Eggnog muffins

 

To be honest, I wasn’t planning to post any Easter recipes this year. I don’t have any recipes in stock – I mean recipes I baked/ cooked the past years and which did not make it on the blog. So as I said ... I didn’t want to prepare something for Easter. But then, a few weeks ago, I received a nice request from Tchibo. They asked me if I want to participate at their Eastern blog parade. And I said yes. I had to choose between 3 different backing sets. The decision was not easy, because I liked all of them - but I loved the muffin wheel so I decided for the muffin set. Soon was also clear that I was going to bake these eggnog muffins. I had to do something with the homemade eggnog...I cannot drink it alone 😉

Lemon Curd

I needed 3 attempts to find the perfect lemon curd recipe. I have tried this recipe three years ago, everything worked well, but I had not taken any pictures. And back then I thought that I used too many eggs. Therefore, I tried another 2 recipes. Unfortunately the result was not satisfactory. So I went back to the beginning and I prepared again the lemon curd after the first recipe. And, of course, everything was right: consistency and taste. This time I took also pictured so today I can present you the recipe for lemon curd.

Ravioli with wild garlic filling

Yesterday I made for the first time ravioli and I cooked for the first time with wild garlic. 2 things I wanted to do for a long time. Unfortunately, the wild garlic season is always so short...and I do not know where I can pick it. But luckily you can buy it. Last year I did not find any when I decided to cook with it. This year I saw it in the supermarket and bought it right away...safe is safe. And ravioli ... I also wanted to prepare them for ages...I even bought a ravioli mold last summer. I had many ideas for the ravioli…but I just didn’t have the time to cook them. Until yesterday...when I cooked ravioli cooked with wild garlic filling. Oh man... have they tasted good. I will certainly make more often ravioli...even if it is a little time-consuming. But the effort is worth it.

Tomato-mozzarella-basil waffles

It has been months since I last baked waffles. Every time I make some waffles I say I will make them more often. And every time the waffle iron remains unused for a few months. And this even though I still want to try so many recipes: on my list are pizza waffles and Belgian waffles with warm cherries. Today, however, I have a recipe of tomato-mozzarella-basil waffles. These I baked recently and they taste so delicious. They are perfect for breakfast.

Beef tajine with figs and dates

For a few months I am the proud owner of a tajine. Yey! 3 years ago when I saw on Cook'n'Roll the recipe of a lamb tagine I wanted to buy one. The recipe sounded so delicious that I wanted to cook it. But I had no tajine, and I didn’t find one to buy. And after a while I then I just forgot about it…or I just ignored the fact that I wanted to buy one. I don’t have any space in my kitchen for stuff. But you know how it is, some things you can’t forget...and even if I don’t really have any place in my kitchen I had to have the tajine.

Simple sponge donuts

I can’t believe it! I finally managed to bake donuts. You cannot imagine since when I want to bake some. Is it 2 years? Yes, I think so. I even bought a small baking book with donuts recipes. Every time I see on another blog a donuts recipe I say I will bake some in the weekend. But always something else comes in between. Either I bake something else or I do not feel like baking. Or I'm not at home at all. And so time passes. But 2 weeks ago this changed. I wanted to bake something sweet. As I wanted an easy and fast recipe I decided to bake donuts.

Pretzel buns

What do you do if you do not have bread in the house and you are too lazy to go buy some? Exactly, you bake one. This is what happened to me last Sunday. Actually I wanted to go shopping on Saturday, but then I decided to go out for lunch with some friends. I then planned to buy bread on Sunday, but I was too lazy to go out. And so I looked in one of my books to see what I can bake. The decision felt on these pretzel rolls - a simple and relatively fast recipe. Everything has worked well and today I share the recipe with you.