Black Forest gâteau or Black Forest cake is a childhood emotion for me! Layers of sponge chocolate cake with cold whipped cream in between and a delicious cherry liqueur or compote in my case. And then topped with fresh cherries along with shaved chocolate.
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Tomato Garlic Confit with some fresh basil on top is a super easy and uber delicious appetizer. It will take less than 5 minutes to prep and 40 minutes in the oven. You can toss Tomato Garlic Confit with pasta, top it on risotto, rice or enjoy with grilled meat and fish. We finished it with some crusty sourdough bread, pretty much wiped the plate clean with the last slice of the bread.
This roasted garlic mushroom is an easy, no fuss delicious dish that pairs best with some rustic bread. It’s a toss-everything-together and forget about it for the next 20 minutes kind of a meal. If you like garlic and mushroom, you will absolutely love this and probably make it on repeat. All it needs is 5 Key ingredients!
3 key ingredients, some fresh lemon zest and juice along with some fresh thyme leaves is all it requires for this quick easy buttery Lemon Thyme Shortbread Cookies! The dough comes together easy and doesn’t even need a stand mixer. A bowl and a rubber spatula are enough. The dough rolls out easy and it’s fun to cut it out in your desired shapes.
This Chicken in Brown Butter with Fresh Herbs is a very simple yet flavorful side dish to go with your salad or soup. The nutty flavor from brown butter along with fresh thyme and sage makes this utterly simple dish packed with robust flavor. A few slices of fresh lemon and a good squeeze of fresh lemon juice helps cut out the richness from the brown butter, thereby making it not too rich for the palate.
There are a few ingredients which always pair effortlessly. When you put them together, the outcome will always be delicious. You just know it! Whenever I bake a cake, it never has frosting or layers. So, I always try to pick some winning flavor combinations. Chocolate with Raspberry, Banana with Nutella, Carrot with Cardamom, Honey with fresh Figs and this time, Honey with fresh Thyme! The subtle minty flavor of fresh thyme and perfume honey makes the cake smell absolutely divine. And just to make the honey thyme bundt cake extra flavorful, I added ghee (clarified butter).
Snuggle up on the couch, cover the feet with your favorite pair of socks and hold the bowl of soup as it warms you up. Nothing is more comforting than a creamy soup on a winter night. It might be raining or snowing in some parts of the world but we are facing a confusing winter in California. Some days make us reach for something cool and refreshing and the very next day, we prefer to spend the whole day in bed with a book and hot coffee or soup.