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Super quick to make and with a special touch, these honey-roasted carrots with crispy ham are a perfect appetizer or a side for any meat or fish dish. Paired with a bit of rice, they also turn into a very special and complete first course. Personally, I love having them with couscous, and as a side for fish dishes on the griddle or baked.

If there's a perfect recipe for a quick dinner, one of those when you barely have time to cook, it's steamed mussels with garlic and parsley. It comes together in a few minutes and the result is very tasty. Also, it's a food with many health benefits. They're fantastic!

If you like eggs as much as I do, you’re going to love today’s recipe. This roasted garlic and potato frittata is utterly delicious. You’ll see it’s easy to make and is a perfect dish for any occasion, though it’s especially appealing now that the cold has arrived.

This Asian-style stir-fried vegetable recipe is a well-rounded Set of flavors that everyone loves. With artichokes, mushrooms, scallions, green asparagus, and corn, this luxurious dish is full of color and flavor. It requires very little cooking time so the vegetables keep all their flavor and retain that crisp bite I love in every mouthful.

These cod fritters are delicious when freshly made, while they're still piping hot. You can serve them with some kind of sauce (mayonnaise, tartar...), as additions to stewed beans or on their own, which is how I like them best. Although I'm sure you can think of other ways to enjoy them.

Today's recipe is perfect for everyday meals, but with a weekend touch: this mushroom pasta recipe has completely won me over, because it offers, in a very easy and uncomplicated way, how to get the most out of and all the aroma from everyday ingredients that pair perfectly with pasta, creating a well-rounded dish.

Yes, besides making apple, pear, plum and so many other delicious fruit tatins, you can make a savory tatin. Today I bring you this vegetable tatin — it tastes delicious and makes a wonderfully appreciated starter or dinner for whoever prepares it and whoever enjoys it.

You’ll agree with me that one of the easiest, quickest, and most appealing ways to cook corn is to toast it on the grill. That’s why, when the grill or the barbecue is fired up, you should take the chance to add a few cobs to the flames that will delight everyone! If you like them as much as I do, pay attention, because with this recipe for corn on the cob with a hint of garlic you’re going to enjoy it like kids.

Adding vegetables to certain doughs, such as in pizza, bread, savory muffins or crêpes, gives us a wide range of possibilities to tinker with traditional recipes and turn them into something completely new, with much more striking and appetizing flavors and colors. And along the way it gives us a solution to get the kids at home to eat them more often and, sometimes, almost without even noticing.

The recipe for savory spinach pancakes (you may also know them as "spinach fritters") is a clear example of this.

On August 15, coinciding with India's Independence Day, World Indian Cuisine Day is celebrated — a cuisine that is becoming more popular every day, whether due to its culinary richness or the increasingly widespread health benefits of using spices.

Do you know the wonderful combination that cheese and jam make? Well, that effect — with the added touch of honey and the juiciness of roasted fruit — is what you get with this fantastic summer recipe. This Camembert baked in a cheese baker and served with apricots and rosemary will be the star of summer appetizers or as a starter for a dinner for two.

You'll have seen that we've dressed the blog for summer, with simple, eye-catching, colorful recipes that are very, very delicious. I'm determined to bring you dishes that let you enjoy the good weather with your loved ones, and that make you lick your lips at how good they are. Recipes with an unbeatable balance between preparation time and enjoyment, because I don't want you to miss a single dip in the pool. Not you, and not me!