Author: Caterina Borg, Good Food Gourmet
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Dark Chocolate Ambrosia Rice Pudding
I was fortunate enough to grow up in Australia where I was surrounded by so many different cultures that taught me so much about the people and their local cuisine. The one thing that was common to all of them was that they were very resourceful when it came to cooking. One thing I learned…
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Summer Coconut Rum Cake
I recently came across an interesting coconut cake recipe on a blog called chef in disguise that used semolina. The cake is similar to the revani cake made in the Greek community, but when using semolina, you really need to know what grade of semolina to use (med or coarse) and many recipes don’t specify.…
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All About Coconut Water
A few years ago, drinking coconut water became all the rage in the USA, and many companies began bottling and canning this tropical delicacy that has been peddled by street vendors in southeast Asia and south America for decades. Historically, coconut water has been a popular drink in these countries where it is available fresh…
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Pudim de Pão
Everyone loves a great bread pudding, but I bet you’ve never had a bread pudding quite like this one before. This delicious bread pudding has a lighter and more uniform texture than the traditional bread puddings, and once you taste it, you’ll agree that it’s more like a cross between a bread pudding and a…
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Mexican Capirotada
The few weeks before Easter, I was doing a lot of research on Lenten desserts. I came across so many that I highlighted and wrote about in the weeks leading up to the Easter holiday. One of them that I came across was something called Capirotada (ka-pe-ro-ta-da), which is a Mexican dessert traditionally eaten during…
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Marbled Easter Candy Bread
OK…so it’s the day after Easter and you either have a pile of Easter candy left over after the weekend or you are planning to head to the store with your money in hand to take advantage of the clearance sales on all the goodies that will now be 50% off. I don’t know about…
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Easter Sunday Povitica
I remember hearing about this dessert many years ago on a show that I loved called Food Finds. It was one of the first groundbreaking shows on the Food Network that created opportunities for so many shows that came after it. I never understood why they took the show off the air, but I guess…
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One Great Recipe, Many Easter Bread Options
I come across so many cute recipe ideas when I’m online doing my research, and there were a few that I found on a few different sites that I thought were absolutely adorable and wanted to share them with you.
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Dark Chocolate Maple Pecan Baklava Rolls
Enjoying homemade baklava feels like a guilty pleasure. I grew up in a home where we made it all the time using melted butter to generously coat the filo. The truth is, you can use either butter or oil and in fact, many Greeks make it with oil at home. Not because they have anything…
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Lenten Dessert Dumplings
In the late 90’s, there was a series on PBS called ‘Great Chefs’. This series of cooking shows was so popular that they began a franchise dedicated to highlight talented Chefs from all over the USA. It began with Great Chefs of San Francisco, then Chicago, then New Orleans…well, you get the idea. When the…