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Blueberry Cake
A butter sponge with half a kilo of blueberries — some folded through the batter, the rest laid in the base of the tin so they end up on top.
Eastern Home Kitchen is a record of what actually gets cooked here: Ukrainian and Eastern European dishes handed down at the stove, next to the roast chickens, soups and traybakes that fill the rest of the week. Every recipe is photographed step by step, in a real kitchen, in daylight.
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- Ukrainian Recipes The food we actually cook at home: borscht, varenyky, syrnyky, holubtsi and the everyday dishes that rarely make it into cookbooks. 5 recipes
- Eastern European Recipes Dishes that travel across borders — Polish, Georgian, Russian and Balkan cooking that shares a pantry with Ukrainian food. 3 recipes
- Chicken Recipes Weeknight chicken — roasted, braised, pan-fried and stretched into soup. 3 recipes
- Soup Recipes Brothy, thick, hot and cold — the first course we grew up on. 3 recipes
- Potato Recipes Fried, mashed, baked and folded into dumplings. 8 recipes
- Meat Recipes Pork, beef and lamb, mostly braised slowly and mostly on a budget. 6 recipes
- Baking & Desserts Yeasted buns, tvorog bakes, honey cake and everything in between. 3 recipes
From the Ukrainian table
The dishes this site started with — cooked the way they are cooked at home, not the way they are plated in restaurants.
