An Easy Trick to Make Salads Feel More Inviting in Winter

I'm a huge fan of green salads, but how to eat them when it's cold. So here I am, sitting in front of my computer with my hands wrapped around a hot cup of coffee and the last thing I want is...

Eggcitement + Have a Yummy Weekend!

Hi there! After a nearly 3-week-long cold, I'm finally...

For the Love of Cheese

I love cheese and cheese plates are my absolute favourite. Cheese is one of the things we never run out of here, or try not to anyway. If I had to eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be cheese. Hyperbolic? Maybe. But cheese is the one great food I'm never, ever bored of. Maybe my #2 New Year's resolution should be: "Eat more cheese."

I have been looking for a good cheese sauce recipe for a long time and I have...

Quick and Easy Weeknight Meals

As promised, here are some of my favourite quick and easy weeknight recipes that I have personally tried many times and received positive feedback. On busy weeknights, I want dinners that are quick, easy, and delicious. Using ingredients you likely have on hand already, these recipes all call for just 30 minutes of prep and cook time - once you start cooking, you'll have dinner on the table in just a half hour. They're quick and easy to make, and I hope you enjoy them and have fun trying something different. And feel free to adapt and change to...

Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken

Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken. A delicious dish.

This recipe is pretty much foolproof. In fact, it's hard to mess up! Also,...

Family-friendly Meal Ideas

Well hello there! Life is too short to be spent sweating in the kitchen. And if you're anything like me you don't want to spend hours in the kitchen preparing food. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate cooking, but...

Five Things Tuesday

Farewell to Autumn!

Well hello, folks! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, spent with friends and family. Have a great December and stay warm! xx

Yesterday's Pumpkin Soup dinner. The sweet pumpkin smell filled the entire house.

Fresh citrus for morning juice.

Loving the colour combination in this one.

Indian Chicken Curry. Recipe via Serious Eats.

Rocket and Prosciutto Salad with Strawberry Dressing

Arugula (Rocket) and Prosciutto Salad with Strawberry Dressing.

So the other day, I went out for lunch with a friend of mine. I had...

Summer Light Things

Graceful white seagulls flying in the blue summer sky.

Isn't the summer sky just gorgeous?

Wow I can't believe how fast time goes. This summer is just flying by so fast!

Simple Little Pleasures + Have a Fun Weekend!

Sometimes you just want to sit and watch the sunrise.

Watching seagulls flying against the wind.

It seems like my whole life has become about the little things and I am...

A Glimpse of Paris

The Eiffel Tower. 

The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous structures in the world. This magnificent structure is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris.
It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

Read on and enjoy a range of interesting information about the Eiffel Tower .

Cinnamon Palmiers.

A palmier or elephant ear is a French pastry in a palm shape or a butterfly shape. Delicious!

How to make Cinnamon Palmiers .

Chicken Cordon Bleu...the easy way! No flower mixture, no egg mixture, no bread crumbs but it did taste as good as the traditional version.

The Chicken Cordon Bleu, a classic French dish, is meat with prosciutto ham and cheese filling, that's rich and tasty.

How to make authentic Chicken Cordon Bleu .

I was dreaming about Paris yesterday; would love to frolic around that lovely city today. I know that people often say that Paris is a fabulous city to get lost in...We do love Paris but France is more than just Paris!

Do you like French food? Have you ever tried any of these?

Hope you have a great weekend! xx

(Top photo by Joey Zanotti via Everything You Love To Hate)

A Genius Sauce: Pesto Recipe + Have a Yummy Weekend!

An awesome sauce is all it takes to make a kind of "eh sandwich" turn into something more flavourful.
My love of sandwiches knows no bounds. And while I love a good vegetable and cheese sandwich, I'm already tiring of the usual combos. But a friend recently introduced me to a creamy, rich sauce...pesto.

Pesto is a great sauce, literally; always tasty on just about anything! total game changer. Toss it with pasta, spread it on sandwiches or alone, pesto makes such a delicious sauce. And it's easy enough to make.

Pesto Sauce and Tortillas.

Pesto is a sauce originated in Genoa, Italy (Pesto Genovese) and traditionally consists of leaves of basil, fresh garlic and olive oil, pine nuts and..

Five Likes Tuesday

Croque-madame. A classic French dish {Hot grilled ham and cheese sandwich with a fried egg on top.}

Now that the summer is here and the weather gets hotter from day-to-day, a meatless dish seemed perfect for a hot, sunny day. So last Sunday I thought I would cook a quite light dinner.

The croque-madame is one of those excellent sandwiches that's rich tasting, and fit for any time of day. There's nothing like the smell and taste of a grilled ham and cheese sandwich. I'm fairly obsessed with it actually.

Croque-madame is a French dish, consisting of a hot grilled ham and cheese (Gruyere or Emmental) sandwich served with a fried egg on top; which becomes a croque-monsieur if you don't top it with a fried egg.

Mixed Green Salad with Avocado.

To make the dressing:

Mix together the olive oil, fresh lemon juice, and sea salt and pepper in a small bowl. Taste and add more olive oil or lemon juice if necessary.
Just before serving, whisk the dressing, pour over the salad leaves, toss and serve.

This salad is visually beautiful and colourful, the smell of the avocado is seductive, and it is meant to thrill your taste-buds! Not to toot any horns or anything, but I make really good salads.

Vegetable Spring Rolls (frozen) and Sweet Chili sauce.

Vanilla ice cream with cherry sauce and roasted mixed nuts.

Lovely Tulips.

What things do you currently like? xx

Food Art

Have I ever mentioned that I have a big obsession with food photography? 

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
~N.M.Simpson.
  

What is a Recipe: A series of step-by-step instruction for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat!

~Author Unknown.

Remember, no man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
~Christopher Morley.