My name is Eva. I discovered my passion for cooking as a child. I loved helping my grandmothers in the kitchen and asking them questions about cooking. Today, I am happy to be the hostess of pots and pans and can spend hours in my kitchen.

As soon as the kitchen door closes, I find myself in my own little world and do so with great joy and passion. I’m also studying online marketing at International University after I’ve already taken additional training as a social media specialist. In my freelance work as a blogger, I develop recipes for companies or advise them on blogger collaboration and social media activities. I also write articles for company blogs, advise on events and cook live in front of the public.

Good produce and fresh ingredients are very important to me in my recipes. That’s why I pay attention to quality and provenance and try to buy regionally and organically. My particular love is Italian cuisine, but I often cook international cuisine and try new things over and over again. Over time I have developed my own style of cooking, sometimes with an Italian twist, sometimes international, but always delicious. I take the best of Italian, Spanish and German cuisine and combine them into a delicious whole.

In addition to cooking, I love traveling and photography, which served as the best context for creating the blog in May 2015. The cherry on the cake of my career was winning a cooking show in 2016, where I was able to set myself apart from hundreds of competitors and win the title of 2016 Amateur Chef of the Year. Since then, I’ve put my heart and soul into this blog, and I’m always trying to expand it and fill it with more love, great and delicious recipes, and lots of helpful tips on the topic of food.

My grandmother cooked like a god! My grandparents lived nearby and I used to go there often, including to eat. Grandma also baked amazingly! But it never occurred to me to watch her cook, much less ask her to “teach me how to cook. Sometimes my mother tried to involve me: “Katya, come and see, I’ll make stuffed cabbage rolls” – I always refused. No one ever told me that “if you don’t know how to cook, your husband will leave you. My dad would cook anything himself and there was no patriarchy in our family, my parents raised me in a free spirit.

Everything I cook now is basically acceptable. I roast meat, cook vegetables in a wok – it’s all quick, easy and delicious – there are so many spices now! I read on a list of “what every girl should know how to cook” – steak is almost everywhere. So the question is, what is there to cook it? The main thing for steak is good meat, and then it will cook itself – you just need to look in the book how many minutes by weight you need to cook on each side for the desired degree of roast, have good salt and freshly ground pepper. The ability to cook steak is greatly exaggerated… But I hardly ever eat red meat, and I’m drawn to steak once a year for some American holiday.

As you can see, cooking is not just “cooking” to me. It’s a hobby, a calling – cooking is my passion. So oven, all the world!