Tag: homemade

• Delicious Eggplant Gratin: A Taste of Italy at Home

  

  Welcome back to my blog! It’s definitely summer time now here in NYC. I really try not to cook much in the summer but it’s hard to stay away when homemade food tastes so much better than eating out. This is a fun dish to assemble, requires minimal work, simple ingredients and tastes fabulous! It…

  Nikki Mak

  July 12, 2025

  Recipes

  basil, breadcrumbs, easy, eggplant, food, gratin, herbs de provence, homemade, italy, mozzarella, parmesan, recipe, Recipes, summer, tomato, tomato sauce, vacation, vegetarian

• Immune Supportive Broth

  

  What’s going on guys, I have returned! It’s been a bit of a hiatus as I have been dealing with some headaches but I hope that you are all well and healthy. Now that flu season is upon us and there’s been a bit of a bug going around with scratchy throats, runny noses, fever…

  Nikki Mak

  November 18, 2023

  Recipes

  broth, carrots, celery, cold weather, garlic, ginger, homemade, immune support, infections, mushrooms, pathogens, seasonal flu, sesame oil, turmeric, vegetables

• Black Forest Cake

  

  Oh hello there chocolate cherry lover! This one is for you! Here’s my Black Forest Cake that I had the pleasure of baking this past week from scratch. It actually came as a request! I was definitely excited to whip up this cake in my kitchen, no doubt about it. I’ve always loved baking and…

  Nikki Mak

  May 9, 2022

  Heavenly Sweets

  baking, cake, cherries, cherry, chocolate, filling, homemade, maraschino, whip cream