If you haven’t thought about blini lately, please may we have your full attention? Let’s say you have some caviar, and let’s say that caviar is not triple O beluga or something just as good. (If you ...
Watching the Oscars, like the Super Bowl, has become almost an unofficial holiday, an occasion when tens of millions of us get together for an old-fashioned TV-viewing party, complete with abundant ...
According to Alice Waters in the “Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook,” whenever legendary chef Jeremiah Tower made blini at Chez Panisse, he’d recount how his Russian uncle felt about butter. You had enough ...
Watching the Oscars, like the Super Bowl, has become almost an unofficial holiday, an occasion when tens of millions of us get together for an old-fashioned TV viewing party, complete with abundant ...
WHEN I WAS A CHILD, my grandmother—a Russian transplanted to Texas—came to stay twice a year. She’d take over the kitchen and make dozens of what I then thought were her personal creation: cottage ...
Watching the Oscars, like the Super Bowl, has become almost an unofficial holiday, an occasion when tens of millions of us get together for an old-fashioned TV viewing party, complete with abundant ...
Beluga lentils are so named because they resemble beluga caviar, and some creative vegetarian cooks have used them in recipes that play off the resemblance. This treatment uses kombu, a type of dried ...
Blini look like simple pancakes, but once you understand how they are made and how they are eaten, it becomes clear why they ...
This Jan. 28, 2013 photo shows blini with smoked trout, caviar and horseradish cream served on a platter in Concord, N.H. These elegant hors d'oeuvres are perfect for an Oscar night viewing party. (AP ...