Ioana's kitchen

Yes, you guessed right! It’s sourdough starter I’m talking about. This amazing ‘creature’ everybody has been playing with in their home kitchens over the last few months, and especially during the lock-down caused by the pandemics all over the world. ‘Cause what better activity to … Read more

Like most of my baking, this is connected to my life here in Copenhagen. Actually, even more, sourdough bread baking is somehow also related to my Danish language learning process. It was sometime at the end of 2017, about one year after I had moved … Read more

Crème caramel (or ‘burnt sugar cream’ as we call it in Romanian) is that desert of my childhood my mom would always fix when we were having too many eggs and we wouldn’t want them to get too old. It seemed fairly easy to make … Read more

I love a little citrusy touch to some of my deserts. I think citrus zest is such an easy and convenient way to give an extra zingy taste to sweets. My mom would always add some lemon and/or orange zest in a sweet porridge or … Read more

Making elderflower fermented drink is the most common way of using elderflower blossoms back home in Romania. So that’s the smell of my childhood’s springs at my parents home. Funny enough, I’m actually not a big fan of elderflower in general (unless it comes in … Read more

It was maybe one year ago when I first tried a slice of the infamous burnt basque cheesecake. I know, a bit later than the initial wave of obsession with it, as I would find out afterwards, but hey! Better later than never 🙂 I’m … Read more