Empanadas with pizza filling: Two dishes in one to celebrate the upcoming Super Bowl.

Chocolate whoopie pies stuffed with salted caramel and whipped cream.

The satisfaction of doing your own Panettone cannot be explained in words.

How to make a classic and delicious Shepherd’s Pie with minced lamb and creamy mashed potatoes!

Wonderful holiday cookies with bitter-sweet expresso

Tortelettes. My grandmother’s crispy, buttery little cookies.

Chocolate Coconut Pinwheels- Keep the dough in the freezer for stunning last minute gifts! Delicious!

This chicken stew is pretty easy to make and it is delicious too. Azerbaijani cuisine.

Boiled eggs in masala gravy get stuffed into a spice marinated well brined chicken. Best chicken ever.

How to brine and then roast a whole chicken!

Passion Fruit Mille-Feuille for Daring Bakers’

Chocolate Mousse Mille-Feuille. Three layers of buttery puff pastry, with rich chocolate mousse in between, and topped with dark chocolate.

Creamy and delicious, Mille-feuille/Napoleon Cake

This month Daring Cooks challenge was a real Brazilian feast. Feijoada with farofa and collard greens.

The popular Spanish empanada in a vegetarian version, filled with caramelized onions, paneer, potato and peas.

This months Daring Cooks Challenge- Brazilian Feijoada. I made a healthy vegetarian version.

Mildly spiced Indian potatoes with Spanish bread – A lovely snack for cold fall evenings

Banana Peanut Butter Bacon Cupcakes, with recipe

Savoury little pies in pastry for Daring bakers

I filled my Empanadas with the mixture Potato, caramelized onion and green peas with some Indian spices. It was absolutely delicious .

Empanada Gallega ~ September 2012 Daring Bakers’ Challenge

Maple Apple Bacon Donuts- dripping with a luscious maple glaze, coated in crisp crumbles of bacon and laced with soft, creamy hints of apple