Ratatouille is a French vegetable stew prepared with zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes. This my families french recipe prepared in one pot. 📕 What is ratatouille? Ratatouille is a traditional coarse vegetable stew from the Provence in south France. It's commonly prepared during the zucchini and eggplant harvest season in the summer. The stew is a staple … [Read more...]
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Baked Tofu with Vegetables (Sheet Pan)
Crispy baked tofu cubes prepared on one sheet pan with your choice of vegetables. Makes an easy to prepare complete low carb and vegan dinner meal for two. You can also make this dish a tad healthier by using gluten-free soy sauce and/ or low sodium ingredients. This plant-based dish is great for weight loss too! If you like sheet-pan meals, check out my … [Read more...]
Italian Seasoning Recipe
Your homemade Italian seasoning recipe to make endless quantities of this amazing flavorful blend. That way you will never run out of this essential mix of herbs and spices. 📕 What is Italian Seasoning? Italian Seasoning is an invention from folks who are not Italian and living in Italy. The idea is to infuse food with the typical Italian flavors by using … [Read more...]
Penne Alla Vodka Recipe
Penne alla vodka is a quick and easy vegetarian dinner meal. This recipe is for you if you are looking for homemade comfort food prepared in less than 30 minutes. Penne alla vodka is such a popular dish in Italian restaurants, that you need to try it. I make it when I need a quick weeknight meal and I’m feeling uninspired in my kitchen. This dish is ready within … [Read more...]
3 Cheese Tortellini Soup with Ham Recipe
3 cheese tortellini soup enriched with ham pieces makes a comforting winter meal for the family. Stuffed with incredible satisfying flavors, this soup is sure to make an impact. I love tortellini and one of the best ways to enjoy them, besides topped with a creamy cheese sauce, is to make a soup with them. Tortellini are stuffed Italian pasta, so combining them … [Read more...]
Bacon Wrapped Little Smokies Recipe
Bacon wrapped little smokies are crunchy and make for a crowd-pleasing bite. I show you how to prepare this quick and easy sausage recipe. 📕 What are little smokies? Little Smokies (or lil smokies) are smoked mini sausages that consist of a blend of beef and pork meat. They are like cocktail wieners or other small mini sausages but the meat has been … [Read more...]
Vanillekipferl Cookies Recipe
Vanillekipferl are melt in the mouth crescent-shaped Christmas time cookies. The cookies are flavored with vanilla, hence why they are also known as a vanilla crescent or moon cookies. This is one of my Oma's traditional Austrian Christmas cookies recipes. The cookies are also known as Viennese almond crescents. Read up the history of this iconic cookie just … [Read more...]
Mashed Turnips Recipe
Best mashed turnips prepared with whole or frozen turnips, all low carb. Watch how to make mashed turnips with my short video clip and process shots further below. This is your holiday side dish if you like a healthy, easy to prepare, low-calorie mash. 📕 What are turnips? Turnips are round-shaped roots, which average the size of a fist. Varieties exist, … [Read more...]
Sauteed Swiss Chard Recipe with Bacon
One Pan sauteed swiss chard with bacon is a delightful low carb dinner meal idea. Watch how I prepare this easy recipe from scratch with garden-fresh swiss chard in my video further below. The complete recipe with tips and more is waiting for you further below in the post. Do you enjoy low carb one pan skillet dinner meals just like this sauteed swiss chard with … [Read more...]
Guide to Königssee Lake Berchtesgaden Germany
The Königssee lake is known as the most beautiful lake in Germany with its emerald shine and mountains surrounding the lake. I have put together this guide on how to get the most out of your trip to the Königssee. Location The Königssee is located in Berchtesgaden in Bavaria South Germany. The lake and the area are a protected natural reserve, surrounded by … [Read more...]
German Red Cabbage Recipe
The best braised German red cabbage, seasoned and cooked to perfection with spices and shredded apple. This healthier side dish can be easily recreated at home. Read up my useful tips in the post and follow the from-scratch recipe at the bottom of the post with the video and process shots further below. 📕 What is German red cabbage? The German red cabbage … [Read more...]
German Currywurst Recipe
German Currywurst Recipe with homemade currywurst ketchup sauce prepared in one pan. Make this German cult snack at home with my quick instructional video further below. 📕 What is Currywurst? Currywurst is a German fast-food snack meal. Pork Bratwurst sausages are served covered by a special spiced and tangy curry ketchup sauce. There are variations … [Read more...]
German Coleslaw Recipe
German Coleslaw is an easy to prepare low carb vegan salad side dish. The slaw is aromatic and seasoned nicely to bring out the fresh crisp slaw flavors. I show you how to make a proper German European recipe further below. 📕 What's the German coleslaw? The German coleslaw is a traditional-shredded cabbage salad. This is a South German version with … [Read more...]
Fresh Turnip Green Soup Recipe
Fresh turnip green soup with sausage is a healthy budget-friendly clear low carb soup. This southern soup is also known as swamp soup recipe. I show you how to make this soup from scratch further below in the recipe. 📕 What are turnip greens? Turnip greens are the leaves of the turnip root, which are edible as well. The greens are at times sold … [Read more...]
Hawaiian Pizza Recipe
The Hawaiian Pizza is my all-time favorite pizza! I show you how to make this pineapple pizza at home with my recipe further below. Pizza, no doubt, is always a dinner time winner in my book, and there is nothing better than a pizza topped with pineapple chunks and ham. I know there is a giant debate about this and there are naysayers out there, yet I don't … [Read more...]
3 day Vienna itinerary Austria
You will find the best things to do in Vienna in this post! This is from an Austrian local perspective so that you can get the most out of your trip in this 1 to 3 day itinerary! I have been to Vienna countless times over the years and thought to myself, it's about time I share my wealth of knowledge with y'all! In this post, you will find first the best things that … [Read more...]
Semmelknödel Recipe (Bread Dumplings)
Semmelknödel are round bread dumplings from Southern Germany. I show you how we make them from scratch at home with stale bread in this recipe. I talked about Semmelknödel years ago, where I showed you how to cook homemade fermented Sauerkraut. Ingredients The ingredients for the homemade authentic bread dumplings are straightforward. For the dumplings … [Read more...]
Valentine's Marzipan Chocolate Balls
Valentine's Marzipan Chocolate balls are a different kind of treat to celebrate the day with your loved one. The marzipan is enclosed by white and pink colored chocolate. You will find it to be a fun activity at the same time and your edible gift will truly come from the heart. I got the idea to prepare the marzipan chocolate balls when I ended up with … [Read more...]
Chicken Geschnetzeltes with Hunter Sauce
Chicken Geschnetzeltes with Hunter Sauce is a delicious one-pan meal that you can prepare within 25 minutes! This dish is super popular in Austria and resembles the Jagerschnitzel and the Chicken with mushroom white wine. 📕 What is Geschnetzeltes? Geschnetzeltes is a Swiss/Austrian definition for sliced meats. When someone says geschnetzeltes it can either … [Read more...]
Mini Pigs in a Blanket Recipe
Mini Pigs in a blanket are my favorites! This party appetizer snack keeps kids and adults alike happy. My easy pigs in a blanket are prepared within minutes with either puff pastry or crescent roll and they look great with sesame. Watch the quick video below to make your own cocktail wieners wrapped in crescent rolls. 🌭 Ingredients 🔪 How to make them? This is … [Read more...]
How to make Meatballs
I'm covering everything on how to make meatballs further below! Read up some useful tips on how to prepare the best, soft, moist, juicy easy round meatballs from scratch at home or watch my short video further below. I love all kinds of minced meat dishes, but I can be rather picky. I hate to bite into a burger patty or a meatball and watch myself grind and … [Read more...]
Curried Chicken Salad Recipe
Curried Chicken Salad is a flavorful lunch salad idea which I tend t me whole year round. This salad is prepared with curry powder, and depending on how much you add of the spice blend, can turn a bit spicy. 📕 What's curry powder? Curry powder is a very popular spice blend in Europe and mostly in Germany, UK, and France. In Germany, curry powder is … [Read more...]
Mashed Potato Recipe
Learn how to make mashed potato easily with my quick video. Enjoy your own homemade mashed potatoes as a side dish, or check out some tips further below on how to use left-over mashed potatoes or to create different mashed potato variations! Are you like me?! A total mashed potato fan? I make mashed potatoes whenever I'm craving a homely feeling. That's when … [Read more...]
Haluski Bacon, Cabbage and Noodles
This is a quick Haluski Recipe that I picked up from my former Slovak work buddies. Traditionally, Halušky is prepared with homemade noodles, this is an easy weeknight dinner Haluski with noodles, cabbage, and bacon which you can prepare within 20 mins. 📕 What is Haluski or Halušky? Halušky are various noodles and dumplings or even the name of the dish … [Read more...]
German Potato Dumplings Recipe
German Potato Dumplings are a wonderful side dish idea. It's mostly served with delicious meals such as Sauerkraut and Sausage, Sauerbraten with Red Cabbage. Potato Dumplings, aka Kartoffelknödel in German, are easy to prepare. 📕 What are German Potato Dumplings? The German Potato Dumplings are common round dumplings prepared with potato dough. The … [Read more...]
German Potato Pancakes without Eggs (Kartoffelpuffer)
German Potato Pancakes (Kartoffelpuffer) are savory shredded potatoes shaped into a flattened small dumpling-like pancake. Those are then simply fried and usually served as a side dish with a meat main course. My easy Kartoffelpuffer are vegan, prepared without eggs. To make the German potato pancakes is rather easy, so I invite you to try them out and give … [Read more...]
Flammkuchen Recipe - Alsatian Tarte Flambée Pizza
Flammkuchen or Tarte Flambée is a delicious flat pizza-like dish, topped with fresh cream, bacon, and onions. 📕 What is Flammkuchen aka Tarte Flambée? Flammkuchen is a Pizza-like dish with cream bacon and onions as the main original topping ingredients. Flammkuchen is also known as Tarte Flambée/Flammekuechen and is primarily an Alsatian French pizza … [Read more...]
German Cheese Dip without Beer Recipe (Obatzda)
Obatzda is a super flavorful Southern German cheese dip, and this recipe is without beer. The dip is a common sight in Munich in the beer gardens, the Alms in the alps and of course at the Oktoberfest in autumn and resembles the Liptauer spread. What is this dip? Obatzda is a German cheese dip or bread spread prepared with aged cheese such as Camembert, … [Read more...]
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...]
Bavarian Potato Salad Recipe
This Bavarian Potato Salad Recipe is a warm potato salad. It's commonly made in Bavaria, a region in Southern Germany. I share the authentic recipe, just the way that it's prepared and served up at popular Bavarian beer halls in Munich and at our family gatherings. 📕 How is this Bavarian potato salad different? This potato salad is known as Kartoffelsalat or … [Read more...]
Hot Mango Habanero Sauce Recipe
My super hot Mango Habanero Sauce with real fresh habanero chili peppers and mango fruit. This sauce is irresistibly hot and sweet, plus it also looks stunning! This is part of my homemade hot sauce series, which also includes the Thai sweet chili sauce and Buffalo sauce. 🔪 How to make it? Here is a quick overview to give you an idea of how this sauce … [Read more...]
Homemade Potato Gnocchi Recipe
Preparing Homemade Potato Gnocchi is so rewarding! Besides, it's not rocket science to prepare these pasta dumplings from scratch and they taste way better then the store bought Gnocchi. 📕 What are Potato Gnocchis? Gnocchis are Italian pasta dumplings which originated in the North of Italy. Potato Gnocchis are the most well known Gnocchi variation out … [Read more...]
Amiens Cathedral and the best of the city - Picardy, France
Amiens Cathedral in the French City is well worth a visit! Besides that, Amiens has lots more to offer and makes a great weekend getaway for family and couples. Where is Amiens situated and what is Amiens known for? Amiens is the administrative city of the region of Picardy, Haute-de-France, situated in North France. [pronunce amɪənz] It's a busy corner of … [Read more...]
Daikon Radish Salad Recipe
Daikon Radish Salad is a little salad loaded with strong flavors and character! This daikon salad recipe is for you if you are looking to add more raw vegetables in form of a salad to your daily meal planning. Also, the Daikon Radish Recipe is surprisingly versatile and makes a great must have during the colder winter months! I came across this radish for the … [Read more...]
+20 Amuse Bouche Ideas - Bite Sized Hors d’Oeuvres Recipes
Great selection of Amuse Bouche Ideas! There is something for everyone. Discover useful bite-sized hors d'Oeuvres, veg, and non-veg recipes, and tiny party food appetizers. Get inspired by these cute and delicious little bites. Don't know what amuse-bouche are? Read further below and learn how to use these amazing little bites to entertain your … [Read more...]
3 Days in Prague [Itinerary]
We spend 3 days in Prague the Czech Capital, and for this wonderful European city, you will need something like an itinerary, a travel guide to get your around to see the most interesting attractions and enjoy Prague to the fullest! See further below what you can do in Prague in 3 days. I also share with you my tidbits and thoughts to some places and why we, me and … [Read more...]
Strudel Dough Recipe
This Strudel Dough Recipe is a basic dough recipe which you can use for any Strudel recipe, such as Apple Strudel! The dough is made from scratch with just a few ingredients. Wondering what a Strudel dough is and why it's any different from other dough? 📕 What is Strudel Dough, and where is the Strudel originally from? In a nutshell, Strudel is a stuffed … [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...]
Aloo Gobi Masala Curry (Potato Cauliflower)
Aloo Gobi Masala is quite a popular & filling vegetarian dish, not just in India, but recently globally as well. The vegetarian curry includes potato and cauliflower, making it a delicious spiced meal for any Indian food lover! I always make sure to include pure veg Indian dishes into my weekly menu plan. You can imagine the upside of eating … [Read more...]
French Pork Crépinette Recipe
Crépinette is a flat meat sausage patty parcel wrapped in caul fat, so the difference to a regular sausage is that a crépinette is not wrapped in a casing. Pork meat wrapped in caul fat is a specialty from France and I'm sharing my mum's traditional recipe. 📕 What is Crépinette? A Crépinette is a parcel of meat, that can be made of pork, beef, lamb, or wild … [Read more...]