Category: Cuisines

  • Chalka – soft vanilla Brioche with poppy seed filling

    Chalka – soft vanilla Brioche with poppy seed filling

    This recipe for brioche with poppy seed filling is the perfect way to show your friends and family how much you care. The rich, buttery dough is filled with a sweet and nutty poppy seed filling, and then baked to perfection. Serve this delicious treat warm, with a cup of coffee or tea. What is…

  • Salmon Parcels | Fish is the Dish

    Salmon Parcels | Fish is the Dish

    Wrap salmon in parcels with tomatoes, olives, rosemary and capers to create plenty of buttery juices to go with this nutritious, protein-packed meal. Wrapping the Salmon fillets in foil keeps all the flavour in the parcels (this time I didn’t want to have individual parcels). With a little additional flavour from the olive oil,  lemon, rosemary…

  • Classic Spanish Paella Recipe

    Classic Spanish Paella Recipe

    Paella is one of my favourite foods of all time. As far as I know, paella is a traditional dish from the Community of Valencia. It consists of rice as well as anything else that you fancy.  Normally this dish is prepared in an enormous pan with handles called a paella, in the Valencian language (this language is…

  • Seafood Noodles with Mussels and Shrimp

    Seafood Noodles with Mussels and Shrimp

    This is a quick and delicious dish that you can make in one pot in less than 30 mins. It’s absolutely delicious and loaded with all kinds of seafood in a fresh and homemade seafood pasta sauce. Making the pasta sauce from scratch instead of using a bottled pasta sauce is a game-changer when it…

  • Salmon Fishcake Recipe

    Salmon Fishcake Recipe

    Salmon makes a luxurious fish cake, perfect for a special meal and can be served with salad and accompanied with tartar or chilli sauce. These are probably the most simple salmon fishcakes you will come across as this recipe is not posh but quick and effective. Serve one as a starter, or two for a…

  • Apricot Frangipane Tart

    Apricot Frangipane Tart

    Apricot and almonds are a match made in heaven and this tart makes the most of both of them. I can never get enough of these two flavours. Apricot Frangipane Tart is the show-stopping summer dessert to pull out when you really want to impress guests. In classic Italian tradition, a rich, creamy, almost silken…

  • Omi’s lemon and dill salmon parcel

    Omi’s lemon and dill salmon parcel

    Hosting a group of friends or family becomes a lot easier when you’ve got a couple of sure-fire recipes up your sleeve. One of my favourites is salmon (with crème fraîche) wrapped in puff pastry. So easy, so delicious and SOOOO impressive!!! Best of all, not only can you make the dill sauce ahead of…

  • Sesame and Ginger Grilled Chicken Recipe

    Sesame and Ginger Grilled Chicken Recipe

    Forget about take-out because this healthier version is 1000x better than any restaurant sesame chicken and comes together in 20 minutes. Grilling chicken is a wonderful way to enjoy the summer season with your family and friends; it’s full of flavour yet lean and healthy. Marinated in a simple mixture that includes soy sauce, sesame…

  • Salmon A La Omi

    Salmon A La Omi

    Ingredients: 2 salmon fillets 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon seasoning salt Lemon wedges optional Tomato Salsa: 2 tomatoes diced 1 onion peeled and diced Black olives – chopped Green Olives – chopped Juice of half a lemon Sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste Instructions Rub the salmon fillets on both sides…

  • Salade Niçoise a la Omi. Speedy, fresh and delicious!

    Salade Niçoise a la Omi. Speedy, fresh and delicious!

    Salade Niçoise a la Omi. Speedy, fresh and delicious! Ingredients: 300g small new potato2 eggs, as fresh as you can get them2 Baby Gem lettuces, outside leaves trimmed off5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil1 Tin Tuna in Oil200g cherry tomato halved1 tomato on the vinesmall handful parsley leaves50g olives – green or/and black preferably Niçoise, pittedSalt…