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Tortano Bread from Scratch

  Tortano Bread from Scratch is Italian Easter bread filled with eggs, spicy salami, ham, cheese and pork crackings. Perfect brunch or outdoor picnic snack. In most of the cases, we serveTortano and Casatiello for Easter brunch. One of the differences between these two is that hard boiled eggs are… Read more »

Meloncello from Scratch

  Meloncello from Scratch is an easy Tuscan cantaloupe digestive to enjoy during summer. It is the base to make meloncello liqueur or to garnish your favourite ice cream with. It seems like perfect timing to show another drink from scratch ! Quite soon, Tuscan cantaloupe will ripen and the… Read more »

Vareniki Recipe

  Vareniki are Ukrainian perogies recipe aka pierogies. Dumplings filled with cottage cheese, boiled in salted water are budget friendly tasty lunch or dinner everybody loves! What are vareniki? Vareniki are classic Ukrainian dumplings similar to Polish pierogi, stuffed with cottage chese in this recipe! They are so popular that… Read more »

Rainbow Potato Salad ( no mayo )

  Rainbow Potato Salad ( no mayo ) is delicious twist on classic potato salad made without mayo. A bowl of colorful rainbow potatoes with Mediterranean dressing is healthy, vegan and gluten free. Classic potato salad in my family is the version my grandmother used to make. She boiled potatoes,… Read more »

Orange Blossom Cake Bread

  Orange Blossom Cake Bread is orange blossom semolina cake bread with turmeric, orange zest and semolina. Very tasty, simple and special Indian treat !   During my stay in ashram in India several years back, the food we had was tasty beyond imaginable ! All meals were vegetarian and… Read more »

Mini Bundt Cakes with Chayote

  Mini Bundt Cakes with Chayote squash are low in  calories, fiber packed cocoa powder mini bundt cakes, so light and easy to make !   Pear shaped, spiny chayote squash is perfect replacement for finely grated zucchini when making Mini Bundt Cakes with Chayote or any other kind of… Read more »

Purple Cauliflower Steaks

  Purple Cauliflower Steaks are made of simply cut  slices of purple cauliflower, brushed with olive oil, sprinkled with salt, oven roasted to make an easy week dinner served the way it suits you the best !   Cauliflower is a superfood ! Whatever dish you make with it, it… Read more »

Pandoro French Toast

  Pandoro French Toast is delicious creamy spongy breakfast loaded with sweet bread, jam and cream cheese. Perfect holidays breakfast to make with pandoro leftovers ! Pandoro from Scratch has long shelf line due to double rising of fresh natural yeast and you can literary keep it on room temperature… Read more »

Pandoro from Scratch

  Pandoro from Scratch is Italian Christmas golden cake, simple yet decadent, of mild flavor, soft, slightly scented with vanilla, so light and fluffy. Hello everybody ! It’s Christmas baking time again and here I share beautiful Pandoro from Scratch with you ! Let’s make it clear from the start… Read more »