Recipes

A cross between LD Restaurant’s red porgy sashimi and typical Dalmatian dishes: fish terrine, tuna carpaccio, and shrimp, with a cucumber yogurt sauce and fennel frond oil.

Another excuse to buy a copper mug, my Sarajevo mule is made with grape rakija, rose syrup, rose hip syrup, and watermelon soda. Garnish with lime and mint!

Another Russian-ish game bird recipe, named after one of the largest noble houses of the Russian Empire and prepared with a gargantuan amount of black truffle.

Discover the controversial history of these pancakes filled with veal paprika stew and sour cream, plus my own recipe.

Horseradish vodka, called khrinovukha, is a Ukrainian classic. My recipe uses caramelized horseradish, honey, and lemon peel.

Mulled wine is the official beverage of Christmas markets all over Eastern Europe. Discover my recipe and its secret ingredients!

One of Hungary’s most famous desserts, the Esterházy torta consists of flavored buttercream sandwiched between layers of an almond and meringue cake, iced with a white fondant glaze and decorated with a characteristic chocolate striped pattern.

What do you serve to a dickhead? A plate of cock testicles, of course! My new poutine recipe, complete with rooster genitalia and black truffle.

A dish that combines Black Sea red mullet and banosh, a kind of polenta cooked in sour cream and brynza cheese, specialty of the Hutsuls, a fierce mountain population living mainly in the Ukrainian Carpathians.

You can’t visit Hungary without eating pogácsas, and these little round biscuits go really well with alcohol. Try my cheese and pork cracking recipes at home!