Michella is my Italian Mama. I stayed 10 days with here and her family to learn as many as possible. We worked in the fields during the day and in the afternoon we cooked with all the fresh products we found. She is such a great chef, an artist and this is my favourite recipe from […]

When I cook, I begin with the raw ingredients in my hands, ready to be cut, carved, prepared as I wish. Cooking with products straight from the fields in the season it belongs. Its mostly a matter of creativity with talent and some inspiration, skills and experience added. Along with sparks of love for the […]

Meeting Lello “Che figata!” . Great evening, food, wine and life stories. He is living in a little house next to Siena in the mountains. Building this already for 20 years and it has so much caracter. Just like his face..! The face, you wash it in the morning, put a smile on it throughout […]

Enzo is the Italian chef who creates the most incredible dishes with his simplicity. it’s al about the secret family recipes. Enzo cycled the whole world by him self and still is very curious to others stories. What a great evening we had. As I said before, this recipe is passed from generation to generation. The […]

Here is a recipe from my friends The Grape Hunters. Healthy, easy and of course we enjoyed it with plenty of 100% natural wine from their own land grown Cut the sweet patatoes like french fries Put in the oven on 200 celcius with olive oil, peper, pepper salt and a lot of garlic! For […]

The famous and eternaly popular Spanish gazpacho, one of my favourite tasty and simple dishes from the rich Spanish food culture. (grandma’s recipe!) Simply take full-flavoured sun riped tomatoes, cucumber, garlic, onion, pepper with olive oil, salt, water, bread and wine vinegar. Blend it 4 Large tomatoes 1 small piece of white bread, soaked in water 1 small […]

Seasonal, fresh, rustic and for sure colourful. Splashes off deep red paprika and honey eggplant. Spanish cooking is about food to share with everyone. It’s so tastfull, but not overcomplicated – the sea bream is cooked in sea salt, orata a sale. This is a must make!  Prepared by Jan and Neus Sea Bream 1 […]

I met Pura just in a blink of a second. She invited me to her little colourful home in Toledo.  She has such a energetic  and open presence, she made me smile all the time.  We both love food, it made sense we met each other. Picture us eating something like this in her backyard on a […]

This simple and very delicious dish, also known as pan con tomate. The Spanish  national breakfast.. Choose tomatoes that are ripe, organic and tasty. “The best technique is to scrub tomato directly onto the bread”, says Pamela. We also add some cia seeds and nutritional yeast sprinkles to start the day healthy as possible. The breakfast is […]

Arriving a a tiny dessert town in the north of Spain, called Ocenilla. Sylvia and Jorge cooked us a practically obligated  Spanish dish, a portion of berenjas fritas con miel decaña.  This recipe is even more special because it has a ‘grandma secret’…. make the batter wit beer. It turns out that your eggplant doesn’t get soaked […]