Shortcrust tart with pear and cheese is a savoury pastry that combines sweet fruits with a cheese filling. The crunchiness of the tart comes from the shortcrust pastry but also from coarsely chopped walnuts. This savoury tart is perfect for parties as a cold appetizer. To prepare this shortcrust tart with pear and cheese, I…
Meatless tartare prepared from cooked beetroot and served with horseradish sauce is a dish that can be successfully served as an appetizer. Of course, it is a vegetable tartare, containing no meat at all, so if someone is misled by the name of this dish containing the word “tartare”, and expecting meat in it, will…
Chicken cacciatore is an Italian dish in which meat is immersed in an intense tomato sauce with vegetables and herbs. The meat with the sauce is cooked over a low heat until it falls off the bones. This rich tomato sauce is rustic and contains pieces of peppers, mushrooms, onions and olives. The chicken in…
Stuffed zucchini flowers in tempura is an original dish that delights with its taste. I had the first opportunity to taste flowers prepared this way a few years ago in Italy. They were phenomenal, so since the on every trip to Italy, I order them in various restaurants. I admit that before I ate this…
Day and Night cake is a combination of cocoa sponge cake with cheese mass and peaches coated in jelly. It will surely appeal to fans of cakes with fruit, but not only. This cake with cheese can be baked at any time of the year, because it does not require the use of seasonal fruit….
Vegan pumpkin pudding with tapioca is a perfect recipe for a dessert or snack for people who have excluded dairy, meat and lactose from their diet. Preparing this pudding is very simple and although you need to cook it for about 30 minutes, you don’t have to work too hard with it, assuming, of course,…
Quite often I buy a large amount of bananas, which I am not able to use quickly enough. The only thing I can do with such bananas is to bake cakes or use them when making oatmeal. This is not a problem for me, because I love bananas in both cakes and oatmeal. One of…
A simple caramelized onion dip that is always a real hit when served at parties. It might seem that onion dip is not something that can impress with its taste, but nothing could be further from the truth. Onion fried in butter with thyme and apple cider acquire a sweet and distinctive flavour. After cooling…
White pizza or pizza Bianca, just like pizza with tomato sauce, is very popular in my house. I make it as often as traditional pizza with tomato sauce. The dough for white pizza is identical to the one for pizza with sauce, the difference between these two pizzas is in the sauce. In white pizzas,…
I served toast with tomatoes and feta for today’s lunch. I still managed to collect a few cocktail tomatoes from my vegetable garden and I suspect that I will end this year’s tomato season with them. I still see a few more tomatoes on the plants, but I’m not sure if they will be good…
Oven-baked salmon with a nut crust made with pecans, breadcrumbs and butter is a recipe for a simple and easy-to-prepare pescetarian dish. You can make this oven-baked salmon in less than 30 minutes, so it’s a perfect idea for a quick dinner. I like making this dish especially on working days, because then the time…
Homemade corn tortilla is not that difficult to make, but it is important to use the right ingredients. The main one is masa harina, also referred to as corn dough. Although it is called Mexican cornmeal, it is not standard cornmeal as it’s made differently. It is made from boiled corn grains, which are ground…