For the love of cooking
Since the quarantine started everyone and their mother has been jumping on the sourdough bangwagon. It’s become a near obsession on an international scale. Everywhere I look I see a different recipe for sourdough this or sourdough that. I get it. Sourdough is delicious. I also like sourdough and even […]
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 […]
These apricot & almond tarts cream cheese tarts are another in my puff pastry series, which came about mostly because I bought 7 packages of puff pastry for a party and didn’t use any of them. So over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking of different ways to use […]
This pain au chocolat was made out of necessity. A few weeks ago my husband and I hosted a BBQ for his colleagues and I decided we needed 7 packages of puff pastry – just in case. Not only did we not get through all 7 packages that night, we […]
Traditional Romanian feta pie or plăcintă cu telemea features layers of flaky phyllo dough filled with a creamy mix of feta cheese, yogurt, egg and fresh dill. If you look at variations of this recipe across the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia you see immediately that there […]
These gruyère tarts were a special Friendsgiving treat. Last weekend my husband and I attended our second American Thanksgiving in Amsterdam. Last year we were invited for a very intimate Thanksgiving dinner by our dear friends M and N in Almere – a smaller city about 40 minutes from Amsterdam […]
Just updated with new photos and easier to follow recipe. I’ve been making these white chocolate and pumpkin seed spiced cookies for 5 years and I still can’t get enough. They bring all the warmth of the holidays in a really unconventional way that you have to experience to believe. […]
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.