During his working life, my dad traveled all around the world. When he had some work to do in England he brought back ginger marmalade from Chivers for us as souvenir to try. I really liked it very much! So, during my time at school, I had the chance to visit England a couple of […]
Tag: sweet

Marble Cake – an All-Time Classic
An all time classic, since I can remember. My mother used to make marble cake for almost every Sunday when I was a child. That is why I want to share this recipe. Every food-blogger is posting about the most fancy recipes they cook but I think, it is important to remember once in a […]

Noodles with Chicken and Vegetables
This is my daughters favorite Asian style dish! She first tried it at a take-away noodles snack bar, so she tried to make it at home. The result was really good, even though she for sure didn’t make it exactly the way they do at the snack bar. If you like it more vegetarian you […]

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 […]

A (almost) Gluten free Advocaat cake
This cake I made a few days ago more or less unavoidably because I had an Advocaat in my fridge. This intro may sound strange. But if I tell you that I don’t like Advocaat at all you’ll understand. The first time I got an Advocaat as a present from some friends a few years […]

Marble Cake with Olive Oil and Yogurt
Yesterday I decided to make a marble cake for the weekend. I had everything at home – except butter! So I searched the net to find an idea how to replace butter by olive oil. I found several recipes but non of it would really find my approval. But, at least, it gave me the […]

Honey Cake “Lebkuchen” Muffins
Honey cake is one of the traditional cakes during Christmas time in Germany besides Lebkuchen or Christmas Stollen. Here is one idea to make honey cake as muffin. It is best to prepare them at least one day before eating as they contain typical spices like cardamom, clove, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. As honey I […]

Christmas Stollen Muffins
In Germany Christmas Stollen is the most traditional sweet bread existing. It is a heavy sweet bread loaf traditionally made from butter, yeast, curd, raisins and candied fruit peel. Besides of Lebkuchen it is the most important sweet at Christmas time. The “Dresdner Christstollen” and “Nürnberger Lebkuchen” are the most famous of all. If you […]

Vasilopita – A Traditional Greek New Years Cake
It is tradition in Greece that on New Year’s Day a cake is cut, the so called „Vasilopita “. This is a cake baked with nuts and a lucky coin is hidden inside. First, before cutting the cake, a cross is struck over the cake three times. Then the cake is cut crosswise. The piece […]

Chocolate Pie
There is a commercial in Greece that says “more chocolate is not possible” – this is how I would describe this cake! Everything of this cake is just chocolate! It is sweet, it is juicy and it is chocolate. The first time I had a cake like this was at a long week-end in Sitia […]