Dishes easy to make. Most of them made in 2pots.
Simple Two Colour Cookies : attractive and simple to make ! This version of Simple Two Colour Cookies could easily include children in the process. Once you make two coloured dough and roll it out, you start choosing shapes and cut just as you like them to be. Here are… Read more »
Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies with Rose Jam : inspired by Rose Petals Turkish Delight. My mother bakes almost the same collection of cookies for every Christmas and it’s all right because there is always somebody that likes the specific kind. But ! I tried to replace walnuts with pistachio when making… Read more »
Scandinavian Almond Bars : Cut. Eat. Repeat. We did not have snow for Christmas Eve for years over here. It both makes us sorry because, as a rule, it starts to snow the first day of school after holidays. Anyway children are so happy to have it so as… Read more »
Pine Nut Cookies : Biscotti ai Pignolli. The most exiting time of the year, at least for children, is getting closer. It is not only the presents and cookies; it is the snow, too. Since the winter scene has skipped this part of the world for several years now, I… Read more »
Peanut Butter Cookies : Evergreen ! Peanut Butter Cookies embody everything that is the holidays. I cannot remember from where and how did this recipe land to my recipes’ book since it is not that common to do sweets with peanut butter over here but this one came to stay.… Read more »
Rustic Mediterranean Fig Cookies : Perfect coastal delicacy. Fresh figs, all their varieties, are my favourite late summer fruit. Mediterraneans appreciate this fruit on their special way. Fresh figs fed generations of islanders during the wars, hungers and travels. When making winter stocks, peasants were drying them on the sun… Read more »
Chocolate chip Dulce de Leche Cookies: Amazing Dulce de Leche cookies enriched with chocolate chips. It is obvious I activated the oven after a long rest because the temperatures are back to normal. Within a few days we should have another heat wave so I hurried to make some… Read more »
Poppy Seed Cheesecake Crincles:Perfect, tender, attractive, light cheesecake crinkles to enjoy all year round ! Well, if you consider the ingredients, you cannot go wrong with them. In normal circumstances I would simply make a cheesecake. Definitely. But, there is a story behind these crinkles that is worth telling, as… Read more »
Easy Sugar Cookies with a dash of orange. We had a very cold winter this year. I don’t remember when we had such dark and murky days, forcing us to stay inside. There were episodes of the wind blowing mightily, biting as sharply as a knife, taking one’s breath away.… Read more »
Chocolate Chip Cookie Boats: Roll, roll, roll the boats … These are made of very simple pastry made of well known ingredients. The shape of the little boats is formed by tablespoon’s back and, when baked, filled with any kind of spread. So, if you have kids, or live in… Read more »