Ilse's Kitchen - culinary adventures of a girl who loves to eat

Cherries!!! The season is beginning and fruit and vegetable shops are starting to fill up with them - red, shiny and irresistible. For those days when you - like me - cannot resist and are looking for something different to do with them than eat them raw (which pretty awesome in itself), try this recipe for a feel-good brunch. Or dessert. Or whatever :) This photo was taken a while back at a vegetable market in Timisoara, Romania. Look at me being happy about all those heaping piles of cherries... 🍒 Ingredients (serves 4): cherry compote 500g sweet ripe cherries 4 tbsp lemon juice 100ml orange juice 2 tbsp red wine 1 vanilla bean 70g sugar 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon crepe batter 125g flour 2 eggs 300ml milk 20g melted butter 1 tsp rum (optional) pinch of salt cream cheese filling 200g cream cheese 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 30g (1/4 cup) powdered sugar Instructions: 1. Start with the compôte. Stone (de-seed) the cherries and remove the stems. If you lik...

Everyone with an office job and a love of creative breakfasts should stock up on puff pastry - you know, the ready made kind you keep in the freezer. This mini obsession kept me happy for quite a while, brought on partly by just how little it takes to make a decent pastry. So far, I've played around with mango, peach, cherry, pear, apple and chocolate. These cherry pin wheels were not just delicious, but pretty to boot :)