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...]
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Bavarian Cream Dessert Recipe
Our Bavarian Cream Recipe so that you get to try this amazing and delicious dessert at home! Make the cream and let it set in pots to serve as dessert with your favorite toppings or fruits. Watch my quick and easy how to make Bavarian cream video further below. What is Bavarian Cream? Bavarian Cream, also advertised as Crème bavaroise in some places, is a … [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...]
Apple Jelly Recipe
Homemade, all natural, Apple Jelly is a wonderful fall treat! Especially when you have a load full of gorgeous apple waiting to be used. I show you how it's done in my recipe. TL;DR My parents have various apple types growing at home and the best way to use them up is by turning them into an apple jelly. We have always prepared jam, jellies, and even … [Read more...]
Creepy Halloween Candy Creatures with Marzipan
Creepy Halloween Candy Creatures will be the ultimate realistic candy at your Halloween party! Your guests will think that those slugs, maggots, woodworms, and earthworms are for real. The candy creatures are prepared with marzipan paste, which is really fun and easy to color and shape. The marzipan figures are also healthy and completely vegan! I … [Read more...]
Chai Pumpkin Spice Tea Recipe
A cup of hot Pumpkin Spice Tea between your hands will warm up your cold bones. Comfort guaranteed with this 5-minute homemade spiced pumpkin spice chai tea recipe! Autumn is one of my favorite seasons of the year, and that is for a good reason. I enjoy all the bounties of the year to the fullest, while the air is getting crisp, and I get inspired by the … [Read more...]
Vegan Marzipan Recipe
Basic Marzipan prepared easily, no cooking involved, all-natural with real flavors, and only 4 ingredients! This is based on our German raw marzipan mass recipe which is further used in cakes, cookies candies. This recipe is vegan and without eggs. 📕 What is Marzipan? Marzipan is a raw mass of flavored almond paste. Whole almonds are peeled and reduced … [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...]
Simple Green Salad with Vinaigrette
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 salad for … [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...]
Mixed Mushroom Risotto Recipe
Easy Mushroom Risotto Recipe with variously mixed mushrooms, white wine, and parmesan. The risotto rice dish is stuffed with comforting flavors and in this particular Italian recipe, you get to pick your mushrooms. Perfect, during fall when we collect mushrooms in the woods or when we discover a bountiful mushroom harvest in the grocery market. 🍄 Mushroom … [Read more...]
Sweet Onion Sauce Recipe
Sweet Onion Sauce is my take on the onion sauce that you get at Subway. I have modified the sauce so that it can be used beyond subs and sandwiches. TL;DR I call my Subway Sweet Onion Sauce a fake copycat recipe because it's used as a topping for subs. I have modified the ingredients used and the looks to make it rather mild but smooth as well and not that … [Read more...]
Indian Lentil Soup Recipe
Flavorful Indian Lentil Soup - comfort level is high because the soup will brighten up your dinner with the heartwarming colors and nutritious ingredients. Besides, the soup comes together rapid and easy; therefore the soup is a perfect meal idea after a long day at work as each bite revitalizes you. Plus point: the soup is vegan. 🆚 Indian Lentil soup … [Read more...]
Lebanese Zaatar Spice Blend Recipe
A flavorful Lebanese Zaatar Spice Blend Recipe so that you can make this wonderful Mediterranean spice blend at home with your own spices. This will give you the option to use only real ingredients in this popular Levantine seasoning blend and at the same time, you will understand what ingredients make this spice blend so amazing! 📕 What is … [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...]
Cheesy Gnocchi Cream Sauce with Bacon
Amazingly cheesy Gnocchi cream sauce with bacon for my Italian homemade Potato Gnocchi. Love this gnocchi sauce recipe so much, I don't make any other cream sauce for gnocchi at times! The other day I shared my homemade Potato gnocchi recipe. The dough is a potato dough, the kind which is common in North Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, … [Read more...]
How to Sprout Mung Beans DIY
I am showing you in this post how to sprout mung beans easily at home. Here you'll learn tips, what to look out for, and 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! TL;DR If you have been following me for a while, you will know that this is not my first post … [Read more...]
My favorite Travel Movies for your Wanderlust!
I have watched a lot of travel movies over the years, besides binge watching food-related movies (more about that in another post). This is a list of my favorite travel movies and why each of these films inspired me to travel and dive into my adventures. None of the movies are the same and they all have a lot of meaning, are intensely realistic and they will all give … [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...]
Burger Seasoning Recipe
Burger Seasoning is another amazing useful blend of spices, herbs, and salt! Besides, preparing burger seasoning from scratch is super easy. It will turn your burgers into the best burgers at the next BBQ grill hangout this summer! 📜 Why make your own Burger Seasoning? The ingredients to make burger seasoning are common pantry spices. This is a … [Read more...]
Kunzum Pass, Himalaya India
Traveling the Himalayas is for you if you are adventurous if you are looking to experience nature to it's fullest and if you are not the type who cares about comfort. Because only the toughest travelers will appreciate this raw but beyond beautiful corner of our mother earth. Kunzum, a mountain pass in India was an amazing adventure during our trip through the … [Read more...]
Mango Sorbet Recipe
Mango Sorbet is a real treat during the hot summer days! Fruity, almost pure in flavor and oh so very refreshing. The best part is, besides being insanely good, that the sorbet with mangoes is super easy to prepare from scratch! You only need to follow basic sorbet making rules. I have searched out the best scoop and tips for you. The full video how-to is … [Read more...]
Fresh Mango Iced Tea
Fresh Mango iced tea is my latest obsession, my friends! The best part is that you can use whole mangoes or mango pulp to prepare this amazing beverage at home from scratch. Choose to prepare your basic mango tea with black tea leaves, green or even the precious white tea leaves! Who doesn't love iced tea? I mean seriously, this is an omnipresent cold … [Read more...]
Vanilla Iced Coffee Recipe
A vanilla iced coffee is bound to be part of your routine if you are a coffee drinker like me. I figured a simple homemade no fuss vanilla iced coffee ought to be shared. After all, it's part of my life too, although I don't go to Starbucks, Dunkin and donuts or MC Donald's for a vanilla iced coffee. Further below, I cover how to make vanilla iced coffee and … [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...]
Tabo Monastery in Spiti Himachal Pradesh India
Tabo Monastery in Spiti Himachal Pradesh India is a complex of ancient cave shrines and temples, decorated with detailed Buddhist wall paintings and some seriously captivating realistic statues. These Himalayan Highlands will literally take away your breath with oxygen deficiency and the bluest sky in the world, creating an unforgettable trip to the tiny Buddhist … [Read more...]
Fluffy Waffle Recipe
The Fluffy Waffle Recipe is a classic and usually, my mum used to prepare waffles the French way once in a while as a special dessert afternoon treat for us. Nowadays light and crispy waffles are one of my favorite brunch meals. To make fluffy waffles is not rocket science. There is a great technique to create gorgeous waffles every time again! My … [Read more...]
Tamarind Paste Recipe
Tamarind Paste is a universal ingredient used in Asian, African, Caribbean, and South/Central American cooking. You use it to build up curries, or stir-fry sauces, as part of a meat marination or in cold beverages. I will teach you how to make Tamarind Paste, which you can keep in your fridge for further use. 📕 What is Tamarind? Tamarind is a sour, pulpy … [Read more...]
Yat Gaw Mein Soup with Chicken (Yakamein)
Yat Gaw Mein Soup (aka Yakamein) is a Chinese influenced clear broth soup enhanced with deep Creole flavors. This Chinese and New Orleans fusion dish is prepared with noodles and this particular yat gaw mein with chicken stripes. See further below how I make my one-pot yat gaw mein soup so that you get to enjoy this fantastic dish as well! I stumbled upon yat … [Read more...]
Creole Seasoning Recipe
Creole Seasoning is a super useful blend of spices and herbs which is used in creole cuisine across the South of the US and the Caribbeans. This Creole-style seasoning is a quick fix blend which is put together in less than 3 minutes. You will need common pantry ingredients to follow my creole seasoning recipe. 📕 What is Creole Seasoning? Creole Seasoning … [Read more...]
Quick Indian Lemon Rice Recipe
This lemon rice recipe is a delicious side dish to serve with any main dish. The South Indian-inspired yellow rice can be served with Indian as well as Western fish, meat, and vegetable meals. This is a quick and easy version prepared with a few ingredients. When you visit Goa, the first thing that you do is to take a walk around the beach and chill in one of the … [Read more...]
Panda Express Orange Chicken Recipe (Copycat)
Panda Express Orange Chicken Recipe is my little sticky sweet and sour secret! This addictive “healthier” fake-out 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...]
Homemade Pineapple Infused Water
Pineapple Water is a wonderful fruit infused water. Fresh water takes up the flavors of your fruits, resulting in a thirst quenching and rehydrating, simple but tasty water. TL;DR Pineapple Water is tap or bottled water flavored with fresh pineapple fruit chunks. The fruits are left to infuse in clear water so that the water takes up the flavor of the … [Read more...]
Green Sorrel Soup Recipe
Sorrel Soup is prepared with fresh Sorrel Leaves and natural seasoning, making this a super wholesome and delicious homemade soup! I like to serve my freshly prepared creamy sorrel soup with croutons to add some crunch to my meal. The Sorrel soup recipe is further below. What is Sorrel? Sorrel has been left behind in the staple food revolution, which is a … [Read more...]
Cajun Seasoning Recipe
Homemade Cajun Seasoning is a spice blend which can be used in so many different ways in your food. The seasoning is slightly spicy but also enhanced with a fresh herbal aroma, making it a great all-rounder spice mix in your kitchen. The fresh DIY Cajun seasoning recipe is a keeper and quickly prepared in less than 3 minutes with common household spices. 📕 … [Read more...]
French Quiche Lorraine Recipe
The French Quiche Lorraine Recipe is a classic Quiche from my childhood. My Mama and grandmother always prepared this gorgeous Quiche for lunch or dinner with a little salad. Learn how to make an easy French Quiche Lorraine from scratch with the dough and crust as well with our family recipe from the Lorraine. Classic Quiche Lorraine is part of our French … [Read more...]
Coconut Potato Curry Recipe
Vegan Potato Curry Recipe makes a great weeknight dinner if you are looking for a spicy, quick and easy meal with an Indian influence. This Potato Curry is also a healthier low-carb, gluten-free, filling, coconut milk based, one-pot dish, which tastes great served over rice. Add the curried potato to your meal-prep menu for the week! I love this easy … [Read more...]
Goan Chicken Curry Recipe
I adore this easy Indian Chicken Curry Recipe! It's a complete weeknight dinner solution and so tasty. Usually, this Indian Chicken curry is ready within 25 minutes and it's flavorful, filling and so comforting at the same time! Learn how to make this easy Indian chicken curry with the step by step video and recipe further below! It has been a while since I … [Read more...]
Chicken Balti Curry Recipe
I think this is the best chicken balti recipe that you can make at home from scratch with fresh ingredients, quickly, easily, and in only one pot! Makes a satisfying and flavorful chicken balti weeknight meal. What is it? Chicken Balti is a popular British curry prepared and served in a so-called Balti pan. That's how chicken balti got its name, from the special … [Read more...]