Making paska, or Easter bread, has become a tradition at 27th Street. Usually we make 2 batches, or about 8 loaves so we can make lots of people around us happy, but seeing as we’re in the midst of a pandemic, we scaled back to… Read More
Each year we make up a batch of paska, or Easter bread. Tuffy P’s mom was from the Ukraine and she used to bake paska each year in coffee cans – that’s the tradition we’ve continued. Paska is a delicious, light egg bread usually made… Read More
When I was growing up, my mom made a very cakey bread at Easter – called babka, usually with a glazed top, a very open texture and a smattering of raisins. While I learned to cook most of the savoury Polish dishes she made for… Read More
Every year at this time we make up a batch of coffee can paska. We don’t do all the fancy braids on the top of the crust and we bake our Easter bread in old coffee cans which we use over and over again, a… Read More
As we were busy making paska today, friends in Mississauga texted to say they were making it too….and the paska wars were on. Long Branch vs Mississauga. Tuffy P drove our entry west out of Long Branch to the exchange, a parking lot at Southdown… Read More
We don’t do any fancy-pants braids or anything but our paska still rocks….
This has been such a bizarre early spring, with many things in the garden greening up way early, it’s difficult to judge when the morels will show up. I see on Twitter that it is turning into a great season for morels in many places… Read More
Each Easter we make paska, or Easter bread. We don’t get too fancy about all the decorative braiding that some people do, but we make some rockin’ good bread every year. We bake the loaves in coffee cans and we make plenty so we can… Read More
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