Featured Recipe
Jalapeño Gruyère Cornbread with Lime Honey Glaze
Tuesday, April 01, 2025 |
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This cornbread is a perfect harmony of sweet, spicy, tangy, and earthy, making it an ideal accompaniment for stews and soups, grilled meat or salads. I have used jalapeño and Gruyère, but other chilli peppers and cheeses would work just as fine. If you prefer it extra spicy, just leave the jalapeños seeds in. The cornbread is delicious on its own, with some butter or honey lime glaze. It is completely optional, but I strongly recommend it as it adds a tangy sweetness and zesty kick that elevate the flavours to a whole new level and take your mood on a delightful turn! Leftovers can be frozen, or cut them into cubes to make croutons for soups and salads.
Eggplant Rollatini
Saturday, March 29, 2025 |
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Eggplant rollatini, or involtini di melanzane is an Italian dish of thin eggplant slices that are grilled, filled with a luscious ricotta spinach mixture, rolled, smothered in a flavourful tomato sauce, topped with Mozzarella and Parmesan, and baked until the cheese is golden and bubbly. It’s naturally gluten free and low-carb friendly. Look for large, wide, straight-sided purple globe eggplants for this recipe, as the curvy ones are harder to cut into evenly thin slices. Use homemade tomato sauce if you can, but if you’re running short on time, quality jarred tomato sauce would work just as great.
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Friday, March 21, 2025Asparagus Salad with Jamón Serrano and Mini Buffalo Mozzarella
Sunday, March 16, 2025 |
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The earthiness of asparagus, creaminess of buffalo Mozzarella and the saltiness of Jamón Serrano work wonders together. This salad can be served either hot or cold, so it’s a good one to have up your sleeve for the asparagus season. The heat destroy the purple pigment, so purple asparagus will eventually lose its colour and turn into deep green. So no worries, if you can't find purple asparagus, simply use the green one. Jamón Serrano can be a bit pricey, iuse normal ham if you want to.
Bresaola Rolls with Ricotta and Walnuts
Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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These bresaola rolls with ricotta cheese and citrus are very delicate and easy to prepare, making them a fantastic finger food for your cocktail parties. The iconic sweet aromatic flavour of the bresaola combines with creamy ricotta, earthy walnuts and fragrant sundried tomatoes to seriously rock your taste buds.
Bresaola is an air-cured beef ham originated in the northern region of Lombardy, Italy. It carries a deep ruby red shading and has very thin lines of marbled fat scattered through it. You can safely say that Bresaola is essentially Beef Prosciutto. However, prosciutto is distinctly smooth and rich with its fat content, while Bresaola prioritizes a sweet, aromatic flavour that emphasize the lean cut of beef and spices. It’s great to pair them with cheeses, either with fresh and spreadable cheeses like ricotta/goat cheese, or aged cheese like Parmesan/pecorino, and peppery arugula.
Eggplant Stacks with Gorgonzola and Sun-dried Tomato Pistou
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 |
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This recipe is extremely easy and you can substitute the French pistou with Italian pesto sauce if you like. Serves well on it’s own as a sort of starter, or eat as a side with some crusty bread.
Pistou, from the Provençal dialect of Occitan, meaning pounded, is a Provençal sauce similar to pesto alla Genovese, but doesn’t include nuts (sometimes contains cheese though), made only with basil, garlic and olive oil. Here we use sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil, and garlic blended in olive oil until combined and still a bit chunky.
Sweating eggplants before cooking makes the vegetable drier, which helps it absorb less fat while it cooks. Plus, extracting moisture meant drawing out some of the bitterness.
Baby Spinach Salad with Avocado and Blackberries
Saturday, March 08, 2025Make the most of fresh seasonal produce with this easy, but scrumptious spring salad. If you haven’t tried pairing fruit with your salad before, you are missing out. Seasonal fruits add not only colour, but also right amount of sweetness and texture to an otherwise boring green salad. Feel free to substitute baby spinach with other leafy greens.
Princess Beans and Pickled Carrot Salad with Ricotta and Pisatchio
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 |
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If you are looking for a delicious and easy salad recipe, these tender princess beans with pickled carrots over ricotta cream are an ideal choice. Princess beans are small green beans that are harvested young and only have very small or no seeds. You can use French haricots verts, which are much thinner, longer and tender than regular green beans. Pickled carrots can be prepared one day ahead, actually it tastes better after 24 hours and will stay fresh and crunchy for at least a week.
Pull Apart Aubergine
Saturday, February 22, 2025 |
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If you love cheesy pull apart bread, but don’t want to indulge yourself on carbs, this pull-apart aubergine is the answer. You can easily serve it as a main course or as an appetizer for any family gathering. I used a mix of fresh mozzarella and vintage Cheddar for the recipe, but if you are fancy that “cheese pull” effect, then replace vintage Cheddar for the shredded Mozzarella. You may not need all the pesto sauce, use the leftover for the noodles or double the recipe.
Meatball Gratin
Saturday, February 08, 2025 |
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Juicy homemade pork meatballs with garlic, onion, Italian seasoning, fennel seeds, and pancetta / bacon are browned then simmered in a rich tomato based sauce and lots of Gruyère until golden. It’s wholesome, hearty and so moreish. Serve with your favourite salad and plenty of crusty bread to soak up the sauce.
Blood Orange and Marinated Feta Salad
Tuesday, February 04, 2025Spelt Bulgur Kebabs with Carob Mango Dip
Sunday, February 02, 2025 |
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These crispy bulgur kebabs with a fruity, spicy and sweet mango dip - delicious, quick and easy to prepare! I used fine spelt bulgur from DM drugstore, but you can use regular bulgurs from durum or red wheat. Carob syrup is made from the pods of the carob tree and characterised by its rich, dark colour, similar to molasses, and has a fruity, sweet flavour. It is low in fat, high in fibre, and packed with minerals. If you can’t find carob syrup, then simply use molasses instead.
Overnight Coleslaw with Toasted Almonds
Friday, January 31, 2025 |
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A simple, delicious homemade cabbage slaw with a sweet and tangy vinaigrette! Dress the cabbage the day before to allow it to wilt slightly, then toss with radicchio and toasted almonds the next day to add crunch. It is a wonderful accompaniment to almost any meal and is especially nice with grilled meat, poultry, or seafood or enjoy it straight up.
Coleslaw was initially created in the Netherlands. The term coleslaw originates from the Dutch (koolsla) that combines the kool, meaning "cabbage," and sla, meaning "salad.