Yogurt dressing for salad: the best, easiest, and healthiest dressing there is! It only takes 5 minutes. Yogurt Salad Dressing Forget all the bottled salad dressings, full of weird things that you don't actually want to eat. To make this Greek yogurt dressing takes about 5 minutes, it tastes better than any dressing you could possibly buy, it is healthy and clean, low-fat, low-sugar, and versatile. All the good "healthy words" used to describe a recipe. But don't let those healthy words worry you, this yogurt dressing for salad is so delicious, you won't even think you are being so healthy with it... You can use this basic dressing recipe for just about any kind of salad: leafy salad, cucumbers, broccoli or other veggie salad. You can even eat this as a dip, on top of hot cooked potatoes or in a chicken/vegetable wrap for instance. How to make? This is a basic recipe for a yogurt salad dressing, I start here every time I make it, but sometimes I change it slightly depending on the kind of salad I have, on my mood or whatever.You can enhance it by adding one grated garlic clove or one teaspoon horseradish, you...
Cream of asparagus soup with milk - the best asparagus soup you could make this spring. And how to make asparagus stock with the woody ends. Asparagus Soup with Milk This cream of asparagus soup with milk is THE asparagus soup this spring! Quite different from my beloved Asparagus Chicken Soup but equally delicious. And even more suitable for the asparagus season, because the asparagus really plays the main role in this recipe. We love soups! With a passion. All of us, kids included. I make different kinds of soups all the time, like I've said, at least twice a week. From our beloved Romanian Chicken Soup with Semolina Dumplings to creamy soups like this cream of asparagus soup with milk or the Creamy Mushroom Soup with Cream Cheese to loaded soups like my favorite Turkey Meatball and Vegetable Soup or the Spicy Yellow Split Lentils and Beef Soup with Vegetables. Or try the Creamy Carrot Soup with Milk. Oh, I have so many soup recipes on my blog, you should not have any difficulty at all in finding one you like! How to make? Asparagus stock: This step is optional, but really worth it, I never leave it out.It...
Homemade elderflower syrup or catching the summer flavors in a bottle: this cordial is sweet, lemony, and more aromatic than any other syrup I know. Easy Elderflower Syrup Recipe You will not believe how easy it is to make elderflower syrup yourself. All you need are a bunch of elderflowers, lemons, citric acid, sugar, and water. I wasn't sure about the right way of spelling sirup. Either sirup or syrup. So I googled it and found this: Syrup is an alternative form of sirup. I chose syrup now, because after looking here and there, I feel that most people use the form “syrup”. What are elderflowers? Elderflowers are the blossoms of the elder tree, also known as Sambucus nigra, Black Elder, Ellhorn, Pipe tree, Bore tree, Eller and Holler. The elder trees are small hedgerow trees and their blossoms – the elderflowers – are creamy colored, have a heavenly scent, and can be picked in June. I love the smell of the hedges every early summer and the look of these beautiful flowers. What to do with elderflowers? My great-grandmother used to make elderflower juice when I was little, a fizzy drink made with elderflowers, lemons, sugar and water. We used to...
Oven-baked schnitzel – a simple recipe perfectly suitable for chicken, pork or turkey schnitzel. How to bake schnitzel? A simple recipe for baked schnitzel, perfect to serve as a burger or the traditional German way with fries or potato salad and lemon wedges. Great for making chicken, pork, or turkey cutlets. Another schnitzel recipe, basically the same recipe as the pork schnitzel with a pretty important difference (for me at least). Although using the same ingredients and achieving the same end result, these meat pieces are not fried in lots of oil, they are just brushed with very little oil and baked. I was a bit skeptical in the beginning, didn't really believe that I could achieve the same crispiness and nice golden color by just baking the schnitzel, but – surprise, surprise – it works!!! I would have not spotted the difference between the two kinds if someone else would have served me the two without telling me which one is fried and which one is baked. Can you bake schnitzel instead of frying? Definitely. This is an updated post from 2016. I have never fried any schnitzel ever since. I make schnitzel very often...
A basic recipe for slow-cooked lamb shoulder. You will only need the lamb, salt, and pepper. Lamb Shoulder Roast Seriously, roasting a lamb shoulder could not get any easier. This is a one-ingredient recipe, not counting the salt and pepper, which guarantees perfect results and gives you the freedom of choosing any kind of sides you can think of to go with the slow-cooked lamb shoulder. I don't even know what to write about this easy lamb shoulder recipe... It is so simple, so basic, so straightforward, that there just aren't many words I can think of writing about it. No intricate instructions, no caution words, no nothing... Just the shoulder of lamb, some salt and pepper, an oven and about 3 hours cooking time. And the results are just amazing if you ask me. Actually, although I have cooked lamb in the oven in countless ways over the years, I keep coming back to this basic recipe. I mean, it is so simple, I don't have to do anything in advance or before getting the shoulder of lamb in the oven, I just put it in and wait for it to be ready. Fall off the bone meat, tender...
An easy recipe for pre-made mini tart shells or large pie shells, which can be filled with pretty much any sweet filling you like. MINI PIE SHELLS This tart shell recipe is a must-have recipe for anyone who likes baking and entertaining. Pre-made tart shells, which can be made in advance, a perfect base for any kind of sweet filling. How about trying a white chocolate and raspberry filling, a lemon curd one or some mixed berries? Really, these pastry cases are a wonderful base for all the fillings you can think of! Not to mention, that you will impress just about anyone when serving anything in a mini pastry case! Any kind of mini tart or pie looks beautiful! PRE-MADE TART SHELLS This is another one of Yotam Ottolenghi's wonderful recipes. I could cook my way through all his books and not get tired of it. You can find this recipe in his book “Ottolenghi – The Cookbook”. The recipe is perfect, I had my doubts the first time I made them, I thought I would never manage to get the mini tart shells out of the muffin forms in one piece, but...
Learn how to fill a fondant covered cake with any kind of filling you like, including fruit or heavy cream filling. FILLING FONDANT CAKES This has always been the big question for me when I've started making fondant cakes years ago. How to be able to fill a fondant covered with a fruit and cream filling without ruining the whole ensemble? Fondant cakes are great to look at, but most of the time, not really a joy to eat. Actually, most of the time they look better than they taste. At least, that is what I thought until I discovered a way of filling the fondant cake with a good tasting filling without causing the fondant to melt. Normally, fondant-covered cakes are filled with buttercream and buttercream only, buttercream made with tons of icing sugar and butter, a drop or two of flavoring and that's it! Heavy, overly sweet and completely boring, I was never able to eat more than 3 bites from such a fondant cake slice. This method of filling the cakes will allow you using pretty much any fillings you like, fruit fillings, heavy cream, cream cheese or lemon curd fillings, whatever you...
Crispy and utterly delicious homemade pretzel chips. Made with leftover soft pretzel, some olive oil, and some spices, this is one of the easiest homemade snacks I know. Not to mention one of the tastiest as well. WHAT TO DO WITH DAY-OLD PRETZELS? A very easy, quick, cheap and totally delicious recipe today: homemade pretzel chips made with day-old pretzels. I do love leftover recipes, I hate throwing away food and I am always searching for ideas for using up whatever leftovers I happen to have. I am an expert in using leftover hard-boiled eggs, there are lots and lots of wonderful recipes using leftover hard-boiled eggs on Where Is My Spoon. Have a look at this Creamy Deviled Egg Pasta Salad with Bacon, these Hard Boiled Eggs in Mustard Sauce or this Egg Salad or Egg Sauce with Greek Yogurt and Chives, these are just a sample of my favorite leftover eggs recipes. LEFTOVER SOFT PRETZELS? When it comes to bread, it does happen quite often that we have some leftovers that nobody wants to eat anymore. German bread is excellent, it tastes better than any other bread I have ever had, it is almost always...
A basic recipe for making baked chicken drumsticks, marinated with paprika or curry powder. OVEN BAKED CHICKEN DRUMSTICKS From all the easy baked chicken recipes I make on a regular basis, recipes like the Baked Chicken Thighs or the Turmeric Chicken Legs With a Honey Garlic Glaze, this baked chicken drumsticks recipe must be the easiest. These baked chicken drumsticks are not only easy and very quick to make, but also versatile, you can change the flavors according to your mood or according to whatever you happen to have in your spice cabinet. I have been making these baked drumsticks for years now and the recipe (if you can call this a recipe) really never disappoints. When it comes to baked chicken it hardly gets any easier. BAKED DRUMSTICKS How to season the chicken drumsticks or chicken legs? As mentioned above there are lots of possibilities when it comes to seasoning the chicken parts. For this blog post I chose my two most common ways of seasoning chicken drumsticks, one version with paprika and one version with curry powder. Most of the times I simply season the chicken with a mixture of salt, pepper...
Roasting pumpkin or squash in the oven cannot be any easier. You can use the roasted pumpkin to make pumpkin puree, soups, baked goods and so on. ROASTED PUMPKIN Roasted pumpkin (or anything pumpkin actually) is definitely my thing. Every autumn and winter you will find me roasting pumpkin or butternut squash at least once a month. At least! And all the yummy things you can use that roasted pumpkin for! You can use the baked pumpkin to make roasted pumpkin soup or a delicious pumpkin salad. You can stuff pita breads, tortillas, make sandwiches. Or just eat it as it is. Or you can turn the roasted pumpkin (or roasted butternut squash) to puree and use it like you would use canned pumpkin. Only tastier, healthier and cheaper. Spicy roasted pumpkin wedges is one of the most popular recipes on the blog, actually pretty much my number one recipe every autumn. No wonder, those spicy pumpkin wedges are the best thing you can do to a pumpkin or butternut squash. You should definitely try that recipe: really spicy and delicious pumpkin wedges, which can be served as a light dinner with a yogurt dip,...
