For the love of cooking
Jamaican beef patties are savoury hand pies filled with super aromatic spiced ground beef wrapped in flaky golden pastry. If you’ve never had one you’re missing out on a world class taste experience up there with the samosa and burek. Beef patties have a quintessentially Jamaican flavour profile featuring the […]
Homemade phyllo dough stuffed with slow roasted caramelized cabbage is a really tasty plant-based treat that makes a great snack or meal. The dough is tried and true – you can use it to make these phyllo spirals or to make flaky cabbage stuffed savoury pancakes. Cabbage Phyllo Spiral Ingredients […]
With just 5 ingredients and 10 minutes of prep time, this tomato and goat cheese galette makes an elegant statement for very little time and effort. If you like this you may also like these other puff pastry recipes: Apricot & Almond Cream Cheese Tarts Gruyère Tarts with Thyme, Mushrooms […]
This chana aloo masala pie has creamy and aromatic curried chickpeas and potatoes wrapped in a savoury pie crust and baked to golden perfection. As with many things that come out of my kitchen, this was wholly improvised and borne of a bunch of random odds and ends bound for […]
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 impromptu pumpkin and candied walnut pie was a journey in improvisation in the kitchen. This is how it came to be. Earlier this week I wrote about my disastrous lunchtime grocery shopping trip last Wednesday. One of the ill-begotten goods I picked up on my ill-fated trip was a […]
The other night I was in a particularly crave-y mood. I wanted meat and potatoes meets spice. I happened to remember these Wholly Wholesome pie crusts I picked up from Whole Foods and the samosa pie was born. When I was preparing it it felt totally wrong, like a terrible […]
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.