Recipes & Lifestyle

The sun on your plate, that is this easy to prepare salad with mango and tomato. The origin of this salad is probably India. There, in the sometimes extremely hot...

It will not have escaped even the slightly older reader of this website's attention, but cucumbers were in high demand in the summer of 2024. The cause was an unexpected...

No, this is not a dressing for your summer fruit, but a spectacular dressing, in which berries play the leading role. It is a delicious summery dressing for every salad....

β-sitosterol or beta-sitosterol is one of several bioactive substances or phytosterols with a chemical structure similar to cholesterol.β-sitosterol is widespread in the plant kingdom. It is mainly found in vegetable...

The Bulgarian salad (or Šopska salata) is, like the Greek salad and the Caprese salad, a modern invention.Origin of Bulgarian saladThe Bulgarian salad first appeared in a Bulgarian cookbook from 1940. In the...

Fried black olives (Olive nero al forno) is a typical dish that is made on a large scale especially in southern Italy. They are served as an aperitif, together with meat and...

Toum is a Lebanese garlic sauce that is related to several other sauces in the countries around the Mediterranean. You probably know the aioli, that French garlic sauce that is...

As has been noted a few times before, the Caprese Salad is not a classic, but a relatively young invention. This salad originated in 1924 and perhaps we can call it a...

Of course, we've known it for a long time: extra virgin olive oil has positive effects on your heart health. But, as a number of American researchers wondered, how much...

Not everyone feels like fresh salads during the dark and somewhat gloomy winter months. But salads are healthy and fit into most diets, even the low-carb diet. No Italian will...

A pasta that is not only super fast, but also uses only a few ingredients. The winter vegetables in the pasta sauce provide a delicious and almost silky green sauce....

Tunisia is pleased with the 2024/25 harvest year, with the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture estimating that the country will produce around 340,000 metric tons of extra virgin olive oil, the...