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. […]
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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 […]
Herbs Crust Provençal
The idea for this recipe I got when I was desperately looking for a way to make a fish dish I knew and loved from my childhood in Germany. My mother regularly bought a fish filet with herbs crust called “Bordelaise” or “Provençal”. Maybe you have seen it from different producers in the deep-freezing section […]
Seasoning Mix “Herbes de Provence”
As a child I spent two years in France due to my father’s work for an electronic company. During this time, my mother learned about French cuisine and the herbs used. Later, when we moved back to Germany, besides of the new dishes she has learned to cook, one thing remained in her cooking and […]
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 […]
Mexican Style Tuna Salad
In our family tuna is one of our favorite fishes. One day I saw in a supermarket a canned tuna salad which gave me the idea for this refreshing summer salad. My family and I prefer canned tuna in brine for salads and sandwiches. The oil used in canned tuna has a minor taste at […]
Cretan Villager’s Salad
There are a lot of different recipes for potato salads but this is the best I ever ate. In my childhood I grew up with Swabian potato salad, just containing potatoes, onions, different spices and oil. Since I moved to Crete more than two decades ago, I honestly prefer this one below. Especially on hot […]
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 […]
