Strawberry Courgette Cupcakes

  June is a strawberry month in England. You get tasty strawberries in all the shops but sometimes I drive out to a farm to pick them myself. Strawberry picking always reminds me of the summer holidays when my cousin, sisters and I used to do this with our grandmother. The farm I go to here […]

Lemon Pie

I’m a fan of a good lemon pie… In New York my favourite lemon pie is from a shop called Four & Twenty Blackbirds in Brooklyn. Their lemon pie features a crispy pastry with a generous amount of a tangy lemon filling and is tastiest when eaten with a little bit of whipped cream on […]

Swedish Chocolate Cake ‘Kladkakka’

As I’m off on holiday tomorrow, I should probably be packing right now rather than blogging but I got a new receipe yesterday that I wanted to try out straight away.  I have been after for a while as it’s one of my favourite treats at a Swedish Café that I go to a lot […]

Cheese Blintzes

Next week is pancake day in England! This reminded me that it’s about time I put up another pancake receipe and here you are. As I was looking through my fridge to see what kind of pancakes I could make, I found some ricotta and decided I would use it to make some cheese blintzes […]

Chicken and Waffles

Maybe my first post in a new year should maybe have been some sort of healthy, detoxifying dish to balance out the recent holiday season with all it’s chocolate, cookies and big family meals. But then I got a new waffle maker for Christmas. That combined with me and an American friend reminiscing about the American […]