Healthy Living Challenge: Day 36 – Happy Romanian Easter week!
I know, I know, even my blog didn’t recognise me as its owner today and needed me to sign in. Total neglect would be the feeling it would have, if blogs had their own feelings Anyway, I am back to say...
View ArticleMy first ever pumpkin pie!
You must know this by now about me as I have said it so many times: I LOVE autumn and everything that is associated with it! When I still lived in Romania I loved the leaves changing colour and falling...
View ArticleCheat’s Cinnamon Rolls
Good evening, everyone, a late post tonight but I promise you, a yummy one once again The Brick Castle gave me the inspiration for this one on Monday. I do love cinnamon rolls but I find the bought in...
View ArticleEmma’s Halloween Buns
Halloween week, can you believe it? This autumn has flown in for me, I can’t believe I have less than 3 months left of this pregnancy! Well, it’s also half-term officially. Emma will be going to...
View ArticleCheese Scones
Tonight’s recipe is inspired by the cheddar scone recipe in The Colman’s Mustard Cookbook but as usual, I decided to change a few things here and there, just to make things a bit more interesting...
View ArticleChicken skewers and beetroot salad
So we were in Dublin at the weekend. Greek hubby wanted to sample some home delicacies at one of the Greek restaurants we frequent when in Dublin but because he is such a fusspots food connoisseur,...
View ArticleRomanian Apple Pie
Pregnant women and cravings? Definitely, in my case! I had some weird cravings recently: on Saturday I was seized by an indomitable desire for…hotdogs. I had to have them and I had to have them FAST!...
View ArticleKourabiedes(Greek Butter Cookies)
It’s December and I have started getting the Christmas buzz! I decorated our living room on Sunday and today I decided to make some Greek cookies. I was introduced to kourabiedes as an Erasmus student...
View ArticleChristmas Baking: Melomakarona
For me, Christmas in Greece equals two desserts: Kourabiedes, which featured on my blog last week and got me an order from as far as Greece (!!) and Melomakarona, or walnut syrupy biscuits. So this...
View ArticleJamie Oliver’s carrot cake
I have had a soft spot for Jamie Oliver(the cook!) ever since he ran his TV series on healthy eating. I used to watch him when he had his 30 minute-meal series, back in the day of no kids and plenty of...
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