Lavender bread crown for magic autumn days
Appetizers, Breads and pies, Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner, Lunch, Mediterranean Cuisine, Recipes, Simply Transylvania, Transylvanian Food Reinvented, Vegetarian Food | October 2, 2017 | Views: 13,196
I have the strange feeling that I just blinked and the Summer was gone. Actually the Autumn is here for a pretty long time already, even in our little corner […]Read More
Labneh, for a great waist line
Appetizers, Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner, Fast & Simple dish, Mediterranean Cuisine, Middle Eastern Cuisine, Recipes, Sauces & Dips, Snacks, Tapas, Vegetarian Food | September 30, 2017 | Views: 8,233
I know I was gone way too long for the law to approve, but I was so caught with my work and everything that I forgot completely about this blog. […]Read More
Roasted pepper hummus and a fantastic story about the beginning of March
Appetizers, Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner, Fast & Simple dish, Legendary Transylvania, Lunch, Middle Eastern Cuisine, Oriental Cuisine, Recipes, Sauces & Dips, Simply Transylvania, Snacks, Vegetarian Food | March 2, 2016 | Views: 11,562
March the 1 st is a special day around here. Not only because the spring finds again a place in the calendars’ of the new year, but also because with […]Read More
Light deviled eggs with cottage cheese
Appetizers, Breakfast, Brunch, Courses, Eggs, Fast & Simple dish, I`d have some..., Lunch, Mediterranean Cuisine, Recipes, Tapas, Transylvanian Cuisine, Transylvanian Food Reinvented, Vegetarian Food | February 2, 2016 | Views: 11,211
Butter, canned pork or chicken pate, the egg yolks, salt, pepper and home made mayonnaise is the classic Transylvanian recipe for deviled eggs. They taste good. Really good. And I […]Read More
Polenta, vegetables and eggs – a happy triangle
Brunch, Courses, Dinner, Eggs, Fast & Simple dish, I`d have some..., Lunch, Recipes, Transylvanian Cuisine, Transylvanian Food Reinvented, Vegetarian Food | January 28, 2016 | Views: 9,601
If you’d say that polenta, ”mămăligă”, as we call it around here, is our national food, you’ll make no mistake. I don’t speak for the rest of the country, but […]Read More
The simply beautiful, Tuna Mousse with Harissa powder
Appetizers, Brunch, Fast & Simple dish, Fish, Recipes, Snacks, Tapas, Transylvanian Cuisine, Transylvanian Food Reinvented | January 27, 2016 | Views: 8,255
As an Eastern European, I was born and spent a big part of my childhood in communism. Those years are an important part of Transylvania’s history and existence, too. And […]Read More
Cilbir Eggs and why I quit my job
Breakfast, Brunch, Courses, Eggs, Fast & Simple dish, International Cuisine, Lunch, Mediterranean Cuisine, Oriental Cuisine, Recipes, Vegetarian Food | January 25, 2016 | Views: 7,779
These past few weeks were a bit strange for me. Mostly because in the last part of December I quit my job, as a journalist at the local newspaper I […]Read More
Lettuce cream soup (almost) as my grandmother used to do it
Brunch, Lunch, Recipes, Soups, Transylvanian Food Reinvented | January 18, 2016 | Views: 7,280
When she was young, I believe my grandmother was a beautiful woman with her blue-grey eyes and the long blond hair braided in tails, and even she left our world […]Read More
Eggplant salad, Transylvanian style
Appetizers, Brunch, Fast & Simple dish, Recipes, Salads, Transylvanian Food Reinvented, Vegetarian Food | January 16, 2016 | Views: 16,227
I have no idea why I’ve chosen the eggplant salad for my first recipe here, but I guess this happened because the Christmas is not gone for long, nor the […]Read More
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My name is Alexandra, I am in my mid 30's, I am a former journalist in love with dancing (as I've studied classical ballet for 10 years) and cooking.I've discovered my passion for cooking about 4 years ago, and my love for spices helped me explore new flavors and ways of cooking.
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