My Mom’s Recipes

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My Mom’s Recipes are dishes that my mother, Svetlana Guzeeva, likes to make. She shows me how to do them and I draft a recipe and practice them.

Mom’s Blini are thin, savory and sweet Russian pancakes made from wheat flour and served with fillings or toppings like sour cream or jam.

Mom’s Borscht Soup is a hearty, vibrant Eastern European soup traditionally made with beetroots, which gives it a deep red color.

Mom’s Syrniki are an Eastern Slavic pancakes made with mainly cottage cheese and semolina flour also known as tvorozhniki (творо́жники).