This year we have plenty of rhubarb in the garden which is now ready to be prepared. Searching for new recipes I’ve found this delicious one online in the blog “Lime and Barley” (a variation of the original recipe from LondonEat). This is a really wonderful recipe, I’m glad I found it as I will prepare this many …
This composition was created with fresh mizithra from Crete and fresh rhubarb from our garden. Trying to make this tart more rustic and lighter I decided to try a new crust using bran instead of flour. It’s a small tart of a diameter of just 16 cm and serves about 2 – 4 persons depending …
Today I wanted to create something exquisite and beautiful. The inspiration came looking at the ingredients available in my house and the fresh arugula growing in the garden. I grew up with festive homemade ravioli, we got these especially for Christmas, but even for Easter or simply as the whole family was reunited. An …
I love colors and colorful places! Posted for Weekly Photo Challenge: Color
Have you ever seen carved potatoes roses? This video was my inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJm8yQI2vzM Well, I tried to make it easier and imagined I could slice the potatoes arrange them in muffins mold and bake them in the oven. But how to remove them from the mold? Egg would be the necessary glue. For this recipe …
I love food, I love colors and I love summer! All this is can be combined in one dish like this great salad. Posted for Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime
We have been in Bali and we came back with a lot of photos and the souvenir of many tasty dishes. We spent some days In Munduk, a cute village in the north of Bali set on a ridge running down from the northwestern rim of the volcano. It was there where we had the …
Today you will find here our favorite sauce that we prepare to serve with grilled meat or simply as appetizer fish fresh pita bread. Using a thinner yogurt this can be served over green salad as well. If you add some grated cucumber you will get a wonderful tzatziki. We used some of the last …
Champiñones al Ajillo is popular Spanish tapas served any Tapas Bar. I prepared this with smoked paprika (Pimenton de la Vera) and I found this variation the best. I you don’t have you can prepare it with common paprika as well! Enjoy this dish with a glass of wine and some crusty fresh bread. You need …
This was a quick lunch for as the preparation didn’t require a lot of time and I had my spices mixture ready. You need: 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 bell pepper (I used a red one), diced 1 small yellow onion, chopped 1 garlic cloves, minced 1 teaspoon spices, blend Maroccan mix 2 14-ounce can …
“This is a French specialty known in German as Elsässer Flammenkuchen or in French tarte flambée. This recipe is from an area in France that is at the border of Germany and used to belong to Germany. Actually the dialect spoken in this region is a mix of languages and for this reason I gave …
Vegetables have a very important place in my kitchen and sometimes I cannot resist buying some of these beauties. Last week I saw a Romanesco broccoli, also called Roman cauliflower, and I bought this in the purpose not only to cook it, but also to take photos of it. I placed it on white dish …
Spekulatius is a traditional Christmas cookie that originated in the Netherlands and very diffused in Germany. It is made out of a short dough (a cookie dough that is rolled out), and is formed by using a cookie mold. They are thin, crispy, and evenly browned. I found this used mold this summer and I …
A delicious spring salad bouquet I prepared this spring with fresh edible flowers from the garden. It looks so delicate that you wouldn’t want to eat it. This composition constists of: primeroses, dandelion leaves, walnuts, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs and homemade salad dressing. Phosted for Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate
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I really would like to know what happened two days ago. Iwould like to ask my bees (the swarm) why they decided to come back home. I suppose the smarm lost its queen or it didn’t want to left the crowded hive as the weather was not attractive. Swarms are provisioned only with the nectar … Continue reading »
It’s spring now and we are really blessed we can enjoy and admire the incredible variety of flowers. An elegant solution to combine flowers and something useful is to buy some three, bushes and herbs for your garden. In one of my fall posts I reported about some examples of fruit belonging to ”the rose family“. … Continue reading »
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It’s spring now in Crete. The White Mountains (Lefka Ori) are still covered with snow while down near the sea in the green valley we enjoy the very mild weather and fields plenty of flowers. Citrus fruits are just ripe and we can find here the absolutely best oranges I know. At the same time … Continue reading »
A wonderful way to preserve vegetables for the winter is to dry them. Today we can get whatever we want all the year round, but not so many years ago this was not possible. Another reason is preserve huge quantities of food that you know you can’t eat at once. As I saw these cute … Continue reading »
Inspired by a typical Swiss specialty called „Schninkengipfeli“(Mini Ham Croissants) I created these rolls with Mediterranean ingredients and converted to vegetarian. Of course you can use puff pastry instead of self-made dough and in this case you can skip the rising time necessary for yeast breads. We like these for with salads or as finger-food … Continue reading »
