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Dubai is not known for selling health foods to affordable prices. I should know that after 7 years. But some things you have to learn the hard way. I recently bought a 1lbRead More

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 Despite all the health foods that I am surrounding myself with, I cannot deny that I have a sweet tooth. That’s no secret, just look at my list of desserts in my recipeRead More

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 After a month of vacation in Germany, I couldn’t wait to be back in my kitchen. Although I cooked a lot in Germany, I was not very inspired to try out new things,Read More

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I have a new love: buckwheat flour. For several months I have been eying the packet in the supermarket, not quite knowing what to do with it and how it would behave inRead More

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 We are back in Dubai after a month of vacation in Germany. Still a little tired from the night flight, and our 80kgs of luggage evenly spread in the house (why is itRead More

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Our 1 month holiday in Germany is slowly coming to an end. We have been here for 4 weeks, and have another few days to go. Every year, after being away for 3-4Read More

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 Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present you my latest cold weather cake. Made entirely from ingredients that I found in  the house during our stay at the North Sea on one of theRead More

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Germany’s summer seems to have hit the lowest point: It’s 12C outside and it’s wet wet wet. It’s anything but summer. Idon’t think it can get much worse than this. But I won’t complain.Read More

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Our German holiday weather is taking no mercy on us. It’s back at cold, rainy and extremely windy weather. We are back to board games, dice games, card games. My sister and IRead More

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Every year in summer we escape the heat of Dubai for a month. Any weather is welcome and Germany is always good for a change in climate. All we want is fresh air.Read More

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 Piled up pancakes and fritters look really good on photos. But honestly, I wouldn’t want to feed a whole family with them. Not if I have to cook them. I’d stand in theRead More

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 It’s already been a week since we landed in Germany for our vacation. It wasn’t the smoothest of all vacations in the beginning. All is fine now. We have settled into our holidayRead More

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I missed my own birthday! Blog birthday that is. Can you believe it? It simply got lost in all the misadventures of the last few days that came along with our vacation inRead More

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Hello and welcome from Germany. I am on holiday, finally! Everything is good. Although the journey so far has been not exactly smooth. Our plane trip was delayed by 2 hours (not coolRead More

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 The last week before a holiday is as stressful as all the time together since the last holiday, it seems to me. I am going on a one-month holiday tomorrow. I got everythingRead More

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These truffles are a by-product of my Raw Lemon Cashew Cheesecake. I was playing around with the proportions of the crust ingredients, that left me with a whole batch of nice “truffle dough”Read More

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 I love seafood for several reasons: I love the taste of fish, shellfish, oysters, seaweed. In any way, be it raw, grilled, baked, fried, deep-fried. It’s healthy, a very convenient side effect. ButRead More

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I am a runner. A reasonably good one even. I have been running for the past 8 years or so. In races, I am in the faster middle-field, and I have run myRead More

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 Homemade lemon sorbet is one of the recipes that surprises me by its simplicity: what, you can make that at home? What, it only needs two ingredients? No ice cream machine needed? I’mRead More