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Autumn means pumpkin time. As the world (so it seems) prepares for Halloween, you cannot avoid pumpkins and pumpkin shaped items wherever you go. Me, being a German, don’t really have much experienceRead More

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Welcome, autumn. The nights are officially longer than the days now in the northern hemisphere. It’s getting cooler and the time is right for warming foods. It’s a season when many of theRead More

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Fat Does Not Make You Fat! This is the title of a post of a fellow Dubai food blog Bon Appetit! It is a beautiful summary of why fat is an important partRead More

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We moved to a new house a few days ago. Actually, just down the road. Everything had to be packed anyway, no matter how far the truck was going in the end. IRead More

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 One more week and I’ll be in our new house with a BIGGER kitchen that has a MASSIVE stove and plenty of counter space. I’ll be cooking up storms!! My house hunting wasRead More

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By nature, men are hunters and women gatherers, right? Well, we swapped jobs. Although, to my knowledge, my husband doesn’t gather much at the moment. Good so because I am hunting. Houses. WeRead More

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 My baking alarm bells always ring whenever I see a recipe that uses dates. It often gives me ideas for yet another sugar free dessert. The recipe for the filling of these spiralsRead More

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Am I crazy about zucchini breads or what? Ever since I started baking them (which is only a few weeks back), I can’t stop thinking what to put in next and how toRead More

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I just googled the origin of zucchini bread and it seems to be an American invention. Now all American readers of this will yawn, but I still can’t hide my excitement about theRead More

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I am still on vacation in Germany, visiting family and friends. I deeply enjoy my mom’s traditional German homemade cuisine. As we are only here for a few days, everyday’s lunch is aRead More

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 One can never have enough dessert recipes. One can never have enough brownie recipes. One can never have enough brownie recipes that are sort of healthy. Here is another one:  there is noRead More

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 Today is my blog’s first birthday. I want to use this occasion to say thank you to all my readers. This food blogging is quite a time-consuming hobby with all the cooking, photographing,Read More

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These balls are so full of goodness, I refuse to call them sweets. They surely satisfy a sweet tooth, but that’s just a nice side effect of this otherwise super healthy and nutritiousRead More

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A few days before my blog’s 1st birthday (9 July), I must admit that this little one is pretty much ruling my ways of cooking. Here is today’s story: I had two almostRead More

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I have never been lucky when baking breads with yeast and whole meal flour.  I just don’t get it right, or perhaps those two ingredients are hard to become friends in general. IRead More

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 Currently, I have one of those stretches in my life where I already think about dessert while having the main course.  I can’t deny my sweet tooth, although I’ve been trying to cutRead More

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I love big decadent cakes, full of sugars, cream and butter. I start salivating when I see them through the windows of bakery shops. But as a general rule, I only indulge inRead More

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Do you also need certain foods ALWAYS in your house, otherwise you get upset and your whole day is spoiled? I’ve got two things: milk to put in my coffee in the morning,Read More

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About two years ago,  this banana date loaf kicked off my healthier eating lifestyle: with no or as little as possible refined sugars and flours. That has been my goal ever since. ThisRead More

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It’s not exactly plum season yet, but sometimes I can’t resist those fruit in the market….don’t know where they grow at this time of the year….don’t really care for that moment……I just needRead More