This is Paul's baguette recipe! My husband perfected this bread recipe over time and the result is always a crusty and airy french style baguette. The recipe is great for bread baking beginners (Paul is also a beginner bread baker). No kneading by hand, but you need a hand or stand mixer. This is a baguette bread recipe prepared with simple ingredients. … [Read more...]
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Oatmeal Spice Mix
A homemade oatmeal spice mix to take your breakfast to the next level. Easy to prepare and a game changer, this sweet spice blend should be on your bucket list if you want to eat better food! Your favorite breakfast is oatmeal, but you'd like to add more flavors to it? Then this oatmeal spice blend is right up your alley! Enrich your workday or surprise your kids … [Read more...]
French Green Lentils with Sausage (Puy Lentils)
A French recipe for green lentils cooked with sausages. This is a family one-pot recipe. It's one of my favorite winter-time dinner meals. My mum would prepare it every once in a while for us. 📕 What are French Green Puy Lentils? The french green lentils are an important ingredient in the french homemade local cuisine. They are better known as Lentille … [Read more...]
Scarlet Runner Bean Salad Recipe
A hearty flavor-packed scarlet runner bean salad. Easy to prepare and for all those who love gourmet food! 📕 What are scarlet runner beans? Scarlet runner beans are some of the largest beans out there. The average length of a bean is 1 1/2 inches or 4 centimeters. If the size doesn't impress you, the color will. They come in various colors. Some are bright … [Read more...]
Things to see in Slovenia (Europe)
This post is there to inspire you to add Slovenia, a small European country, to your travel bucket list for the future. 💭 FAQs in a nutshell Slovenia is located in Europe. It's bordering Austria to the north, Hungary to the east, Croatia to the South, and Italy to the West. It's part of the European Union so, Schengen visa applies here and they have the Euro. … [Read more...]
How to Dry Herbs
Your ultimate guide on how to dry herbs at home! I cover 3 drying options, various culinary herb types, share some ideas to use them, and explain how to store your homemade dried herbs the right way. 🆚 Fresh vs Dried Herbs Garden fresh culinary herbs grow best during the hotter days in the year. To preserve them, we dry them. That way you can use your … [Read more...]
Chicken Chow Mein Recipe
A quick and easy chicken chow mein recipe to make at home within 20 minutes! This dish is healthier than the takeout version as it contains less sodium and I dare to say that it tastes better! Stuffed with gorgeous flavors, Chinese cuisine is definitely one of our Asian foods. This chicken chow mein is all your if you are starting to learn how to make Chinese … [Read more...]
Turmeric Spice, Uses + Recipes
Turmeric spice can be easily included in your cooking. I show you how in this post. Also, why is turmeric such a great spice, which one should you buy and a selection of recipes with turmeric to choose from. 📕 What is turmeric? Turmeric is a yellow-orange root that has been used as a spice in Indian and Asian cooking for centuries. Turmeric is also known … [Read more...]
Individual Beef Wellington Recipe
An Individual Beef Wellington makes for a delicious, pretty and elegant main course meal this holiday season. Serve them up to your family and friends for Christmas or New Year's for dinner. 📕 What is Beef Wellington? Beef Wellington tenderloin filet steak topped with a mushroom duxelles and wrapped into a puff pastry. The English dish is also known as boeuf … [Read more...]
How to roast Butternut Squash
How to roast Butternut Squash 3 ways. I share tips and a video on how to roast whole butternut squash, squash halves, and cubes. Add this winter squash to your menu this fall. Celebrate healthier holidays with your family and friends or use your squash to prepare my butternut squash apple soup. 🔪 How to prepare it? You have 3 options to prepare and … [Read more...]
Black Forest Cake Recipe
The Easiest Black Forest Cake Recipe out there, and the tastiest as well. Make your own foolproof, creamy, moist Black forest gateau. Learn how to with my video instructions and process shots further below. 📕 What is the Black Forest Cake? The Black Forest Cake is a moist layered chocolate Torte with a cream layer and whole cherries. The cake is a … [Read more...]
Travel First Aid Kit Essentials
Keeping a well-organized travel first aid kit ready with all essentials can make or break your upcoming trip. You can easily build your own lightweight travel first aid kit will all the essentials. I explain what and why you will need it below. 📕 Why you need a travel first aid kit? Emergencies are called emergencies for a reason and unexpected situations can … [Read more...]
2 Weeks Vietnam Itinerary
Your ultimate 2 Weeks Vietnam Itinerary so that you can plan ahead and get the most of your Vietnam travel.Julie from JulieAroundTheGlobe.com is taking us on an epic journey across Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and is sharing her complete 2-week itinerary! Vietnam Itinerary 2 weeks to explore the best Vietnam destinations! The itinerary starts in Ho Chi Minh City (aka … [Read more...]
Quick Pickled Jalapenos Recipe
A quick refrigerator pickled jalapenos Recipe so that you can preserve and enjoy these beautiful jalapenos. I'm sharing a basic jalapeño pickle recipe with flavor and ingredient adjustments, tips and ideas. 📕 What are pickled jalapeños? Pickled Jalapeños are preserved in a vinegar, water, and salt solution to increase the shelf life of fresh … [Read more...]
White Chocolate Liqueur Recipe
Easy white chocolate liqueur recipe to prepare this classic creamy holiday liqueur at home. This chocolatey liqueur resembles the Mozart white chocolate vanilla cream liqueur from Salzburg in Austria. Watch further below how to make it from scratch so that you can enjoy your white chocolate cream liqueur in your drinks or gift a bottle to your loved ones. The … [Read more...]
How to sprout mung beans DIY
I am showing you in this post how to sprout mung beans easily at home. I will share with you my tips, what to look out for, what to avoid. We will also cover the pros and cons of DIY style Mung bean sprouts at home so that you can make a sprout salad or a pad thai at home! If you have been following me for a while, you will know that this is not my first post … [Read more...]
Cabbage Sausage Skillet Recipe
Cabbage Sausage Skillet is a quick lunch or dinner meal that tastes great any time of the year. At the same time, the sausage and cabbage skillet is an inexpensive meal and is a great idea when you don't know what to cook. 🥬 Ingredients The beauty of this quick and easy cabbage sausage skillet dish is that you can adapt it to your liking with the ingredients … [Read more...]
Nandos Peri Peri Chicken
Easy Peri Peri Chicken, so that you can enjoy the chicken magic at home! Hot spiced and roasted to perfection, the peri peri chicken makes a great weeknight meal. Besides that, you can include the peri peri chicken into your meal prep menu. I have put together some information about the story of peri peri, what peri peri is and how to make it with a short video. … [Read more...]
Whole grain Mustard Recipe - French Moutarde à l'ancienne
Whole grain mustard is a staple in my fridge and my kitchen. We enjoy it as a sauce, as in this mustard vinaigrette with green beans, or sometimes I catch myself even mixing it into food to give flavor to a dish (I like it will lentil soups!). Learn how to make homemade whole grain mustard with my recipe and follow the photo instructions below. The mustard … [Read more...]
Mexican Cafe de Olla (Spiced Coffee)
Cafe de Olla is a spiced black filter coffee sweetened with palm sugar, popularized in Mexico. The spices enhance the coffee in such a way that your cold bones are warmed up instantly! That's why Cafe de Olla is a favorite during cold winter days. And to our luck, it's crazy easy to prepare Cafe de Olla from A-Z! I have put together a video for you so that you can … [Read more...]
Kani Salad Recipe
I absolutely adore Kani Salad! This juicy Japanese salad is prepared with only a few vegetables & delicious crab meat. It tastes great, and it's super easy to prepare Kani salad from scratch at home. I can't stop eating it at times. :) Learn how to make Kani salad with the step-by-step instructions further below. Salads are great during summer with other … [Read more...]
Fried Vegetable Cheese Momo Dumpling
Momos Recipe with a veg cheese stuffing and fried for an extra crispy momo. Tibetan and Nepali momos specialties as you can find them on your journey to Goa! Learn how to make your own momos with the momos recipe below. When you visit Goa, the unique tropical Indian coastline state, you will definitely take around and visit different restaurants. The … [Read more...]
Mysore trip and Mysore Zoo | Karnataka | South India
After a long day on the road, across the Western Ghats into new South Indian territories, we reached the imperial city Mysore in the Indian state of Karnataka. On our way down from Goa to Mysore by car, we ended up traveling 606 kilometers which took us about 14 incredible hours and we were quite speedy with only 2 stops. We saw the beautiful konkan coastline, … [Read more...]
The Lingonberry and how to find wild Lingonberries
For a very long time I have been pondering how I should call these majestic rarer European mountain berries. In the end I decided to leave it at Lingonberry. You might ask yourself why? Well, I will just let you take a look at the picture below and most probably you will come to a common conclusion. Especially, if you are from the US or Canada, you might … [Read more...]
Austrian German English Food Translations
A couple of days ago, me and my Bavarian - German friends were sitting outside waiting for the electricity to come back. We ended up talking about food (what else right?) and then, of course, we started to compare the Tyrolean/Austrian dish traditions with the Bavarian/South German food habits and tried to compare and figure out some food translations. We didn't find … [Read more...]
Austrian Beef Goulash
In Europe, we have something like a spiced meat stew that has gained popularity with time all over the world. As the title suggests, I am speaking of the brown paprika loaded Goulash. Actually, the dish is typically Hungarian. Once upon a time, Hungary and Austria used to be one without borders. It is fair to say that Goulash has become an Austrian favorite … [Read more...]
Amboli, Tilari - South Maharashtra - Western ghats - India
Recently the famous west Indian mountain chain, the western ghats, made it to the coveted list of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. For that reason alone, we should all celebrate! You wonder why? Well, the western ghats are known to be one of the eight hottest hotspots of biological diversity in the world. The mountain chain runs, in a narrow strip from north to … [Read more...]
Schwarzsee - Kitzbühel surrounding - Tirol, Austria
Schwarzsee, also known as the Black Lake translated, is a serene spot in the midst of the Alps next to the luxurious alpine city, Kitzbühel. My parents and I had taken a relaxed Sunday off and went for a little walk nearby. We chose to take a stroll around Kitzbühel (Tirolean Alps, Austria). Kitzbühel is famous for its numerous ruff sports competitions, such as … [Read more...]
Rhubarb Tart
Our house is a real treasure cove, with useful old things and precious collectables. Whenever the time allows it, (which doesn't happen often) I like to search through forgotten attic boxes and cellar cupboards. I had picked up that habit as a kid one fine afternoon when I was alone at home. Precisely, I had actually started to rummage through the house when I … [Read more...]
Detox Herbal Tea
Some time back I had introduced you to a creative home made Dandelion flower jelly, and back then I had promised to share a few other healthy culinary uses for the plant. Before the Austrian alps were commercialized, folks of the mountains had ways and secrete family recipes to their disposition. The chosen ingredients were commonly available products, such as wild … [Read more...]
Zunna Berry (chunna) - Ziziphus Rugosa
We love berries don't we? The best part is to collect them in the wild and either take them home or even better to indulge them here and there in the forest/jungle. We don't feel like it is a waste of time! It's an urge, like a desire deep from our subconscious selves, telling us “Come on, it is fun and healthy at the same time!”. Granted, I for once don't … [Read more...]
Rare Indian Berries
I am looking and searching and reading and going crazy with the thought that I won't find the name or any other information about some of the tastiest culinary berries out there. Those berries are nearly forgotten in between Goas hills, known only by the former generations and the poorer populations of the villages. It is frustrating to watch a fruit disappear in front … [Read more...]
Java Plum Juice
Finally, I am feeling a bit better after that vicious food poisoning attack last weekend. My husband did eat the same dish as I, but he was barely effected, luckily! Definitely I am not looking forward to weakening my body again, no Idea why I thought that I could eat prawns in the summer heat. My taste buds were crying for some seafood flavors, for a change of … [Read more...]
Air Potato - Karaino
Some time back I had posted a picture on Twitter of a dark brown "root". My question was, what this unusual edible plant was called in any language, the feedback as expected was that nobody knew or ever had seen this funny looking "vegetable" before. The joke was that I had asked previously my family members and neighbors in Goa if they knew it. Well, they … [Read more...]
The Big Fish Restaurant review - Palolem beach Goa
That's my first Restaurant review post here at Masala Herb and I am a bit excited about it because it is simple looking but their food is awesome and its located at a special place. ^.^ Some days ago we had decided to go for a little holiday of 3 days, and since my relatives from Europe were down in Goa, it was the perfect excuse for some quality relaxation time. … [Read more...]
Quail Egg Salad Recipe
Have you ever tried Quail eggs? These miniature eggs are truly natures gift, loaded with healthy nutrients and well appreciated for its dietary qualities. Our Ancestors knew back then its benefits and used the eggs to fight and prevent numerous allergies, illnesses, and health conditions. Not only the eggs, but the Quail meat is utilized and relished until today … [Read more...]
Beef Liver with Pulao
I am a total liver lover, any animal lover, but especially I enjoy beef. I was surprised to know that many people felt repulsive towards it. The idea of eating animal organs is not that appetizing to some. Those who feel like that, let me tell you, you are missing out a big deal by not trying at least some. The liver has a smooth, tongue melting texture if … [Read more...]