Poppy seed amaretti cake

If you are thinking about poppy seeds...

Chickpea cheese straws

After trying several recipes, I've decided to come up with my own. Yep...with chickpeas.

Baked risotto with roasted vegetables

Red, orange and purple...kind of like Blood oranges that are in season.

Chickpea cookies with dark chocolate and peanut butter

I seem to be in a habit of pre-soaking some kind of beans just about every night...just in case, I want delicious cookies early next morning.

Buckwheat and red bean medley with celery and carrots

I knew I wanted celery, green and tender...I find it particularly fine with red beans.

Whole spelt yogurt cocoa cake

Yogurt cake...? Why not. Out of yogurt? It's OK.

Flour tortillas w/whole spelt

Really...no reason to leave the house, go to a store and buy tortillas that taste like a plastic bag...

Chickpea cookies with peanut butter and white chocolate

My first chickpea cookies...

Red cabbage risotto

The most popular risotto this season in my house...

Tart with chestnut cream

We could eat chestnuts desserts every day...if only I figured out how to peel them more quickly.

Gnocchi alla sorrentina

Rustic Italian at its best...

Chestnut-chocolate cream

I have been thinking about chestnuts ever since I had them in Rome...

Barley and root vegetable parmigiana

Could barely and vegetables taste any better this Winter...?

Cabbage with porcini and beans (bigos w/o meat)

To slowly get back in the rhythm of things after the Holidays ...and to fill my home with sweet childhood memories, I made bigos (a Polish national dish).