Harlequin and A Happy New Year!

Dec 31, 2018

My paternal Grandmother never cooked. I never saw her cooking, nor do I recall ever having tasted something cooked by her. And every time she offered to lend a hand…

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Molten Cakes with Sour Cherry Sauce

Jul 08, 2016

I will keep this short. I thought about making this dessert because I love molten cake, but also because I was dreaming of the sour cherry packed layered chocolate cake my Grandma used to…

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The Five Dollar Shake

May 19, 2016

Pulp Fiction might have premiered in 1994, but I only got to see it in 1997, with my best friend, at the cinema. We were 13 and needless to say, the…

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A Cherry Pie to Agent Cooper’s Liking

Jun 15, 2015

Growing up as a child in the 90s in a post-communist South-Eastern European block country, movie ratings didn’t exist and parental guidance was very laid back. Everybody watched everything that…

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Dinner for Six

Feb 17, 2015

Like most all of my meals, this one too started with the idea of cake. And in fact, it started with the edible flowers I saw two days ago and…

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