Regional Cuisine Recipes

Steep fresh grated ginger with cinnamon, cloves, and citrus juices to create a spiced concentrate that's refreshing served over ice or mixed with soda water.

A Slovenian and International recipe. Instead of lemon rind Grandma uses lemon juice. Grandma also waits until the dough is ready to slice the apples, that way they don't turn brown. She also uses the slicer on the side of a grater to slice the apples really thin.

Pugach pie - Eastern European filled yeast bread with your choice of cabbage, potato, or sauerkraut filling, sealed and rolled flat, then brushed with browned butter.

Portuguese biscoitos shaped into rings from hand-rolled dough ropes. A simple butter and egg cookie that bakes golden, lightly sweet, and crisp.

Easy homemade kimchi with cabbage and daikon, salted, spiced, and left to ferment to your taste. A simple, vegan Korean side dish with no fish sauce, as tangy and funky as you care to make it.

Tender pork stir-fried with carrots and celery in tangy-sweet plum sauce. This Cantonese classic is packed with ginger flavor and ready in just 30 minutes.

Cream cheese kolache dough made with butter, flour, egg yolk, and sugar. This no-yeast pastry dough chills overnight and rolls out flaky for filled cookies with prune, poppy seed, or apricot.

Advocaat is nothing like the eggnog here in America. It is thick and creamy---not foamy at all. This delicious Dutch drink is actually eaten with a spoon!

Never need to order take-out again. I followed the recipe and made the dish for dinner last night, and it was absolutely delicious. My 4-year-old told me that she wanted the same food again tonight :)

Czarnina is a traditional Polish duck soup: a dark, sweet-and-sour broth of duck or goose with pork ribs, dried prunes and cherries, soured with vinegar and enriched with cream. Served with egg noodles or dumplings.

This very old recipe is famous for the artistic, decorative sculpture arranged on top. The picture in the cookbook has the upper outer edge circled with a braid of dough and cut-outs of ducks arranged flat on the top.

A touch of Irish Cream teams up with chocolate for a mouth-watering change of pace.

Golden egg noodles stir-fried with Chinese BBQ pork, bok choy, and mushrooms in savory oyster sauce gravy. This classic Cantonese comfort food is ready in 50 minutes.

Grasmere gingerbread: the famous Lake District gingerbread biscuit made with oatmeal, butter, ginger and golden syrup. Cross between a flapjack and a gingerbread, with origins in 1850s Cumbria.

European-style buckwheat cake with a nutty almond sponge base filled and topped with cranberry cottage cheese mousse. A light, elegant layered dessert with old-world charm.

Briami is a Greek oven-roasted vegetable casserole with eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, and peppers in a garlicky tomato sauce. Vegetarian, naturally vegan, and packed with Mediterranean flavor.