An American classic. Prepared by a meat lover, who grew having steaks all the time (or so I imagine life in Midwest, with all the cows and cowboys, steaks, briskets and corn). I think my meat lover suffers a bit with my love for veggies and when it comes to meat, he is the specialist
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Involtini, doesn’t is just sound great? It just means, rolls, but let’s call it involtini it will taste better! And yes I just love aubergines, and I have already done some aubergine roll-ups, but it was a summer version. This time something to serve straight from the oven with a fresh baguette. Yummy.

This is such an easy way to make an impressive dinner party food. Am I using the word easy too often? Well, I rarely cook complicated dishes, so this is probably why. Maybe I should rename my site to Maya Cooks easy? Anyway, I am not a great fan of skewers, but lemongrass makes it
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A lazy Sunday dinner. I shopped on Saturday morning, in between taking the kids to different activities, without really having any meal plan in my head. I tried to stay healthy so I got lots of veggies and this is what it ended up as 🙂 Smoked bacon could have done as well as chorizo,
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It was an experiment but turned out really well and I think now it’ll be on the list of our family comfort foods. On a cold and rainy September, this hot dish will certainly make you feel better. The prunes may be a surprising ingredient, but actually they fall apart and become part of the
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I read about these in a French cooking magazine some time ago, but despite having a very good fishmongers’ next to me, I never came across these until some day during our Spanish Holidays! It turns out that these are nothing special in the Alicante area, and you can have a nice bag of shells
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I keep being amazed by the fish I’ve seen at every supermarket during out Spanish holidays. Even the small ones had a large selection of fresh fish, and in particular those big, red chunks of tuna. It’s fresh and simply wonderful. The tuna tartar got eaten before I got to shot even one picture, but
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We’re at the sea, so my carving for fish and seafood is even more than usually. So we visited a local fishmonger and asked for a suggestion for what could we grill. And we came home with the ugliest fish they had :-). It turned out wonderful though, it’s meat so thick and moist one
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I remember when I had this risotto for the first time. It was at Marzena’s. She had this thick, elegant book of Italian recipes and she followed them carefully. The risotto was a masterpiece. At that time I was just a beginner in cooking so I was just hopped ing that soon Marzena will invite
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After having eaten this dish and after having complimented it a lot, Karl had an interesting remark. That I like to stuff things… It’s true that recently I have made a few of these: stuffed aubergines, stuffed avocados, cucumber bites filled out with gazpacho and now stuffed peppers and zucchinis… But it’s just a perfect
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