Vegetable spread

Today I have again a typical Romanian recipe. It is a vegetable spread - known as zacuscă in Romania. It is the first time that I make this dish. When I was living in Romania, my grandmother was making this spread for me. But now I live in Vienna and it was about time that I cook the vegetable spread. I took the recipe from my grandma, so it is a family recipe. Since I did not read it carefully, I have changed it a bit. But that did not affect the final result, but I had a lot more work. I must warn you...you need a lot of patience to make this vegetable spread…I worked two days on it.

Sterilizing bottles and jars – how it is done

As I intend, to show you in the near future recipes where you need sterilized bottles or jars, I thought I write a special post for this topic. If we want that our homemade jam, our pickles or homemade liqueur last long and does not begin to mold, we need to sterilize the jars /bottles. Today I show you how I do it.

Chocolate blancmange with cinnamon pears

Last year I've written down in my recipe book the recipe for chocolate blancmange with cinnamon pears. But only this week I finally had time to make it. I always see so many great recipes that I want to cook/ bake, but I do not have always the time. And sometimes I do not want to cook. And once I have the time and am in the mood to cook, I can no longer find a particular ingredient, because the season is already over. This happened last year. But now the pear has season again so I prepared the chocolate blancmange with cinnamon pears this week. A little tip from me: if you want to bake it, then don’t wait for one year. Otherwise you are missing something.

Beetroot-mozzarella-tomato salad

I love beetroot and I am happy every time it has season. I like to eat it in soups, risotto, salads or even in cakes (yes, you read that correctly...recipe will follow). This time I decided to use the beetroot again in a salad. I bought fresh beetroot and cooked them myself, but you can buy the pre-cooked ones. I like very much the salad (well... it contains everything I like, I did not expect something else) and today I want to share the recipe with you.

Pumpkin rolls

Today’s recipe is for pumpkin giant roll. In the past I already published a recipe for cinnamon rolls, now I originally wanted to bake some with a walnut filling. But then I saw the recipe of pumpkin rolls at Sabina from Starlight in the Kitchen and I had to try it out. At least I wanted to try out the filling, although I changed it a bit. And on Jenny’s blog Zimt, Zucker und Liebe I have seen a recipe of a giant roll. So I decided to bake a pumpkin giant roll instead of normal-sized pumpkin rolls. Although I already had a very good batter recipe, I decided to try another one. The winner was the recipe from the book "Swedish culinary classics" - a gift from my friend Iulia. Now you know the story of this recipe. It is a simple recipe, but you have to schedule about 3 hours for it (including rest and baking time).

Salmon cream

It's Saturday night and I'm sitting here in front of my PC... laptop to be more precise and I prepare tomorrow's post. As I will go to the cinema today, I'll be very quick...as I still have to get ready. This time I have again a super simple recipe for you - namely salmon cream.

Pumpkin bruschetta

Today I prepared a nice, quick and easy pumpkin recipe for you: pumpkin bruschetta with feta cheese and rocket salad. It is a great autumnal starter. But it can also be served as a snack at a Halloween party.