16.9.2018
I thought that I wouldn´t do anything with apples this year anymore, but when I see all these fallen apples in my garden I feel sorry not to use them. When I checked my last year recipes, I made apple recipes even in October and now, in the middle of September, it seems late. I don´t know whether I started early…
9.9.2018
What´s more fall than pumpkin. I finally planted a Hokkaido pumpkin this year (and it grew) and I couldn´t waited to make something from it. My excitement fell a bit when I realized that the pumpkin needed to be washed, baked, peeled and mixed with a bit of water, only then I could use puree 😀 Anyway, after all this,…
2.9.2018
Next and, at the same time, last this-year-pear-cake recipe is this Soft Pear Chocolate Walnut Cake. If you remember a last week recipe, it used 5 egg whites so I was thinking what to do with remaining egg yolks. It is happening quite often that I have leftover egg yolks, I even put them in a freezer, but their expiry…
26.8.2018
First this-year-pear-recipe on the blog is with chocolate combination. I made my peace with the fact that majority of fruits at my home will be wasted since it is like all fruits conspired against me and ripen at the same time. One just doesn´t have any chance to use it all up. I read current food magazines and it seems…
19.8.2018
There are plenty of apples this year (like plenty of everything) so I was thinking what to do with them. By the way, does anyone want apples? It is a pity that they can´t be stored in the same shape, without freezing or making a compote, until winter. Anyway, I wanted to use them as many as possible, but a…
12.8.2018
As I already mentioned on FB, this-year-fruits ripen very soon, it is just the beginning of August and half of plums have already fallen from trees. I just don´t get it. So at least a few of them had to be used in a cake, of course. As you may know, or not, I don´t like a traditional Slovak Plum…
5.8.2018
Summer temperatures are extremely high so ice cream is a must-have. I made not just a simple one, but Waffle Ice Cream Sandwich with Homemade Raspberry Ice Cream. Something similar to Russian ice cream with wafers, but made with homemade waffles. I really like doing waffles, it is a quick substitute for a cake, and I make these vanilla ones…
29.7.2018
This year, I have blackberries too, hooray. Last year, when I finally wanted to get them, I either didn´t find any or I was all soaking wet. This year it didn´t look promising either, after all, I was picking them from wet branches, but, luckily, I managed to do it without any rain. Now, I´m laughing that if you want…
22.7.2018
It may not be clear from my recipes, but I come from and live in Slovakia. And from time to time I´m in mood for traditional Slovak cuisine. Besides cakes from kneaded dough and Kolach rolls stuffed with different fillings, this Crumble Cream Cheese Cake is definitely one of the most traditional desserts. In Slovakia, we call it “Strúhaný tvarohový…
15.7.2018
Lavender can be used in a baking too and when it is its season I love to add it into some recipe. I recently bought cups, so panna cotta was a clear choice. And since I had some black currants left in my garden, Lavender Black Currant Panna Cotta was made. I added yogurt to a base recipe so this…
8.7.2018
I know, I know, blueberry season is on for many days by now. But here, on the east of Slovakia, everything becomes ripe later and when I finally manage to get it, make something from it and post it on the blog, it is almost non-topical. But I am sure that you can still find blueberries in a market or…
1.7.2018
What kind of a food blog it would have been, if tiramisu had been missing. And indeed, tiramisu had been missing on my blog. We made it in our home a few years ago, but we had a recipe which required eggs so we didn´t like it. Now, I wanted to give it a shot again, but this time without…
24.6.2018
I´m opening a raspberry season on the blog with a traditional Raspberry Chocolate Banana Bread. It is traditional because this recipe is the universal one, you basically can add anything to it, substitute raspberries with any seasonal fruit, use nuts instead of chocolate and so on. Another reason is that I made it so many times that the recipe is…
17.6.2018
My cherries were not ripe yet during this week so I was thinking about a cake which didn´t require a lot of cherries. Eventually, I made Chocolate Cherry Truffles. Just to make it clear, truffles, or truffle balls, have recently become popular and you can find them in stores. But why should you buy them since they are so simple…
10.6.2018
Strawberry obsession continues and although their season is almost over you still have some time to make this Chocolate Loaf Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Filling. Although cherries are not ripe here yet, I´m really happy for these strawberries because they are my first home grown strawberries. Until now, I always had to buy them. Although there isn´t much of…
3.6.2018
Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries everywhere. In my case, strawberries and tartlets. I kind of have tartlet obsession so second recipe in row is for tartlets, specifically for Strawberry Cream Cheese Tartlets. If you remember last year No-bake Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Cups which were so popular, this is exactly the same filling. Cream cheese with sour cream and whipping cream tastes really…
27.5.2018
Strawberry and rhubarb season is here so I decided to make something from them. I consider rhubarb to be too sour so there is not a chance I would do just a rhubarb cake, I had to combine it with strawberries. I also don´t like those “threads” in rhubarb so I used an immersion blender, a problem solved. Of course,…
20.5.2018
Not so long time ago I added a recipe for French Tarte au citron, I´m sure you remember it. I loved the lemon filling so much that I must have used it again in a different dessert. By the way, I think it is a shame that the filling doesn´t have a name on its own, it would certainly deserve…