For the love of cooking
Two poached eggs over a bed of creamy garlic and herb yogurt topped with Aleppo pepper butter and a garlic and herb infusion and served with half a roasted aubergine, smokey aubergine puree, and arugula dressed with a simple lemon tahini dressing. This is Çilbir or Turkish poached eggs and […]
These Spanish style cheese scones with smokey paprika, leek and black olives are made using a traditional English scone recipe that’s been jazzed up with the flavours of Spain. They’re soft and high with a flavourful interior and crispy outer shell – great for eating as is or top with […]
A sweet potato shakshuka spiced with the homemade Ethiopian berbere spice blend that I made last weekend for Ethiopian lasagna. The sweet and spice flavours play nicely with tangy tomatoes and fresh cracked eggs. It’s complemented by a side of homemade garlic butter naan to scoop it all up with. […]
I made this delicious savoury french toast with foods that in many homes would end up in the discard pile. Stale bread and moldy cheese with just a few other simple ingredients. Using up stale bread is easy enough. There are so many amazing uses for stale bread (homemade breadcrumbs, […]
This savoury Dutch baby that I made for brunch this weekend was inspired by an Italian romance. I promise the pictures don’t do it justice, so I invite you to please read on and maybe you’ll also fall in love with this combination of tastes like I did. Last week […]
Sometimes we get very firm ideas in our minds about what foods should be savoury and what foods should be sweet. Take for example chocolate. Chocolate is usually seen as sweet in our collective imagination, that is until it’s put into a Mexican mole sauce and served (savoury) alongside steak […]
I made this shakshuka khachapuri for brunch on a weekend. It was a kitchen experiment more than anything else, but it turned out to be a pretty good one. It combines two great food traditions – the wildly popular shakshuka of Israel and the Middle East, and khachapuri, the lesser […]
I made this really simple eggplant shakshuka last weekend. The poaching sauce is onion, garlic, crushed tomato, diced red pepper, cubed eggplant, fresh herbs and dried spices. I cracked a few eggs into the poaching liquid and while they were cooking I threw together a quick minted zucchini slaw for […]
Hi and welcome. I'm Cristina and I started this blog to share my love of being in the kitchen. I was born in Romania, grew up in Toronto, lived in the US for 3 years, and now live in Amsterdam. I also love to travel and learn about culinary practices in different places. My cooking is a reflection of all the international influences in my background. I see food as the ultimate way to connect beyond our differences.