Who doesn’t enjoy some baked potatoes with a nice sauce? Personally, I love it. The smell and taste of baked potatoes is so good while playing with different sauces is so much fun. The trick to preparing the best baked potatoes is to boil them for few minutes. It helps to keep them soft and…
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Mushroom risotto – the perfect comfort food
Mushroom risotto is one of my favorite comfort foods. The combination of creamy risotto with mushrooms has some kind of magic in it. It complements very well grilled meats and chicken but stands perfectly also on its own. As every type of risotto, it is a labor of love. Cook it with love and with…
Green goodness- my favourite guacamole
As soon as I hear the word “avocado”, I can speak for hours on how healthy, tasty, beautiful it is and in many ways of using it. My favorite ever avocado recipe is this guacamole with pistachio. I can have it for breakfast on toasted integral bread, for lunch as a side dish to chicken…
Red wine liquor – tradition at its best
I love learning about traditional recipes and experimenting with them. They are paths to the past and make me understand and love Albanian culture and culinary even more. Red wine liquor is one of the recipes I’ve had so much fun with, because, you know, it includes wine. It’s practically wine, cooked with sugar and cloves…
Banana and cocoa muffins
Chocolate Banana Muffins are rich, moist, and taste similar to a chocolate cupcake, but luckily they are on the healthier side, containing less sugar and fat. They are healthy enough for breakfast and good enough for dessert! Their biggest fan is my youngest sister, who pushed me to try them in the first place. What…
Homemade Caramel Sauce
Caramel is a beige to dark-brown sauce made by heating a variety of sugars with butter and cream. It is the perfect sauce for ice cream, cakes, cheesecakes, as a filling for chocolate cups, or just to eat it straight from the jar with a spoon. It is easy and fun to make and can…
Spinach, mint and pistachio pesto
I’ve told you how much I love pesto and how easy is to make it at home. I always make big batches and keep it in the fridge for months. But the basil season is over, and I finished my pesto stock too early this year, so I had to come up with a new…
Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin pie is one of the most popular autumn dishes. There are many varieties sweet and savory that are traditionally cooked in Albania, but they all require filo dough. Since filo dough is a bit time consuming to make, I prefer going with the western version that is made with pie crust. It is still…
Blondies – the heart winner dessert
Blondies is the ultimate irresistible dessert. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like it. Looks like the combination of walnuts with vanilla and white chocolate wins the hearts of all. I’ve tried several blondies recipes before, but the one from Food52 is the winner. I’ve made very few changes to the original recipe, which better satisfy…