Chocolate spice cake cookies

Right around the time I stopped eating meat as a teenager, I spent a summer working at a local wildlife care clinic. If squeamishness about meat had played any role in my decision to become vegetarian, that would have been the shortest internship ever. Without going into detail, let’s just say that the recipes for […]

Adieu to 2011

This year has seen some changes at Emperor’s Crumbs; in our first full year in California, we have been posting more recipes that reflect what we eat day-to-day, not only the classics from Central Europe. I do wish we had time to post more recipes overall – one of my resolutions for 2012, definitely! As […]

A pasta collage with spinach, chickpeas and breadcrumbs

Whether you went to preschool, ovoda or skolka, I bet you probably made some kind of artwork involving beans and bits of macaroni and a lot of glue. It’s a childhood classic! The pasta collage I present to you here is a classic too, in that I have stolen great ideas from far and wide, […]

Banana bread (not the kind you’re thinking of)

When I hear “banana bread”, what comes to mind is the bake-sale staple, a quick bread that is more like a cake, really. So when I was at the library a couple of weeks ago and thumbing through a Jamie Oliver cookbook while the kids selected their easy readers, I was intrigued by a recipe […]