My mother has always made chocolate salami for Christmas and New Year’s Eve since I was a little girl.She’d keep it simple or add walnuts and raisins, but it was always delicious. I wanted to try something new. We ate at a restaurant a few weeks ago, and for dessert I had a brownie with…
If you search honey cake on the internet most probably you will find the Medovik cakes, which are really famous and also delicious. But this recipe is Honey cake or as we called it in Romania, Albinița, which is something else. You have 4 layers of honey cake filled with semolina cream and plum jam,…
I love the combination between walnuts and plum jam, or any jam. Tartlets are mini tarts that take a little longer to make but look good and are easy to grab and eat on the go. I believe this is a well-known recipe, particularly in Romania, and you can use any type of jam or…
It’s easy to make a sponge cake. You know why? Because most probably you have all the ingredients in you pantry or fridge. It’s not that complicated or time consuming and in the end you can fill it with anything, fruits, creams, chocolate, cheese, jams. I used a fresh cheese as a filling because we…
There is no Romanian holiday without this salad, which, despite the title, can be made with pork, chicken, or turkey meat. Boeuf is French for beef, but I used chicken instead. This salad is typically served as an appetizer or side dish, and it is equally delicious without the meat. The mayonnaise binds together all…
This year is baby’s first Christmas, so we want to start some family traditions with him. When I was little, these kind of sugar cookies weren’t the ones my mother used to make for us. She did made cakes and cookies for us but not like that, although extremely tasty and good. I remember she…