Estonian layered curd cheese cake kihiline kohupiimakook
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The photo is from January 2008We love our curd cheese cakes in Estonia - and you'll find at least five curd cheese cake recipes here on my blog. This (...)
We love duck in our house. It's just as easy to cook as your regular Sunday chicken roast, but because it's less common, somewhat pricier and much bitter, it (...)
Our little family of five spent three weeks exploring the beautiful Island of the Gods aka Bali earlier this year. We began our family vacation in Jimbaran, (...)
How do you enjoy the persimmons, in season right now?Here in Estonia we can by mostly the heart-shaped hachiya variety, which is astringent when raw, but (...)
Those baked apple pie roll ups by Spend With Pennies turned up on social media last week and I decided to give them a go. It's a very good year for apples in (...)
For some reason, our northern neighbours, the Finns, call dishes containing raspberries and blueberries (well, actually bilberries) kuningatar-this and (...)
We had some friends over today and I needed something bright and yummy (and without gluten) to be served on this sunny day. I was browsing my to-do(-again) (...)
As the tourist season approaches, I get many emails asking for dining recommendations in Tallinn specifically and in Estonia more generally. I asked my friend (...)
Lemony bread and butter pudding with custard and berries
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It's been a while since my last proper blog post, I know. It's not that I've neglected my food-loving readers, I've just been focusing on my Estonian readers (...)
Are you familiar with garlic scapes? I've actually mentioned them here on my blog, Nami-Nami, just over ten years ago (YES, NAMI-NAMI BLOG QUIETLY CELEBRATED (...)
Badrijani is the Georgian rolled eggplant dish we've been missing our whole life, wrote Lucky Peach on its Facebook page yesterday. I don't really know about (...)
Gluten-free hazelnut meringue roulade budapest style
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I am writing this post while sitting on a really comfortable bed in a brand new hotel in Helsinki, called Indigo Hotel. I'm in town for a long weekend to enjoy (...)
Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovely Nami-Nami readers out there!Today's recipe is this gluten-free and fun cake from Denmark, where it's considered to be (...)
Cullen Skink Scottish smoked haddock and potato soup gluten-free
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Few days ago the Scots - and friends of Scotland - celebrated yet another anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, hosting or attending a Burns Supper. Any (...)
A few years ago Saveur, the American food magazine, featured some Latvian recipes(Latvians, remember, are our Southern neighbours).Among them was a recipe for (...)
Time to start preparing for the Christmas holidays and I offer you a lovely cookie recipe! Although we'll be mostly eating piparkoogid aka gingerbread cookies (...)
Time for soup! Earlier this year I came across a recipe for Islandic lamb and cabbage soup in the blogosphere. Lovely soup and justifiably popular - and almost (...)
This was originally posed in January 2009. I'm reposting this with new photos.I'm not sure why it took me so long to make my own granola to sprinkle on yogurt (...)
Sea-buckthorn is a popular autumn berry here in Estonia. I'm afraid it's not so widely known in the US where most of my blog readers are based. However, given (...)
Apple strohdel hot apple toddy with austrian stroh rum
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I've been testing various recipes using the spiced Austrian rum, Stroh, and this autumn/winter drink was quite popular. The ApfelSTROHdel recipe is adapted (...)
Recipe by Pille @Nami-Nami.All photos byJuta Kübarseppfor theSeptember 2014issue ofKodu ja Aed("Home and Garden"), an Estonian monthly magazine. I've been (...)
