Healthy Moussaka Revisited – A Lighter Take on the Greek Classic

Moussaka Revisited: Discover how to make a healthier, high-protein take on the traditional Greek classic. This lighter version skips the deep-frying but keeps all the authentic flavor—featuring a fluffy Béchamel sauce and under 430 calories per serving!

Fried Salmon Fillet on Creamed Spinach with Spicy French Fries

by Elisabeth Duckeck My daughter and I have been to a restaurant lately and fell in love with this dish. That is why we wanted to try it out ourselves at home, and here is the result. While the restaurant version was fantastic, I wanted to recreate it at home using only fresh ingredients—completely free…

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…

Homemade Sweet Chili Sauce

Sweet Chili Sauce is one of our favorite sauces. Especially for Asian dishes like Noodles with chicken and vegetables it goes very well. Usually I buy a sauce from my local supermarket… until I looked at the ingredients of the our favorite sauce, and I found it not difficult to make it myself. The one…