The Swedish smörgåstårta is very popular in the summer and is often served on school graduations or fits to all big summer celebrations. This particularly on might not be the first one that comes to mind, but both kids and adults will love it. The cake is best to prepare one day before, that way it has time to rest in the fridge over the night.

This is a homemade family recipe of a French meatloaf. It fits together with or without a sauce and onions, and mushrooms. What defines a French meatloaf is the breaded in the meat and the crust, that can be crispy or not depending of the family tradition.

This is a Japanese shouy Ramen with beef, also known a soy sauce noodle soup. The ingredients can be change after the season and taste preference, but the soup base will remain the same. The soup is made with broth, soy sauce, ginger and garlic.

This is a delicious pie filled with soft onion and bacon covered with a layer of melted cheese. The pie can be a lighter dinner on Friday evening or perfect for brunch or lunch on Sunday.

If you like pizza and looking for a different recipe than the usual ones, this is for you. It’s a pizza with a crispy bottom with a tomato sauce and a topping with zucchini, goat cheese and grilled paprika.

This is a dish made with camembert cheese, potatoes, onion and bacon and fits perfect on a cold winter day. The original dish tartiflette is made with reblochon cheese instead of camembert cheese. It’s a heavy dish so a green salad and a French baguette is all you need on the side.

Cordon bleu is a classic dish from Switzerland made with thin slices of veal wrapped around a filling of cheese and ham, with crispy double breaded surface. When it’s cut open the melted cheese will pour out. Other versions of the dish could be found with pork or chicken.

This is a homemade Japanese inspired pizza where the bottom is made with tofu and prepared in the frying pan instead of in the oven. It is a healthy way of eating pizza if you’re counting your daily calorie intake. You can choose low fat cheese and switch to a tomato sauce with no added sugar to reduce the calories even more. For topping you can use your favorite pizza ingredients.

A hot variation from the original lasagna with minced meat. It has a rich and spicy taste of the sausages, vegetables and the tomato sauce with chili. If you have a big family party you can double the ingredients and prepare it in a big oven form so everyone get some.

Traditional homemade Chinese dumplings are boiled in water not fried or steamed as many seems to believe. If you boil the dumplings, they become very tender and delicious and not crispy as they often are served outside China. They can be filled with many different variations, but this recipe has vegetarian filling.

A homemade spinach soup with fresh ginger to make it spicier is perfect on a cold autumn day. You can add butter fried bread pieces or boiled eggs in the soup to enhance the flavor even more.