Cottage Cheese Bars
I can barely live without these chocolate-glazed cottage cheese bars that are sold in every supermarket in Riga. They make a perfect lunchtime snack, or you can grab one in …
recipes
Green Bean Avocado Arugula Salad
I lied to you. I am not making anything Eastern European this time. I have an excuse: to make something Eastern European, we always join with my Mom. She’s been …
Lemon Polenta Apricot Cookies via 6Bittersweets
“No more expensive foods until the end of the month”, I said to myself after receiving my January bills. I just wasn’t prepared to pay TWICE as much for things …
Yellow Wax Beans and Cauliflower with Cashew Nuts
So jam/preserve season in officially open in our house. We’ve started off with 9 liters of strawberry freezer jam and 5 liters of black currant. That’s just a warm-up before …
Cheese and Chanterelle Mini Omelettes (Baked)
The idea of making mini omelettes with cheese filling belongs to Mom. She invented the recipe when we were baking Rhubarb Meringue Tartelettes and she had to use up a leftover fresh …
Garlic or Cheese Crescent Rolls for Midsummer (Slovak-Latvian fusion, sort of)
Midsummer (Līgo/Jāņi) is probably the most favourite and significant holiday for Latvians. It’s celebrated on 23/24th June when the night is so short that there’re only a couple of really …
Mushroom&Rice Balls with Sour Cream Dill Sauce
That’s amazing how quickly I’ve turned into a true, obsessive foodie. It’s also interesting how I manage to turn almost every conversation to food. For a lot of people, cooking …
Italian Style Haddock with Zucchini and Tomatoes
Perhaps cooking will someday become just a part of the boring daily routine for me, but right now there’s nothing more relaxing than spending a couple of hours tinkering with …
Cheese&Onion Chicken Rolls with Vegetable&Dried Plum Salad
I haven’t eaten meat or poultry for many years now, and even when I HAD to try some chicken recently (I really HAD to), I was surprised how different the …
Cheese Pancakes and Celery and Walnut Salad
These cheese pancakes are one of our family recipes – I loved them when I was a kid, and not just because they were quite a rare treat on our …