This pasta is probably my favorite pasta dish at the moment. Well maybe except angel hair with tomato sauce, which always is unbeatable. First of all salmon is not very frequent addition to pasta and I have no clue why because those two things together are a perfect match. Also Sambuca used instead of white wine adds fantastic, new and intriguing flavor. Sambuca, if you’re not aware, is an anisette flavored Italian liquor. It’s sweet and has a strong anisette taste but when cooked with butter, salmon and tomatoes becomes …

How I love salads, I cannot even explain. Perhaps I’ll try by telling you that even after eating out in many fancy restaurants, Sweet Tomatoes with its giant salad bar is still one of my favorites. Definitely in my top 5 favorite restaurants of all times. Salad bar is all I need to make me happy. Nothing more is required and nothing compares to a healthy and clean taste of fresh vegetables mixed with a tasty dressing.
This recipe is my take on a Greek salad but instead of preparing it …

In many European countries, September is known as a mushroom month. Usually by the end of August, it gets slightly colder and rain falls much more often. That’s the time when forest becomes a charming place full of wild mushrooms. My parent’s house is in close proximity to the forest so sometimes I would wake up early in the morning and go into the woods to pick wild mushrooms and believe me, nothing can compare to the taste of fresh wild mushrooms. We would constantly be finding porcini, chanterelle and …

I am not going to lie, broccoli is not my favorite food. For the most part of my life I have been avoiding it as it was poisonous. I consider myself being far from picky but broccoli somehow never made it to the top of my most loved foods. On the contrary, it used to be at the very bottom. It wasn’t until few months ago that I finally decided to face my demon. I made a stir fry with broccoli. I took a first bite, then second and realized …

Oh what a title, right? Pretty long for the name of a dish but I just couldn’t decide how else to call it. Plain French pizza is too simple and doesn’t really tell you anything, but with caramelized onions and brie, that makes more sense. Then I decided to throw in whole wheat dough in the title to please all of you health fanatics (yes, I’m talking about myself too). Honestly speaking it was the best dough I ever made. I was a bit scared of doing whole wheat dough …

I bet most of the people never even thought about combining peanut butter with macaroni. I also never did until one day while shopping in Whole Foods I saw peanut butter pasta noodles in their deli section. My first thought was: ‘Omg did I just saw pasta with peanut butter? How cool is that!’ I didn’t buy it and didn’t try it over there because I had other food waiting for me at home but I left the store with peanut butter in my bag and new recipe idea in …

Viva la macaroni! I absolutely love pasta, all kinds of pasta, spaghetti, penne, lasagna and all the other types. If I could, I would eat pasta everyday till the end of my life and my favorite restaurants are obviously Italian. I adore the fact that  Italian cuisine offers such a variety of vegetable dishes, something that is hard to find in typical American cuisine. Everytime I go to Italian restaurant I find it hard to decide what to eat because there are so many choices for veggie people. If you …

I made this recipe a while ago, before I started this blog. I took a picture because I knew that one day I will use it. It was absolutely delicious and I only regret that I didn’t take more pictures and didn’t record a cooking video tutorial. I did not know back then that I will start a blog with vegetarian recipes. Of course I was thinking about it but there’s a long way from thinking about something to actually doing it. Hence just one picture but it’s really easy …

Have you ever wondered how do they make orzo? That must be extremely long and tough process to cut out all  these tiny grains. And imagine how many of these grains need to be cut out, hundreds at least. I was very curious so I googled it. I found only one page that talks how to prepare orzo from scratch, it’s actually a blog ‘Having Fun in the Kitchen!’ Big props to the person doing it, that must have been hard work but also a lot of satisfaction. I …

If you ever felt guilty about eating pizza you definitely should try garden pizza. There is nothing unhealthy about garden pizza. White pizza topped with broccoli, asparagus, tomatoes, onions and a bit of cheese. So many veggies but it’s just my choice, you can top it with any vegetables you like. Red, green or yellow pepper would be fantastic here too, oh and artichokes, yes artichokes are perfect. Yummy and healthy. That’s the type of fast food that I like

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