French bread pizza topped with bacon pieces and cream cheese. Easily made at home and oh so good, with just a few ingredients. Make this for lunch or dinner anytime! I show you how in this homemade recipe. 📕 What is a French Bread Pizza? A French bread pizza is a crispy open face, sheet pan, oven baked baguette-like bread, topped with meats or veggies or … [Read more...]
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Savory filled Crêpes with Cream Cheese Salmon Dill Cucumber
Savory filled Crêpes with cream cheese, salmon, dill, cucumber filling. This is a delicious breakfast brunch or even lunch idea, if you are looking for a next-level flavor experience. 📕 What are savory crêpes? Crêpes are french paper thin, skillet sized pancakes. They can be filled by folding or rolling them in. In France, they are a popular street food, and … [Read more...]
Jam Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Dessert Recipe
A flaky jam cream cheese puff pastry dessert, golden baked to perfection. Sweet temptations made in a jiffy, and it can be transported to work or school. 📕 What is this? Puff pastries with a jam and cream cheese filling are inspired by filled cream cheese danish pastries. Danish are not the same as puff pastry because danish pastry includes yeast. … [Read more...]
Creamy Coconut Chickpea Curry Recipe
A creamy coconut chickpea curry prepared with wholesome spices. This is a healthy plant-based dinner meal. 📕 What is this Curry? A Chickpea curry is an Indian inspired, spiced curry prepared with whole cooked chickpeas, spices and coconut milk. This recipe is based on the Indian Chole Masala/Chana Masala or restaurant style chickpea tikka masala. It's not … [Read more...]
Falooda Ice Cream Recipe
A falooda is a great summer treat! It's an ice cream pepped up with syrup and basil seeds. 📕 What is Falooda? Having probable roots in Persia and available in Middle Eastern and East Asian countries, Falooda is an Indian drinkable ice cream dessert that will certainly be the most refreshing way to enjoy your summer. There are many ways to enjoy falooda - it … [Read more...]
5 min Jalapeño Cream Cheese Dip Recipe
5 minutes to make this quick and easy cold jalapeño cream cheese dip! It's our favorite party dip because it's simple to prepare and everybody loves it. You will also love my creamed spinach dip and this smoked crab dip. 🍅 Ingredients You will need a handful of ingredients to make this wonderful creamy cold dip from scratch. Extra seasoning options You … [Read more...]
Creamy Mushrooms Recipe
Creamy mushrooms are flavorful and can be used with various food. In this recipe post, you will learn how to make it, and I share some great uses and storing options too. This creamy mushroom recipe resembles a mushroom gravy. 🍄 Ingredients Here is what you will need to make homemade creamy mushrooms from scratch. Mushrooms You can use regular white … [Read more...]
Cream Cheese Bacon Puff Pastry Appetizer
A 3 ingredient easy puff pastry appetizer to help you entertain your party guests. I came up with this recipe because I was looking for a quick bite to serve up to my friends. Ingredients You will need 3 main ingredients to make this: You can also pimp your mini puff pastry bites with seasoning. Make them tastier with Italian seasoning, pizza seasoning, herbes … [Read more...]
Quick Creamed Spinach with Cream Cheese Recipe
Quick creamed spinach prepared with cream cheese within minutes over the stovetop. Recipe includes instructions for fresh and frozen spinach and some ideas to enhance the dish further to your needs. 📕 What's Creamed Spinach? Creamed Spinach is served as a side dish. Fresh or frozen spinach is cooked in a creamy cheese sauce. The creamed spinach was mainly … [Read more...]
Cream Cheese Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe
Cream cheese and spinach stuffed chicken breast in a creamy flavorful sauce baked in the oven. This quick and easy healthier low carb dish will please your family! 🔪 How to prepare this dish? We love to prepare dish stuffed chicken dinner meal because it's easy to prepare, and creamy cheese and spinach is a delicious combination. Here is an overview how … [Read more...]
Mango Ice Cream Recipe
Homemade mango ice cream prepared in the ice cream maker for a creamy perfect finish. I show you how to make it form scratch with fresh fruits and share some tips and serving ideas. This is a Philadelphia style, no egg custard, mango ice cream recipe. The pros are that it's quick and easy to make. The cons, you need to keep it out 10 mins first before you go … [Read more...]
Creamy Avocado Dressing Recipe
Green creamy avocado dressing is delightfully good in so many ways. The simple dressing is vegan dairy-free, perfect for a plant-based diet, and healthy because it's low carb and gluten-free. 🔪 How to prepare the dressing? You will only need a handful of ingredients to make this avocado dressing. Get fresh ripe avocados and you are almost good to go. Here … [Read more...]
St.Patrick's Day Baileys Irish Cream
I give you this Chocolate flavored Baileys Irish Cream to help you celebrate St.Patrick's day this year! Make it with a handful of easy steps from scratch within minutes! This Irish Cream recipe is prepared without eggs and doesn't need to be cooked. I came up with a chocolate copycat Baileys version, which makes for a smashing alcoholic St. Patrick's Day … [Read more...]
Smoked Salmon Appetizer with Dill Sour Cream
Smoked salmon appetizer bites with dill sour cream are great finger food to serve for a crowd this holiday season. They taste delicious, are easy to prepare and please everyone. I think the best Christmas and New Year's appetizers, besides little smokies and pigs in a blanket, are salmon bread bites. You can also call them smoked salmon tartine, mini salmon toasts … [Read more...]
Sour Cream Dill Dip Recipe
Easy Sour Cream Dill Dip Recipe to enjoy with raw fresh vegetables, over baked salmon, cooked potatoes or simply with smoked salmon and much more! 💡 Choice of dill I tend to prepare a fresh dill dip with garden fresh dill but you can use dried herbs too. But keep in mind that fresh dill makes a better dip. Also, there are dill weed varieties out … [Read more...]
French Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
There is nothing better than french vanilla ice cream with real vanilla beans. I share how to succeed in making delicious, creamy, flavorful, and hence, the best vanilla ice cream out there with my video below. I partially based this vanilla ice cream recipe on my bavarian cream recipe after having tried failed vanilla ice cream recipes from the web. This is a … [Read more...]
Creamy Polenta Recipe
The quick creamy polenta recipe is a lifesaver and delicious budget comfort side dish. I prepare this all the time because you can serve polenta with most main course meals. See in my video how I make my creamy polenta without screwing up. 📕 What is Polenta? Polenta is a yellow shaded Italian cornmeal Porridge. Before the discovery of the new world … [Read more...]
Bavarian Cream Dessert Recipe
Our Bavarian Cream Recipe so that you get to try this amazing and delicious dessert at home! Make the cream and let it set in pots to serve as dessert with your favorite toppings or fruits. Watch my quick and easy how to make Bavarian cream video further below. 📕 What is Bavarian Cream? Bavarian Cream, also advertised as Crème bavaroise in some places, is … [Read more...]
Cheesy Gnocchi Cream Sauce with Bacon
Amazingly cheesy Gnocchi cream sauce with bacon for my Italian homemade Potato Gnocchi. Love this gnocchi sauce recipe so much, I don't make any other cream sauce for gnocchi at times! The other day I shared my homemade Potato gnocchi recipe. The dough is a potato dough, the kind which is common in North Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, … [Read more...]
Spiced Cream Cheese Spread
Spiced Cream Cheese Spread is a great flavor change from the conventional cream cheese spread. It's straightforward to pimp up your sandwich r simply a slice of bread with this flavorful cream cheese spread. A blanket of smooth, velvet-like cream cheese spread on a lovely slice of bread, I could live on that! Ok, I am exaggerating, but I don't mind enjoying … [Read more...]
Chicken with Mushroom White Wine Cream Sauce
📕 Take on Hunter's Schnitzel This recipe was inspired by one of our more traditional recipes in Austria, the hunter's schnitzel (Jägerschnitzel). This is a natural unbreaded schnitzel cooked in a creamy paprika mushroom sauce. Schnitzel in all its forms in Austria or Germany is always either pork or beef. So if it is to be compared to the Israeli schnitzel, which … [Read more...]
+24 Asian Shrimp Recipes
Authentic and Asian style shrimp recipes to get inspired in the kitchen. Learn new cooking techniques, experience new flavors, and immerse yourself into the world of shrimp recipes. Below you will find my favorite shrimp (and prawn for all Indian and British readers) recipes. I also asked my food friends to share their top Asian shrimp recipes, and this is how this … [Read more...]
12 Ground Beef and Pork Recipes
Ground beef and pork combined makes for the best meat combination in my book! Why? Because, pork is fatty and that adds flavor. Beef tends to be lean and adding pork enhances the flavor, making it juicy and just perfect. Here are 12 recipes that use both, ground beef and pork. French Meat Stuffed Tomatoes Oven-Baked Meatballs Patty-Pan Squash with Meat … [Read more...]
10 Min Pan-Fried Eggs with Green Onions
Pan-fried eggs prepared with green onions in just one skillet. You will take about 10 minutes to make this dish. I love pan-fried eggs because they are simple to prepare and save me time on busy days. Eggs are comfort food in my book! A while back, I came across an ASMR Tokyo street food channel, and they prepared green onion with eggs in a skillet. I thought it was … [Read more...]
Big Mac Sauce Recipe (Copycat)
Make a quick homemade big mac sauce within minutes with pantry ingredients. This special sauce will add the classic big mac flavor to all burgers. My Big Mac Sauce recipe was first published on the 6th July 2018 and has been enhanced ever since. I am the type, who wished I could use the big mac sauce on all homemade burgers. Such as in a double … [Read more...]
Thai Sweet Chili Lime Sauce Recipe
This Thai Sweet Chili Lime Sauce can be used as a dip or added to meals during the cooking process. You are going to love the DIY Sweet Chili Sauce for the flavor depths and adjustments you can make so that you can prepare this chili sauce easily just the way you like it! This recipe was first posted on the 10th April 2018 and was enhanced with better pictures later … [Read more...]
How to make a Salami Rose
This is a quick tutorial to help you make salami roses at home from scratch. These look great on a charcuterie boards and serve as an edible decoration. 🌹 What's a Salami Rose? A salami rose consists of layers of thinly sliced salami, which are placed, overlapping, and formed in such a way that the salami slices look like a rose. I saw them first at my sister's … [Read more...]
Halloween Dessert Pudding: Worms and Maggots
Worms and Maggots is the name of this realistic looking Halloween dessert. Vermicelli and rice are turned into a sweet pudding-like sweet treat. The recipe is great for kids but also very much adult-friendly. 📕 What is this Maggots and Worms dessert? We love creepy edible Halloween food and drink ideas that are realistic and also mind-boggling. So, after I … [Read more...]
7 Halloween Mocktails for Adults
7 fun and spooky Halloween Mocktails made truly for adults. Go all alcohol-free this Halloween with a selection of healthier fruit-based and club soda mocktails. We do love a good spiked cocktail such as a large punch bowl and other alcoholic drink ideas, but every so often it's nice to have an option to pick a non-alcoholic Halloween drink at a party. Besides, … [Read more...]
+30 Authentic Oktoberfest Food Ideas to Turbocharge your Party
Visiting Oktoberfest or are you looking for some delicious original Oktoberfest food ideas for your party? I compiled a collection of the best Oktoberfest recipes, savory and sweet. Grab some ideas for your Oktoberfest food party further below, or learn about the food offering before your Oktoberfest visit! This is an updated version, inspired by our recent trip to … [Read more...]
Home Canned Pears in Syrup Recipe
Make home canned pears in syrup from scratch. This is as per French canning customs and it's our family recipe. I take you through the process so that you successfully prepare a batch of home canned pears. 📕 What are canned pears? Canned pears are fresh whole, halved or quartered peeled pears, that are covered in a medium to light syrup in a canning … [Read more...]
Lemon Yogurt Sauce Recipe
Lemon yogurt sauce prepared from scratch with a few ingredients. This sauce has multiple uses and can be served with a variety of meals and cuisines. 📕 What is this Sauce? I created this sauce because I wanted a lemon flavored yogurt sauce. It's tart and enhanced with bright citrus notes, making it a great accompaniment as a dip with meat and seafood main … [Read more...]
Avocado Cucumber Beet Mango Sushi Roll Recipe
A vibrant and healthy Avocado Cucumber Beet Mango Sushi Roll to add to your list of must-try sushi recipes. Vegan sushi lovers and those who don't like raw seafood, will enjoy this inside out sushi roll. Created with Momoko our Japanese food expert, this Mango, Avocado, Cucumber, and Beet Sushi Roll recipe is part of our extensive modern Japanese food … [Read more...]
+23 Jackfruit Recipes (Ripe and Unripe)
Jackfruit is such a versatile tropical fruit and to celebrate that, I have put together a selection of jackfruit recipes. Discover fresh ripe and young canned jackfruit recipes below. There is something for everyone with lunch ideas, sweet desserts, Asian and Indian recipes, as well as American and European classics prepared with jackfruit. Yet, here you will mainly … [Read more...]
Ranch Seasoning Mix Recipe
Make this homemade ranch seasoning mix if you are seeking real food flavors in your life. Save money with your DIY ranch spice and make it as per your needs and health requirements. 📕 What's Ranch Seasoning? Ranch seasoning is a blend of herbs and spices popularized by Hidden Valley. Their main product is Ranch Dressing, which was invented by Steve Henson … [Read more...]
Gooseberry Jam Recipe
Wonderful gooseberry jam prepared the French way without artificial pectin. You will need just 2 ingredients to make this all natural, foolproof jam from scratch. 📕 What are Gooseberries? Gooseberries are marble-sized oval-round berries growing on irregular shrub branches native to Europe. Varieties exist across the board, with green and red ones being the … [Read more...]
+18 Flavored Rice Recipes
More than 18 flavored rice recipes to jazz up your rice cooking skills. Take your bland rice to the next level, and season your rice as per your choice with these inspiring recipe ideas. What's flavored rice? Flavored rice is also known as seasoned rice. It is rice infused with a set of flavors. You do that by adding spices, herbs, condiments such as soy … [Read more...]
Dehydrated Strawberries in the Dehydrator
Home dehydrated strawberries are easy to prepare and also taste great as a healthier, nutritious snack. I share how you can dry your strawberries at home with tips, flavor ideas and much more. 📕 What are dehydrated Strawberries? Dehydrated strawberries are prepared by cutting or slicing fresh strawberries and allowing them to dry slowly until they lose all … [Read more...]
Breadfruit VS Jackfruit: What's the difference?
I talk about the differences between Breadfruit VS Jackfruit and how these two delicious tropical fruits compare. You will be able to easily spot these two related fruits in the future! In this post, we will compare the two, breadfruit and jackfruit, in looks, taste, uses, growing habits, possible health perks and cultural importance. We have a massive … [Read more...]
Substitute For Paneer: Options with Pros and Cons
So, you are looking for a substitute for paneer in a recipe or meal? I have got you covered with a list of the best and worst options compared, with pros and cons. 📕 What is Indian Paneer Cheese, and how is it used? Paneer is an Indian cottage cheese. It's firm and white, a bit squeaky, and it doesn't melt. Paneer is prepared by adding vinegar or lemon … [Read more...]