Recipes against wanderlust and homesickness
For holidays, special occasions or moments of “just because”.
There is something very personal and meaningful about a gift that you took the time to make yourself.
Authentic Polish aged strawberry cordial, with an intense strawberry flavor, brilliant color, and perfect clarity. It is best served chilled with or as a dessert. You can also mix it with sparkling water and serve it as a light and fruity alcoholic drink.
Easy granola recipe with a variety of nuts, seeds and dried fruit.
These Italian double-baked biscuits are best dipped in espresso or coffee.
Advent is the time of baking cookies. This tradition dates back to a time when baking ingredients like sugar, spices, almonds, dates, and other dried fruit and nuts were unaffordable and such a luxury that the little biscuits were only made and consumed in the wintertime to sweeten the anticipation for Christmas. Most of the […]
Make it at home and enjoy this unique drink at Christmas and in the winter season.
Use them for decorating a variety of desserts and for serving with ice cream.
The natural sweetness of ripe Italian plums (in Poland known as węgierki, literally Hungarians) blends perfectly with the earthy, pungent aroma and spicy flavor of fresh ginger and the sweet, woody fragrance of cinnamon. Since ginger has a very strong flavor, I suggest that you add it gradually, spoon by spoon, to match your taste. […]
A New York classic, these iconic cookies are more like flat cakes coated with chocolate icing on one half and vanilla on the other. They are best eaten within 24 hours of baking when the cake is at its softest. But if you store them in an airtight container at room temperature, they’ll be good […]
Marzipan chocolates are a delicious treat, especially if they are homemade. It’s so easy, you just have to try. And if you like marzipan chocolates as much as I do you will also like my German marzipan potatoes.
Alongside saffron, vanilla is probably the world’s most expensive spice. This is mostly due to the elaborate cultivation and maturing process of vanilla and also to its undisputed popularity. The fragrant aroma of fresh vanilla enhances and refines many desserts and sweet dishes. But what to do with the scraped pod? It’s too good to throw […]