a food blog about simple homemade cooking recipes from scratch, with a side of nostalgia
Fresh Mint Tea – refreshing hot or cold drink to sooth your mood as well as your stomach! It will help you reduce stress, focus your mind and eliminate appetite. I discovered long time ago how good mint tea (lat. Mentha piperita) is for my stomach. It helped me to sooth it as well as…
Chicken soup with spinach, lemon juice, carrots, kholrabi and dill is comforting and fast to make. It is light, simple and quick to prepare soup full of healthy vegetables, lean protein coming from chicken breast and egg yolk. This low fat soup is seasoned with dill and lemon juice. From start to finish, it takes…
Lemon Buttermilk Blueberry Doughnuts – tender lemon buttermilk cake donuts full of juicy blueberries. Baked, not fried! I was searching for a good blueberry doughnut recipe for a while. I tried some very popular recipes, but was disappointed both with their taste and texture. In the end I decided to use the recipe for my…
I used to make risotto with wild asparagus. It was tasty, but wild asparagus can be a bit bitter. When wild asparagus are replaced with garden asparagus, they taste mild and go well as a side dish to any meat or fish. Asparagus Risotto is made in pretty much the same way as any other…
You can make Red Velvet Cake Balls from scratch, like I did, and use my recipe for Red Velvet Whoopie Pies to make both the cake and the frosting. Or you can take the shortcut version and use boxed red velvet cake mix and a can of cream cheese frosting. Whichever you prefer. Red Velvet…
Healthy smoothie with an exotic tropical flair packed with vitamin C. Kiwi Smoothie – healthy smoothie with an exotic tropical flair packed with vitamin C This recipe was first published on: January 29, 2013
Recipe for eggless Espresso Rose Spritz Cookies was first published on a German site Chefkoch.de. In many reviews to the recipe, visitors were saying how light and fluffy the cookies are, how easy it is to press the dough with a piping bag and how well they keep the form while baking. I agree with…
Christmas Sangria is a fantastic drink for gatherings with friends and holiday celebrations. Unlike other sangria recipes, this one is very easy to prepare in a few minutes by mixing everyday ingredients which you probably already have at home. Red wine is mixed with brandy (or rum or vodka), assortment of winter fruits (like persimmon,…
Candied Walnuts – a special Christmas treat; these crunchy cinnamon and sugar coated walnuts are quick to make. Homemade Candied Walnuts may seem intimidating if you have no experience with making caramel on your own. It is not at all difficult, there are just some things you have to keep in mind in order to…
Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls – easy dinner rolls made from scratch from start to finish in 1-hour! Some 10 years ago my colleagues and I have found a recipe for Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls in a daily newspaper. The next day one of the girls asked her mother to make them and brought them to…
Apple Pudding Cake is one of the first cakes that I made when I first started cooking. I found it in my mother’s women’s magazine, cut it out and pasted it into my notebook (I mean, paper notebook, not the electronic one). The cake was moist, creamy and delicious, my guests loved it so I…
Tomato Rice – easy summer side dish with Mediterranean flavors: tomatoes, olive oil, garlic and oregano! Remember Potatoes in Tomato Sauce recipe from two years ago? People really liked it and so did I. This time I have for you a similar recipe with rice instead of potatoes. Potatoes in Tomato Sauce It is quite…
