recipes

Cloudy day, rainy day, lazy day, cold day = staying at home with pjamas and making something nice 😀 This is the life in the village, oh I love it! 

You must be wondering about it, right? LOL..I like the title “upcycling” chicken! 

We have so many apple at home, we got them from Lena’s father, and it’s a home-grown apple!! They taste very sweet and fresh, we’ve made salad out of it and now it’s the time for jammin’ 😉 So, here it is..apple jam ala Aurelia! You can try to make it by your own and…

Seriously… I was trying to make this spring rolls before, using my sister’s recipe. There was nothing wrong with the recipe, but I failed to do a good spring rolls wrapper 🙁 But..today with my super empty belly and a need to eat fast brought me to a very nice home made spring rolls with…

Every season has its peaks and valleys…  but never stop cooking for your loved one.. Autumn’s now! Breezy and cloudy..lazy and hungry..but life must goes on and one of us shall stand up and start to cook  –” Ok! I’m going then.. *checking the fridge* nothing’s left..only chicken.. what to do?! Improvisation needed! Check this…

There is an Irish saying, “It is easy to halve the potato where there is Love” and it is really easy to make a great and simple dish with potato as well. I love this recipe, so easy yet so tasty and cheap! 😀 You can simply eat it like that, or it can become…

African Peanut Stew – hm I’ve been dreaming to make this dish! It was at Nico’s place, a friend of mine, that I ate this superlicious food..We were having discussion on what kind of spices and ingredients that he put in this dish..yet we did not solve it.. 🙁 And suddenly he said..”people…it’s peanut butter!!…

Hohoho I love this, leftover rice, leftover cabbage, leftover chili pepper,   and that’s it! I have nothing left in my fridge now. I don’t like to throw leftover food or vegetables, so, here it is, my magic fried rice! I can’t call this Indonesian, because I’m not using Indonesian wok, it’s not Chinese fried rice,…

What can you ask for more than this easy, tasty and delicate chocolate chip cookies?? Nothing!! Here is my recipe, with my secret ingredients, a lot of love and smile 🙂 Ingredients: 100gr Sugar / or 75gr Fructose 100gr Brown sugar / or 50gr brown sugar to have it less sweet 250gr Unsalted butter 3…

I have leftover of boiled chicken breast, and I wanted to make something simple from it, and also I have fresh carrots, and I missed to make this snack..simply..i missed to cook something really Indonesian! Ingredients: Carrots – cut it thin like toothpick Bean sprout Chopped shrimp or chicken 300gr General purpose flour 75gr Rice…

One fine day.. and yeah my husband decided to make his famous NY style Cheese Cake for me! It took him only 20 minutes to make it, 15-20 minutes to bake it, and 6 hours to freeze it..what a long day!! *sigh* But, it’s worth!! I called it Haris’s Super Cheese Cake..super delicious!! And he…

One of our favorite seafood, Calamari!   We’ve been trying many different sauces but this modified butter sauce. I was trying to remember the ingredients from my family, yet I couldn’t find some of the spices here in Cyprus, so that I have to go by my own taste! I went to the kitchen, spent almost…