Mini Victoria Sponge Cakes

This recipe will make you smile and enjoy your cup of tea or coffe with 1- 2 -3 or more cakes. As these mini victoria cakes are delightful and sooooo so yummy.

Monte Cristo sandwich ساندویچ مونته کریستو

What a great sandwich. You can make it savoury by adding Mayonnaise and mustard sauce or sweet by adding jam, it is just your choice and both are equally tasty. Traditionally the whole sandwich is dipped in the beaten egg and then pan fried or deep fried. Ingredients 6 slices of toasted bread 8 sliced

Filo Parcels with Camembert Cheese

These pastry parcels are stuffed with Camembert cheese and Cranberry jam. Soooooooo delicious and at the same time very simple and easy recipe for making a perfect dinner or lunch. You can bake them in the oven at 180C for 25 minutes or fry in a pan. Ingredients 250g Camembert cheese Filo pastry sheets Cranberry

Chocolate eggs

It’s very easy and lots of fun to make egg chocolates at home with lots of beautiful ideas for different fillings. Ingredients Chocolate egg shells Milk chocolate, chopped White chocolate, chopped candy buttons Dried raspberries, chopped   For filling 1 cup soft cheese ¾ cup cream 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 cup orange/ apricot jam

Persian Marmalade Cookies (Shirni Mashhadi ) شیرینی مشهدی

These marmalade cookies are traditional Iranian version of shortbread cookies with marmalade or jam. very buttery, delicious and flaky. In Iran you can buy these tasty buttery cookies from bakeries and confectionery shops. These beautiful cookies are called with different names such as: Shirni Mashadi and shirni Almani. These cookies consisting of two cookies between

Persian Marmalade cookies ( Shirni Mashhadi شیرینی مشهدی)

These are Iranian version of shortbread cookies with marmalade. very buttery, delicious and flaky. These beautiful cookies are called Shirni Mashadi or Almani in Iran.They are flavoured with honey, butter and vanilla. garnished with nuts and dried fruits. Once cookies are ready, two cookies are sandwiched together with strawberry- cranberry, orange jam or marmalade and

Sour cherry beef stew ( Khoresht-e Aalbalu) with spiced rice

This is a delicious / aromatic sweet stew due to combination of cherry stew with spiced rice. In Iran, best time to get fresh sour cherry is summer time. Most of housewives make jam and marmalade or simply freeze it, and once, want to make sour cherry stew, they use those. Anyway, I have also

No Oven Homemade Whole-Wheat Muffins

I know usually English muffins made with white flour but i made my muffins with whole wheat flour. These muffin breads are tasty,  nice, tender and slightly moist and they are NO OVEN baked. Ingredients 350g whole-wheat flour 100g plain flour 5g salt 7g dried yeast 200ml warm milk 150ml warm water Extra flour for

Home made whole-wheat muffins

I know usually English muffins made with white flour but i made my muffins with whole wheat muffins.These muffin breads are tasty,  nice, tender and slightly moist. Ingredients 350g whole-wheat flour 100g plain flour 5g salt 7g dried yeast 200ml warm milk 150ml warm water extra flour for dusting     Method Put the whole-wheat

Persian dried rose petals jam (Morabay-e Gol-e Sorkh)

National flowers of Iran are: Rose- Tulip- Mediterranean Cypress and Louts. Among them, rose flowers are most popular and loving between Iranian and have such an especial place. Rose water which is called ‘ Golab’ In Farsi ( Persian) language, is a flavour water made by steeping beautiful rose petals in water and during a