Featured Recipe
Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies
Monday, September 29, 2025 |
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Super chocolaty, moist and with a fine pumpkin cheesecake swirl: these pumpkin brownies literally melt in your mouth! Served with a hot cup of tea, they really put one in the mood for autumn.
Is there really pumpkin in there? DEFINITELY! The all-rounder Hokkaido is mixed into the brownie as a pumpkin cheesecake swirl. It not only gives the little chocolate cake a visual upgrade, but also a special juiciness and mild sweetness. Spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice are also included and make this autumnal treat perfect. If you like, you can also add a little ginger or simply use pumpkin pie spice blend. Fancy a little crunch? Then stir in some chopped nuts or pumpkin seeds to the batter.
Pesto Rice-stuffed Butternut Pumpkin
Saturday, September 27, 2025 |
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This gluten free stuffed pumpkin recipe uses smaller butternut squashes for a cosy and delicious meal in autumn / winter months. Filled with a mixture with basmati rice, pesto, pistachios, feta and celery, this can also be made as one larger pumpkin or with other varieties of pumpkins. You just need to adjust the cooking time. Use brown or wild rice if desired.
Baked Eggplant with Figs and Feta
Wednesday, September 17, 2025Fig Spelt Galette with Goat Cheese
Sunday, September 07, 2025 |
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A rustic, freeform pastry made with spelt flour, filled with caramelised red onions, fresh figs, combined with goat cheese and refined with fresh rosemary. For the pastry, I used spelt flour, which goes particularly well with figs thanks to its nutty flavour. However, you can just as easily use regular wheat flour.
Whether as a starter, main course or party snack, the fig spelt galette is sure to be a real eye-catcher on any table. If time is tight, you can of course use ready-made dough from the supermarket for your galette.
Marinated Fig and Mozzarella Salad
Sunday, August 10, 2025Poppyseed Cake
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 |
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With a fun quilt pattern, this poppyseed cake with a cheesecake topping really makes a statement. Not only does it look great, but it also tastes fabulous. This cake recipe offers a little variety and a wow flavour experience that you don’t want to miss out. Schmand is German sour cream with a much higher fat content than regular sour cream. No Schmand, no problem, use crème fraîche instead. If you're feeling adventurous, swapping some homemade eggnog for the buttermilk. I have baked this cake for a few times with different ingredients and temperatures, and the first time I prepared the batter with eggnog and baked at 190C/375F for 50 minutes for a more golden topping. The cake was very tender on first day, and became slightly dry on the 2nd day, but still very good. Other times all with buttermilk and baked at 180C/350 for 45 minutes until lightly browned and it stayed very tender and soft even after 3rd day.
Rosemary and Comté Madeleines
Friday, June 13, 2025 |
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These savory French madeleines are moist, tender, and filled with wonderful cheesy herbal flavour from nutty French Comté and fresh piney rosemary. They're best eaten warm from the oven, but will keep in an airtight container for up to two days. Enjoy it with a glass of Champagne.
If the madeleines didn't get the signature humps or bumps, it is likely that the batter wasn't cold enough. It is the heat shock of baking a cold cake batter on a very hot oven that creates the bumps. So make sure that you chill the batter for at least 2 hours. I left mine overnight. Don’t over fill the mould cavities, or the batter will overflow, and your madeleines will be flattened.
Romaine Hearts with Chunky Blue Cheese Vinaigrette
Wednesday, June 04, 2025An uber-simple salad, this is a spinoff of the classic iceberg wedge with blue cheese dressing. But instead of iceberg, I used romaine hearts. The classic creamy blue cheese dressing gets an upgrade with large crumbles of blue cheese tossed in a pungent vinaigrette. Add some crispy croutons and smoky bacon to the salad if you wish. I used Castello Danish blue, which contains animal rennet, so it is not suitable for vegetarians.
Lavender Cupcakes
Saturday, May 31, 2025 |
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Light and floral lavender cupcakes are fun, delicious and beautiful! If you are looking for a light dessert for entertaining, these moist and light cupcakes are truly perfect. The cake base is lavender flavoured, sweetened with honey and erythritol and crowned with a cream cheese frosting.
While lavender plays an important role in cosmetics, the plant is often used to flavour dishes in Mediterranean cuisine. They can be found in teas and lemonades, in marmalade, in cakes or as a special flavouring in savoury meat dishes. Conjure up a Provence ambience with these delicate cupcakes and enjoy the extraordinary combination of flavours.
Comté Chicken
Sunday, May 25, 2025This quick and flavourful chicken recipe is truly a crowd pleasers. For a richer flavour, bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, drumsticks or whole legs are the perfect choice for the recipe. However, the real star of this dish is that creamy cheesy Comté sauce, which is enriched with double cream, and homemade chicken broth, and distinct Comté offers a rich, robust flavour and complex textures to boot. Serve with your favourite crusty bread or pasta to mop up the luscious sauce.
Comté cheese comes from the Jura mountains in France. Its deep nutty flavour with sweet and fruity undertone is the perfect balance to the richness of chicken and caramelized onions.
T-Bone Steak with Parmesan and Herb Dressing
Monday, May 19, 2025 |
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Juicy steak is seared to perfection and Parmesan herb dressing adds a depth of flavour that's out of this world. Double the dressing as it’s great for salads, served with bread or tossed through the pasta. Serve the steak alongside some tender asparagus or a mound of mashed potatoes if you ain’t on low carb diet. With just a few quality ingredients, this dish is sure to become a family favorite. Do not use olive oil to cook steak, as its smoke point is lower than that of tallow or ghee and it will smoke before reaching the desired cooking temperature.
Baked Cloud Eggs with Asparagus
Monday, April 21, 2025 |
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I have ZERO idea why Blogger has UNpublished my post! It simply told me that my post violated the community guides that I DIDN'T. It's just a recipe, I didn't publish anything unusual. Do anyone know what to do? I am repbulishing this post, hopping that Blogger will READ it through and publish it again. Sorry if I have lost all of your comments.
Ready for the fluffiest egg ever? Then switch on the oven, get the Parmesan and eggs out of the fridge and let’s make some fluffy egg clouds for breakfast or brunch! The egg whites must be whipped until stiff peaks have formed before folding in chives and Parmesan. They are then formed into 4 clouds and baked in the oven for 4 minutes before sliding the egg yolk into the well in the center and bake for a further 2-4 minutes, depending on how brown you like them.