Hi everyone! Here I am once more! I know you probably saw the title of this post and felt extremely disappointed because you came here to see my grand World Cup Gourmet Series finale, but I’m saving that for later in the week. Also, an incident of my husband leaving the marinating meat out of the fridge overnight (in NYC summer heat) may or may not have happened and may or may not have delayed my Netherlands post… Oops!...

E ai, gente? Tudo bem? Empolgados pra mais uma receita da série Copa do Mundo Gourmet? Hoje eu vou falar um pouco sobre a Bélgica – oficialmente Reino da Bélgica – e seu ABSOLUTAMENTE DELICIOSO, DE COMER CHORANDO, Carbonnade Flammande. Sério… Essa receita vai ganhar seu coração em uma garfada! (Quando eu pedi pro meu marido dar uma nota de 1 a 10, ele deu 11!) A Bélgica é um país que fica na Europa Ocidental; entre a Holanda para o Norte, Alemanha e Luxemburgo para o leste, França para o sul e o Mar Norte para o oeste....

Spooky Halloween Cupcakes I can’t believe this is my first Halloween recipe this year! I’ve been so crazy busy with everything that I barely had time to think of Halloween. But do not worry, I finally caught up with everything, decorated my apartment and made some delicious Halloween cupcakes to celebrate October 31st. These Ghost Halloween Cupcakes are not only spooky, but they are so moist and chocolate-y that they will be the highlight of your Halloween celebrations!...

While you can definitely cook the broth down to make Goulash more like a stew, it is traditionally served as a brothy soup. Check out my Pörkölt for the thick stew version of this dish! This post is sponsored by The Spice Hunter® and includes tracking links. For more information about tracking links and how to opt out, please visit All About Do Not Track prior to clicking any links found in this post....

Love all kinds of indulgent breakfasts? Make sure to also check out our Nutella French Toast and Dulce de Leche Crepes. This is how Brazilians do French Toast! Picture this: it’s December 25 and you’re in Brazil. You wake up late after staying up eating Christmas Eve supper and opening gifts. If you’re a child, you run to the Christmas tree to see what Papai Noel has brought you. If you’re an adult, well, you run to the breakfast table to see what your dad brought from the bakery!...

Looking to add more classic French recipes to your repertoire? I recommend you also check out my Sausage and Chicken Cassoulet, French Leek Tart, Boeuf Bourguignon and Gougères. Welcome to what I am calling a series of “sexy recipes” leading up to Valentine’s Day! To start, one of the sexiest recipes of all times: French Onion Soup. Because who can resist a bowl of this decadent soup, especially when topped with garlic bread and bubbly cheese?...

Love Irish recipes? Make sure to also check out my Homemade Irish Cream and my Guinness Chocolate Cake! An Irish Cake made with Porter Beer Forget the dry, overly sweet fruit cakes you’ve had in the past. This porter cake is coming to this site to prove that fruit cakes CAN be delicious! Especially when they are made with beer. Don’t like beer? Then this recipe is not for you....

Hallo! (Significa “olá” em alemão, caso você não saiba!) Hoje eu vou levá-los em um tour gastronômico pela Alemanha, ou Deutschland – como meu marido gosta de dizer. Ele amaaaaaa a Alemanha e a língua alemã! Se ele ouve alguém falando alemão no metrô, as orelhas dele levantam, tipo a de um cachorrinho, e você vê ele se transformar num menininho feliz! Eu tenho 1/4 de ascendência alemã, pelo lado do meu pai....

(A big thanks to Avocados From Mexico from sponsoring this post and inspiring me to get creative with delicious avocados!) Don’t get me wrong, guacamole still has a huge part of my heart, but I am always looking for ways to explore the yumminess of avocados. Especially considering that it was only recently that I unleashed their true potential. As I told you once before, I grew up believing avocados had to be sweetened to be appreciated....

For more summertime cooking inspiration, check out my All-American Potato Salad, Grilled Cheese Skewers and Berry Sangria. An authentic carne asada recipe! It’s officially grilling season and our grill has been working hard pretty much every night! Nothing beats a summer backyard grilled dinner. Bonus points if it’s steak! If you want to win my family’s heart, serve us steak. 😍😍😍 So, as you can imagine, this carne asada recipe is a family favorite and it is made quite often in our house, either served by itself (with vegetables) or in tacos and burritos....

Boxty on the griddle, Boxty in the pan, If you can’t make boxty, You’ll never get your man. Thankfully, making boxty is easy enough that anybody can do it! Besides, who doesn’t love potato pancakes? Soft, buttery and so creamy on the inside. I could eat them every day! But, ya know what, I think it’s time to take everything up a notch. So I see your delicious potato pancakes and I raise you these ultra cheesy Cheddar Boxty!...

Oh yeah… Leave it to me to make the dorky musical theater reference! C’mon, who doesn’t love Elaine Strich singing that song? But let’s put the small talk aside and go straight to the point here, ’cause I cannot – will not! – wait any longer to talk about these amazing, unbelievable, out-of-this-world Croque Madame Brunch Sandwiches! First, I would like to thank our friends at Cobblestone Bread Co. for sponsoring this post and sending me a variety of delicious bagels and English muffins to try....

Whenever the weather gets warmer, I start craving flavors from back home. This week, my tropical self was itching for some hearts of palm! So I headed to the store, skeptical of my chances of finding some, and – to my surprise – came home with quite a few cans. Oh, I can eat them straight from the can! And while I did snack on one or two, I mostly had to behave, as they are all spoken for....

Lola here! My mom gave me permission to take over her blog today so I could tell you all about our awesome weekend in Woodstock, New York. A few weeks ago, my humans parents (Mom says it’s rude to call them “humans”!) decided Mom was too stressed with working two jobs – they needed to go on a mini vacation! Usually that means that I get to go spend some time with my older humans that have a better house grandparents, but one of mommy’s friends said we could all go stay at this cabin in Woodstock, NY....

I participated in Mom Blog Tour Winter Fancy Food Show (#MomBlogTourFF) on behalf of Wendy’s Bloggers. I received Saffron Road products to facilitate my review, but my opinions and the recipe are my own. Who’s ready to partaaaay? ☀️☀️☀️ The weather is finally amazing here in the East Coast and all I can think about is being outside. I know I will regret saying that when it’s 100 degrees outside and I’m huge and about to pop, but for now I will enjoy and the barbecuing and picnicking that I can!...

Love classic French recipes? 🇫🇷 Then you’ll also like my recipes for Coq au Vin, Boeuf Bourguignon, Gougeres, French Onion Soup and Poulet à la Moutarde. Creme Brulee is one of my favorite recipes to order when dining at a restaurant. I just can’t resist it! But that also means that I’ve had my fair share of “meh” creme brulee. Runny, bland, brulee topping not crackly enough, different flavor twist gone wrong (I’m looking at you matcha), you name it!...

Brazil is hosting the Olympics this year, which start at the beginning of August, so I thought I would put together a compilation of delicious and authentic Brazilian recipes for you. You know, in case you wanna eat like an Olympian… 😉 Most of the recipes below are mine, but since there are a bunch of classics that I don’t yet have in my collection, I went ahead and found some equally amazing Brazilian recipes from blogger friends so I could at least cover the basics....

And while we are on the subject, Gorgonzola is a type of Blue Cheese that is made in Northern Italy. You know how Cognac is brandy that comes from a certain region of France and can only be called Cognac if it comes from that region? Same thing with Gorgonzola/Blue cheese!

To celebrate Bastille Day, I’m going full on French with a delicious savory and sweet Blue Cheese Fig Tart. Serve it for brunch, as an appetizer and/or as a snack and be ready for your tastebuds to start dancing the can-can! French food makes me happy! There’s something so sophisticated and at the same time cozy about French cuisine that really appeals to my foodie self. Besides, nothing like a French tart or even just a French baguette with French cheese, for an awesome picnic by the Eiffel tower....

Love cozy drinks? We also have Mexican Hot Chocolate, Low Carb Hot Chocolate, Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate, Frozen Hot Chocolate and Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix. The creamiest hot cocoa! If you haven’t cozied up with a mug of hot cocoa on a cold day, you are not living your best life! And, for me, nothing beats the richness of our Brazilian version. What makes it Brazilian, you might be asking yourself....