Autumn is traditionally known as the pumpkin season, but apart from using it for Halloween decoration, I hadn't really used pumpkins in my food that much as I always go for butternut squash. Time for a change so! I decided to try another risotto recipe as I only made 1 recipe before on my blog: Dragon Carrot Risotto from the movie 'The Fault in Our Stars'. It's still to…
The Autumn chills have certainly arrived; the woollen jumpers have come back out and the fireplace has been lit a few nights already but luckily the cold weather also means we can go back to making lovely Autumn stews, soups and other warm comforting foods. Ever since I made my Certified Irish Hereford Prime Beef Salad I had been waiting for Autumn to hit so I could make another…
I must admit I'm one of those typical Belgians who just love their chips. Love love love! Every time I go home to visit my family, it's the first thing I eat: chips from my local town's chipper. So for me to venture out away from traditional potato chips is quite a big thing, but these last few months I've been eating sweet potato chips more often than regular potato…
One of my favourite salads lately is my very own chicken caesar salad. It's a bit of a twit on the original one, as I also add grapes to it, but other than that I stick to all the common ingredients. When it comes to the chicken though, I stopped using chicken fillets, but have switched to roasting my own chicken for dinner, then using the leftovers for my lunch.…
It's awful to say but when I used to make brownies, I used to always go for a ready made mix where you only needed to add butter and water. But ever since it turned out I can't have wheat or dairy, I have had to step it up and make my own recipe from scratch! It wasn't really that much of a challenge as it's so easy to substitute…
Confession: This recipe for what we call 'Witloof' in Belgium is one that I've had for years, I even took the photos of it a long while ago but there was only one thing stopping me from sharing it with you all this time: Belgian endive, also called chicory in the UK, isn't grown in Ireland (correct me if i'm wrong though) and you can only find imported ones. The…
When I first bought my pasta machine I was all ‘oh yeah I’ll be making my own pasta every week!’. Nope. It was one of the first things I moved to Ireland and yet I haven’t used it in the last 2,5 years. So when I decided to make my own pasta again, I didn’t just go for the easier ones, nope I went straight for coloured and filled ravioli!…