What do you do when one person of the family prefers freshly baked breads only for breakfast? Getting dressed and run to the bakery shop first thing every morning? No. Not me. NotRead More

Do you know spaetzle? It is a southern German pasta specialty.They are made of flour, eggs and salt. If I remember correctly, it’s 8 eggs on 2 lbs of flour. My best friendRead More

I love to buy those pre-packed bell peppers, where you get one red, one yellow and one green. Now the predicament is that I usually only use the yellow and the red inRead More

It’s zucchini season!! Because this stuff always grows in abundance, there can never be enough zucchini recipes. Here is my contribution. I enjoy making light vegetarian tarts for weekend lunches. Whatever vegetables areRead More

Don’t you think that the word “adapting” (as in “adapted from XYZ cookbook”) is just a nice term for “stealing someone else’s recipe but having the decency to acknowledge him”? Or does itRead More

I love spicy food, and I can always be won over by a good curry, either Thai or Indian. I’ve never been to either countries, but there is plenty restaurants of both cuisinesRead More

Ribollita is a Tuscan peasant soup. It means “reboiled”. The original version is vegan. Tuscan peasants used to make a stew-like soup by reboiling minestrone leftovers from the day before.My soup is notRead More

How do I introduce Boiled Egg Curry to you? I could write about my so far culinary experiences with boiled eggs, or, as this curry is a hot dish, I could write aboutRead More

I sit here in Dubai, it’s supposed to be winter. We had about 30C outside temperature, hot enough to just scream for ice cream. We also had a “lovely” dust storm whose dustRead More

This is an easy and fast pasta dish, that is almost completely made out of ingredients that you probably have already at home, perhaps not the fresh spinach leaves, but you can useRead More

I come straight to the point: this red lentil tomato soup is my absolute favorite soup. I could eat it everyday. Because some other family members may find that a little too often,Read More

These days that I almost non-stop cook (and food-photograph and food-blog) I always have some dried beans soaking somewhere, ready to be cooked and used  in some salad and or dinner. I mustRead More