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So, what happens if you like to cook, you like writing songs and like video-production? You might start singing about recipes and post them in a videosong. Which just happened with me. It’s a practical song that you can actually cook! Crepes Recipe is the debut song from a collection of videosongs I plan to post in an album called “Kitchen Tunes”.
You can download the Crepe Recipe mp3 for free from Reverb Nation.

Please leave a comment and let me know if you cooked this Crepes Recipe and if you liked it!

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Chocolate Tart

Don’t be fooled. This humble chocolate tart is packed with enough potential to turn even the most chocolate-disciplined person into a dessert-ivore. So much more that is so easy and fast – if you read my previous post on baking short crust sweet pastry tart shells and you have two or three of them in the freezer.

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Short Crust

In days when I crave something sweet and classy (and that’s daily, lately) this flexible short crust I discovered in Jamie Oliver’s The Naked Chef cook book saves me of going through intense labor to create a delicious tart.

I will be referring to this short crust many times so you better give it a try and familiarize yourself with it.

The next post will be a simple wicked chocolate filling that paired with this crust produces a sublime chocolate tart.

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Strawberry Short Cake

As every caring husband would do, I wanted to get the perfect Birthday gift to my dear wife, cooking the perfect meal,  make her day, etc., and as every procrastinator husband does, I realized half day into it that I did NOT have a plan!

Luckily I went grocery shopping a day before so I had the ingredients but I had to improvise and this is the menu I came up with, preparing the whole dinner in little less than 3 hours.

So I was thinking slightly Italian given the fact that she likes Mediterranean simplicity, taste and colors.

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The main chef at Mamaliga strikes again! This time featured in the spotlight of Foodbuzz.com, the online foodie community, a superb social and culinary network for all of us passionate about cooking

A unique community in itself, that let’s you and me connect, share, discuss view and track every little crumb of your life in the kitchen and beyond. It is a community that buzzes about food!

From browsing thousands of recipes voted by the foodbuzz community, savoring the Daily Special recipe, to the 24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Posts monthly event, presenting 24 unique meals that take place around the world in 24 hours.

So one thing I don’t understand is why – oh why – you, dear reader who appreciate cooking, food and fellow foodies,  didn’t created yet an account with Foodbuzz and start the exciting journey in a community that’s all about it!

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