Another dinner party for my group of (kinda crazy) friends and yet another invention. It is another take on roasted pepper soup but this time cold and spicy! I was serving the dinner on one of the hottest days of the year (or so I hope that it would not get any hotter this year!),
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Ratatouille is the star dish in a kids movie about a very talented rat, who becomes a chef. In the movie, a famous food critique remembers his mom’s ratatouille and appreciates the classic French dish prepared from whatever veggies were found in the kitchen that day. This is exactly what it is – whatever summer veggies
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This simple and warming soup is perfect for a cold evening, be this autumn, winder or springtime. It does take a lot of peppers, but the more, the more flavor it will have. So don’t be surprised that it take at least 0.5 kg of peppers per a small bowl!

Papadrons are small green peppers that we found during our Spanish holidays (I know I mention them a lot, but it was such a wonderful time!), it’s an equivalent of Russian roulette – one in a handful is very spicy, while the rest is very mild. And you really can’t tell until you put them
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Halloumi is a traditional cheese coming from Cyprus made with a mix of sheep and goat milk. Unlike most cheeses it barely melts so it is very good for grilling or frying. This time however in a baked version, which is not only pretty with the red and white layers, but also very tasty and
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I don’t know whether this is how they eat in Mexico, but this is how we imagine it 🙂 It’s a meal that Karl thought me and I usually let him do it, as somehow he is able to cook it at the end of a long day, really in really no time… So it
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Avocado in own shell! You may suspect that after a few weeks of blogging I run out of bowls, so I am now looking at increasing the diversity of my pictures by introducing new tableware. This would only be partly true. The second reason is that I like the idea of having fewer dishes to
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This recipe I learned from Kasia, even if I am not sure how close what I just cooked is to what she cooked back then, and it was Bulgarian and nor Greek cheese that was involved… Anyway, I remember that she served me this at her place, welcoming me to her apartment (again). The warmth
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I was once served something like this by a friend, who’s cuisine has a lot of influences from Greece. Or should I say who’s cuisine is mainly Greek, even if originally he comes from a much colder country. First, I tried to cut off the tail of the peppers and stuff them through a small
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