These pretty little turquoise bowls were gifted to me for my birthday (well, ahem, yesterday) – and they immediately beckoned to be filled with delicate[...]

November is a good time to be baking away in the kitchen and a perfect time to enjoy ingredients of the season. Eat fresh chestnuts while you can, enjoy a wide[...]

To celebrate Reformation Day in a kind of sweet way, I baked these lovely treats and called them Yeast Luther Roses . Reformation Day always falls on October[...]

Pain d'épices (French for " spice bread ") is a classic moist French cake or quick bread, a kind of cross between a cake and a bread, or as I like to refer to[...]

Time for some blogging again – after having participated in the #cook90 challenge from Epicurious magazine ( here ) for the third time and having cooked[...]

Rice Pudding is a simple and very old recipe of uncertain origin that began to be common in many households around the beginning of the 18th century, and by[...]

Some days you find yourself staring at that huge fruit bowl in your dining room or on your kitchen counter, thinking that, your clementines seem to share the[...]

Grain salads are endlessly variable, meaning that if you have the basic composition down, you never need a recipe to put one together . So this is a non-recipe[...]

Who doesn’t like hummus . It never ceases to amaze me that just cooked chickpeas, a few other ingredients and a couple of minutes in the food processor[...]

As far as the classic German Christmas cake called Stollen , Christmas Stollen (or Weihnachtsstollen ), is concerned, it comes in many different shapes and[...]

Before the Christmas baking season keeps a tight grip on me, I like to bake a few apple pies and cakes and tarts. This is a tradition I try to uphold every[...]

The weather has cooled, the garden is turning golden and there is the smell of chocolate cookies emerging from my kitchen - as much as I hesitate to admit it,[...]

In autumn one of the fruits I most love to bake with are local plums . Around here, plum season starts in late July and finishes in mid-to late-September and[...]

For Halloween this year, why not bake these lovely little fellows. These cookies are a cinch to prepare and they smell wonderful while baking. Kids will love[...]

While I love soups, always have, always will, I am definitley a quiche kind of person. Soups are generally considered as pure comfort foods, but for me, so are[...]