Featured Recipe
Marinated Fig and Mozzarella Salad
Sunday, August 10, 2025Blackberry Infused Vodka
Friday, July 25, 2025 |
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Making your own blackberry infused vodka is quick, easy, and a great way to savour the flavors of a pile of foraged wild blackberries for summer fun! This recipe comes together with just a few ingredients and the spices are completely optional. I used 100 grams of sugar for the infusion, if you prefer it sweeter, use up to 250 grams.
Mint and Coconut-stuffed Chicken with Grilled Peach Salad
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 |
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A nutty, herby mix of coconut flakes, mint, parsley, chives, green chilli, garlic and olive oil is perfect for stuffing juicy and flavourful chicken thighs, which are roasted until golden crispy on the outside and succulent inside. Served with a grilled peach salad for a tasty budget summer meal. It’s naturally gluten free and suitable for a low carb diet.
Winemaker's Chicken
Thursday, July 17, 2025 |
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A beautiful, juicy, and deeply flavourful chicken bake in white wine sauce with grapes, garlic and shallots. Chicken thighs are first pan-seared in a skillet until golden crisp, then baked in the oven with grapes, which add a sophisticated sweet and sour note. This is one of those dishes that is guaranteed to please every family member. Serve them over a bed of mashed potatoes or pasta for a satisfying weekday meal.
Blueberry Rolls
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 |
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The creative yeast buns swirled with butter and blueberry jam, and topped with a lilac icing, are soft, tender and in a league of their own. In summer, the blueberry rolls are best baked with fresh blueberries, in winter you can use frozen fruit. This means you can enjoy these blueberry rolls all year round. Whether for breakfast or in the afternoon with coffee and tea: such wonderfully fluffy, tender buns always put you in a good mood.
Raspberry and Coconut Truffles
Sunday, July 13, 2025 |
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These nutty fruity truffles are a welcome change from the beloved chocolate truffles. The pink truffles are also ideal as a gift. They are made with almonds, desiccated coconut, coconut oil and raspberries, lightly sweetened with agave syrup. If you like, finish them with a coating of white chocolate for an extra layer of decadence.
Haupia - Hawaiian Coconut Pudding
Friday, July 11, 2025 |
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Haupia is a popular traditional Hawaiian dessert made from coconut milk, cornstarch and sugar. This naturally gluten free coconut pudding is very simple and takes just 10 minutes to make and doesn't require an oven. The silky, creamy haupia tastes fantastic and have a fine consistency somewhere between pudding and panna cotta. Traditionally, the haupia are cubed and served plain. But you can also garnish them with fresh fruit or fruit sauces (I used mango here). If you are going to serve them in glasses, garnish them with some caramelised pineapples and/or toasted sesames since both are important ingredients in Hawaiian cuisine.
Chicken Marbella
Wednesday, July 09, 2025 |
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Chicken Marbella, inspired by Mediterranean flavours, although the dish was named after Marbella, a city in Spain, was actually created by the chefs at The Silver Palate in New York City. It is famous for its sweet, tangy, briny, garlicky flavour. Chicken pieces are nestled alongside briney olives and capers, sweet, juicy prunes and white wine, vinegar, lots of garlic, oregano, olive oil and brown sugar, then roasted until caramelised and the marinade cooked into a heavenly sauce collected at the bottom—truly one of the simple pleasures in life! Instead of brown sugar, you can also use coconut sugar, or even date syrup for the topping.
Raspberry Meringue Tarts
Monday, July 07, 2025 |
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A highlight of French pastry! The buttery sweet shortcrust pastry base is filled with a velvety, fruity raspberry curd, which is then covered with airy, delicate meringue flamed off with a kitchen blowtorch at the very end. If desired, garnish them with some chopped pistachios or crush some freeze-dried raspberries over the top. This tart not only tastes delicious, it also looks elegant: a great dessert idea for celebration or just because.
Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Glaze
Thursday, July 03, 2025 |
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This timeless angel food cake with a creamy fruity glaze is tender and light as cloud. Enjoy it plain, with seasonal fruit and a dollop of homemade whipped cream, or with a berry glaze. This cake is sure to wow everyone at dinner. The recipe is actually pretty easy, the only tedious task is to separate 12 eggs and the only special piece of equipment you’ll need is a angel food tube pan which helps give angel food cake its lift thanks to the high sides and center hole. Use the egg yolks to make omelette, lemon curd or ice cream.
Tomato Mousse with Avocado
Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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Elevate your appetizer game with this light and delicate tomato mousse with avocado! Made with sweet vine-ripened tomatoes, shallot, olive oil and lemon juice, this recipe is easy, packed with tomato flavour and delicious. They are ideal for summer gatherings or as a light lunch with some homemade bread. Add some cocktail shrimp or mini Mozzarella to the avocado mixture for the protein boost if desired. For a change, I have chilled the pudding in glasses at an angle, but you can simply fill some pretty glasses and top with the avocado mixture.
Raisin Muffins with Coconut Macaroon
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 |
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Are you on team muffins or team cupcakes? Personally I prefer unfrosted muffins with a classic domed muffin top to cupcakes, which can be quite sugary sweet and unhealthy, though much more decorative and prettier. You can add nuts, seeds, fruits or other mix-ins to make muffins really interesting and less guilty. The batter of these muffins come together really quickly. However, I decided to make these muffins with creaming method, so the texture is much more airy and lighter, and add a coconut macaroon top, just for fun and extra chew. If you want to use muffin-method (combine the dry and wet ingredients separately, then combine them), you definitely can.