Curry Chicken With Chickpeas

This week, I’m bringing you an excellent, stick-to-your-ribs recipe to help you keep warm and cozy. Not only this curry will keep you warm but it could also keep you cold-free and flu-free with ingredients like turmeric, ginger and garlic. I love when these ingredients come together in a meal, they just bring a dish to another level of flavor and again, they are so good for you. 

Baleadas

If you are looking for a different way of brunching, you might want to consider this filling alternative. I know you are probably asking yourself, what the hell baleadas are. Baleadas are flour tortillas, topped with refried beans and a queso fresco type of cheese, then you fold it and eat it like a taco. You can also add different topping as you see in the pictures. This is a very popular if not the most popular dish in Honduras, you can find them anywhere.

Banana Crumb Cake With Chocolate Chips

Moist, crumbly and packed with flavor, this banana crumb cake with chocolate chips will make your afternoon coffee more irresistible. This is the 3rd recipe for banana cake on this blog, not only because we love it so much (specially Lucas) but also because we always end up with overripe bananas in our house. I know there are other things you can do with overripe bananas like, sweetening a milk shake, caramelizing them, eating them with ice cream, or even pancakes. It doesn't matter, we always end up with cake.

Red Lentil Soup With Teklai

I can’t get through Winter without soup and this red lentil soup is what I often crave when I’m looking for comfort food. It’s flavorful and easy to put together, don’t you love to hear that? This is not your ordinary lentil soup. Besides having enticing elements like curry and coconut milk, this soup is perfumed with teklai. Teklai is basically garlic cooked in olive oil and coriander (I also like to add cumin) and finish off with lemon juice. This sauce is often used in the Middle East to garnish soups and stews and it’s particularly  famous in a soup called “Moloukhiya” (a childhood favorite).

Hazelnut Cookies And A New Look!

I’m really excited to start 2015, new year, new goals, fresh start. I’m very positive about it all! I hope you all had a beautiful and healthy holiday season! Any new year’s resolution? Mine is not exactly loosing weight (just yet :) which is why I decided to start my new year with these hazelnut cookies. I know I should have posted this recipe probably back in September but then I figured, everybody else will be posting about salads and juice cleansers which, don’t get me wrong, I will eventually do. In the mean time, these cookies are a perfect diet breaker.