Chicken Filet with Honey Mustard Sauce and Tarragon

by Elisabeth Duckeck A few days ago, we visited one of our favorite restaurants, where I tried this dish for the first time. It was absolutely delicious, and I immediately told my daughter that I would definitely try to recreate this restaurant recipe at home. Today was the day to test it out—and it turned…

Creamy Salmon Stew with Tagliatelle

One of my favorite fishes is salmon. Also, because there are a lot of possibilities to prepare it: steamed, fried, smoked a.s.o. This dish is one of my daughter’s favorite. You can use deep-freeze or fresh salmon fillet but make sure that it is without skin. In some of my recipes you may find some…

Neapolitan Sauce

The Neapolitan is a basic sauce that goes with almost every pasta dish and can be varied with lots of other ingredients like minced meat, tuna, salmon etc. You can buy it ready in the supermarkets. I wouldn’t call my website “Cooking without flavor enhancers” if I didn’t publish my own recipe here as well….

Breaded Parmesan Chicken Fillet with Mozzarella and Sauce Neapolitan

This is a really tasty but light way to make breaded chicken fillets. It’s worth trying out. You even will eat the remaining meat cold… if anything remains at all! My daughter has cooked it for the first time on one of her days off from her studies, and I let her try out her…

Fried Noodles with Vegetables – Two Ways

My daughter loves Asian style noodles. Unfortunately, during lock-down for one year by now, her favorite take-away Noodle-bar is closed. So we decided to cook it ourselves. Once per week, when she has the morning off from her online university lectures, she likes to try out different new Asian dishes and cooks for all of…

Pastitsio – a Greek classic

Pastitsio is one of the most tasty classic dishes in Greek cuisine, must also one of the most rich in calories! Still, there is not one housewife, Greek tavern or tourist hotel not serving this fantastic food. There are many different recipes for Pastitsio, as every cook has his own way of preparing it. But…

Colorful Pasta with Fresh Vegetables

Dieticians often say that it is not the pasta having lots of calories but the sauce. Well, this colorful pasta dish will blow your mind and even your children will love it. You can use any kind of pasta you like. White pasta, whole wheat, tricolor… Penne, Fussili, Spirelli… You can make it vegetarian or…

Vegetable Lasagna

This vegetarian lasagna even meat-lovers will lick their fingers! First time I made it, even my children said to re-make it one day. It contains lots of fresh vegetables, but in the combination you won’t miss the meat. As lasagna pasta I prefer the ones without precooking. Therefore you will need enough liquid from the…