I got this recipe from Baking with the Cake Boss book. It’s a pretty basic vanilla frosting recipe, easy to make and great for icing your cakes. Makes about 4 cups, enough to fill and ice one 9-inch cake Ingredients: 2 ½ cups (5 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 5 cups powdered sugar 1 Tbsp vanilla […]
How to Dye Easter Eggs with Leaf Imprints
If it’s Easter, it’s time to decorate some eggs! Dyeing eggs with plants is fun and easy and the nice part about this is that every egg will be wildly different :). You will need: white eggs Egg dye Cups for dyes Old pantyhose thread Leaves […]
Chocolate Cake with Walnuts
Ingredients for a 26.7 cm (10.5 inch) round pan : 7 large eggs 7 Tbsp water (40 ml) 10 Tbsp all-purpose flour (160 g) 4 Tbsp cocoa powder (50 g) 14 Tbsp sugar (210 g) 4-5 Tbsp chopped or ground walnuts (optional) The pan should be greased with butter and floured or lined with parchment paper. […]
Chocolate Ganache with Sour Cherries Filling
Ingredients: 300 g semi-sweet chocolate 300 ml whipping cream 250 g red sour pitted cherries in syrup, drained The standard ratio for chocolate ganache is 1:1 (1 part semi-sweet chocolate, 1 part cream). However, I find that with the type of chocolate that I am using it’s better if I add less chocolate since the […]
Grilled Chicken Wings with Garlic (Saramura de Aripioare)
Saramura de Aripioare served with polenta is a traditional Romanian recipe that is famous especially in the southern part of the country. So simple and so tasty! The other version of the recipe that is even more famous is the grilled fish ‘saramura’. It is well known in Dobrogea, a region located between the lower Danube river […]
Funny Sunny Side up Eggs
I woke up this morning with a big smile on my face so I decided to make my husband laugh out loud too with this funny breakfast. Since everyone should be able to make sunny side up eggs I didn’t take step-by-step photos. The only picture I took though speaks for itself : )). Here […]
Quail Eggs & Bacon Toast
I had some quail eggs left over after I made the delicious Salad with Smoked Salmon & Quail Eggs so I decided to try out a quick and easy breakfast recipe. I’m not going to start talking about the health benefits of quail eggs again because I gave you enough info in my previous post 🙂 […]
Marinated Mushrooms
Marinated mushrooms are easy to make and very tasty. I must give my dad credit for coming up with this recipe. He’s been making these marinated mushrooms for a long time and actually he was the chef in the kitchen this time as well. I only took care of the pictures :). You can enjoy […]
Salad with Smoked Salmon & Quail Eggs
You can enjoy this easy and healthy salad anytime of the day. And in case you didn’t know, quail eggs provide great health benefits, whether cooked or raw. They are proven to be a great source of vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, B12 and D. Also, they are used to increase appetite, strengthen the immune […]