A Seriously Good Passionfruit Cake
Let me warn you: this is an unhealthy cake! Totally and utterly unhealthy. BUT if you want a refreshing flavour – especially around spring time when we all fancy refreshing things – then this is your cake. I had a…
The Fish Pie
A pie can either be a sweet or a savoury dish in English, see the below description of the Oxford Dictionary: A baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base pastry. There are lots…
Does apple pie come from England or the US?
There is a saying in America, “as American as an apple pie” when describing something that is typically American. This implies Americans are extremely proud of their apple pies and consider it too has American origin. That’s not true, unfortunately.…
How The Curry Got To England – With A Recipe
Maybe most of us know that curry has become the national dish of the United Kingdom. As the National Curry Week is between 10th and 16th October, I thought it is high time I had a look at the curry.…
Salmon en croûte with salad
This dish is very light and summery (yes, even in spite of the pastry), but could be served in any season. It is one of my favourite dishes I learnt from Mary Berry. I can remember she cooked this dish…
Lemon Blueberry Cake
A friend of mine asked me a month ago whether I will cook something for Easter and post it on the blog. ‘Well, the English do not really have a special dish for Easter’, I said. This is really strange…
Scottish Oat pancake with raspberry sauce
Shrove Tuesday means Pancake Day. I was at high school when I first came across this funny tradition of the English and I still remember the book we read about it: Spotlight on Britain by the Oxford University Press. Shrove…
Roast pork with piquant salad for autumn
I think, I have already mentioned that the only connection to the world when I moved to the UK, was the TV, before the broadband was sorted out in the apartment and after 8 years of not watching the TV…
English cheesecake
If we enter a café or a cake shop or even a pub in England, it is almost guaranteed you would find cheesecake on the menu or in the display. It is a basic cake which appeared in Hungary perhaps…
Somerset chicken
I still remember how I used to watch every penny during my first 8 months in the UK. Because I had to furnish a new home, I could not afford buying anything for myself, but was terribly interested in everything…