An Italian soft white bread filled with cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and fresh basil. Beautiful, delicious and easy to make.

A snack and festive fare from Kerala of fried ripe plantain fritters filled with toasted coconut, jaggery, cashewnuts, raisins and cardamom.

Aaam Ki Launji- a sweet and sour Indian mango pickle or chutney with fennel seeds/saunf, Nigella seeds/kalonji, and powdered jaggery.

Shubak el-Habayeb is an Iraqi sesame topped flatbread flavoured with rose and ornage blossom waters, cardamom and mahaleb.

A South Indian summertime thirst quencher made with buttermilk or thinned yogurt spiced with ginger, lime, and curry leaves.

Akoori, a Parsi (Indian) dish of spiced scrambled egg served on toast.

South Indian breakfast or tea time snack of tangy and spiced beaten rice flakes.

My take on brioche style bread that is mildly sweet and orange flavoured, from the Nantes region of France

Whole wheat wraps filled with a spiced chickpea filling cooked in the Peshawari (Pakistan & India) style.

A light and summery pasta salad made with ruote/rotelle or wagon wheel pasta, cucumbers, chickpeas and mint.

Egg free two toned chocolate and vanilla cut out cookies that are just perfect baking for the Christmas season.

A sweet And savory dried fruit pulao/ polov/ pilaf.

Whole Wheat Bran Bread With Walnuts & Dates

Egg free Espresso Semifreddo with peanut brittle

Acharuli/ Adjaruli Khachapuri – a boat shaped Georgian egg & cheese or tomato and cheese bread.

Thai style crunchy cabbage, sprouts and peanut salad.

Christmassy decorated gingerbread row house cookies.

Snowball Cookies from Goa (India) – egg free and nut free sugar covered Christmas treats.

A Russian/ Georgian Chrysanthemum Bread filled with spicy and garlicky herbed cheese spread and spring onions.

Festive Indian Milk Fudge made for Diwali with milk, sugar, cardamom, saffron and chopped nuts.

Celebrating Sandwich Day with a vegetarian Peublan Style Cemita Sandwich with Green Tomato Salsa Verde