Maple Sautéed Pears are a simple yet elegant skillet dessert where ripe pears are gently cooked in butter and maple syrup until tender, glossy, and lightly caramelized. Warmly spiced with cardamom and finished with optional vanilla, this cozy dish comes together quickly and highlights the natural sweetness of the fruit.
This Carrot Salad with Pine Nuts, raisins, fresh herbs, and a light mayo-yogurt dressing is a simple and tasty dish that will be ready in under 15 minutes. Serve it as a salad or side dish or even a light meal, with some crusty bread.
This Couscous Salad with Apricots and Lavender (and pine nuts) is a tasty dish with both sweet and savoury notes. Also lavender adds a subtle botanical hint, but you will probably not be able to detect the exact herb. So if you are still skeptical about using lavender in savoury recipes, then you should try this salad.
This Raw Zucchini Salad with fresh herbs, feta, and pine nuts is a fresh summer salad for all zucchini lovers. It is an easy and quick to make, healthy, and tasty recipe.
Sicilian pasta with cauliflower – also known as Pasta e Cavolfiore alla Siciliana – is a classic Sicilian dish that beautifully balances sweet, savoury, and briny flavours. Tender cauliflower is paired with anchovies, raisins, and pine nuts, then finished with olive oil and crisp breadcrumbs for texture. Deeply rooted in Sicilian cuisine, this pasta is rustic, comforting, and surprisingly elegant.
Semolina Halwa is a delicious dessert originated in India. It is made by toasting semolina in a fat like ghee or oil, and adding a sweetener like sugar syrup or honey. And when jazzed up with nuts and dried fruit, it is even more delicious!