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

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

My boyfriend's brother lives on the family farm where a very big apple tree looks out over the fields and every year we climb into it to...

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

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...

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...

During the winter getting up in the morning is hard, because it is still dark outside at 7am and it seems rather unnatural to leave my...

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...

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...

This week's cold weather requires not only a hearty winter dish, but also a sweet one. If there is one dessert I associate with this time...

Two weeks ago my mother and I had a special dinner to make for a group of clients in my family's restaurant at the railway station of...

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,...

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...

This is one of the recipes I have been preparing since I can remember, for it is written in the Culinaria Greece cookbook my mother...

I can never have too much beetroot. I like them raw, in a soup, roasted or in a cake... in every single way! Each time I use them in the...

If you think this picture is a bit too summerish for this season, then you're right, because it was taken two years ago in September. We...

Last week my mother gave me this recipe she found on Olive tomato (https://www.olivetomato.com/greek-cauliflower-recipe/), which she was...

Today my twin brother was coming for lunch, so this morning my boy friend and I got up early to go to the market. Having someone coming...

I had never tasted a Persian dish until I was in my late teens and my mother read Marsha Mehran's Pomegranate Soup (Dutch: Café Babylon),...

I made this deliciously soft cake for the first time a year ago, when my mother-in-law gave me six pumpkins as a present, because she had...