Vanillekipferl are one of our favourite homemade cookies. Bite into this yumminess and imagine you are in one of Vienna's coffee shops enjoying this special treat. Honestly, I have never been to one, I just always make my own vanillekipferl and enjoy them with friends and family. Vanillekipferl ...
Baking and Breakfast
Easy Seven in One Coffee Cake
The number seven represents wholeness, perfection, totality, completion. Here too, I use the number seven not as an actual number but to show that there are many easy coffee cakes in this one recipe. How many? Well, however many your fantasy allows you to do. Baking cakes or making yummy desserts ...
Homemade Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas
Homemade whole wheat flour tortillas are a favorite in our house. We enjoy them in so many ways: traditionally as tortillas with filling made from mushrooms, sweet potatoes, or beans, topped with salsa, greens and cheese (we prefer nut cheese); or topped with some pizza ingredients as a thin and ...
Crepes – Thin Pancake Recipe
Crepes are a type of very thin pancake. This recipe is a favourite family recipe that has been proven for many years without fail. It's super yummy. I also share a vegan option, using only whole food plant based ingredients. Growing up our children loved crepes so much that I had to set a ...
Syrniki Recipe (Cottage Cheese Pancakes)
Growing up, my mom would make some kind of Cottage Cheese Pancakes. However, my mom made them differently, not as cheesy, so I actually forgot about them and never considered making them. Until, well, until a friend pinned the Syrniki (Сырники) recipe to her Pinterest board. They looked so ...
Scrambled Egg Pancakes
You have never heard of scrambled egg pancakes? Me neither, I just came up with this name for a very old traditional food. In my family we would just call it scrambled eggs from Oma. This has been a favorite Sunday lunch in my husband's family. It is not just scrambled eggs, it's more yummy, more ...
Cherry Muffins
Cherries are one of our daughter's favourite foods. Every year on her birthday I make cherry pierogies, homemade of course since I do not know if one can buy those. They are tasty, I would say. Health wise, I am not sure, I think they go more into the category of homemade junk food. But since we ...
Homemade Pizza
Pizza may not be the first thing one would think of to make homemade. After all, there are pizza places everywhere. However, homemade pizza is just so yummy, healthier, and you get a lot more pizza for your buck. Besides, to make it is easier than you would think. So let's get started. I use ...
Buns or Dinner Rolls
Yummy buns or dinner rolls are a must have, aren't they? They sure taste the best homemade and fresh from the oven, with some butter and hot chocolate and I am good, who needs a dinner :). My recipe originally comes from my mom, who would always make homemade buns or dinner rolls. When I started ...
The Flax Oil Quark Cheese Breakfast From Dr. Budwig
I have mentioned Dr. Budwig's Flax Oil and quark cheese diet before, here I'm sharing the recipe. The flax oil, quark cheese breakfast is one of our favorites. Dr. Budwig worked all her life to develop the oil-protein diet and to make it possible for cancer patients and those near them to ...