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I no longer pour milk into this dough. Soft, slightly “wet” yeast dough that stays fresh — the secret is kefir. Soured milk, kefir or homemade buttermilk is ideal for yeast baking. For a slightly “wet” dough, mix it on soured milk: it stays soft and fluffy, the yeast works better, and the loaf keeps its flavour.

A plum cake with streusel: tender, moist crumb, plum filling and a crunchy sugar crust.

Curd-cheese biscuits from my grandmother: quick, no long kneading, and rather good for you.

Kefir biscuits you can cut any shape — the sugar braids look lovely. Store-cupboard ingredients, ready for tea.

Soft cinnamon buns with chocolate and mascarpone icing — simpler than they look.

Soured-cream fairy cakes for tea. They work every time.

Lazy onion-and-egg fritters: fast, filling, and very moreish.

Juicy chicken drumsticks in the pan, with a light garlic note — Bonbon.

Chicken drumsticks in a creamy mushroom sauce: a proper pan supper.

Courgette boats with mince and cheese. A little work hollowing them; then the oven does the rest.

Need a quick, pretty starter? An egg roll with chicken and mushrooms in 15 minutes.

Ukrainian borscht: a pot of vitamins and a mark of a good cook.

Olivier salad: hearty, with cooked sausage — the one people ask for at the table.

Summer Olivier with fresh notes when you want the favourite salad lighter.

Light syrniki in 15 minutes. — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Thin savoury pancakes on boiling water — the batter for any filling.

Juicy pork shashlik. Remember this marinade.

Spaghetti baked with mince in a spiced tomato sauce.

Crunchy sauerkraut in 3 days, in a 3-litre jar.

Golden new potatoes in a roasting bag in 30 minutes, with a garlic sauce.

A kilo of soft homemade bread — or airy batons — from a simple dough.

Braised cabbage that can fill pies — or stand as a dish on its own.

Cheese and spinach flatbreads (khychiny) on kefir: the whole family asked for more.

Crab-stick starter in 10 minutes — “crab tenderness”.

A light summer prawn salad: prawns, egg, cucumber and a spoon of mayonnaise.

Turkey liver stays soft if you give it this marinade — even overnight.

There is no such thing as a dull fish — only the wrong recipe. Pangasius in a simple batter.

When you want something hot, filling and cheesy, this soup does the job.

A homemade cream liqueur — condensed milk, cream, coffee and vodka.

At home or by the fire: fried potatoes with smoked sausages and herbs.

A minute’s trick to keep carrier bags in order in the kitchen.

Roast potatoes that win everyone over — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Stuffed peppers in a tomato dressing — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Courgette vegetable patties — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Courgette ‘cabbage rolls’ in the pan — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Spiced okra stew — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Egg starter in 15 minutes — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pork plov with tender meat and fluffy rice

Thrifty rissoles — nobody guesses what’s in them

Oven rissoles — no frying — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Cabbage fritters for the whole family — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

A proper spinach salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

A week-night supper I never tire of — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Soft poppy-seed rolls — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Courgette (or marrow) pancakes for the family

Spiced curd buns — better than vatrushka

Yeast puff crescents filled with chocolate spread.

Cream of mushroom soup in a kazan — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Soft rolls for sandwiches — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

The fluffiest buns with a sugar sprinkle

Viennese rolls — instead of bread — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pork goulash with peppers and tomatoes — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pasta the only way I’ll eat it — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Mushroom tartlets — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Lazy chebureki — no rolling pin — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Tuna, egg and cucumber salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Sausage rolls — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Hasselback roast potatoes — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Tartare sauce — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Lazy meat triangles — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

A quick cake from the cupboard — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Baked stuffed grey mullet — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Thrifty biscuits in 15 minutes — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Grey mullet rolls with cheese on a bed of vegetables

Three good fish suppers — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Lazy stuffed cabbage — twice as quick — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

The gentlest fish in tomato sauce — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Jellied fish — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Fish solyanka in a kazan over the fire — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pelengas baked with vegetables — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Juicy pork steaks — no egg — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Proper crème pâtissière with butter — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Layered ‘Sunflower’ fish salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chopped pork rissoles — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Liver rolls with a savoury filling — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Seafood cocktail salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Christmas kutia from wheat — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

A Napoleon cake you’ll finish the same day

Ten salads for the New Year table — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

‘Sea wonder’ fish salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Grated shortcrust jam tart — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Mimosa salad with tinned fish — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chicken thighs in the pan — pirzola — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Oven meat and veg, lighter than French-style

Chicken drumsticks with vegetables in the oven

Ten easy meat suppers — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pork ‘fingers’ — the simplest recipe — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Cabbage rolls in a sweet-and-sour sauce — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Five cabbage salads for any day — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Deep-fried curd-cheese balls — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

New Year ‘bauble’ starters — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Dressed herring (seledka pod shuboy) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

New Year ‘clementine’ starters — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chinese-leaf salad with ham — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Two cabbage salads — change one thing — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chocolate and nut Swiss roll — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Lemon curd-cheese fairy cakes — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pork steak, well done — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Eastern sweets are like Eastern fairy tales: you never tire of them.

Chicken Olivier salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chicken rolls — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Gentle oven-baked rabbit — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Homemade mayonnaise without eggs — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Banana ‘wonder’ cake — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Beef liver salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Curd-cheese ‘goose-foot’ biscuits — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Fish meatballs in tomato sauce — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Homemade mayonnaise in five minutes — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Grey mullet fillets baked with cheese — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pancakes (American-style) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Vinegret salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Juicy brisket on a bed of vegetables — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Shulum (hearty meat soup) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Lemon tart with crème pâtissière — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Pizza — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

‘Tsar’s’ baked cheesecake — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Fish and chicken rissoles — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Potato and cheese doughnuts — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Homemade marshmallow (zephyr) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Azu in a kazan — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

‘Tenderness’ cake — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Sponge in a slow cooker — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Mascarpone — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chocolate temptation cake — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

A vitamin burst — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Soft beef liver in pieces — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Courgette caviar — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Instant-noodle salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Fish broth (ukha) in a kazan — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Strawberry jam — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Cherry tart — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

“Angel's tears” is what this wonderfully tender tart is called, because pearly droplets appear on the meringue once it has cooled.

Cherry ‘roses’ — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chicken quarters in a double crumb — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Cherry dumplings (varenyky) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Potato bake with béchamel — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Herring under a white ‘coat’ — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Courgette starter — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Lagman in a kazan over the fire — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Juicy pork steaks — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Summer salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Mushroom ‘stump’ salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Kiev cake — the home version — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Asian-style cabbage salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Quick sausage roses — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Damlyama (slow vegetable and meat pot) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Shortcrust ‘daisies’ — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Juicy, crisp chebureki — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Fried cabbage with pork fat — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Lavash crisps — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

‘Lady’ salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Meatballs with vegetables in tomato sauce

Herring open sandwiches — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Tender ribs on a potato bed — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Curd-cheese biscuits with cherries — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Sprat toasts — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Plov in a kazan over the fire — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Okroshka on sparkling water — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Vitamin salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Liver cake — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Juicy chicken in the pan — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Plaits (enriched bread) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Fried potato pies — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Belyashi (fried meat buns) — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Juicy pork rissoles — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Shashlik in lavash — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

‘Freshness’ salad — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Fruit or berry croissants — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Quick curd-cheese croissants — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Salad-starter — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Sugar buns from childhood — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Enriched cinnamon roses — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Yeast dough — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Navy-style pasta with mince — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Homemade shawarma — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Mackerel on the grill — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Breakfast open sandwiches — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Chestnut mushrooms on the grill — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

A simple potato bake with mince — a weekday supper for the whole family.

Oatmeal biscuits PHOEBE — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Crumbly chocolate biscuits made with oil

Soft air doughnuts — a simple fry

Cheese sticks for crunching through a film

Italian breadsticks GRISSINI — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Heartbreaker. Delicious chicken heart salad

Burger buns are softer than fluff! And no chemistry!

You won't believe how easy it is! Ready in 30 minutes!

The thinnest pita bread in a frying pan for pennies!

Just like in childhood! Sugar buns melt in your mouth!

Pies with cherries that don't leak! Lush, soft and cherry!

Tear-apart yeast apple pie, softer than charlotte

The easiest apple charlotte recipe — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Mushroom glade salad for the festive table

FANTASY Tasty for both men and women! — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Hunter salad for the festive table

The most delicious salads for the New Year's table

Four fish salads I make for guests

It's just incredibly delicious! courgette cakes!

Three simple ways to bread and fry chops

Cheese flatbread in the pan for a quick snack

Ratatouille. Incredibly delicious vegetables in the oven!

How to cook corn. Master class from the chef!

Soft beef liver that melts in the mouth

How I stop cherries leaking from pies

Soft kefir doughnuts from one glass

Homemade chocolate-nut spread in 15 minutes

Christmas biscuits SNOW CONES — Natalia's home recipe, with the list and the method.

Cooler than nuggets! Chicken fillet in unusual batter

Soft layered kraffin with raisins and fruit

Sugar glaze with gelatin for Easter cakes

Soft airy Easter cakes that keep for a week

Secrets of perfect pizza at home! Thin and crispy dough.

Quick yeast buns with chicken, mushroom and cheese

Easy sochniki with curd cheese (sochni)

Fish cutlets the children finish first

Soft bread with a crisp crust, baked in a roasting bag.

Pork entrecôte baked under onion, mushrooms and cheese.

Yeast puff crescents filled with chocolate spread.

Elastic dough that freezes without cracking.

Belarusian potato pancakes: grated potato, onion, fried until golden.

A one-pot tortellini soup with browned smoked sausages, onion, garlic, tomatoes, broth and a splash of cream, finished with spinach and parmesan. Ready in 20 minutes.