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• Coriander - Cilantro

  Herb you can find in many cuisines worldwide. People usually love the taste of the leaves or hate. Except the leaves you can use the seeds as such or as a powder.

• Aloo channa masala - Potato and chickpeas masala

  On the suburb of Pushkar, picturesque town in Rajasthan in the North India, is a small restaurant, where I got this masala. It was amazing and even better thank to the fact the chapati served with it was made traditional way, in a clay tandoori oven.

• Aloo jeera fry - Fried potatoes with cumin

  If you love fried potatoes, it is time to tune them up a bit by some great Indian spices :) Great as a side dish, but in India they serve them with rice or local bread.

• Aloo masala - Potato curry

  Another curry, which definitely belongs to Indian classics. You can get it in India whole day, including breakfast. If you have some boiled potatoes leftovers, aloo masala is an option number one ;)

• Aloo roast - Potato roast

  Another from the range of Kerala specials from South India. I have learnt this recipe from a lady, who except all the other delicacies made the best curries in whole South India I had a chance to try!

• Beef biryani

  This beef biryani I have learnt in one muslim village in Kerala, India. When you moved out of the village for just a few kilometers, cows were sacred there because of hinduism.

• Bun cha gio - Vermicelli with fried spring rolls

  If you made too many spring rolls, you can eat part of them with vermicelli and you get Bun cha gio. Really simple dish. You just cut spring rolls on noodles, add some vegetables, traditional Vietnamese sauce and here we go. I have got some pork on the picture too, but it was a bonus ;)

• Duck noodle soup Bun Mang Vit

  When imagining Vietnamese cuisine, most probably it is gonna be around the great noodle soups. The most known is probably Pho, which means wide noodles in Vietnamese. This recipe is about soup made of thin noodles, called vermicelli, in Vietnamese Bun. It is an amazing combination of duck meat, bamboo shoots and radish.

• Egg curry

  Egg curry was my very first dish in India. I recall the picture with all the details. The food was delicious, 10 locals where looking at me like at a sacred picture, they were nodding their heads from side to side, smiling and the room was filled with the amazing smell of masala tea.

• Fish tagine

  Because of surfing I spent loads of time on Atlantic coastline of Morocco. That`s why a fresh fish was my daily bread. Grilled, fried or made in traditional Moroccan dish, tagine. This recipe I learned in a restaurant on my favourite beach, Lagzira.

• Fried liver with tomatoes and cucumber

  Vietnamese cuisine is full of recipes with inners. I love this recipe, as it is very fast, full of fresh herbs and it is delicious.

• Fried sardines with herbs ala Omar

  Fried sardines dusted in flour you will get easily nearly everywhere in Morocco. Usually it is a huge portion and it costs nearly nothing. But the recipe I learned from Omar in a fisherman house on the beach was simply the best.

• Gai phat met mamuang himmaphan - Chicken with cashew nuts

  Irresistible combination of various flavors and consistencies. Another delicacy from range of not spicy Thai dishes.

• Gai sabb - Fried chicken salad

  If you get a salad with meat in the "west", it is usually loads of vegetables just topped with a few bits of meat. In Thai salads it is the other way. Meat is the main ingredient and vegetable plays a supporting role. In spite of the loads of meat, this salad is very refreshing and suitable for summer heats too.

• Gobi - Cauliflower without onion and garlic

  There are recipes in Indian cuisine, where you will find no onion and garlic, which are ingredients used very often otherwise. One of the reasons is, that garlic and onion are considered as medicine and thats why they should be used moderately. Very easy and tasty recipe from North India.

• Gobi masala - Couliflower masala

  This recipe I learnt from gipsies in a desert in Rajasthan, like chapati for instance. As they can`t afford having full pantry of ingredients ( .... they even do not have a pantry at all actually ......) they use just a minimum of them. Sometimes less means more, including this gobi masala recipe. Try it, it is worth it.

• Goi cuon - Fresh spring rolls

  Popular Vietnamese dish. Perfect for hot summer days. As many of other Vietnamese cuisine dishes, there are no spices used for the rolls. The flavor is added by any kind of your favorite dipping sauce.

• Cha gio - Fried spring rolls

  When thinking of Vietnamese cuisine, fried spring rolls would probably belong to the three top of mind dishes. The filling is very variable. You can use minced pork, or go for a vegetarian version. One of the vegetables used often in Vietnam is a corm of taro, Colocasia.

• Channa masala - Chick pea masala

  I cannot imagine India without this dish. This is simply one of the most common dishes you can get across India, usually for breakfast already with various kinds of rotis and then all day long with rice and other kinds of Indian dishes.

• Chicken curry

  It was a nice change to have a bit of a meat in India. Very interesting part was buying the chicken already. It was as fresh as it gets. Traditionally there are no fridges in India`s meat shops. There are live chicken instead running around and got "ready" only when a customer comes and buy one or two.

• Jeera rice - Fried rice with cumin

  Jeera rice is one of the most popular rice side dishes in India. It is a very nice combination of aromatic jeera (cumin), sweet raisins and crunchy cashews. All smoothened by quite loads of ghee. It is served with various kinds of North Indian curries, dhals and other dishes.

• Kaddu rajma - Pumpkin with red beans

  Another delicacy from Norh Indian cuisine. Full of proteins thanks to red kidney beans, which add to the dish nice hardish consistency. On the other hand combined with tender pumpkin with nice orange color. I do miss it! :)

• Larb moo - Minced pork meat salad

  When one says refreshing salad, the last thing to imagine would be a salad made of pork minced meat. But with a lime juice, fresh herbs, spring onions ...... I was able to get it even in the biggest heats.

• Palak chole - Punjabi spinach with chickpeas

  It was impossible to get through all the narrow streets of night Amritsar in Indian state Punjab and not to come back with such a filled tummy that it was just ready to explode. At every corner there was a vendor cooking and serving on the street the best delicacies, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. And they all smelled so good. Palak chole, spinach with chickpeas represents the real Indian scent for me. Garam masala, cinnamon, cardamon .... so hard to resist and why actually :)

• Paneer and cashew nuts in a white gravy

  This was simply a balsam for my soul. So fine, creamy and delicate .... And it is quite easy to make home made paneer too. Or substitute it with tofu for instance.

• Paneer palak - Cheese with spinach

  One of my favorite North Indian recipes, which I learned in a small restaurant, including a recipe, how to make a home made paneer. I was surprised how simple it is :)

• Pumpkin chana - Pumpkin with chickpeas

  Another delicacy from Norh Indian cuisine. Full of proteins thanks to chickpeas, which add to the dish nice hardish consistency. On the other hand combined with tender pumpkin with nice orange color. When I picture the local markets with heaps of pumpkins and chickpeas sold from huge bags .... what a nostalgia. I do miss India! :)

• Raita - Indian salad with yoghurt dressing

  Raita is a yoghurt dressing used for traditional Indian salad of the same name. The basic of the salad, except for the yoghurt, usually is red onion with some of following vegetables like cucumber, capsicum, tomato or their combination. The salad you can see on the picture are mainly onions and just a few tomatoes.

• Summer squid salad

  We were riding motorbike on the beach, got a fresh squid from fishermen, just from the boat, asked one nice lady by the road to make it for us. And she made such an amazing and refreshing salad. Perfect food for summer heats.

• Tom yum gai - Sour and spicy soup with chicken

  Tom yum means sour and spicy. So if you do not know this soup, you probably already got the hint what to expect. The soup is not just a little bit sour and spicy. At least not if you get it in Thailand. Where they definitely are not moderate when using chilies and all various ingredients bringing sourness into the soup. This traditional Thai soup is amazing and very refreshing.

• Vegetarian biryani with pineapple

  I met a couple who owned a hidden small restaurant somewhere in a palm tree wood. They taught me a few fantastic recipes, this vegetarian pineapple biryani included. It is important to use basmati rice and if you have a pineapple extract too, it will bring the dish to a higher level. Still, it is yummy without it as well ;)