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I love the fact that so many pasta sauces and toppings are done much faster than the pasta itself.  This one is a quick and lovely pasta and seafood dish that works wellRead More

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Savory tarts and quiches are perfect winter comfort foods. Now that winter (note: that is Dubai winter with around 20C) and some rain have finally arrived, I felt like making some tart.  AfterRead More

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You want a fast and tasty meal? Here it is: Thai Curry. I promise you the rice to serve it with will take longer to cook than this. In a Thai curry, youRead More

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This salad is what I had for dinner tonight. Only then remembered that this post including the pictures of the salad were sleeping in my computer for more than a month. No timeRead More

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You may know that we live in Dubai, which has one the biggest Indian community outside India. The supermarkets are full of foods that are prevalent in the sub-continental cuisine: Things I ‘veRead More

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I’d like to share another of our favorite dinner dishes: a one-skillet dish with Italian potato dumplings, grilled chicken and green beans with some natural flavoring through sun-dried tomatoes and toasted pine nuts. Read More

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This millet bake has been one of our long-time favorites, although there are many down-sides to it: It is not a quick meal, and you’ll have a lot of dishes to wash afterwards. Read More

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  In the course of my learning-how-to-cook experience I came up with this most versatile tomato sauce that can be used as a base for many dishes: either thinned out and spiced upRead More

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Today is the 3 October, the anniversary of the German reunification in 1990!  I dare to say that most of the things in my life would not have happened without this historic event.Read More

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My local supermarket has got a little bookshop right behind their checkouts. The other day I was paging through some random cookbook and saw this recipe of spaghetti with cauliflower and chilli: aRead More

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As long as I lived in Germany I never really got to appreciate Indian food. The Indian restaurants that I had been to always had this cheap, dusty, Made-To-Suit-Europeans charme. Only here inRead More

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I love exploring the versatility of grains. This recipe was originally with Farro, some grain that I haven’t seen in Dubai. Instead, I decided to use naked barley. I find barley a veryRead More

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I love pasta in the evening. Especially because cooking the pasta normally takes longer than preparing the sauce. It’s always a quick and therefore easy meal.This recipe is based on the classic spaghettiRead More