Crazy about Japan (and my first guest post)
on Nov 18, 2009 in vegetables asian tofu recipes What do you think about Japanese cuisine? Do you hate it? Love it? Or maybe you have just never tried anything else apart from sushi? I don’t know if I have never mentioned it (if I don’t, I am doing it now), but I am in love with Japa...

Cauliflower and green peas dry curry (T&T)
on Nov 13, 2009 in indian vegetables blog event recipes I have been a cauliflower hater most of my life. I hated all about it: the taste, the color and specially the smell. I remember that when I was little, I couldn’t stand arriving at home from school and smelling this thing — just mentio...

Curried rice and red lentils with Brussels sprouts
on Nov 7, 2009 in vegetables grains lentils recipes Fall is definitively here. The wind is already cold and gusts on morning and afternoons, and you only want to stay at home with you cup of hot tea (or coffee, or herbal tea. I would like to be so healthy, but I can’t). I fancy again hot porr...

Vietnamese Dessert Pudding with White Beans and Sticky Rice in Coconut Milk
on Oct 18, 2009 in grains beans breakfast asian desserts recipes It seems like I’m not the only one who has got a food blogger’s block, judging by the last post of The Sophisticated Gourmet (who despite having a food blogger’s block, has cooked some New York-style bagels that look more than a...

Pumpkin & sweet potatoes stew with white beans
on Oct 10, 2009 in vegetables beans stews recipes Do you like fall and winter vegetables? I do. I think I even like them more than summer veggies.  Pumpkins, sweets potatoes, Brussels sprouts, beets, artichokes, chestnuts…. If you love them too, you will like today’s recipe: pu...

Creamy Pumpkin soup with cashews
on Sep 25, 2009 in vegetables travelling Russia tofu soup recipes It’s curious how a person can live several years in a country, and don’t go out from the city where he or she lives.  I have lived in Moscow until the age of seven, and I have never been to St. Petersburg…until this summer...

Orange Garam Masala Bundt cake and Moscow parks
on Sep 20, 2009 in baked goods travelling Russia recipes I think I deserve applause: I have survived my first week of school! After three month of doing nothing (reading doesn’t count as work for me), I assure you that it was not easy. This week has been very different from my usual summer weeks:&...

Pelmeni recipe and some photos from Russia
on Sep 10, 2009 in fake meat travelling Russia recipes My diet while I was on holidays was not an exemplar one: although usually I had a good breakfast, my lunch and dinner were disastrous. I skipped lunch many times, or substituted it with a couple or three of sorbets: ice cream is incredibly cheap a...

I'm back ...with some onion crackers
on Sep 1, 2009 in appetizers blog event travelling Russia recipes Back to the routine! Or almost, because luckily am not at school yet: It will start in two weeks. Ugh! It will take me some time to get used to it again: getting up at 6:00 AM (although now I get up more or less at the same time, at least I know...

The most beautiful underground in the world
on Aug 23, 2009 in travelling Russia Or at least is the most beautiful I have ever seen. Some stations look more like a palace than like an underground station. Columns and walls made of marmol, relief pictures on the walls and chandeliers are common elements. On weekdays you can have s...