Roasted lemon & Brussels sprouts salad wit avocado, toasted walnuts and jammy eggs - a fantastic salad, and a meal of itself, perfect for special occasions, and loved by all. Hello friends! Hello 2019!! I hope the New Year brings you new adventures, excitement and lots of unforgettable memories! I hope it's more peaceful, meaningful, ...
Cheese truffles
Cheese truffles - feta cheese and toasted walnuts, flavored with garlic and caraway, and rolled into delicious, festive-looking, cheesy bites, perfect to serve for the holidays. Today's post will be short and sweet, as all posts around this time of year tend to be. With so many things still left to do, I am feeling completely pressed for ...
Pumpkin strudel
Tikvenik is a traditional Bulgarian pumpkin strudel made of sweet, juicy pumpkin, gently kissed with cinnamon, then tossed with walnuts and rolled into crispy, buttery phyllo dough parcels. Pure, simple, and utterly divine. Nothing spells out fall, quite like the sight and taste of pumpkin! And there is no busier, or more exciting time in ...
Pumpkin sage scones {walnuts + smoked cheese}
Pumpkin sage scones - moist buttery crumb, tender sugary crust, and the most delicious, delicate pumpkin flavor, perfumed with mild sage, nutmeg and cinnamon. Oh, the bliss of biting into a warm, freshly baked, buttery scone, the sugar crust shattering, and the moist, crumbly flesh melting in your mouth...Mmm, it's simply sublime, especially ...
Mushroom and arugula salad {goat cheese and toasted walnuts}
This mushroom and arugula salad with goat cheese, toasted walnuts and celery, tossed in shallot mustard and truffle oil vinaigrette is simply bursting with earthy fall flavors and is super delicious and satisfying. It doesn't feel like fall yet, around here. It feels more like we're in the middle of July, and I couldn't be happier, of ...
Cold cucumber yogurt soup {garlic + walnuts + dill}
Cold cucumber yogurt soup - garlic, walnuts, dill, fresh cucumbers and chilled yogurt make this soup super delicious and quite refreshing on a hot day. As the hot summer days are sluggishly dragging by, making a lazy bum out of all of us, I'm beginning to avoid the kitchen stove, or oven as much as possible, and making hack meals as often as ...
Eggplant dip
Eggplant dip - with only 4 ingredients, this dip is an easy and impressive summer appetizer, and dare I say, better than Baba Ganoush! Dare I say this eggplant dip is better than Baba Ganoush? Oh, yeah - and I fully assume the responsibility for doing so! This is one of my childhood favorites and I had to share it, as over the years I ...
Parsnips with rosemary butter and walnuts
Parsnips with rosemary butter and walnuts - soft, mildly sweet parsnips, and carrots, perfumed with earthy rosemary butter, and toasty walnuts - this a fantastic fall side dish, done in minutes. It's root vegetable season. Root veggies are exciting to work with, and parsnips in particular are a very interesting ingredient. They look ...