Avocado soup
Here’s a recipe for a cold spring-summer soup Serve the avocado soup as an appetizer, or with a fresh slice of bread as a light main course. For example, the black cumin bread tastes very good with it. Wonderfully refreshing!…
Annatto – color for the kitchen
Do you know Annatto? Annatto are the seeds of the Orlean shrub that grows in the tropical regions of South America. It has been used for centuries by indigenous people in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. However,…
Cream cheese balls – well seasoned as an aperitif
Looking for another idea for a quick, easy, colorful, and well-seasoned aperitif snack? Here’s one: cream cheese balls with spices. You only need two ingredients for this: Cream cheese and spices. The cream cheese should not be too moist, otherwise,…
Wild garlic spätzli
As promised last week, today you get the wild garlic spätzli recipe They are suitable as a side dish with meat or egg dishes. Or simply as a main dish sprinkled with cheese. Or with a sauce of your choice.…
Spiced salt – homemade
Do you sometimes have way too many spices? I often feel that way! You can easily make your own spiced salt with it! When I find a new spice during vacation, I want to try it. I use it then…
Chicken Costa Rica-Caribbean style
A typical dish from Costa Rica – part 2 How did you like last week’s rice and beans dish? Today we have the chicken recipe to go with it. Two things are special about it: the sugar and the Lizano…
Rice with beans
A typical dish from Costa Rica – part 1 I got to know this menu in Costa Rica. It’s cooked mainly on the Caribbean coast. However, rice and beans are used a lot throughout the country. Gallo Pinto is eaten…
Granola homemade
Granola is simply a crunchy muesli What I like most about granola is its versatility. And when you make granola yourself, you can try a different composition every time. Granola consists of cereal flakes, nuts and seeds, something to sweeten…
Grains of paradise – also called melegueta
Melegueta is a spice that, for economic reasons, was used as a substitute for black pepper in the past Grains of paradise were significantly cheaper than black pepper, which at times was also weighed in gold. Today, melegueta pepper has…
Winter dishes – wonderfully warming
Do you like Winter Dishes? It’s starting to get cold outside (certainly here in Europe) and that makes us want hearty, warm, finely spiced dishes. And, of course, wonderful, warming drinks. All in all, soul food! Here I have you…
