When someone tells me that they don’t like salads, I always think that they might be using the wrong dressing. Of course I don’t tell them that as I don’t like giving out unsolicited advice (except here on this blog. Here it is really not unsolicited, is it? You are reading out of your free will ). I think some of those store bought readymade salad dressings can turn someone off of salads forever! And let’s not even get into the health factor. Most of these prepackaged dressings …

Another Mojito recipe, you ask? Well, I hear that this blog has been typecasted as the cocktail blog, so to live up to the name Siv and I are trying to build a nice database of cocktail recipes. Ha ha, not really, but we haven’t been cooking much lately and haven’t been to any new restaurants, the only recipes pending in my drafts are two cocktails. So here is another sunny Mojito recipe for your drinking pleasure!
Check out my previous Mojito post to learn how to make a classic Mojito.  Siv made this …

Panna Cotta means Cooked Cream in Italian. This is one of the easiest desserts to make; simmer some cream and sugar, add gelatin and cool to form the most deliciously simple creamy dessert. This is also a very versatile dessert; add spices like vanilla bean, cardamom, cinnamon or ginger to the cream to make it more exotic. Another variation is to mix pureed fruits or juices directly into the cream to make a fruit flavored Panna Cotta. Panna Cotta goes nicely with warm fruit compotes, or you can make some nice fruit sauce to go …

Spring is in the air! Suddenly there is a whole new variety of fruits and vegetables in the grocery stores. One fruit I look forward to in spring is Blood Orange – a variety of orange with dark red flesh. The juice is sweeter than regular oranges since the fruit is less acidic and it tastes a bit like raspberries mixed with oranges. Blood Oranges are full of antioxidants and are excellent sources of Vitamin C. The juice is normally used in a variety of cocktails, and also blood orange reduction (made …