I have been baking Easter Paska for several years now using this favorite recipe my family loves.
Lately, I have been experimenting with other paska recipes to compare the taste and texture to my original paska.
The amount of work to prepare any paska is the same, but each recipe has a minor difference, hence the paskas differ in texture; however, they ALL are absolutely delicious.
The whole process of decorating a pysanka, consists of twelve basic steps listed in this post. I have chosen a very basic egg design for the first egg, and if you purchased an egg decorating kit, you will find several other designs to choose from for your next projects.
These Ukrainian Easter Eggs were decorated by my Great-Aunt Anna Kril Bart (Bartoszewska) and her children, in Queens, New York, over 80 years ago. The “sticks” displayed in front of the platter, are homemade styluses, used for drawing the outlines for the design on these eggs. The stylus handles were made from tree twigs, and the metal funnels were made from a metal can cut out…..such was life even in New York, USA, many years ago.
This Quinoa Salad with Magic Green Sauce became my favorite from the first time my daughter-in-law served it for lunch during one of our visits.
It could easily be a light lunch, or as an accompaniment to a main course.
Today I will share a recipe for the salad and include a link to the sauce/dressing recipe from my previous post.
If you like tangy-flavored soups, you will love Sorrel Borscht (Shchav or Shchavel), also known as Green Borscht. My first experience tasting this dish was in a Polish restaurant while visiting my family in Poland.
The special ingredient is sorrel, a simple herb/vegetable, however, not easily found in a grocery store, but rather in a specialty food shop, or grown in your garden.