Apr 13, 2020garlic parmesan pastaMy cooking isn't elaborate these days. I used to enjoy spending time in the kitchen, and I would actually still do so, but the time is scarce now with the baby around. Hence, I'm a big fan of simple, one-pot recipes, which not only require little time and effort on my side, but are also versatile enough so that I can work around the list of ingredients a bit. And here comes this one-pot garlic parmesan pasta recipe. I made it 2 weeks ago for the very first time, and since the
Nov 14, 2017homemade pumpkin - chocolate chip muffinsThis entire fall seems to be about pumpkins. Today, specifically, about pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips. The fall season is almost over but since the Thanksgiving is still ahead of us, here's a recipe for these delicious beauties. I'm sure your Thanksgiving dinner guests would love these! Plus - one more thing done from my bucket list (if it counts that I replaced pumpkin bread with pumpkin muffins) :) Ingredients: 1 cup of brown sugar 1 and 2/3 cups of all-purpose flou
Oct 10, 2017homemade pumpkin pureeIt all started with pumpkin spice latte. It was barely the beginning of September this year, the weather was still nice and warm, but for some reason the fall spirit came around and I couldn't wait for the fall to begin. I started googling pumpkin farms around us, I found a place where we'd go apple picking, I made a fall bucket list... and somewhere between these fall prep activities I started craving for pumpkin spice latte. Which is funny, because when in Boston, I was onl
Sep 30, 2017fall bucket listEver since the beginning of September, even though the weather was still nice and summery (if that's a word), I started looking forward to fall. Fall used to be a beautiful season around Boston! Unfortunately, around here we get way too many rainy days for my taste. I'm really gonna miss the beautiful Boston weather! Since I knew the rainy days are coming, I decided to make the season better by incorporating few of my favorite fall activities into our everyday schedules. Wel
Aug 31, 20174 quick takes: On long summer evenings and lifelong decisions1. affected for life This summer's been really special. Did you see this post in which I write about us moving back to Europe? That was a big thing for us. But just in case that doesn't seem special enough, we also decided to boost it up a bit and put it together with us getting married!! Yes, the third Saturday in August was our day! The day was perfect and we really enjoyed it. Actually, I still keep thinking of how special it felt. It was totally different from any wedding