About Babaganosh

Hello there!

I'm Kate Vaynshteyn. I started this blog in 2014 before I knew what a food blog really was. I just wanted a place to share my recipes and (hopefully) inspire others to cook at home more often.

I am passionate about creating easy, tasty, and (mostly) healthy recipes. I believe in cooking at home instead of ordering takeout even on busy nights. I can make a meal from just about anything, and it comes out tastier and usually faster than whatever we would Door Dash.

Growing up in Ukraine and as an immigrant family in Brooklyn, my mom and grandma cooked everything from scratch every. single. day. Getting takeout was just not a thing we did. 

I learned to cook when I started living on my own after college, and it was a slow process - I remember calling my mom and asking "If I want to make pasta, do I boil the water first? I also ate chicken breast marinated in Italian dressing for an entire week straight because it was the only thing I mastered at age 20.

Luckily I am a little more confident in the kitchen nowadays. The only thing limiting my cooking is lack of time. I am a mom to a wonderful energetic little boy and two cats (much less energetic, but still quite needy!).

That's why most of my recipes try to pack in as much nutrition as possible into meals that are simple to make (see my stuffed delicata squash, air fryer salmon and asparagus, pork and cabbage stir fry).

I hope you'll follow along on social media and make some of the recipes from my blog:

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If you would like to send me an email, please e-mail me at [email protected]. Let me know where you're from, what kind of food you like to cook, and what kind of recipes you'd like to see on this blog.

I love hearing from my readers and creating recipes just for you!

Happy cooking!

- Kate