Christmas cookies, bread, cakes and drinks from Europe and India; that’s what you will find in this collection of special best of sweet Christmas recipes. Next year I will post a collection of best of savory Christmas recipes but today let’s tackle the sweet side of life. If you have been following the free newsletter, […]
Dessert Food Recipes
Dessert Recipes, homemade from scratch. Traditional Cake, Tart, coffee time Pastries, ice cream, sweets, candy, chocolates, all under one roof!
Blueberry Tart with Custard Recipe
Fruity creamy dessert, as dark as the night, come to me I will treat you well and savor each slice, each layer and every single bite. Oh so blue and scrumptious, still fresh and hot, we ate you completely, so that there was nothing left. This is what happened with the blueberry tart with custard […]
Marillenknödel Recipe (Apricot Dumplings)
Sweet Marillenknödel dumplings are a real treat! These Austrian dessert dumplings are easy to prepare and are sure to impress your family and friends. Coated by a tender choux dough sits a fresh apricot from the garden. Prepared the Austrian way, these apricot dumplings will transport you to a new uncharted food paradise. I am […]
Colorful Coconut Crepes
Sweet Coconut Crepes prepared with coconut milk and stuffed with sugar cane molasses and Coconut bits or flakes. You can add food coloring too, to change the appearance to a bright colored dessert. These are coconut crepes which are a common sweet delicacy in Goan homes. They are also known as Alebele. The specialty of […]
Paneer Indian Cottage Cheese Pancake
Mhm a moist and rich plate of freshly fried golden pancakes to kick start the day. Sounds like a Food Elysium, doesn’t it? Yet, as we all know it, we don’t have to die to indulge such utopian joys on earth, we just need a stove a couple of basic cooking utensils, some flour, eggs, […]
Buchteln stuffed with Hazelnut Paste and topped with Vanilla Sauce
Buchteln are a very famous dessert treat from central Europe, and I have been wanting to introduce you to it for a while now. These sweet Buns are typically made with yeast and frequently they are stuffed with jam or sometimes even with other surprises such as Topfen or even nuts. You will find this […]
Bora Berry Tart with Coconut flour and Sugarcane Jaggery
The other day I was lucky enough to get hold of the first Bora berry harvest of the season. You might recall, that i had mentioned the Bora Berry – also known as Jujube Date – last year on this space. This red colored Asian berry grows all over India and it is apparently even […]
Carrot cake and a GIVEAWAY
The electricity department thinks it to be funny to cut the juice for so long today. Sigh… Today is my birthday and usually I don’t really celebrate much, but I thought it would be fun to reward my readers with my mums carrot cake recipe and most importantly with a cool GOA Handicraft Giveaway, sponsored […]
Persimmon Tart – Hachiya, Diospyros Kaki
Yes, I am back and as I had promised last Friday, while battling the notorious cold that has been taken a round here locally, I prepared an informative post about the Persimmon fruit. No idea what this fruit is? Well, you are at the right place, because some time back I myself didn’t know about […]
Spiced Apple Compote, Muesli Yogurt
We’re all apple lovers, aren’t we? I haven’t met anybody yet, who wasn’t. The apple is the symbol of sin, so that will explain our behavior when the apple harvesting season is going on. We in Goa, get our apples either come from Kashmir (North India) or from China all around the year. I do […]
Apple Flax seed Cupcakes with Lemon Glaze
Sometimes a rest is required, a break from the ever so fast paced world. We all need to replenish our energy levels and creative notions every now and then. We are not robots, or we wouldn’t be able to create out of inspiration. Luckily, we are just humans, or the world and especially the internet […]
Esterhazy Torte
We grew up with french pastries and Desserts at home all the time. My mother had some knowledge of Austrian cakes and cooking and would present us some of her creations every once in a while. However our food at home was a 90% French. I had studied Hotel management in college and learned THE […]