Sweet potato is one of my favorite things – I the sweet earthy flavor and their versatality! You can use sweet potatoes in everything from curries, tacos, salads and other savory recipes, to sweets like pies and cakes, like the…
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I had a bunch of bananas in the fruit basket that were so ripe they were completely black – in other words, perfect for banana bread! I decided to play around with a recipe I had created for banana…
The Italian kitchen has inspired cultures all across the world, and today there are Italien restaurants and pizerias in pretty much every little town and village in the west. The Italian sweets however haven’t been quite as successful, despite…
It’s been about a year since I first made these raw brownies, and although I have tried lots of other raw brownie recipes and variations since, this one is still one of my favorites. It’s easy to make, quick…
Last spring I started playing around with using green tea in my baking. Matcha tea was particularly fun, and I d it in baked goods like cakes and muffins. Matcha is a green Japanese powderered tea in which often…
Finally raspberries are plentiful and cheap at the markets, and some lucky ones (not me unfortunately) are even able to enjoy their own fresh raspberries from their garden for free! I had a bunch of raspberries at home that I…
Rhubarb and strawberries must be one of the most icious and classic flavor combinations that can simply never go wrong. When I was creating some rhubarb recipes for a food magazine feature in february this year it was (as…
This week has been pretty rough, and at times I have felt like everything is going against me. Even the weather has been depressing. On days like these it’s important to have something to cheer yourself up with, like…
Being brought up in Sweden, the concept of “fika” is incredibly important to me (just like it is for every other Swede). Fika is a Swedish term that means something similar to the English “tea time”, or the basic meaning “to…