Monthly Archives: February 2012

Sweet heart

I made this recipe as our Valentine’s Day dinner dessert. My mother gave me the recipe, but I decided to add a little extra to it because I think white chocolate by itself can be a little too sickning sometimes.

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Valentine’s Day Cookies

Valentine’s Day is around the corner and I decided to make a little pre-Valentine’s surprise for my boyfriend. He always likes to have some cookies/cakes at the office with his middle morning coffee so I baked him what I decided

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Esparregado – the creamy spinach

This recipe was given to me by my grandmother. She used to make this frequently when I was a child. It was her must have with pork and that would be at least one Sunday a month. I would spend

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Peppery Pork

This was our dinner last night. It’s my mother’s recipe and I might be in real trouble for sharing this here. It’s a family secret for many generations and you don’t know how much I had to beg, blackmail and

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Cinnamon sins

This weekend I felt like baking something sweet for our TV night, watching a few more episodes of Fringe. I had never baked cinnamon rolls before, so this was my very first attempt and I followed this recipe, that I

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