Red Currant Jelly is a classic jelly that we prepare from scratch every year during the months of June and July in Europe. This is my family's french recipe, and it's made with 2 ingredients and water only. What are red currants? Red Currants (or redcurrants spelled) are ruby red semi-translucent round berries. The red currants are related to gooseberries and … [Read more...]
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Lemon Gin Elderflower Cocktail
My Lemon Elderflower Gin Cocktail is prepared with clear Gin, elderflower syrup, tonic water, and fresh lemon juice. 📕 What is Elderflower? Elderflowers are cream-colored small edible flower blossoms that grow on a shrub in bunches before turning into elderberries. Elderflower and elderberries come from the same plant. The blossoms of the elderflower are … [Read more...]
French Rhubarb Jam Recipe
My family's French Rhubarb Jam Recipe prepared with only 3 ingredients, and without pectin or any other artificial setting ingredients. This jam recipe is simple, straightforward, and perfect for you if you are looking for a way to use up a bounty of rhubarb stalks. Ingredients To prepare this rhubarb jam without pectin, you will need only 3 ingredients. Tip: Get … [Read more...]
Lemon Elderflower Syrup Recipe (No Cooking)
My Lemon Elderflower Syrup is a family recipe prepared without cooking. You will need fresh elderflower for this recipe so that the syrup gets infused within 2 days. 📕 What are Elderflowers? The elderflower is a flowering plant with strongly flavored, small cream-colored blossoms. It's also known as Sambucus. The little blossoms of an elderflower bush taste … [Read more...]
French Yogurt Cake Recipe
French Yogurt Cake is a quick soft cake that you can prepare anytime when you crave a simply delicious cake. I have made this cake countless times in a square and round mold. Pick your cake pan shape and let's make my family's yogurt cake recipe. 📕 What is this cake? The French yogurt cake is probably the easiest cake in the world and is prepared by using … [Read more...]
Banana Peach Smoothie Recipe
Banana Peach smoothie with natural whole fruits, totally plant-based without yogurt and it's tasty! 🍑 Ingredients Peach season is during the hot summer months and that's when you should try this fresh peach smoothie recipe My favorite way, besides eating these gorgeous fruits freshly, is to make a homemade peach smoothie with banana. Peach You can use the … [Read more...]
French Apple Cake Recipe
Our French Apple Cake is an authentic easy and moist French family recipe from my grandmother's side, who hailed from Normandy. If you like homemade apple cake recipes with fresh apples, check out the German apple cake too! 🍏 Why this French apple cake? Can you remember the last time when you had a bit of a cake and it transported you to another time and … [Read more...]
Rhubarb Sauce Recipe
Freshly homemade Rhubarb sauce is a great treat with sweet or savory dishes. I show you how to make it and enhances to make it your own. 📕 What is Rhubarb? Rhubarb is a red and green thick juicy stalk with large leaves. The edible stalks taste tart sour and can be rather stringy. The leaves are not edible at all and need to be discarded because they are … [Read more...]
Austrian Liptauer Cheese Recipe
The Austrian Liptauer Recipe is a flavorful cheese spread or dip enriched with Paprika and other spices and ingredients. If you like cream cheese spread over your bread, you might also enjoy my spicy cream cheese spread. What is Liptauer? Liptauer is a well seasoned and spiced cottage cheese spread. This particular spicy spread is traditionally made with sheep's … [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...]
Individual Strawberry Charlotte Cake Recipe
Individual strawberry charlotte cake are easily prepared in a glass and still look great as well. I show you how to make the quickest and easiest charlotte dessert in my recipe further below. 📕 What is Charlotte? Charlotte is a French cake dessert made with lady finger cookies. Countless charlotte variations exist and have been emerging, some are prepared … [Read more...]
Iced Passion Fruit Green Tea Recipe
Iced Passion Fruit Green Tea is a refreshing fruity summer delight which you can easily make at home within minutes. Enjoy a glass on your own or sere up a pitcher at a party, everyone will be raving over this summer time beverage! We enjoy iced teas when the days are getting hotter and our thirst grows every day all the more for a fruit ice tea. I love … [Read more...]
Trinidad Mango Chow Recipe
Trinidad Mango Chow is a healthy Caribbean snack prepared with sweet mangoes and hot chilis amongst other flavor giving ingredients. Sunita, my Trini food expert, had me try her favorite Caribbean summer snack, the Mango Chow. If you remember back in December, Sunita was the one to introduce us to the Caribbean Sorrel drink. This is how I ended up sitting in my … [Read more...]
Shrimp Scampi with Asparagus and Tomato
15-minute shrimp scampi with asparagus and tomato is a favorite dinner meal at home! Prepare the shrimp butter sauce in minutes for dinner tonight! TL;DR I most definitely made my own version of the Olive Garden shrimp scampi recipe. Basically, the classic Olive Garden recipe has been adapted. I like to add more asparagus, and I love the addition of fresh … [Read more...]
Passion Fruit Juice Recipe (Maracuja)
The best passion fruit juice can only be a homemade juice! Soon you will want to make your own fresh passion fruit juice all the time I show you how to do prepare a maracuja juice from scratch with tips and uses. Do you like passion fruits? Then check out my strawberry passion fruit jam. 🍈 What is a passion fruit? A Passion Fruit is the name of a … [Read more...]
Mango Pico de Gallo Recipe
A fresh Mango Pico de Gallo with perfectly balanced fruity, tangy hot flavors. This will amaze your taste buds! TL;DR Mango Pico de Gallo is a Mexican variation of the classic tomato Picco de gallo, which is known as a salsa fresca or cruda (means fresh or raw). Ingredients are cut small and each enhances the other. Occasionally, a pico de gallo is also known and … [Read more...]
Tom Kha Gai Soup with fresh Ingredients
Tom Kha Gai is a flavorful modern Thai soup with coconut milk, chicken, and galangal. This recipe includes fresh from scratch ingredients, and not a ready-made tom kha curry paste. And still your tom kha gai will be ready within 30 minutes! The first time I came across Tom Kha Gai soup was in a Thai place in Europe. It all happened in a little Thai take away place. … [Read more...]
Vegan Tikka Masala Sauce Recipe
My favorite Tikka Masala Sauce is by accident vegan and so much tastier and healthier than the stuff you get in stores! The freezer friendly curry paste can be used for various tikka masala meals. What is Tikka Masala Sauce? Tikka Masala Sauce is a thin-spiced curry paste variety to prepare the famous Chicken Tikka Masala dish. Popular discounters such as … [Read more...]
Balsamic Kale Chips Recipe
I show you how to make kale chips easily at home and how to store them so that they remain crisp. My baked kale chips are flavored with balsamic vinegar to mask the kale's bitterness and to make them irresistibly delicious! A total crowd pleaser! 🔪 How to make it? To prepare homemade Kale Chips (or crisps in the UK) from scratch is so easy and these … [Read more...]
French Mango Jam Recipe
Enjoy the Mango season to the fullest with this homemade French mango jam preserve. Everybody loves Mango Jam spread on a freshly baked bread for breakfast. Store the goodness of the season in form of mango preserves. TL;DR This jam is prepared as per our traditional preserving methods in France. Our French jams use only fruit and plain regular sugar and no … [Read more...]
Mexican Corn Black Bean Salad Recipe
This Mexican Corn Black Bean Salad is stuffed with flavors, and we call it a summer comfort dish. I enhanced this black bean Mexican corn salad side dish with a light dressing, which I seasoned with my Mexican spice blend. We both absolutely adore corn and beans in a salad. Paul actually introduced me to his favorite bean and corn salads, and over the years we came … [Read more...]
Mexican Seasoning Recipe
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Mexican Seasoning (Taco seasoning blend) is prepared with a few smooth ground spices, which most probably you will have in your kitchen. It takes less than 5 minutes to just mix together the ground spices for this Mexican spice mix recipe and you can store it easily for another hot spiced day. TLDR Mexican food seasoning is a spice blend that is usually used for … [Read more...]
No Yeast Pizza Dough Recipe
No Yeast Pizza Dough to make instant pizza whenever the cravings for pizza emerge (and that's all the time in my case!) I created this pizza crust without yeast because I'm a huge thin crust pizza fan. I make pizza from scratch at least once a week by using my Italian homemade pizza dough. Why make a pizza crust without yeast? I love Pizza, but I always make … [Read more...]
Strawberry Kiwi Juice Recipe
I love this homemade Strawberry Kiwi Juice because the fruit combination is just brilliant. You can make this vibrant fruit juice within 3 minutes with a blender. 🍓 Ingredients You will need a few ingredients to make my strawberry kiwi juice at home. Using frozen fruits can be beneficial if you want a super cooled, thick juice. Fresh fruits might be the … [Read more...]
Green Peppercorns in Brine Recipe
Green Peppercorns in Brine is a very nifty way to preserve fresh green peppercorns. I captured in my how-to video below the way I pickle my green peppercorns. If you love homemade pickles, take a look at my pickled Jalapeños Recipe! 📕 What are Green Peppercorns in brine? Green Peppercorns in brine are pickled fresh green peppercorns that are preserved in a … [Read more...]
Strawberry Jam Recipe
The BEST Strawberry Jam without pectin. Only natural, organic ingredients make this beautiful strawberry jam. I share my tips, tricks and complete recipe, so that you can make your own strawberry jam asap! I hope you are ready for strawberry season because I have got you covered already with my strawberry rhubarb jam. BUT I'm not done because one of my all-time … [Read more...]
Balsamic Spinach Strawberry Feta Salad with Walnuts
Balsamic Spinach Strawberry Feta Salad with Walnuts is one of our favorite salads at home. The salad is savory, sweet with the light sour dressing and has both soft and crunchy elements to make you want more instantly with each bite. This salad was partially inspired by my Arugula Feta Salad. 🍓 Ingredients I didn't understand for a very long time why … [Read more...]
Pickled Jalapeños with Spices
A quick recipe for refrigerator pickled jalapeños with whole spices. Preserve and enjoy your peppers outside the harvest season. TL;DR Pickled Jalapeños are preserved in a vinegar, water, and salt solution to increase the shelf life of fresh peppers. Jalapeño pickles are common in Mexican homes, where they prepare quickly pickled jalapeños any time of the year to … [Read more...]
Chinese Szechuan Dry Fried Green Beans Recipe
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 with … [Read more...]
Thai Style Vegetable Soup Recipe
This Thai Vegetable Soup is packed with flavors and nutritious elements. Make this easy one-pot spicy vegetarian Thai coconut soup within 20 minutes for dinner! Today's Thai vegetable Soup is not an authentic traditional Thai soup recipe, but rather a Thai inspired soup prepared with coconut milk and mixed vegetables. The Thai veggie soup was mainly inspired … [Read more...]
Quick Lox Spread Recipe
A delicious lox spread recipe which you can make within minutes from scratch. Bagel with cream cheese lox or any other bread will make this a perfect bite any time of the day. What is Lox? Lox is finely sliced salmon fish and is the Yiddish word for Salmon (related to the German word Lachs). Lox is most commonly served as a salmon spread over bagels, but it can … [Read more...]
Colombian Arepa Paisa
Colombian Arepa Paisa are popular flatbread made of corn. Daniel from Layer Culture is an expert in Colombian and South American travel food culture. He shares his arepas colombianas recipe further below. What is the Colombian Arepa? The Colombian arepa is a versatile type of flatbread. Occasionally, they are also known as Colombian pancakes among the … [Read more...]
Lebanese Moussaka Stew (Maghmour)
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Lebanese Moussaka is a flavor-packed vegan stew from the Middle East, which is better known as maghmour. Prepare your own easy moussaka with my video recipe below. What is Lebanese Moussaka (Maghmour)? The Lebanese Moussaka is a vegan-based stew, that includes mainly Eggplant, Tomato, and Chickpeas. The eggplant chickpea stew is also known as maghmour. Some … [Read more...]
Spicy Sriracha Mayo Dipping Sauce
Spicy Sriracha Mayo is one of our favorite sauces any time of the year. You are going to love dipping into this spicy mayo sauce if you liked my Yum Yum Sauce! What is Sriracha Mayo? Sriracha Mayo is made of Mayonnaise, Sriracha and can contain other flavor enhancing ingredients. Sriracha is a spicy chili dipping sauce that originated in Thailand. It's also … [Read more...]
Japanese Cabbage Salad with Dressing
A quick Japanese cabbage salad with a drizzle of a homemade dressing. 5 minutes, and you have a fresh salad to serve with your main course meals. 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 some of it to try to my takeaway … [Read more...]
Pomegranate Molasses Recipe
Homemade Pomegranate Molasses is a useful DIY food condiment, used in middle eastern cuisine to add flavor to meals. My pomegranate molasses recipe is made of real seedless pomegranate juice and is the base of this easy recipe! Ingredients How to make it? Step 1 Juice pomegranates. Collect juice and strain. Step 2 Pour pure juice into a pan. You have the … [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 Tikka Masala Recipe
Chicken Tikka Masala is a classic, spiced, tomato-based curry. This curry is for you if you enjoy dipping your warm naan bread in a creamy butter chicken curry! After a long day at work, you just want to have a wholesome, comforting dish to feed your hunger. You want a dish that makes you happy, food that takes you over and that numbs your mind. When this … [Read more...]
Broccoli Cheese Soup
Easy Broccoli Cheese Soup to warm up your cold body. This hearty soup is stuffed with exciting cheese cheddar and broccoli flavors. Watch my quick how-to video below and prepare your own soup for dinner tonight! The recipe for the cheddar broccoli soup was inspired by a Gruyère broccoli cheese soup from my college time. I adapted the ingredients and tweaked … [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...]