Banitsa
Coiled filo with a filling of brined white cheese, egg and yoghurt, baked until the outer spiral shatters and the inside stays soft. Best eaten warm, in the hand, with a glass of ayran.
- Vegetarian
A starter, a main and a dessert, already chosen. Swap anything you do not fancy.
For 2026-10-29
Coiled filo with a filling of brined white cheese, egg and yoghurt, baked until the outer spiral shatters and the inside stays soft. Best eaten warm, in the hand, with a glass of ayran.
Steaks in a pepper crust, seared and then deglazed with cognac into a cream sauce. A quarter of an hour in total, which makes it the quickest dish in the book — and one of the most demanding on timing.
Ukrainian curd cheese pancakes, crisp at the edge and soft as custard inside. Breakfast in most houses, dessert in the rest, and twenty minutes either way.