appetizer

This sole with leeks can be an appetizer, part of a three course plus dessert dinner or a main course on its own right.

This terrine with herbs is just one example of cream cheese cuisine. Use it as an elegant appetizer for any celebration meal.

A colorful dish, white from the potato and cream, orange from the smoked salmon and trout eggs, deep purple from the cooked beet. When there is color in food, there are anti-oxidants.

Healthful mushrooms make also a delicious side.

A vegetable side dish that can be easily made vegan.

Serve this Italian style casserole any time you can think. You cook and freeze so, one day you fancy a rest from the stove, the only thing you need to do is reheat and eat. Just use a red and white squared table cloth and you have the feel of the trattoria.

Ham and cheese, some spices, these are just smells and taste of home cooking.

Literal translation of the Spanish name. It is a bean soup with no meat or sausage at all. Flavoring the beans is a challenge.

Lentils make a delicious hearty soup or a vegetarian main, if served with rice, and the recipe could not be easier.