A cake with apricots
When I was a child, apricots were not my favourite fruit. The soft ones with sweet flesh and fluffy skin were at the end of my list of fruit to eat. I definitely preferred juicy nectarines, peaches and plums. Today I appreciate the uniqueness of apricots, and I use them in my kitchen both as fresh fruit and as conserves and ingredients of ...A dessert for two
Autumn ripe pears tempt us with their shape, colour and smell. I like most of all yellow ones with ruddy cheeks. Pears, which came to Europe from ancient Persia, were an exclusive product to begin with. Native strains were grown only at the turn of the XVII and XVIII centuries. The pear is called the fruit of love and is numbered among fruit ...A different approach to traditional tomato soup
There are some kinds of soup which everybody knows. One of them is definitely tomato soup. Served as a cream soup or with noodles or rice, it is a traditional soup which parents order for their children in many corners of the world. In my home I usually serve it with rice or egg-batter noodles. I sometimes prepare cream tomato soup with feta ...