Seafood Bastilla

We’ve prepared together the Chicken Bastilla, the oldest and most traditional variant of this Moroccan dish; but no great dish would be such without a perfect counterpart. Here’s the Seafood Bastilla! 🙂 The use of warka dough is the same, but it contains a filling of cod, squids and shrimps enriched with warm spices and noodles chopped, without omitting the butter scent that characterizes the … Read More

Rose and honey yogurt bowls

Today we’ll propose a pudding that reminds you the flavors from Greece: a delicate yogurt cream perfumed with rose and covered with honey jelly 🙂 . This Rose and honey yogurt bowls are quick to prepare and no need to turn on the oven ;), They are very refreshing and suitable  as a after dinner dessert.  

Roasted quails with butter

Quails are one of those dishes you have to try at least once in your life… And today we wanted to present a very simple recipe, roasted quails with mountain herbs, butter and fleur de sel 😀 . Back to 1537, quails become very popular, when the Queen of England Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, while expecting their baby, … Read More

Cocoa and citrus hearts

Saturday is Valentine’s Day, and you surely don’t want to miss the chance to impress and delight your beloved one with a fantastic and romantic dessert 🙂 ! We’ll propose cocoa and citrus hearts: chocolate sponge cake, flavored with lemon zest, filled with orange custard and coated with a thin layer of chocolate icing. The preparation of the hearts is not … Read More

Gazpacho – Cold Spanish vegetable soup

After a long and pleasant afternoon spent in the sun, we really needed to freshen up… We have therefore prepared the Gazpacho, a soup made with raw vegetables served cold 🙂 . We’ll propose the classic version of Gazpacho: with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, garlic and bread, everything just minced and served strictly cold! Gazpacho is a recipe from Andalusia and has … Read More

Sacher Cupcakes

You certainly all know the Viennese Sacher Torte, the famous chocolate cake filled with apricot jam and covered with chocolate ganache 🙂 . Today we wanted to stay on the topic, proposing the smaller Sacher cupcakes 🙂 . Perfect for an afternoon with friends or as a small dessert after a summer dinner, this cupcake will be an explosion of cocoa, and … Read More

Quiche with asparagus and bacon

Asparagus is one of the vegetables our garden is full of during spring, we often try new recipes to give them new tastes. This time we tried a quiche with asparagus and speck, flavored with juniper berries and a hint of thyme 🙂 .Since we were experiencing the cake filling, certainly we could not use the classic puff pastry to enclose it … Read More

Cultivate chili peppers

This weekend, in addition to the kitchen, we are going to DIY and set our greenhouse and start to cultivate chili peppers also this year 😉 . As you may remember from the previous post, in which we described the varieties we grew last summer, we love chilli and we love having different species to choose the one that best … Read More

Chili peppers

We often  read the words “a pinch of chili pepper” among the ingredients of a recipe without any indication about the variety and quantity… As if it were a negligible surplus, only useful to spicy the recipe. Different varieties of chili peppers, however, not only will make your dish more or less spicy, but they will change its taste. Without any doubt chili … Read More

Lemonade

Turning on the oven with the temperatures of recent days would certainly be heroic 😉 , so here we are to prepare a fresh drink to be sipped during the hottest hours: lemonade 😀 . A recipe with few ingredients: lemon juice, sugar and water. Yet, even in its simplicity, this sour drink is incomparable to cool off under the sun … Read More