
Gazpacho
Sunny weather calls for something light and refreshing... gazpacho! If you're enjoying a lazy summer day and you don't want to stay...

Bulgur spring salad with fresh herbs
Less than two weeks ago I came back from a long holiday on Sardinia, where me and my boyfriend enjoyed drawing and painting en plein air....

Eggplant pilaf with raisins and pine nuts
Yesterday I got back from a short holiday to the Cotswolds, England, where I have tasted a few English classics. Though they were very...

Moroccan chicken with preserved lemon and olives
Although I prefer not to eat meat except on very special occasions, this time I had to give in to my boyfriend's wishes. Since we had...

Kasha and Basmati salad with roasted peppers and rocket
My bowel has been sensitive since as long as I can remember, but is wasn't until I left high school that the gas and cramps in my belly...

Lebanese Red Lentil Soup
Last week I made a different version of the red lentil soup I posted before and my boyfriend really loved it, for it reminded him of...

Couscous with spicy vegetables
I almost never eat zucchini, because it is quite hard to find some nice tasting ones in the local super market. Most of the time they...

Butternut squash and red onions with Za'atar and tahini sauce
This is an adaptation of an Ottolenghi recipe which I make quite often, because it is easy and it has the right balance of sweetness and...

Green lentil soup with kale
Wednesday evening I really didn't know what to cook when I came home from my painting studio. I browsed through my collection of...

Oven tagine with potatoes, fennel and sumac
When I think of a tagine, I picture a juicy stew, slowly cooked and covered with a lid. But this tagine recipe from one of my mother's...

Sarde alla griglia
It has been quite some time since I posted my last recipe, because this week my laptop was being inspected for software errors and...

Ovenschoteltje, a Dutch recipe from my childhood
My Sardinian roots have greatly influenced my culinary preferances, so most of the recipes on this blog are from Mediterranean countries....

Cozze alla marinara
When my boyfriend and I do the groceries together and we walk past the fish department in the supermarket, he always asks, hopeful:...

Rice salad with quinoa and turnip greens
Usually, when my boyfriend and I do the groceries, we try to buy everything we need for the entire week, making sure we have vegetables...

Black-eyed pea soup with wild fennel
Yesterday evening I came home late from work and feeling I had to do something useful instead of watching a movie, I decided to make soup...

Quick red lentil soup
A couple of years ago, I lived in a student house in Groningen and occasionally my friends would come over to dinner in my humble room...

Bulgur pilaf with eggplant and cinnamon
Today I spent most of my time keeping my financial records in order, a thing I seem to have postponed since forever and now it was such a...

Comforting layered winter bake
Today it is official: winter has begun. I always know winter is coming when I start feeling an urge to knit cozy beanies or slip-overs,...

Roasted chickpeas with sweet pepper and Za'atar
I think every girl knows those days in which you feel everything you'd like to do requires too much effort. When it happens to me...






















