Welcome,
Alyona is a Ukrainian Food Blogger who has been sharing her knowledge of cooking from scratch for over 15 years. She displays a variety of recipes from around the world including the American cuisine as well as the Ukrainian cuisine.
In 2015, she started this platform to share her family’s favorite recipes. As the creator behind Alyona’s Cooking, she learned Food photography and Food writing. As a busy mom who ate out less, she got adventurous and created very successful copycats and healthier swaps from the grocery store.
As time passed, she started her sourdough and freshly milled flour journey and saw many health benefits of eating whole grains.
Not only did she cook for her family full-time, but she also absorbed generations of knowledge from her mother and mother-in-law’s cooking. She features many traditional Ukrainian recipes and cooking techniques right here on the blog and has been featured in Homestead Living Magazine, sharing her mother’s cookery from back in Ukraine.
Her parent’s generation cooked and prepared meals without refrigeration, aluminum foil, or the convenience of modern appliances. Rather, wood stoves, sourdough, and smart preserving techniques were what they knew and applied. Alyona shares her best cooking tips while applying these skills in this modern day cooking.
Alyona has completed culinary school and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America as a Pro Chef with a pursuit to be better in what she has been doing for years—cooking for her family. That experience has enriched her knowledge, and she continues to provide helpful cooking methods to help you become a better cook.
She and her husband live on a farm in South Carolina where they pursue homesteading and growing food. Her husband, Alex, is a beekeeper and hunter and is always creative with ways to run the farm smarter with their boys. Alyona is always in the kitchen making sourdough bread, restocking the basics, or making nourishing meals for her family. Sharing these delicious recipes brings her joy.
One of her mottos is, “If your husband brings home the wild game, make something delicious”! She always tries to make the best of what she has.
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