made with cottage cheese and topped with smetana and jam. These papanasi or Romanian fried donuts/doughnuts are…

Baked Albanian Spinach Pie or byrek rolls with phyllo dough, feta, and cottage cheese, the perfect party appetizer or snack.  This Albanian spinach pie or…

Typical Romanian cabbage pies or placinte cu varza, filled with cabbage, lots of dill and served with smetana or sour cream. This kind of pies…

  Cevapcici or cevapi, delicious grilled Croatian sausages with lots of garlic and paprika.   Cevapi/Cevapcici/Croatian Sausages This cevapcici recipe is probably the best homemade…

Pasca is a traditional Romanian Easter cheesecake or Easter bread. A sweet yeast dough filled with a smooth cheese and raisins filling. Romanian Easter Bread…

Start the day with a healthy buckwheat porridge with berries or fruit, a delicious alternative to the common oatmeal. An easy, gluten-free breakfast that will…

  How to cook chicken breast in a cast-iron skillet, an easy recipe for juicy, tender and healthy chicken breast.   PERFECT IRON SKILLET CHICKEN…

  Moist apple and cinnamon cake with stewed apples. Probably your new favorite apple traybake cake recipe.   STEWED APPLE CAKE     Prajitura cu…

  Glorious and decadent Polish cake with layers of meringue and mascarpone – Tort bezowy, this is one of the best cakes I have ever…