Mini Breakfast Quiches – Recipe
Mini Quiches are the perfect addition to your family’s breakfast menu or a group brunch.
You can make them vegetarian, or add your favorite meat, such as bacon chips, cooked ground turkey, ham, Italian Sausage, etc.
Crustless Spinach Quiche – Recipe
Quiche sounds complicated to prepare, but on the contrary, I would categorize this dish preparation as Cooking 101.
It is also such a versatile dish as it may be served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or brought to a party.
Sorrel Borscht (Shchav, Shchavel) – Recipe
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.
Ukrainian Easter Basket – Beautiful Tradition
Easter is such a beautiful holiday, but here in the US, it does not even get close to the vast recognition that Christmas is showered with.
My family and I feel very lucky to be familiar with and able to practice the Ukrainian Easter traditions. Besides the 40 days of the Great Lent and the different church services from Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday, there is the traditional Easter Basket Blessing, which takes place at our church on Holy Saturday, or right after the Sunrise Easter Sunday Liturgy in other parishes.
Ukrainian Traditional Easter Basket – Special Food and Symbolism
The Easter Basket of special foods (described below) is arranged on Holy Saturday and taken to church, where the parish priest performs a special blessing ceremony with prayers and sprinkling with Holy Water. Some churches perform their basket blessing on Easter Sunday, after the Morning Resurrection Liturgy.