My everyday green Salad is actually not my invention but rather a side salad dish that my family prepares to accompany any lunch or dinner. This simple salad is truly a daily salad in my world, which comes together really quickly and can be served with most meals. This green salad cannot be missed for any meal or at any event. My mum would prepare this … [Read more...]
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German Apple Cake Recipe - Apfelkuchen
Easy German Apple Cake, also known as Apfelkuchen in German, prepared with raw harvest time apples. This is a traditional recipe is authentic and from my region Tyrol Austria and Bavaria Germany. 📕 What is the German Apple Cake? To prepare the German apple cake, a dough is mixed and the apples are cut and placed on top of the cake before being baked. This … [Read more...]
Grossglockner High Alpine Road Austria
The Grossglockner is the highest mountain glacier in Austria and is accessible via the scenic High Alpine Road. Rich in beauty and helping you to immerse in your surrounding a road trip on this high pass road in the alps will bring you closer to nature and the unique plant and animal kingdom in these hights. I give you a peak of what to expect from this trip to the … [Read more...]
Vegetarian Zucchini Boats Recipe
Zucchini Boats are a great family dinner meal and that's how my mum would get us kids to eat our veggies. The stuffing is completely vegetarian, skinny, healthy, and includes cheese. Preparing baked stuffed zucchini boats for dinner is the best way to use up this amazing vegetable! For that, I share an easy vegetarian meatless Meditteranean zucchini boat … [Read more...]
Cheese Eggs and Potatoes Skillet
Cheese Eggs and Potatoes Skillet is a meal in itself which we commonly prepare in the Austrian Alps. Slices of potatoes are fried in the skillet with eggs and sprinkled with cheese to create a comforting and easy to prepare meal. This is the right lunch or dinner for you if you are looking for a one-pan comforting, easy to prepare recipe. Further below, I share … [Read more...]
20 Millet Recipes + Millet Info and How to Cook it
Millet Recipes - A collection of flavorful dishes with an important nutritious ancient grain. I believe the world should take a look at this grain, known as Millet! That's why I have put together some knowledge about what millet is, why you need to try this ancient grain, the types of millets, why Millet is significant and how to cook with millet. You will also … [Read more...]
Shrimp Fra Diavolo Pasta Sauce Recipe
Shrimp Fra Diavolo is a fiery spicy tomato-based sauce, which is most commonly served with pasta. This delicious, fiery hot, one-pot shrimp fra diavolo (or shrimp diablo) comes together rather quick and easy and is packed with gorgeous flavors to make your weeknight all the more special! I have created a useful video with the shrimp fra diavolo sauce … [Read more...]
Nako - Village in the Himalayas - Kinnaur Himachal Pradesh India
Nako village is India's best kept secret! This dream like village from another time is located right next to the Tibetan border, above 3600 m above sea level altitude, in the Himalayan highlands of the Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh region. You might recall my latest Himalaya post, which is all about our recent road trip form Goa to the highest mountain range in … [Read more...]
Blackberry Jam Recipe
A good blackberry jam can sweeten your day. Fruity and luscious, nature's gift. To make this natural blackberry jam recipe at home from scratch with fresh hand-picked fruits and without pectin is straightforward and so very delicious. Preserve the season's goodness in a jar! 📕 What blackberries to use for blackberry jam without pectin? Blackberries … [Read more...]
Red Currant Cordial Recipe
Red Currant Cordial is a specialty in Europe and elsewhere. The homemade Red Currant Syrup is prepared over a course of days, and that too without much effort! Learn how to prepare red currant cordial aka red currant syrup easily at home with fresh red currant berries. The Recipe with how to step-by-step instructions is further below We have been making … [Read more...]
Salmon White Wine Sauce Pasta Recipe
You should make this salmon white wine sauce pasta recipe on a weeknight when you are craving something different but utterly delicious. This Pasta dish is quickly recreated in 30 minutes and best enjoyed, of course, with a glass of white wine or even rosé wine. My recent obsession has been, admittedly, this Pan-Fried Salmon in White Wine Sauce with … [Read more...]
Kidney Bean Salad with Vinaigrette Dressing
Kidney bean salad is a lovely nourishing and delicious high protein bean salad, which I prepare with a homemade vinaigrette dressing. Red Kidney beans are a wonderful healthy source of protein which you shouldn't miss incorporating into your diet. Learn how to make this vegan bean salad from scratch further below and get the recipe + video! 📕 What are Kidney … [Read more...]
62 Indian Food Recipes you should try!
I believe, we can never have enough Indian Food Recipes! Indian food is so versatile, the topic is so broad and there are so many dishes, that it would be a pity to miss out on any of those wonderfully prepared dishes. Because, finally, Indian food has turned into a thing worldwide, and not just in the UK. I decided it was about time to bring you the most … [Read more...]
Kletzenbrot Recipe - Christmas Fruit Bread
Kletzenbrot is a Christmas fruit bread from Tyrol Austria and that's how we make this traditional recipe from scratch at home. For more baked Christmas goodie recipes, see my mom's Bûche de noël recipe or this British traditional christmas cake recipe. 📕 What is Kletzenbrot? The Kletzenbrot is a dense and moist rye flour fruit bread prepared during … [Read more...]
Finger Millet Poppy Seed Cookies
In the past few months I have been surrounded by ragi flour, it has been literally popping in into my life at different times. Ragi cake on a friend's page, ragi roti made with love by my mother-in-law (flat bread), Ragi flour bags in my friendly neighborhood grocery store and so on. Wherever I look, I can see ragi... 📕 What is ragi and ragi flour? Ragi has … [Read more...]
Traveling South India - Road Trip Goa Mysore Ooty Kodaikanal Munnar
Finally I get to share the first part of our ultimate trip to South India. Traveling South India is such a huge topic that I needed my own time to compile the first part, others will follow soon with all our beautiful impressions, useful tips and stunning stories. Just to summarize it, the five of us, including my husband part of his family and myself, organized a road … [Read more...]
French Apricot Jam Recipe
Our french style apricot jam is all-natural with real fruits. This apricot jam has some really cool uses and I'm demystifying it all in this recipe. 🔪 How to make Apricot Jam? You can use fresh or frozen apricots to make your own batch of homemade jam. It's without pectin, so you just need plain sugar to get this jam right. I have outlined the steps to … [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...]
Tropical Garden Goa India Part II
The last days have been super hot in the small Indian Coastline state Goa and the retrieving rains seem to be over. Yet the heat is dragging along and I am starting to turn into a raisin. I am looking for water and I am yearning for cooling sights. I remember the days when plump water drops would fall on the broad Elephant Ears in my tropical garden Goa. I … [Read more...]
Ridge Gourd Casserole Recipe
Ridge Gourd Bake Casserole is a delicious Week night dinner idea. The Ridge Gourd is a gourd vegetable growing in the tropical regions of this world, and most particularly on the Indian subcontinent. Learn how to use this healthy vegetable in this ridge gourd bake casserole with the step-by-step recipe further below: My all-time favorite vegetable on the … [Read more...]
Vegetarian Potato Goulash Recipe
This Potato Goulash is completely vegetarian and a common weeknight dinner meal during the cold winter months in Austria. The one-pot wonder is easy to make and you just need a few ingredients to prepare the soup within 30 minutes. 📕 What is this dish? The Austrian Goulash soup with potatoes is a dish we all grew up with, in Austria. The authentic goulash … [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...]
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...]
Egg Liqueur Cake
We Europeans love Egg liqueur! It's an omnipresent treat at family meeting, feasts and the such. It is served and used simply as a digestive drink after a meal or as an improve in desserts such as ice cream or even cake dishes. The creamy yellow goodness is a smooth, egg-based alcohol type, which can be easily reconstructed in your own home kitchen. … [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...]
Karonda Berry
Recently, some 10 days back I had requested desperately for some help and information (here) about some of the rarest berries, which grow between March - May on Goas beautiful jungle hills. I want to thank all those who have been supporting me in this quest but especially I would like to thank Finla Noronha who took the time and researched a bit. You are sweetheart … [Read more...]
Cold Tomato Orange Soup with Buffalo Mozzarella
A cold tomato orange soup prepared with fresh peeled tomatoes, orange juice and enriched with chunks of soft buffalo mozzarella and basil leaves. 📕 What is this soup? A simple, flavorful cold summer soup to beat the heat. This soup is like a Spanish cold gazpacho soup. It's served cooled. This soup doesn't require cooking it, it can be prepared within 20 … [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...]
Ficelle Picarde Recipe - Savory stuffed Crêpes
The Ficelle Picard is a savory rolled and stuffed crêpes from the Picardy region in Northern France. 📕 What is it? A creamy luscious savory crêpes recipe called crêpes ficellle Picarde. This recipe was originally developed in the 50s in Amiens (Picardie, North of France) by a cook named Marcel Lefèvre. To date, it has been a hit in the region and … [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...]
Goan Choriz Sausage
Some years back when our restaurant used to be open in the monsoon, we had one young couple which would come every day, and they would sit there for hours speaking with each other. They were Russians and they didn't know much English. The first time they sat in our place they got attracted by the word “sausage” in the choriz sausage bread and so ordered it. The … [Read more...]
Candied Sweet Potatoes (Daigaku Imo)
When guests come to visit us, I usually get excited. I start to go through my mind, thinking what treats I could try serving my unsuspecting companionship. My husband tends to get nervous at this times. He is normally my testing bunny these days, if he doesn't like something then I better leave it or improve it. So in my mind I had decided on a little … [Read more...]
Beef Dumplings (Bratknödel)
Some months ago I had posted a dish called Pressknödel. Knödel are dumplings and there are many different variations, from savory to sweet, from round to flat. Sometimes you enjoy them with a soup or sometimes they fit better with a salad. Today I thought of a savory bread Knödel version to share with my readers called Bratknödel. Knödel are so-called … [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...]
Soursop Fruit (Guanabana)
Today I wanted to share an exotic fruit with you, the soursop fruit. 📕 What is the Soursop fruit? Soursop, also known as guanabana, graviola, or Brazilian pawpaw, is a tropical fruit with a green leathery and spiky skin, making it look like a plump little dragon. It is related to the custard apple and has a similar texture. Behind the rough facade hides … [Read more...]
How to peel and devein fresh Shrimp
I show you how to deshell and devein raw and fresh shrimp. This applies to small and large ones. You won't need special kitchen tools for this. 🔪 Why clean shrimp? Shrimp need to be cleaned for food safety reasons and because the shell isn't edible. When someone says they are cleaning a shrimp (or prawn), they mean to say that they are removing the head, shell, … [Read more...]