Pumpkin pie is a Thanksgiving classic and I think I never tried it, let alone baked it before I met Ryan. My pie knowledge was limited to apple pie and pecan pie, but pumpkin was a complete novelty to me. I had no idea what it tasted like! So it comes to no surprise that…
Cranberry sauce
I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner about 6 years ago after I met Ryan. It was his first Thanksgiving in UK and our first together so I wanted to impress him by cooking the whole dinner from scratch!! I had never cooked cranberry sauce, sweet potato mash or pumpkin pie before so I had to…
Cranberry Mocktail
I am not a big fan of alcoholic drinks, so while I would never decline a good glass of bubbles, I am not a big cocktails drinker. As we are entering the Holiday Season , I was looking for a nice festive drink to serve as a pre-dinner aperitif. I was considering a few options…
Festive roasted nuts
If nuts can be an addition, then this spicy roasted nuts are my festive addiction! These are sweet, salty and spicy and you get a punch from the various spices as you eat them, it’s a true journey of flavours! I like snacking on nuts! Almond and walnuts are my favourite ones and I always…
My Minestrone
Minestrone is the ultimate comfort food and an amazing way to clean the fridge! I make it regularly during the winter season and the ingredients tend to change depending on what vegetables I have in the fridge. Usually my minestrone has a a mix of vegetables, few pulses, at least one cereal, a mix of…
Pumpkin Pancakes
Pancakes are our favourite weekend brunch food, I love their thickness and richness and the fact that you can make them as healthy or indulgent as you want. I make them often, when friends are visiting, for birthday breakfasts or simple because I feel like it. Since last weekend was Halloween, it seemed a good…
Italian Sourdough Grissini
Grissini is the ultimate Italian snack! As a child I used to pretend grissini were cigarettes and eat them as if I was smoking them. Something that can seem horrifying to most people nowadays buy hey those were the eighties!! Grissini are often served in restaurants together with bread and are usually the first thing…
Halloween Crostata
It’s Halloween weekend and with pumpkins, witches and spiders all around we decided to join in and bake a Halloween crostata. The crostata has a chocolate base and uses two types of jam, raspberry jam and apricot compote. We used the extra dough to make a spider with its web to decorate the crostata and…
Blueberries Oat Muffins
Blueberries are one of my favourite breakfast berries, I love them with bircher muesli and granola, on toast with almond butter, in smoothies, on pancakes and, obviously, in muffins. There was a time in my life when I had a sort of addiction to Starbucks blueberry muffins. The addiction shifted to the rise and shine…
Pumpkin Lasagna
It’s October and as Autumn settles in I love the copper colours on the trees, the crunchy noise of the leaves on the pavement when you step on them, and the smell in the air and my kitchen. It’s open season for pumpkins, mushrooms, chestnuts and spices! Pumpkin is particularly typical of this time of…
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