Dragon Strawberry Milkshake

Ever since the time I saw the teaser trailer for Dragons from The Secret World, I wanted to make the strawberry milkshake that the protagonist of the trailer makes.

Another version of the video was released eventually, this time it had the recipe for the milkshake at the end and that was it - the recipe was handed to me on a silver plate. I only had to wait until the strawberries were in season...

Late April is not the strawberry season by any means but the store I go to for afternoon snack had them discounted for the time being and so it was decided, I would make the milkshake. Was it chance or providence, it was also my name day, a day in the year that's treated as a smaller birthday (optionally with a small gift and a small cake). There was no better day to have a Dragon Strawberry Milkshake prepared for an after-dinner dessert.

I made enough milkshake for three people with adjusted values from the original recipe and also converted it to metric units, as I always do, but if you want the original recipe, here is the screenshot from the teaser trailer.

Nádivka - Easter Stuffing Cupcakes

Even though Easter is long gone, there's one thing I miss about it the most. It's the traditional Czech Nádivka, stuffing which you paradoxically don't stuff into anything (though you can) but you eat it on its own. Clearly, it used to be put inside a goose or a chicken, but nowadays we just eat it as a cake. A savoury cake.

This Easter my mum came up with a cupcake version of Nádivka that I fell in love with. It was SO good that the little cupcakes practically disappeared in a while. It is the combination of bacon and rohlíky with the spring herbs that makes you crave more as soon as you finish one. Omnomnomnom. 

I know that rohlíky are pretty much a Czech speciality and anywhere else in the world you have to do with all sorts of boring bread but if you'd like to make your own Nádivka cupcakes, I suggest using a fresh baguette, which would be rohlík's closest substitute, in my opinion.