Here is Baba kitchen, near Lviv. At least was home until she have to immigrate to stinking Canada, where is motto, Peace, Order and Lie to Ukrainian Immigrant. Buy several copy her book, and maybe she afford to visit her home. And join Ukrainian Revolution.
Slava Ukraina! Glory to Ukraine, and death to Soviets!
Baba actual live in British Columbia, and is available to travel to tell you story.
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Which one you think is Baba? Like Chaka Khan sing, "I am every woman." Ha! Okay, okay, beautiful one on left is Raisa real Baba. Rest is her auntie. When they not using horse, they make car share co-op. She don't know why one is skinny; this not normal.
Baba's coat of arms, Haletzia province
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Baba’s Kitchen
Ukrainian Soul Food
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Zup (Soup)
Borshch and other Ukrainian soups the traditional way, step by step. Meat and vegetarian versions. Includes clear shopping instructions: “Don't buy onion have green thing growing out from top. She busy making baby, not have time for you.” Baba reveals the soup behind the sudden death of her friend's abusive husband.
Bismanyy: Vegetarian Borshch
Clear Bismasnyy Borshch
Chicken Soup
Soup with Vushka (Dumplings)
Beef Stock
Hanya's Vegetable Soup
Baba's Ukrainian Minestrone
Horokhivka: Pea Soup
Hrybivka: Mushroom Soup
Vegetarian Broth
Soviet Soup
McCarthy Soup
Chapter Two
Salata: Salad
Distinguish yourself from a Neanderthal, stop lawsuits for your biting dog, learn painless thong removal.
Baba's Garden Salad & Dressing
Baba's Dinner Salad
Buryak Salata (Beet Salad)
Buryak Salata v Krop (With Dill)
Buryak Salata v Peretz (Pepper Beet
Salad)
An Introduction to Potato Salad
Most Basic Kartoplya: Potato Salad
Siberian Kartoplya with Peas
Ukrainian-German Warm Potato
Salad
Sophisticated Potato Salad
Roasted Vegetable Salad
Creamed Vegetables
Ukrainian Coleslaw
Vegetable Sandwich
Chapter Three
Vegetable & Meat Dressing
The urgent romantic matter of a full fridge by your bed. Men don't leave at 3 a.m. Because they're scared of commitment. They leave because they're scared of the diet soda and lettuce leaf. Let Baba be your Mayonnaise Love Expert.
Plain Vinahret: Vinaigrette Dressing
Lemon Dressing
Smetana (Sour Cream) Dressing
Smetana v Khrin (Horse Radish)
Ukrainian Mayonnaise
Baba's Favorite Mayonnaise
Baba's High Octane Mayonnaise
Med v Mak: Honey Poppyseed Dressing
Pidlyvi (Sauces) are in Chapter Twenty Two
Chapter Four
Nalysnyky i Mlyntsi: Crepes & Pancakes
Childbirth Rituals: Bum stab a cowardly husband, tame an unruly placenta and introduce a baby to the world of love and mortgages.
Basic Nalysnyky (Crepes)
Buttermilk Nalysnyky
Linyvi (Lazy) Nalysnyky
Crepe Fillings:
Hryb (Mushroom) Filling
Savory Syr (Cottage Cheese) Filling
Sweet Cheese Crepes
Cabbage Crepes
Meat Crepes
Pig Brain Filling
Orange Crepes
Honey Crepes
Apple Crepes
Maslanitsya: Ukrainian Mardi Gras
Haul the Butter Goddess around in a sleigh, light fires and throw stale pancakes at politicians.
Mlyntsi: Ukrainian Pancakes
Hrechanyky: Buckwheat Pancakes
Chapter Five
Baby Food
Chapter Six
Vesna: Ukrainian Spring and Easter Traditions
Easter and Spring Equinox traditions: Colored eggs, pussy willow spankings and a monster chained to a rock.
Shynka v Med: Honey Baked Ham
Buryak i Khrin/Tsvikli: Beet & Horseradish Relish
Other Easter foods are found throughout the book, for example:
Chapter Seven
Yiytsy: Egg Recipes
Cope with passive-aggression (getting and giving), snake bite, Einstein, Overeaters Anonymous lapses, Presbyterian sex and reluctant bachelors.
Dilled Eggs
Deviled Eggs
Deviled Eggs II to Infinity
Deviled Eggs with Mushroom Caps
Eggs in Cream
Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled Eggs with Tomato and Onion
Scrambled Eggs with Bacon
Pickled Eggs
Perfect Plain Omelet
Mushroom and Cheese Omelet
Chapter Eight
Kurka: Chicken Recipes
Avoid bleached blonde poisoning, learn how not to be a lame white person in New Orleans, order a black leather cardigan from the Black Leather Baba Catalogue.
Roast Chicken
Honey Lemon Garlic Roast Chicken
Chicken in Cream with Dill
Kotleta Po Kyivsky: Chicken Kyiv
Kotleta Po Kyivsky New Orleans
Olenyicha (Venison) Winnipeg-Kyiv
Beef Donbas
Chicken Kyiv with Bacon and Asparagus
Fried Chicken in Cream
Chapter Nine
Masnyy: Meat Recipes
Make Ukrainian Cocaine, learn a heartwarming Ukrainian folk song: My Mother Beat Me With a Birch Rod, tenderize meat under your saddle.
Huliash: Goulash
Son of Huliash
Zayitz: Meat Loaf
Plain Meat Loaf
Stuffed Meat Loaf
Bytky: Pounded Steak
Ukrainian Pepper Steak
Garlic Bread
Garlic Croutons
Roast Beef
Shashlyk: Shishkebob
Chapter Ten
Sichenyky i Zrazy: Meat Patties & Meat Balls
Nude encounter groups, cooking with a fly swatter, why your meat balls are too small and JK Rowling is just plain wrong about Dobby.
Sichenyky: Meat Patties)
Zrazy: Ukrainian Meat Balls
Zrazy v Khrin: Horseradish Stuffed Meat Balls
Spinach Sichenyky: Vegetarian Patties
Chapter Eleven
Winter Solstice
Sviat Vechir, Koruksun, Rizdvo: Holy Eve, Day of the Dead, and Winter Solstice/Christmas traditions. Talking animals, hungry ancestors, golden sky horses and pudding on the ceiling. Menus for these holidays are referenced to other chapters. Also:
Hrustychky: Icicles or Sweet Nothings
Kolach: Circle of Life Bread
Sviat Vechir (Holy Eve) Clean up
Chapter Twelve
Hryb (Mushrooms)
Seduce and poison Nazis, the organic way. Baba is a mushroom picking expert!
Hrybova Pidlyva: Mushroom Sauce
Easy Pickled Mushrooms
Hryb i Smetana: Mushrooms in Sour Cream
Fried Hryb: Fried Mushrooms
Battered Hryb: Battered Mushrooms
Baked Hryb: Baked Mushrooms
Hryb Baked with Goat Cheese
Hryb Sichenyky: Mushroom Patties
Chapter Thirteen
Varenyky i Vushki: Perogies & Dumplings
Why the sexy, desperate women on your favorite TV shows are barking up the wrong dog. Lazy verenyky for your lazy self.
Varenyky: Perogies
Syr: Cottage Cheese Perogies
Non-Dairy Perogy Dough
Kartoplya: Potato Perogies
Kapusta: Sauerkraut Perogies
Linyvi Varenyky: Lazy Perogies
Linyvi Verenyky with Potato Dough
Dessert Varenyky: Plum and Berry Perogies
Vushka (Ear Dumplings)
Hryb: Mushroom Perogies
Fish or Meat Perogies
Chapter Fourteen
Holubtsi: Cabbage Rolls
Sabotage hippies and nasty neighbors, be a Cadillac kozak, peel cabbage in a trailer park.
Bismasnyy: Meatless Holubtsi
Hryb: Mushroom Holubtsi
Kasha: Buckwheat Holubtsi
Kasha i Syr: Buckwheat & Cheese Holubtsi
Kasha i Hryb: Buckwheat & Mushroom Holubtsi
Holubtsi With Meat (or Vegetarian Ground Beef)
Linyvi (Lazy) Holubtsi
Chapter Fifteen
Syr: Cottage Cheese Recipes
Baba Riddle: What's the difference between a cheese dumpling submerged in water, and a kid holding its breath?
Answer: Don't wait for the dumpling to turn blue. It won't. Hahahahahahahahaha.
Cheese Dip
Cheese Spread
Cheese Halushky---Dumplings
Crazy Gourmet Cheese Halushky
Syrnychky (Cottage Cheese Patties)
Chapter Sixteen
Riba: Lake Fish
Skinny dip with flair, catch trout with your bathing suit, allow men to be men---as long as they keep the massage oil flowing.
Baked Stuffed Trout
Alternate Rice Stuffing
Fried Fish
Crazy Mixed Up Fish Balls
Panfried Sole
Chapter Seventeen
Ocean Fish
Scurvy Dog Baba gets seduced by a pair of black eyebrows and lives to cook and love again.
Ukrainian Pirate Baked Ocean Fish
Pickled Whitefish
Oseledets: Pickled Herring)
Herring Spread
Sardine Spread
Oseledets Salata: Herring Salad
Chapter Eighteen
Pechenia: Vegetable and Meat Stew
In Ukraina we say, So long as there is cabbage and potato, house is not empty. Baba herself never seen house with only these thing. Is usually at least couch and television. But you never know.
Kalempetsya: Mushroom Stew
Baba’s Ukrainian-Canadian Caribou Stew
Road Kill Stew
Carpathian-Canadian Lamb Stew
Kapusta i Horokh: Sauerkraut and Peas
Chapter Nineteen
Kartoplyanky: Potato Recipes
Ukrainian Cocaine, First aid for grated knuckles, permission to eat plenty of fat, what to feed annoying dinner drop ins.
Creamed Potatoes
Potatoes With Salo: Ukrainian Cocaine
Oven-Fried Potatoes
Potato and Cheese Bake
Grated Potato Bake
Deruny: Potato Pancakes
Chapter Twenty
Grains and Beans
The Ukrainian Bannia (Bath House): Spirits and rituals. Why a cold prickly hand on your rump is bad news in more ways than one. Incredible vegetarian dishes for around a dollar.
Kasha: Buckwheat
Baked Kasha
Ukrainian Pilaf
Kasha Casserole
Kasha Sichenyky: Buckwheat Patties
Kasha Loaf: Buckwheat Loaf
Kutya: Sweet Grain Pudding
Fasolia: White Bean Pate
Kulesha: Corn Meal Pudding)
Fried Kulesha
Chapter Twenty One
Lokshyna: Egg Noodles
Baba tears up a golf course on horse back, the Ukrainian origin of Constitutional freedoms, and the simplest noodle recipes ever.
Basic Homemade Egg Noodles
Noodle and Spinach Casserole
Noodles with Cottage Cheese
Noodles with Eggs
Baked Noodles with Cheese
Noodle and Meat Casserole
Noodle and Cabbage Budget Casserole
Festive Noodle Ring
Fried Cooked Noodles: Snack or Garnish
Egg Drop Noodles
Hrybok: Easy Omelet Noodles
Chapter Twenty Two
Pidlyvi: Sauces
Liven up dry mammoth, whole grains and parties.
Sliva: Plum Sauce
Plum Butter
Khrin I Smetana: Horse Radish Sauce
Tartar Sauce
Kropova Pidlyva: Dill Sauce
Smetana (Sour Cream) with Green Onion Sauce
Honey Onion Sauce
Chapter Twenty Three
Desserts
Part (1) Ivana Kupala: Summer Solstice Erotic Rituals. The village that bathes together, stays together. Sexy Ukrainian songs, talking trees and stalking the elusive fire flower.
Vyshnia: Cherry Charlotte
Rohalyky: Almond Crescents
Kozak Honey Mousse
Part (2) Non-traditional recipes for pie. Because who would believe a grandma book with no pie? And Baba is so good at making them.
Kozak Crab Apple Pie (with Whisky)
Perfect Pie Crust
Crab Apple Pie (No Whisky)
Cherry, Apple, Raspberry Pie
Peach or Nectarine Pie
Saskatoon Pie
Gooseberry Pie
Blueberry Pie
Rhubarb Pie
Rhubarb with Berries Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Tasty Sugarless Pie: made with fruit juice, not artificial sweetener
Ukrainian Flavored Vodkas
Part (3) Ahhhh. Back to traditional Ukrainian desserts. Drink of the gods, fermented honey cake, wild rose preserves on apple cake. Learn Baba's First Law of Thermal Underwear, essential to baking.
Uzvar: Fruit Stew
Yabluchnyk: Apple Cake
Rozha z Tzukhrom: Wild Rose Preserves
Medivnyk: Honey Cake
Honey Muffins
Chocolate Honey Cake
Syrnyk: Ukrainian heesecake
Perekladadanets: Coffee Cake
Pampushky: Filled Doughnuts
Chapter Twenty Four
Mak: Poppy Seed
Baba runs afoul of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with her opium (or is it?) poppy crop, then gets her man.
Poppyseed Cookies
Poppyseed Cake
Makivnyk: Poppyseed Roll
Chapter Twenty Five
Ukrainian Folk Medicine:
Natural, Homemade Remedies
Deal with yeast infections, baldness, arthritis, colds, bruises, cracked nipples and PMS using common foods and plants.
Rose Hip Tea
Med: Honey Remedies
Honey Lemon Tea
Natural Arthritis Remedies
Honey Oatmeal Facial Mask
Baldness Cure
More Honey Remedies
Babka: Plantain
Malyna: Raspberries
Kalyna: Cranberries
PMS Cure
Yeast Infection Cure
Heart to Heart
Sample Chapter
Read from Raisa Stone’s upcoming book on Animal Communication, training and care.
Two Poems:
Love Ukraine by Volodimir Sosiura
The Horsewoman of Chornobyl
by Raisa Stone
Bibliography