Zacusca – a traditional Romanian eggplant and red pepper, vegan breadspread. Now that is a long title. But I had to name it somehow, the Romanian name zacusca, doesn’t really describe what it is. Well, Romanian people do not need a description of this. I cannot imagine that there is any Romanian on earth, who doesn’t know what zacusca is. Together with sarmale, supa de galusti, salata boeuf and vinete…
Quick, chewy peanut butter cookies with cranberries, raisins and walnuts. My children, especially my boy, love these biscuits. They are really crisp with some soft spots here and there, crunchy as well due to the nuts, sweet and wholesome. The only problem is, when you taste them, you cannot stop after eating just one or two, so you’d better just take one or two out of the box, then put…
This is a really cold day soup. It will warm you up from inside out, you’ll get red cheeks while eating it and if you overdo it with the chilies (like I did) you will probably get a runny nose as well. But the soup is gooood, so good that you will probably have no problems eating it 3 days in a row (like I did). I really did exaggerate…
Bleak weather today. Cold and wet and dark. Makes you just wanna get on the couch, wrapped in a fluffy blanket, with a cup of tea or coffee and a really good book. Wouldn’t that be nice? I wish I could, but at not even 9 o’clock in the morning I don’t think I could achieve that without having to deal with some serious conscience issues. I mean, husband working…
You won’t believe these brownies!!!!!!! They are so good, so really really brownies, despite the fact that they are made with black beans and contain no flour and no almost no fat. I found the recipe here. I changed it just a little, I took one teaspoon oil instead of half of it, I just found it too annoying to measure half a teaspoon, one full was easier. I left…
A nice and crisp fall salad, quick to make and completely satisfying. You don’t need much as an accompaniment, just a piece of crusty rye bread smeared with some salty butter. It makes a good light dinner on a rainy evening (like every evening this week!) or a nice work lunch the next day. I don’t know if you are familiar with celeriac, I don’t often see recipes using it…
This duck legs were great. And even better than the meat was the sauce. That was amazing! Velvety, savory with a slight sweet note, I could have just eaten it with a spoon. In fact, there was some leftover sauce the next day, so I just cooked some noodles and we ate it like that: noodles with just ragu sauce. And a salad. I only had two small duck legs…
This is my second Afghan recipe, a simple dish served with the Naan bread I posted yesterday. I found the recipe on one of my favorite blogs Veggie Belly. I did not change much, I just used Hokkaido pumpkin instead of butternut squash (again I prefer it because you just don’t have to bother peeling it), used less sugar and oil and served it with herbed yogurt instead of garlic…
I love Naan bread and have baked some many times. I have tried several recipes, some better, some not so great. This one is one of the best. It is very easy to make and I thought it tastes a bit like pancakes, like really thick, ‘bready’ pancakes. I found the recipe somewhere on the web, some blog, unfortunately I forgot to write it down where and now I cannot…
This is a wonderful vegan dish that I have been making a lot in the last year. It goes fast, it’s easy to make and I always have the ingredients in the house. I change the vegetables that I use according to what I have in the fridge or what is in season and we normally eat it with rice. I find it a bit hard right now to write about…