These Pecan and Boursin stuffed Dates are the easiest and quickest appetizer. They are easy to assemble and even easier to eat and they go perfectly with a glass of bubbly during holiday entertaining. Almost two decades living in Canada and Christmas is still not my holiday. It’s New Year that’s the most magical time…
Ricotta and Brie Scrambled Eggs
I am away next week in Azores, so there will be no posts, but check out my Instagram for photos of my travels. Confabulation is my new favourite word. I only learned it recently when I read The Confabulist by Steven Galloway. I have a terrible memory, so over the past few days I was wondering if…
Easy Cheese Scones with Thyme
These Easy Cheese Scones are cheesy, savoury, buttery, and flakey. Full of smoked cheese, cream cheese, and herbs, they are a great addition to a cheese platter. Perfect for Mother’s Day Brunch or an afternoon tea. This post contains amazon affiliate links which means if you purchase something after clicking one of those links, I…
Cherry Tomato Tart
It’s interesting how certain recipes and photos just seem to speak your name. The photo of this tart is the reason why I subscribed to Ricardo Magazine a year ago. Ok, this is not the only reason, but it’s one of them. I already wrote how I used to love that magazine a few years…
White Bean and Goat Cheese Savoury Strudel
I’ve been cooking for many years now. But I remember when I was starting out how different it was. I had interest in cooking back when I was very little. I did not help my mom or my grandmas a lot in the kitchen, but when I did it was very exciting for me. Growing…
Farmers Cheese Cookies
When I was little I loved leafing through my mom’s recipe book. I recognized some recipes and some were foreign since I did not remember eating them. Back in Russia (or shall I say Soviet Union) it was quite normal to leave child home alone. It did not happen too often for me, but I…
Jalapeño Poppers Grilled Cheese
Over the last couple of weeks I had two of my posts featured by Finding Vegan. It was my recipe for Vegan Peanut Butter and Banana Muffins and Best-Ever Chocolate Vegan Cake. It was super exciting seeing the spike in visitors and subscribers to my site, my Facebook page and my Twitter account. And now…
Ricotta-Rice Cakes
Oh life, sometimes you get in the way of… hmmm… life… It’s been a busy week at work. Actually, it’s been three really busy weeks at work and there are still a few more frantic weeks to come. The plan was to post this on Thursday, but things happened, not nice words were mumbled, car…
Ricotta-Apple Pancakes
Last weekend I summoned a bunny. Well, I did not really summon it. I have a chalkboard in my kitchen where I write dinner menus and various seasonal notes. So, I decided it was time to put something for Easter and I drew a bunny. An hour or so later, while I was cleaning carrots for the…
{Recipe} Roasted fennel with parmesan
I don’t like liquorice. I mean I really don’t like it. So, knowing that fennel has anise-like taste, I always avoided it. Well, that is until it was part of an antipasto platter at a tiny Italian restaurant. Everything looked so good: beautiful, glistening with oil, roasted peppers, sweet garlic, grilled to perfection eggplant and a…