Originally posted in May 2011 , but I'm bumping this up again, as the local asparagus season has began. The photo above was taken by Ju...

Some seven years ago, when my dear K. and I met for a long weekend date in Paris. One morning we had a late breakfast at  Bread & Rose...

What's your favourite zucchini/courgette dish this year? I'm still harvesting a good-sized zucchini or two every few days, and ...

Originally posted here . A well-known (and much-hated) garden pest, ground-elder ( Aegopodium podagraria , also known as bishop's w...

Västerbotten is an excellent hard cow's milk cheese from Sweden that reminds me (and many others) of a good youngish Parmiggiano Regg...

Cooksister's Jeanne is hosting this month's Monthly Mingle , and she chose topless tarts as the theme. She's one cheeky food...

Are you familiar with the Italian Taleggio cheese ? Originally made in and named for Val Taleggio near the Swiss-Italian border, this soft...

Have you got a glass of pickled beets lurking in the back of your fridge? If yes, then you could use them for making this colourful and lo...

I guess you gathered from yesterday's tomato posting that we're swamped with tomatoes this year. That means lots of tomato dishes...

Ever since I enjoyed my first tuna-filled Galician turnover, empanada gallega , on a hillside picnic about an hour's drive from Madrid l...

Decisions, decisions. A week or two ago I was staring at a pile of yellow chantarelle mushrooms and a bunch of young orange carrots in my fr...

While we're still eating lots of strawberries (yes, the season is still going strong here), then here's something savoury for a chan...

I'm not even trying to pretend that this is my recipe. It's Delia's , of course. I've only very, very slightly played around...

I really wanted to save this post for Christmas, as it'd be perfect for the festive season, but wasn't able to. You see, some of y...

Yes, I'm amazed what a difference a spice makes. Of course I knew that dusting some cinnamon on my apple pie or cumin on my carrot mash ...

Feta cheese and spinach are a match made in heaven. I'm yet to get tired of this combination, and I hope that neither have you, as I...

Me and my never-ending supply of beetroot recipes, eh? Here's an incredibly simple recipe that I made on Monday night, when a computer g...

UPDATE 22.8.2007 One of my Estonian readers tried this pie and really liked it. You can see her photo here . ***** I posted the above teaser...

On a gorgeous Sunday in early May K. and I walked along the paths of my - sorry, our - childhood summers . Literally. And during that walk...

I've never met Rosmariini (= Rosemary = she) & Pippurimylly (= Pepper Mill = he), the couple behind the Finnish-language Pastanjauha...