Despite my desire to try new things in the kitchen, I feel very lucky for not having serious food allergies and also for not having to give up gluten or dairy[...]

I sometimes look at photos of my sister as a kid and my eyes tear up a little bit – I miss those days, she was a fun, smart kid, it was great being[...]

There was some beer left from Nigella’s spectacular cake , and I started looking for a good recipe to use it in. I froze part of the beer for another day[...]

I am so predictable. I am, really. As I told you last week , I put the mobsters and gangs aside for a while and started watching Downton Abbey – I[...]

The World Cup has been a lot of fun, there have been some great matches and I think that soccer aficionados around the world have been biting their nails like[...]

Another trailer for Gone Girl has been released , and it is fantastic – one can count on David Fincher to set that kind of dark mood in a two-minute[...]

Soups and winter go perfectly together, right? I make soups quite often during the colder months, and when I do I usually make a large batch so we can have it[...]

During the time I was out of the loop of TV series I did not care much about the Emmys and while watching the Golden Globes I would focus only on the movie[...]

Despite my love for fish I don’t eat it as often as I should or would like to, which is such a shame – if my mom was around she would certainly be[...]

These past weeks, in which I have been experimenting with my baking and adding more vegetables to my cooking, have been a lot of fun: once you start trying new[...]

As I was baking these cookies the other day, I recalled a time in my life when I was entering my teenage years and used to flip over my older cousins’[...]

I was never an athletic child: while my brother and cousins liked being outside playing soccer or riding their bikes, I much preferred being inside, reading my[...]

You’ve probably noticed by now that I’ve been using olive oil in my baking quite regularly and with great results – it makes the cakes[...]

I know, I know, there’s nothing “healthy” about whisky, but I believe that there is nothing wrong with adding a bit of alcohol to your[...]

While going through the links saved on my Delicious last week searching for much needed inspiration, I saw these lemon bars I’d seen weeks before –[...]