Cooking

Cooking, Drinks

CHOCOLATE BANANA SMOOTHIE

Ask Siri, the iPhone assistant, what is the meaning of life, and one of its more poignant answers is “All evidence to date suggests it is chocolate.” So what do you do if you love chocolate, but it doesn’t love you back? What do you […]

Brownies, Cookies, Cooking

SALTED CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT TOFFEE BITES

These salted chocolate hazelnut toffee bits? Yes yes and yes! They will totally make your day/week/month/year EPIC. I mean, a sweet and creamy date-hazelnut filling covered in a crunchy salted chocolate ganache? How could that not be the bestest thing ever? I’d been wanting to […]

Cooking, Dinner

Spaghetti and Meatballs

“These are the best spaghetti and meatballs I ever heard.” So proclaimed one of our three-year-old twin daughters. We try so hard not to laugh at her approximations, but when I asked her to say it again, she knew. She knew she’d said something funny, […]

Cake, Cooking

LEMON CURD CHEESECAKE BARS

In a perfect world, Mondays would include obscene amounts of cheesecake first thing in the morning. Better yet – in a perfect world, Mondays wouldn’t exist. Especially Mondays before a biochem exam, which are obviously the worst kind of Mondays ever. I mean, those call […]

Appetizers, Cooking

CLEAN EATING TUNA SALMON SALAD SANDWICH

I’ve been meaning to share this recipe with you all for years now. Oh well, maybe not years, but definitely some weeks as we’re talking about really good stuff here. But then terrible pics happened. Followed by hours of me struggling with photoshop in attempt […]

Cooking, Pie, Pie

Homemade Apple Pie

I have been longing to return to NYC for quite sometime now, we love visiting the USA in particular NYC. There are many things we love about New York and many reasons I want to return but to share all of them with you would […]

Close-up of a steaming bowl of vegetable beef soup, highlighting melt-in-your-mouth beef and vibrant vegetables, served on a rustic wooden table.
Soup

Vegetable Beef Soup

The cornerstone of any recipe is its ingredients. For the Vegetable Beef Soup, you’d want to ensure that each ingredient is chosen carefully to provide that savory depth of flavor. How do you achieve the perfect broth consistency? The perfect broth consistency in Vegetable Beef […]