About
My family: I married my wonderful husband Vadim (who cooks, loves mountain biking and is an awesome dad) over 7 years ago. We are blessed with our first child who is now 2 and 1/2. We live in Idaho. Our family is actively involved in a Christian Ukrainian church, where my hubby is now the Youth Leader and God is really blessing him in it. We strive to walk in love and live our lives by the word of God and life of Jesus.
P.S. I love to cook!
The ultimate food critic
Well, this is mostly a Russian food blog/ Ukrainian food blog. It features authentic Russian recipes and Ukrainian recipes. Sometimes I stray and post something Mexican, Asian or Italian, but I only post stuff that we make and really enjoy, Like Zuppa Toscana by Tanya. This is a personal website and all of the recipes are tested and approved by my family. All of the photography is done by my husband Vadim, or myself unless otherwise noted.
The ingredients are simple and easily accessible (not overly hoity-toity). My motto: if you can read, you can cook!
How I got Started Cooking:
I wasn’t always interested in cooking; actually I first got interested when I got married because it became a necessity – “must eat to live.” We had a lot of frozen meals (pizza, corn dogs, etc) – and we ate out a lot in the first years of our marriage. A few years ago, I had a free summer and decided I would improve my cooking skills so we could live and eat healthier. I dove into cookbook after cookbook. I was at the library all the time bringing home piles of cookbooks.
I even read my mother’s cooking textbook from her college days (Yes, she completed her culinary program when we moved to the US and she is the best chef I know!) I hope my children will say the same thing about me some day!
I had discovered the joy of cooking. Within a few months, my husband and I lost about 5 pounds just from cooking at home more often!
It’s very fulfilling to cook a delicious and beautiful meal for my husband and family.
I even have quite a reputation with my husbands co-workers since I pack my husbands’ fancy lunch feasts. (Yes, I had you Verizon folk in mind when I decided to create this site).
Culture and Background
Dad, Mom 5 daughters, their husbands & the babies (there are more babies now)
My family moved to the US when I was 4 years old. America is truly a melting pot. The variety of cultures and food in this country is incredible! I grew up eating authentic Ukrainian and Russian food.
No doubt many of my recipes will have a Slavic origin and influence.
I do love Russian/Ukrainian food and I hope the recipes on this site invoke the same love for the rich variety of foods of the Slavic culture.
My recipe collection continues to grow. I love to try new recipes and I will share my favorites with you. I hope you enjoy this blog and find recipes that will become your family favorites as well.
Thank you for visiting my recipe blog and I hope you come back soon!
If you would like your recipe featured on this site, email it to me: natashaskitchen(at)yahoo.com. No spammers please.
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Love your blog! What a fun way to share your cooking experiences. I’ll definitely refer to this. Thanks for sharing!
I’m glad you like it
Thanks for visiting my site!
Hi Natasha!!!
I was looking for a recipe for plov on the web and to my surprise I found very familiar faces on this website. What a small world! Love the website and the idea of preserving culture and family traditions.
Hi Lyuda!! So happy you found me online. It is a small world. Thank you; I’m glad you like it.
This is a wonderful blog! An American in St. Petersburg sent me a link to your site and I am so pleased that he did. Almost all of my favorite recipes are here, along with many more new ones to try in the coming months. ‘Большое спасибо’!
You are so welcome. Your comments made my morning. Have a wonderful day and hope you enjoy the new recipes you try out!
I’m so happy to have found your site! We have a Ukrainian foreign exchange student living with us this year. Mykola’s mom is an extraordinary cook who makes nutritious, multi-course meals from scratch. Unfortunately, Mykola was paired with an American family who eats nothing but fast food and frozen dinners. I do not know the first thing about cooking.
Because dinnertime makes Mykola homesick, I am doing my best to learn how to make healthful, home-cooked meals. I found your site just after making my first borscht. I am so excited to find these delicious-sounding recipes with photos. I will likely check in here daily.
Awesome! I’m so glad you found me. I hope you enjoy the Ukrainian food too. Say hi to Mykola for me
Hello,
I just discovered your site today and really enjoyed it! I am particularly interested in dessert recipes and was wondering if you have any cake recipes with many layers such as “Spartak” or “Medovnik”…?
My mom has a very good spartak layer cake recipe, but I’ve never made it myself. It’s quite time consuming. Its on my to-do list, but I’m not sure when I’ll make it. I too have been looking for a good medovik cake recipe. Sorry, I know thats not much help. Keep checking back though, I post russian dessert recipes pretty regularly.
Hi Natasha,
I just came accross your web site today and I am so excited. My story is similar to yours, I love to cook and bake but never was into it until I got married to my Ukrainian husband. I love to discover new Russian/Ukrainian recipes with ingredients that are available in American grocery stores. I have a good recipes of Medovik cake and would like to share it with you since I saw you were looking for one.
Торт Нежность-Медовик (I double the ingredients since one portion makes a really small cake).
1 stick melted unsulted butter(113 grams), add in 2 TBS honey, and 2 tsp Conyak or Brandy.
In a separate mixing bowl whisk 4 eggs with a fork and add to the butter mixture.
Put this all on “Водяную Баню” for those who don’t know what this means- boil water in a pot and put the bowl with all of the ingredients inside/on top of the pot while its still boiling(make sure the bowl is not too small that it falls through-have it about same diameter as the pot with water). If the water in the pot is bubbling too much turn down the heat to med or low.
Keep mixing all of the ingredients while it cooks and add in 2 tsp baking soda, keep mixing the mix until it approximately doubles in the amount. Take the mixing bowl of the stove and mix in 1 1/2 to 2 cups of flour-dough is ready. Note: dough should be like playdough consistency, make sure not to over-add flour since you will be rolling your dough out on floured counter and more flour will be added that way into your dough sheets. Separate your dough into 11-12 balls.
Roll out each dough ball- I start rolling it out on floured counter and transfer it to parchment paper and finish rolling it out until the sheet is pretty think- place it on a cookie sheet and bake each sheet at 350 degrees until its golden color( about 2-4 minutes depends on the thickness of your sheets). Once you get the hang of this its pretty easy- just a bit time consuming. One sheet is baking while you are rolling out the other one. Also your sheets will be all different shapes so after you bake them trim off the edges and save them to cover the top of the cake.
Recipe for cream
16 oz Whip Cream(Cool Whip)
1/2 can Condensed Milk
1/2 can (1.5 LB can) of Sour Cream
Whip all of the ingredients and spread on each layer of the baked sheets. Note: After I cover the second cake layer with cream I spread on top of the cream some fruit preserve or pour some fruit syrup. Adds great twist to the cake. The last layer I cover with cream and sprinkle with left over crushed uneven edges that I saved.
Let the cake stand on the counter for 1-2 hours so all of the layers can absorb the cream and become softer.
For those who don’t have time to bake all of the sheets
I sometimes cheat and use graham crackers(Honey Maid) and lay them out in a square form and use the same cream recipe. Then I crush some more graham crackers and sprinkle the top layer. Of course it is still not the same as the baked cake but this is bakeless version and is also pretty good.
Enjoy and God Bless.
Wow! Lena, thank you soo much for the recipe. I really appreciate it. I can’t wait to try it! God bless you too and welcome to the site – I hope you find recipes that your family will love
Hello. I just found your blog. A friend mentioned eating some apple piroshki and I googled it. Yours was the second or third on the list.
At church I’ve helped make (literally) tens of thousands, but never sweet. Meat, cabbage, mushroom, carrot, fish. But never any sweet.
So, yet another blog to peruse.
Cordially,
Joe in N. Calif
I love your blog, I’ve always been looking for all kinds of Russian/Ukrainian recipes, I will definitely cook some of this amazing food, thanks for sharing, God Bless You
HI Inna, thank you for your sweet comment! God bless you too and I hope you enjoy the recipes!
I definitely will, I also shared your blog with my friends and family and they absolutely love it, how can you not? amazing food
Thanks again
Hi Inna! Thank you, I really appreciate that!
Natasha! Thank you so so so much for creating such a wonderful and deliciously brilliant blog!!!
I myself am Ukrainian, and sometimes it’s ridiculously hard to get exact recipes from family, so this blog really helps alot!!
I love the pictures – photography is amazing! I am glad I ran across your blog – it’s alot better than checking out 6 russian cookbooks from the local library and trying to pick apart the recipes! :p
I am looking forward to digging right in and creating some of these long time loved recipes!
God bless you and your beautiful family!
Natashka Hi. Do you have any Piroshki recepie here? I’m just not looking good enough?
Hi, I do have piroshki with potatoes and piroshki with apples. Are these the types of piroshki you are looking for?
Hi Natasha, so I’m trying to make the korzinki, and the dough is a little too soft, should i add more flour to make the dough a little firmer?
Sorry I didn’t get your comment sooner. You’ve probably already made them. If you could roll it into a ball, the dough should be fine, otherwise, sprinkle some more flour until it looks like the dough in the picture and doesn’t stick to your hands when you roll it into a ball. What did you end up doing and how did they turn out?
I’m am so thrilled I stumbled upon your website!! We are hosting an orphan from Ukraine over Christmas and last year she ate like a bird. Actually, she seemed to live on Cheetos and pickles. Eww…Hopefully, some of your recipes will entice her. We’re hosting her brother this year, also.
Question–any way to translate a simple recipe into Ukrainian or Russian. Or any website you’re aware of that is in both languages? Anya loved helping me in the kitchen and it would be awesome if she could make a few things on her own.
I hope the little ones enjoy whatever you make from this website. If Anya has a preference for pickles
– you may want to try olivye its a very common salad in ukraine and has pickles! You can translate anything on Google translate
I just found your blog through a friend on facebook! I love Jesus, I love food, and I love Ukraine. I think we could be friends.
My husband and I are missionaries who have done some work in Ukraine and plan on returning very soon for five years. I love Ukrainian food and I look forward to following your blog!
Keep up the good work!
That’s awesome! God bless you both in your work in Ukraine. God bless you to be incredibly fruitful, so the seed you plant in your ministry will produce fruit 100-fold!
Hello there! I am so excited to have found your blog. I grew up on a farm in a Ukrainian community in ND. All four sets of my great grandparents are from Ukrainie. My parents grew up speaking Ukrainian as their first language. My grandmothers cooked a lot of traditional Ukrainian dishes. I can’t wait to go through your blog and look at all your recipes. I have posted one or two Ukrainian recipes on my blog. Hope you can stop by and say hi!!
Dobry vechir –
~Tania
Hi Tania! I checked out your blog. Is there an easy way to find the Ukrainian recipes on your site? Your recipes look wonderful and I’d love to check out the Ukrainian dishes you posted.
These cookies are wonderful, my mother’s side was from Poland and she made similar ones to these.
I added a sprinkle of cardamom and nutmeg to the powdered sugar for rolling them in afterwards for a touch of spicey flavor. I am sure you could use any assortment of spices in your kitchen-cinnamon, ginger, ect.
Another variation is to substitute ground almond or hazelnut flours (you can get these at Trader Joe’s or WHole Foods) and likewise, substitute almond extract for the vanilla.
Thanks Natascha !
Hello Natasha,
I was looking for SHUBA SALAD recipe. Just wanted to try at this New Year celebration. There are many Recipes on Google. However, for some reason, your site took my attention, more than others.
I like the presentation – simple and so friendly, and your way of presenting was very charismatic, if I can say – very personal
Added to my favorites 
Thank you for Shuba Recipe, I printed out, so will try at New Year feast 2011 !
Happy New Year to you and your family!
Kristine
Dallas
TX
Thank you Kristine. I hope you enjoy it! It’s one of my favorites. I appreciate your nice comments and welcome to the site!
hello natasha,
my name is natasha too and I am from Lvov. I live in new york. I came to America when I was 3. I always look for real, authentic russian/ukrainian recipes. I made your oladi with apples and my husband loved them. There are many bakeries here that sell Spartak cake, but they are so expensive. I was wondering if you could post your mother’s recipe. thank you
I will post it next time I make it. Not sure when that will be with my school schedule. Cakes always take awhile. I’ll try to make it for the next special occassion and then I will post the recipe.
Hello Natsha,
I was blessed with marrying a Russian man. I’m Mexican and I’m familiar with Mexican cooking but not Russian. So when I got married of course my husband (we are now going on 6 yrs) was and is still asking me to cook him the stuff his mom or his babushka would cook him and I had/have no idea even where to start.
My husband blessed me with a kitchen Aid mixer yesterday and asked if I can finally make him Vareniki (his favorite) so I got on to Google and your site came up. I have been on your site for about two hours now writing just about every recipe you have. You have an awesome blog and looking forward to your future Russian recipes. Keep up the great work. Blessings to you and your family!! ~Rosie
Thank you Rosie!! He’s got you started on the tough stuff. Vareniki take forever.
But they are good. God bless you too. I hope you discover recipes you and your husband will love!
Looking through your website for the Ukrainian recipes and I see some listed as Russian. Are they Russian or Ukrainian and is there a difference.
I haven’t done any background checks on the recipes, I name them based on whether they are traditionally Russian or Ukrainian made. Many of the recipes could be Russian or Ukrainian. My site probably isn’t the best place to do historical research of recipes
– Maybe if I had more time, I’d look into it more…maybe? 
I am so glad I found your site!! I’m 100% American but I spent several years living in Ukraine and married a wonderful Ukrainian man. Whenever I see that he’s homesick, it’s great fun to try out your recipes. I make really good borsht, but that’s about it. . . thanks for sharing these wonderful, easy recipes!!
Your welcome! I hope some of these recipes remind him of home
I came across your site while searching for authentic recipes I could make for my daughter’s high school Russian club. Although I don’t have any ties to Russia or the Ukraine, I noticed that many of the recipes have “sister” recipes that I’m familiar with from my mother-in-law’s Polish cooking. I made the borscht tonight and it’s going in my regular soup rotation. I look forward to more Russian cooking adventures!
Thank you Deb. Welcome to the site! There is a ton of cross over in cooking with Russian/Ukrainian and Polish recipes. That’s why its so hard to say any recipe is just Russian or Just Ukrainian. Well, we all have similar taste buds
Hi Natasha. I love that your Russian recipes are written in English! I am glad that I found your website! Thank You!
What a wonderful site Natasha!! I am glad my sister shared this site w/me. Even though I came to America when I was 6 & married when I was 16 w/out much knowledge in Russian cooking, I researched as many Russian sites to find recipes since I want to carry on the Russian food down to my kids. Gotta say, this is the BEST site I’ve seen!!! GREAT JOB!!! KEEP “EM COMING!!
Thank you. Music to my ears
Hey Natasha
I’m so surprised I’ve only now found your cute blog! I am a Russian (my mum was Russian though) living in London, writing about food – http://www.GastronomicalMe.com. I’ve seen you posting on alina’s blog. perhaps we should do something together, gals? e-blog recipe exchange!
Oooh
sounds good! I am looking forward to checking our your site and some of your recipes too!
Natasha
I totally love and enjoy your blogs… Look forward to your new recipes, keep them coming.
Thanks Alla – comments like yours are awesome motivation for me
Glad you enjoy the blog!
After looking at several different sites/blogs with recipes, russian and not, I HAVE TO comment
you have the nicest blog from all I have seen! keep up the good work! 
I absolutely love it. So easy, clear, and fun, nicely laid out with awesome pictures!!! Seriously, you do a wonderful job and knowing that you have a family plus church plus the nursing program that you’re in, it’s not easy and it all takes time and patience and you seem to manage it all nicely. Great job! God bless you in all you do!
Thank you Olga that is such a nice and thoughtful comment
First of all, I really like your site! Me and my wife were browsing through your pages and remembering all the delicious dishes our moms (and grandmas) would make!
What happened to the categories section? I thought there was an area where I can browse recipes by category like breakfast or dinner…
Btw great job on the iPad friendly theme, very handy to have it in the kitchen while I’m cooking
Hi Vitaliy – thank you! I’m glad you enjoy the site and the ipad friendliness
Look at the top – there is a recipes tab The same categories are still there but now all of our recipes have little photos next to them – we thought it would make searching for a recipe easier. I also put the categories section back on the right column – I didn’t realize it wasn’t there. 
Hi Natasha!
You said your mom has good recepie for Spartak cake.
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I search internet for this recipe with out luck
Will you please post recipe.
Thank you
Natasha love your blog, I’ve always love to cook i tryid today your recipe nalicniki and i loved I will definitely cook some of this amazing food, thanks for sharing, God Bless You
First off I want to say LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!! biv been in states since 5 so anything kind of russian meal I want to make its always hard my mom gives me measurments in grams try figuring out how many cups or spoons that is.
or there all in russian which growing up here I don’t know how to read it. Im so glad there in english and pictures included!!! and recipes are awesome! i run out of ideas all the time. God bless you and your family! and please….. please keep going!! do you by chance have any moldavian recipes? my hubbys moldavian and loves to eat, and that a whole new world to me. thanks!! be blessed
Natasha,
kak klassno 4to u vas est’ vot eta strani4ka! I am so happy to have found you. I moved to the US when I was 12 and now at 25 and a newly-wed, I am cooking more. Its great to continue my heritage and teach it to my American husband through your recipes. Keep up the good work!!
Udachi vam vo vsem!
Dasha
Atlanta GA
Thank you Dasha!! I appreciate your encouraging words
Hi Natasha,
I accidentally came across your blog and was so thrilled!! I am so excited about your fantastic recipes, you have no idea! Thank you SO much for such a beautiful blog and amazing recipe’s, I can’t wait until I get home from work
I’m so excited, I feel like I’m gonna cook all weekend long!! 
Anyways, thank you for sharing all this wealth with us and for all the hard work you put in! I know its not easy, esp with a child and being a student. God Bless you dear!
Thank you Lana – I appreciate the encouragement
Hope you enjoy the recipes and have fun cooking! 
Great blog you have especially since I live in Ukraine, it’s very useful and interesting! I’m only a 14 year old but already have my own baking blog
Check it out for a lot of different recipes – http://teenage-baking.blogspot.com/
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yo i really enjoyed reading about ur life, but was sad that ur fav lil sister was never mentioned! anyway could u please post more of a detailed xplanation of ur personal life and events, events and activites aswell as a more indepth look into your spiritual walk! please and thank u!
Oh my. Thank you for such an interesting comment. If you weren’t my sister I’d be a little concerned about your request for a “detailed explanation” of my personal life and events and activities. You are my favorite youngest sister. How’s that?
Natasha,
Love your blog!! Thank you for sharing such wonderful recipes…I look forward to trying so many of your dishes! I cook all the time because I have to, but your blog inspires me to truly enjoy it! Thanks!
Lena
Tacoma, Washington
I stumbled upon your blog because I was looking for a napoleon cake recipe. But it seems I’ve discovered much more. My fiance is actually Ukrainian- (I am not.) I am excited to cook for him some Ukrainian food. He would totally be impressed! Thank You! =)
Welcome to the site and I hope you enjoy the recipes
Can you please please please post a recipe for karzinki? Or at least what to put in the filling part?
http://natashaskitchen.com/2010/11/10/meringue-and-raspberry-baskets-korzinki/
Thanks so much for posting all these awesome recipes. This is my fav cookin site!! I already made several things & I love how you include pics w/ your steps! God bless & thanks so much
Privet Natasha. I’m Ron from Los Angeles, California. I am very interested in trying some slavonic food recipes so I started looking at your site. I plan to visit Russia and the Ukraine in about a year. I want to explore different countries and learn about their cultures, and cooking food is such a good way to understand the soul of a people. I was glad to read that you went into nursing because I have just finished my LPN program at a private school here. What area of nursing do you like the best? Thanks and I hope to hear from you.
I have had the opportunity to prepare a few variations of вареники (with cherries, potatoes and bacon, sour apples…). Stumbled across your site and happy that I did. Am really getting into the love of Russian cuisine…and I think that your site has definitely hit the spot. Looking forward to trying some of those amazing recipes that you have compiled. I thank you in advance for helping me along this amazing journey in foods!
Hi Jocelyn, welcome to the site! I hope you love the recipes!
Such an awesome site! I was trying to find a recipe for katleti and your recipe came up and was the first i read and tried. im not a fan of cooking but ur site with amazing pictures and easy recipes has me all fired up to try ur recipes and to cook. im russian ans so is my husband but growing up in this country most of our lives its easy to go out and east those frozen fast meals. thanks for your recipes and great blog! keep it up! hope to visit here daily
oh do you have any great easy slow cooker recipes? mine just sitting on the counter brand new over 3 yrs now, wanting to put it to use lol
Natashen’ka thank you so so much for opening up this blog and your dedication to cook. I really enjoy reading your site, it helped me tremendously to start love to cook again. Before I was cooking because of necessity, I have three kids an a husband to feed, but know i really enjoy it. You really made it an enjoyable experience for me. Thanks again. Your are a blessed woman and I know God will continue to bless you even more. Please don’t stop this website, keep it going for many many more years. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from my family to yours.
Thank you Galina. Your comment really means alot to me. I love that this site is blessing others
. God bless you too and have a wonderful Christmas!
Hello Natasha! I really love this site! And I enjoy making some new meals for our family. I am Russian too and my moms name is Natasha too. Even though I am familiar with most of this I still like new desserts and new food! Thank you and continue with your fabulous cooking!
Thank u Natalia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found you on PW and am certainly thrilled by your sharing your wonderful recipes. Every one I have made turned out wonderful and evoke fond memories of my childhood’s family table eating mama or babushka’s delicious foods…I look forward to your postings and continuing preparing the fabulous foods of my heritage to share with my family.
Welcome to the site Zina! I’m so glad you enjoy the recipes
Your website has been very helpful to me. My husband and I adopted 3 teenagers from the Ukraine this year. We were in the Ukraine for 6 weeks and although I really enjoyed the foods there I grew homesick for “familiar flavors”. So I understand how my children feel when they long for foods that are familiar to them. My children and I thank you for the time and effort you put into this blog.
You are very welcome! Thank you for sharing your story – that is a bold and wonderful thing to do!! God bless you and your family. Привiт to my fellow Ukrainians
I’m so glad you found the site too!
I’m so very happy to have stumbled across your site! I have married into the most amazing Russian family that I love so much! I do make Russian/Ukranian dishes often, but they are all from my Mama-in-laws recipes. And those are fantastically delicious! But I would like to learn my own to surprise them. Right now the only thing I can make on my own is selodka pod shubay (spelling). So … thank you for the wonderful information!! Looking forward to exploring the site!
I love shuba too! I make mine with smoked salmon though. I hope you and your Russian family enjoy the recipes!
I love your blog! I’m not familiar with russian cooking at all so I can’t wait to read more posts! You have a beautiful family
Hi Linda and thank you! Welcome to the site. I’ll definitely be checking out your site as well
Natasha, love your blog!!
Great job
Hi Natasha,
So happy to have found your website. I love to cook but unfortunately not to many people from my family share my love for cooking. Looking through your website I felt like I found a cooking friend. Your dessert section is totally awesome, and sweets is my biggest weakness. My hubby is big fan of your ptiche moloko dessert… I’m definitely trying out some more of the recipes in the very near future. Greetings from CT
Hi Natasha today I browsed the net about kievski cake and I see your page. I will go to Israel this month of May to visit my boyfriend. He is Ukranian and migrated in Israel.I love looking and reading your recipes, it think its so delicious. I would love to learn how to cook Russian and Ukranian food for my boyfriend’s family.
Cool! I’ve never been to Israel. Is it relatively safe to travel there now? P.s. welcome to the site
lately i’ve been living on this blog. i dont even wanna share it with my friends cuz i wanna keep all these goodies to myself lol
fine fine, i’ll share… patom…
its so nice to read blogs by godly people with good strong values, i like how in your story you bring it all back to God 
thank you for such a lovely post! God bless you in your cooking and everything, when i saw your site, i automatically thought “hm, i wonder if she’s Christian,” much to my suspicion, you are!
keep them recipes coming!
Thank you Kristina. I guess I also attract Christian readers!
Thank you so much for your kind words; they are very encouraging!!
btw, i made the spinach strawberry salad and allas chicken and veggies marinade today for lunch with the family and they couldn’t stop talking about it! my brother goes “so who do we thank for this awesome food?” i told them “Natasha and her friend Alla” and so my mom dad, Boris, Vlady, Oksana, Serge and me all say THANK YOU
lunch was a success!
Ha, that’s awesome! Thanks Kristina. And you are most welcome!
Hi Natasha, first of all THANKS FOR MAKING THIS WEBSITE!!
Then, I was looking for something exactly like this and when I came across this blog I knew this was my landing spot! Whenever I need to make something, something new, or something creative I ALWAYS come here first! Thanks a lot!
You’re so very welcome! I get excited when I read comments like yours. I’m glad you find the site helpful!
I recently discovered your blog and am enjoying it, especially the step by step pictures/instructions. I’m looking forward to future posts.
Do you have a recipe for “chrusty” aka “verhuny” (angel wings in English)?
Olya D.
Hi Olya, I’m still on the lookout for a good recipe. I found one once but it failed and have been a little discouraged since then. If you find a good one before me, please share!
Hi, I really like your website. Great recipes. But, is there a way to view all of the recipes? That would be so great! There are so many categories it’s kind of hard to look for things. I was trying to find golybtsu and couldn’t find them in the meat category, dinner, or lunch. I seen it here before though. Did you take the recipe off?
If you click on the recipes tab at the top and click dinner recipes, it will be the 11th one on the list. I like using the recipes tab at the top because the pictures show up with the recipes for each category. Hope this helps. I’ve had them on one page before but after about 150 recipes with pictures, it was loading really slow. I’m trying to figure out how to get pictures with the categories search in the right column. Also, here’s the link: http://natashaskitchen.com/2010/07/05/golubtsi-recipe-a-classic-russian-food/
You have a beautiful family! So delighted to meet you online!
Thank you Anastasia. The feeling is mutual!!
Love your blog, I am excited to try savory crepes! This is my first time on Pinterest. What a coincidence that we both live in Idaho. Really liked your fish story! Thank you
Thank you Joan! The savory crepes are a little work, but they taste great! Have you tried the cheese crepes? Those are considerably easier (and equally good!) – just a different kind of good
. Anyway, isn’t pinterest addictive?? I probably spent way too much time there when I first discovered it, but I’ve found a balance now.
Thanks for the lovely recipes!! I find your blog super helpful and fun to use. Keep it up!!
Thank you so much!
I’m glad you find the recipes helpful!
Wow, Natasha! What a wonderful way of sharing such an amazing recipe collection. I had a friend over for breakfast yesterday and she shared this amazing website with me. I am just amazed at all the great recipes…cannot wait to share them with my hubby and family
) Thanks so much for your time and effort you put into this 
)
Welcome to the site!! I hope you find some new favorites!
Dear Natasha!
A friend of mine sent me the link of your blog and I love it!
Congratulations for such a great site. I am Spanish but I have been studying Russian for a long time and now I am living in Saint Petersburg.
I am creating a web site that deals with cultural understanding between Russia and Spain, and I would like you to have a look (even if there is not much information yet). I am creating podcasts in Russian and Spanish, in which people are interviewed.
This is the site: http://www.hisparos.com
Please, contact me if you like it.
Thanks!
Lola
I’d love to check it out. Thanks Lola!