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Recipes by Irina

Real recipes for real days.

For busy families, hungry evenings, and people who still want dinner to taste like someone cared.

Recipes Taster is Irina’s kitchen notebook: practical dinners, bright salads, sweet treats, and dishes inspired by the places she has eaten, travelled, and remembered.

Food is her first love. Her husband thinks it is him. Let’s keep it that way.

Easy 15-minute garlic butter pasta with fresh parsley and parmesan in a white bowl

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A quick pasta, a creamy shrimp dinner, and a beet salad that looks far fancier than the work involved.

Easy 15-minute garlic butter pasta

15 minutes

Easy Garlic Butter Pasta

Spaghetti, garlic butter, parsley, parmesan, and the pasta water trick that makes everything silky.

Healthy shrimp pasta with cream cheese and spinach

Mediterranean

Shrimp Pasta with Cream Cheese and Spinach

A fresh, creamy shrimp pasta with spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, lemon, and parmesan.

Easy beet salad with goat cheese

Fresh and bright

Beet Salad with Goat Cheese

Ruby-red beets, creamy goat cheese, caramelized walnuts, and balsamic dressing.

What are we cooking?

Quick Dinners

For evenings when everyone is hungry and patience is thin.

Healthy Recipes

Fresh, practical food that still feels generous.

Dinner Ideas

Main dishes for ordinary Tuesdays and small dinner-table victories.

Latest sweet treat

No-bake Baileys cheesecake with fresh raspberries and dark chocolate drizzle on a digestive biscuit base

No-Bake Baileys Cheesecake with Raspberry

A creamy adults-only no-bake dessert with Baileys, fresh raspberries, a digestive biscuit base, and a dark chocolate drizzle.

Meet Irina

Irina cooks the way real life works: around work, family, tired evenings, and the small miracle of getting something good on the table anyway.

Recipes Taster is where she shares the dishes her family asks for again, the ideas she brings home from travel, and the recipes that are worth writing down.

Real food, made well, in a real kitchen, after a real day.

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