Recipes

Every summer, I look forward to spending a few days at the cottage of my grandparents in the Central Bohemia/Slapy region. It is surrounded by forests and an amazing wavy landscape. We often spend most of the day by the river having a good swim and fun, but in the…

Time flies! I cannot believe that it has been already one year since our little Adeline was born! We were first planning to celebrate her birthday just in the family circle and then we were even thinking to make it bigger and invite also friends. In the end, the current…

As Easter is over, maybe a recipe for Easter leftovers will come in hand, don’t you think so? If you still have some uneaten, hard-boiled eggs in the fridge after Easter, here I have a simple, easy to make, tasty and a quick recipe for you. Egg salad is a…

There are a few sweet treats that I can bake several times a year and will never get bored with them, like this one! The sweet and sour taste of this legendary Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Cake is just irreplaceable and I still haven’t met anyone who wouldn’t like it…

And here we are, one week before Christmas! And I am restarting to bake some Christmas cookies. This week we will do these Coconut Honey Chocolate Hearts and so I share with you a recipe here too (although I took the pictures already last year)! These are sablé kind of…

Gingerbread cookies belong to this period – I can’t imagine Christmas without them! And we are not talking only about cookies here! The typical smell of spices brings Christmas atmosphere to your home with the first batch baked, different shapes of these cookies such as stars, hearts, bells, and their…

Longtime I had lived without fruit galettes! And I don’t understand I haven’t discovered this easy to make and delicious kind of fruit tart earlier.  But, everything has its own time and now every summer, I make them quite often. The good thing about fruit tarts and pies is that…

We have just come back from summer holidays in the Czech Republic, although I’m asking myself whether I should call it holidays as we would both need some extra days now to recover. 😀 Anyway, it was wonderful two weeks with my Czech family and friends. Initially, we did not…

This year we don’t have any big travel plans, which will give me the opportunity to focus more on recipe development and sharing these tasty recipes with you as well as write more about life in Belgium and places worth visiting close by our home (btw, is there anything specific…

The winter days are coming to their end soon, very soon! For those who don’t really enjoy winter (especially in the city) and feel tired of cold weather, I propose to celebrate this positive change with some Orange Almond Loaf Cake, what do you say? We also have something else to celebrate here,…