Yummy It's Pasta Time: Tagliatelle with creamy spinach and pan-fried salmon

One of my favourite pasta dishes recently is this clean-looking pasta (usually tagliatelle, but I've also used linguine) with seared salmon, fre…

Yummy Gigantes plaki aka Greek giant baked beans

Gigantes plaki (yigandes plaki, γίγαντες πλακί) i s a popular Greek taverna dish, consisting of oven-baked fasolia gigante ("giant") beans …

Nami-Nami Easter Brunch 2012

On Easter Sunday we hosted yet another Easter brunch to our dear friends - something of a tradition by now, as we've done this for almost five ye…

Yummy Beets with cumin seeds and tomatoes

Regular readers of this blog know about my fondness of beetroot.  I'd like to think that I have a pretty good selection and beetroot cream cheese…

Yummy Simple Magic bars recipe

I was due to give a Scottish cookery class last Sunday in Aegviidu - a small town about an hour from Tallinn. While finalising the menu for the cook…

Cardamom-scented apricot and curd cheese cake

Here's a cake we served on this year's Easter Brunch . It's a simple and very popular curd cheese cake that's usually made with canne…

Yummy Beet deviled eggs aka Beetroot devilled eggs for Easter brunch

Beet-pickled eggs have made quite a few appearances here on Nami-Nami. First in April 2007 , then again in March 2008 , but in a marbled form. The rub…

Yummy Nami-Nami Easter Brunch 2013

Another Easter Sunday , another traditional Easter brunch at the Nami-Nami household. We were no less that 25 this time, including lots of kids. The …