Europe

Ice cream for dessert makes the occasion festive. Ice cream is not difficult to make and you can experiment with ingredients, flavors and extras, like the almonds and raisins in this recipe.

A dish full of flavor and full of color to decorate any table. Choose the wine to use carefully, a fresh, sparkling white wine with a clean taste is the perfect one to cook fish in.

The basic vinaigrette is prepared using only vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper. For the variations suggested, prepare first the basic vinaigrette, mixing the other ingredients later.

This dessert sauce goes wonderfully well with fresh fruits like strawberries. Choose some large and lusciously sweet.

When it comes to scones, you really are spoiled for choice. Scones can be sweet, savory or with some thing, like sour cream scones.

Piquillo peppers have their own unique flavor, sweet and spicy. You can serve this one as a sorbet, or pour 1 cup of the cold cream in the ice cream maker and put mini scoops of piquillo pepper sorbet, as garnish, in the bowls with chilled soup.

Create a warm Italian atmosphere with cannelloni. It is easy with tomatoes from a tin, available at all seasons.

Quiche Lorraine is a savory pie made of cream, eggs, and bacon. It takes the name from the Lorraine area in France, famous for its bacon. Cheese is often added to the ingredients.

This is a low fat version of traditional Greek tzatziki.