Cooking School # 2: Panna Cotta

I was on a business trip the last few days and it is always great to get back home. The feeling is especially touching to my heart when Soeren and Tom pick me up and Soeren runs into my arms saying how much he missed me! Coming home is really...

Blog Day

It's Blog Day today. Time for everyone taking part to feature 5 new blogs they have recently discovered. I love the concept of this as it brings more exposure to other blogs and also extends our own blog roll.I discovered plenty of new blogs...

Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes

Pancakes are really the perfect all-rounders, not to mention that they are whipped up in jiffy. Rolled as an appetizer, in a soup, as a main course or of course as a dessert, these lovely fluffy flat cakes made out of the basic flour, egg and...

The Party

Colored Creativity - on Explore, August 24, 2006. View my entire Explore PhotostreamA birthday party for a four year old can be so much of fun, this 34 year old just has to admit.We had planned to have Soeren's party in a playground in the...

Happy Birthday Soeri!

I am pretty sure that parents around the world will relate to my next comment "Boy! that went by fast!" It really has gone by fast. I still remember the days when he was just a few days/weeks/months old. Now, he's four years old and oh! so...

Cheese Quesadillas with Two Salsas - Fruity and Spicy

You all are really great! Not only do you all actively take part and enjoy these teasers of mine, but most of you guess, more or less correctly. More or less. Yes, the Salsa was correct. The tricky one however was the other one, right? Yes,...

Meeta Experiments: Veal "Vilanese" and a Peas and Lettuce Salad

"What's for lunch, Mum?""Ummm ... Veal Vilanese!""Veal Vilanese? What is that?""What's for lunch, Soeri?""Mum says Veal Vilanese!""Veal Vilanese? What's that?""I'm experimenting with a new idea!"A typical lunch time conversation at our place!I...

The Challenge Has Been Accepted

Being the host of the BPW I thought I would just randomly select 6 bloggers and send them some "homemade" postcards. One, was my lovely friend Ivonne. Ivonne always leaves me in awe with her vibrant photos and gorgeous Italian food. I thought...

Spicy Avocado Chili Burgers!

Tell me something? Does this ever happen to you?You are paging through a cookbook, magazine or surfing through the blogs and you see a picture that literally jumps out at you. A picture of something so divine looking and scrumptious that you...

Postcards ....

Well, well, well! Some of you lovely bloggers also gave a thought to me while sending out postcards. The last week I have been getting a few of them spilling into my mailbox! I have to tell you that all these postcards has left my mail lady...

Coq au Coco - Chicken Curry in Sate Sauce

We love Thai food! The combinations of the fresh ingredients and herbs with the spiciness of the curries is so soothing to the soul.On the weekends I enjoy taking time and preparing a good hearty meal. And very often I let my imagination take...

Cooking School: Gnocchi in Sage Garlic Butter

A few of my recipes come from those wonderful magazines you find in front of the cashier's in grocery stores. While waiting in the queue I pick one up and flip through the pages. I always end up buying these. In one I found a wonderful recipe...

Monthly Mingle #3 - Round-Up

Wonderful recipes this time round. The beat the heat theme really made you all so creative and you came up with gorgeous cooling recipes.First, I thank you for your patience. This time I had to postpone the round-up as I decided to hold the...

Explore for the weekend!

Eleven photos on Explore and counting! Which one do you like best?1. Strawberry Yogurt Ice Cream, 2. Pretty In Pink, 3. Butterfly Butterfly, 4. Summer Berries Blueberries, 5. Sugar Beet Molasses, 6. A trio of sauces, 7. Upton in Balck and white,...

Monthly Mingle #4 - Holiday Cuisine

July/August is mostly the time of year when people start packing their bags for a week or two and head off to some dream destination. A long awaited holiday in a far off place. Relaxing on a beautiful beach and soaking up the sun in the Seychelles,...

Pretty in Pink - Strawberry Yoghurt Ice Cream

Music that helped me cook: Salam Namaste from the film Salam Namaste starring Preety Zintha and Saif Ali KhanWhat better way to beat the heat than a nice cooling and refreshing ice cream. In Germany we were having an amazing heatwave the past...

Photo Session: Still Life With ... Sugar

Another month gone by and the challenge in the potography group this time round was sugar. Not desserts or anything down that way, but sugar in the sense of honey, syrups, icing sugar etc. Each group memebr can enter 3 photos depicting this...