Szechuan Dry Fried Green Beans is a healthy Chinese Restaurant side dish specialty. Serve these one-pan vegetarian Sichuan style green beans with fried rice and seasoned pork mince. 📕 What is this dish? Dry Fried Green Beans is a popular Chinese side dish from the Szechuan province in China. It's called dry fried because the green beans are stir-fried … [Read more...]
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Japanese Cabbage Salad & Dressing
A quick Japanese cabbage salad with a drizzle of homemade dressing. Make this gluten-free and low-carb salad within 5 minutes and serve with your favorite foods. In my neighborhood, we have two excellent Japanese restaurants. One of the two prepares this Japanese crispy cabbage salad. I discovered this salad accidentally 2 years as they had added … [Read more...]
Chicken Cabbage Stir Fry Recipe
Asian-inspired Chicken Cabbage Stir Fry skillet, prepared in just one pan within minutes. Enjoy this delicious cabbage chicken meal to the fullest because it's gluten-free & low-carb as well! For this recipe, watch the how-to video and get the step-by-step recipe further below! Do you love Chinese chicken meals? Try my Chinese inspired chicken noodle soup or … [Read more...]
Clear Bok Choy Soup Recipe
One-Pan Bok Choy Soup with aromatic spices and Asian flavors in a clear broth. This cleansing light winter soup is flavorful, easy to make and ready within 20 minutes! 📕 What is Bok Choy? Bok Choy is one of the few Chinese cabbage varieties, which is also known as Pok Choy or Pak Choy. The vegetable is a green leave variety popularized in China. … [Read more...]
Spiced Roasted Walnuts with Honey Recipe
Spiced roasted walnuts with honey are a real treat and something you have to try if you like spicy sweet snacks! Prepared with honey, those sticky oven roasted walnuts turn out to be a healthier snack for the whole family! Do you like roasted nuts? Try roasted chestnuts or candied almonds. 📕 When are walnuts in season? Walnut harvesting time depends on … [Read more...]
Ginger Coconut Detox Lentil Soup Recipe
Wholesome Ginger Coconut Detox Lentil Soup to revive your taste senses and to promote inner well-being. The soup is prepared with split red Masoor lentils and other fresh ingredients. You can make this quick and easy vegan soup and enjoy it the same night, or add it to your meal prep plan for the week! This ginger coconut detox lentil soup came together while I … [Read more...]
Chinese Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
My Chinese inspired Chicken Noodle Soup is prepared and cooked in one pot within 20 minutes. Delightful modern Asian chicken soup flavors with egg noodles, which is super comforting when it's cold outside. 📕 What is this Soup? Chinese chicken noodle soups are a common occurrence in Chinese or Asian-themed restaurants in the west. Every … [Read more...]
Black Coconut Macaroons (Halloween Cookies)
Black Coconut Macaroons with Chocolate for your Halloween party guests, because even black souls need to feed on something. These easy coconut macaroons are deep black in color, achieved by a natural coloring of the cookies. The cookie base is a HOT red chocolate mixture, which unravels on your tongue. Watch my quick, fun how-to video further … [Read more...]
Hot and Sour Soup with Noodles and Sweet Corn
This delicious Hot and Sour Soup with Noodles and Sweet Corn is a quick and easy one-pot vegetarian recipe, ready within 20 minutes. Fresh ingredients such as sweet corn, leek, and mushroom, turn this soup into a comfort food delight. 📕 What is this hot and sour soup? Hot and Sour soup is usually a Chinese Soup variety prepared with spicy hot chilies and … [Read more...]
Spicy Moroccan Lentil Soup - Veg Style Harira
Moroccan Lentil Soup, aka Harira, is a spiced North African soup. This is a vegan version of the Harira soup, and it's not a traditional authentic recipe. It's based on the original, which is prepared with meats. If you like soups like my Indian lentil soup, then this one-pot easy soup should be your next dinner meal! 📕 What is Moroccan Soup (Harira)? Harira … [Read more...]
Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe
Spicy Thai Noodle Soup Recipe with red curry paste is stuffed with whole ingredients. This soup brightens up, is filling, it's a one-pot wonder and full of gorgeous flavors. This spicy soup is for you if you enjoy spicy flavorful coconut soups such as the Thai Tom Kha Gai soup or if you are into deep complex Asian food flavors. This Thai noodle soup is not a … [Read more...]
Chicken Pad Thai Recipe
Chicken Pad Thai is one of my all-time favorite Asian noodle dishes. The popular Thai meal is not only tasty but healthy as well, and brace yourself, a super quick 20-minute prep and cook dinner recipe! It's a win-win all along, and this chicken pad thai will be your next favorite recipe at home! Trust me, I know what I am saying. Learn within a minute … [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...]
3 ingredient Pad Thai Sauce Recipe
A Pad Thai Sauce Recipe is a useful addition to any Asian food lover's kitchen repertoire! If you are into Pad Thai noodles, then making your own pad thai sauce from scratch is the next step to add value to your Asian food plate. 📕 What is Pad Thai Sauce? Pad Thai Sauce is a stir-fry sauce used to flavor the popular pad thai stir-fry noodle dish from … [Read more...]
Panda Express Orange Chicken Recipe (Copycat)
Panda Express Orange Chicken Recipe is my little sticky sweet and sour secret! This addictive "healthier" fakeout copycat meal is another must try for any serious food lover out there. Spicy, sweet and sour sauce over crispy fried juicy chicken. I show you today how to make this popular and famous Asian-American dish at home with my how to clip further … [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...]
Turkish Red Lentil Soup Recipe
Turkish red lentil soup is a blended smooth soup prepared with veggies, red masoor lentils and selected spices. A topping made of olive oil, chili and mint, takes this soup to a whole new level. The Turkish lentil soup is stuffed with flavors, and you can make the Mediterranean lentil soup at home from scratch within 30 minutes in just one pot! I came across … [Read more...]
Baked Ham and Cheese Crescent Rolls Recipe
Perfect Ham and Cheese Crescent Rolls, prepared with a soft dough and from scratch! Everyone loves to snack on those stuffed crescent rolls and you can make them at home now. Learn how to make ham and cheese crescent rolls, step by step, with the instructions further below. You will be in for a treat! The stuffed Ham and Cheese Crescent rolls are for all … [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...]
Mini Chocolates
I love homemade chocolate and making little decorative easy chocolates from scratch. It's a fun activity and the chocolates taste so delicious! The best part is that you can make homemade chocolates quickly, too, without much effort! Wonder how? Of course, I will always enjoy some good quality commercially available chocolates, especially those … [Read more...]
Candied Orange Peel Recipe
Candied Orange Peel sweetens the colder winter days. Vibrant healthier bites to snack on or to use in your cooking and baking. I show you how to make them from scratch! 📕 What are Candied Orange Peels? Candied orange peel is a wonderful way to turn something we usually throw away into something fragrantly delicious and decadent. A frugal way to add … [Read more...]
30+ Eggless Cookies Recipes
Collection of 30+ Eggless Cookies Recipes, there is something for everybody! You will find beautiful, delicious and easy cookies without eggs, all made from scratch of course. Find all no egg cookie suggestions below. Years ago, during the time when we ran a little coffee near the beach in Goa, we used to make and prepare cookies for our guests. The … [Read more...]
Chicken Schnitzel with Sesame Recipe
Chicken Schnitzel coated with breadcrumbs and sesame seeds for dinner tonight. 📕 What is Schnitzel? A Schnitzel is a boneless thin-cut breaded piece of meat (aka escalope). The original Schnitzel is the Vienna veal, Wiener Schnitzel. The Schnitzel in West Austria and South Germany is prepared with pork meat. Chicken Schnitzel is sometimes also called the … [Read more...]
Homemade Fish Sticks with Herbs
Fried Fish sticks with french fries, dipped into a homemade Tartar Sauce, that's what I call summer comfort food. Fish Sticks are also called Fish fingers across the pond! Fried fish sticks have never been considered health food because they are deep-fried. Yet, I love them, it's my comfort food! Fish sticks can be baked too, and they taste … [Read more...]
Golden Baked Chicken Drumsticks
I absolutely adore golden crisp baked chicken drumsticks with corn flakes and this recipe, which includes coconut and chili flakes, was featured in a magazine in Europe in spring 2014. The chicken drumsticks are perfectly cooked and the chili and coconut give it a slight Indian touch to the baked chicken drumsticks with corn flakes. Best enjoyed with the sweet and … [Read more...]
Christmas Cookie Collection
I believe one can never have enough cookies for Christmas. Various Christmas Cookie types, such as traditional and colorful new style cookies are a must in my house and I have to tell you Christmas is for sure not the same without the cookies. In my first years in Goa, I didn't miss the familiar smell of Christmas spices and the comforting feeling of the season but … [Read more...]
Sweet and Sour Papaya Sauce
Hello orange Season, welcome back! I have been seeing oranges lately, not in a bad way of course, no I am talking about the change of seasons and the time when orange-colored vegetables and fruits appear more frequently in the market. It might be Europe, the Americas or India, every September you'll notice warmer colored produce. While the old wives summer (also … [Read more...]
Alle Belle Recipe - Coconut Crepes
Sweet Coconut Crêpes 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 crêpes, which are a common sweet delicacy in Goan homes. They are also known as Alle belle. The specialty of these stuffed coconut rolled … [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...]
Layered Polenta Casserole Recipe
📕 What is Polenta? Polenta is a typical Italian, central European maize (cornmeal) porridge type. Polenta resembles grits, but it's deep yellow. Before polenta was introduced to Europe, they used other ingredients such as chestnut flour or millet. Polenta is cooked with liquids such as water, stocks or milk for a couple of minutes. It's a very quick side dish … [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...]
Breakfast Poha Recipe
Phovu, pronounced Fo, is a typically celebrational sweet from around Goa. It reminds me of Müsli, for the choice of ingredients is similar to that, just the Indian way, with rice flakes, Jaggery, Coconut, and Raisins. Sounds simple enough and quick to prepare. With a healthy touch of natures resources, enjoyed as in between snack, dessert or even breakfast, you can … [Read more...]