Recipes

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,…

Hello, my foodie friends! After quite some time, today I share with you a recipe for something sweet again! This one has been waiting in my concepts since we came back from our travel to Colombia last May, awaiting the winter season… Eh, I feel like I have finally woken…

I love making Christmas cookies that I bring home when visiting my family, sharing it with my friends, colleagues and my partner’s family. It may not seem so though on the blog yet as there is only one recipe so far which is the one for chocolate coconut prunes filled…

In autumn and winter time, warm soups and comforting meals are my preferred dinners. And an exotic curry is one of such meals! It is warm, filling, and full of flavors. I often make the Eggplant Green Curry, which was one of the first recipes on the blog but recently,…

Madeleines are small French tea cakes of a shell form with a consistency of a light sponge cake. They are also commonly served in Belgium with a cup of coffee or tea. You can buy them individually packed in grocery stores but the best are homemade madeleines! Although the traditional…

The end of summer brings us not only colder and shorter days, but also plums! 🙂 Who else loves them? Me so much that I even put myself, my oven and camera in a shape after my food blogger break and did some work last weekend in order to enjoy…

Two weeks ago, my sister came over for a long weekend to visit me in Brussels and I wanted to cook something nice. Because the asparagus was everywhere by that time, I thought it would be nice to prepare one of my favorite risottos. But as usual, our program was…

Seems like the cold weekends are now gone! I am happy to welcome spring but still not ready to say bye to weekend days when due to the severe cold weather I decided to just stay home and besides watching movies with a cup of warm tea, I could also…

With the arrival of February, the very cold weather came back to Brussels. Rainy days are gone and its freezing now! Seems that the winter wants to make sure that we don’t forget it yet. In general, I am not really a winter person. But the reason  why I still…