Welcome!
My passion for food is enriched in both the kitchen and life. Enjoying food is all about finding the right balance and falling in love with it all over again! As you skim through my recipes you’ll find plenty of decadent and easy-to-make recipes using simple ingredients you may find in your kitchen.
I provide some low-fat, low-carb recipes as well as some cheat foods – because I’m a big believer in indulgence without regret.
My relationship with food
After years of feeling lost in the crazy world of crash diets, I’ve finally found myself in a healthy relationship with food. This means eating without any resentment or deprivation.
If you’re looking to work on your relationship with food, you’re in the right place! From a fresh Grilled Chicken Cobb Caesar Salad one day, to a Nutella Stuffed Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookie the next, we are all about finding balance in your diet.
Updating my recipes regularly, here you will find endless inspiration for weekly meals, dinner party dishes, and breakfasts including our world-famous Best Fluffy Pancakes and of course, delectable desserts like our Brownies.
Where did it all begin?
What started as a food diary on the Cafe Delites Instagram in 2014, quickly developed into a full-blown love affair both in the kitchen and behind the lens. Fast forward two years and Cafe Delites has become a foodie favourite across the globe.
Check out some of my published recipes that have been featured by other publications from around the world, on my media page.
This is my new path. After surviving cancer (Stage 4B Hodgkins Lymphoma) and a lot of life’s other great difficulties including childhood molestation and abuse; I am here, I am alive and although my life is far from perfect, I am eternally grateful to have been given a ‘second chance.’ Read more about my cancer journey (yes, I wrote a book too!).
Welcome to my blog!
Karina, your recipes feed my family every week. I’ve searched through many blogs for successful meal plans and single recipes, your blog is hands down the best. Everything you make has such great flavour. Each one of your recipes had been such a success at our house, especially the soups! I couldn’t cook a soup to save my life before I made your broccoli cheese soup. Now it’s my go-to to impress guests. It’s way better than Panera, and people have a hard time believing I made it from scratch. Thank you for each and every one of your recipes. Please never stop, so I can keep on cooking!
Hello Karina,
I accidentally found your site through your Facebook page. Tried one recipe (I think it was chicken in white sauce with capers), and liked it so much! Simple, quick, reach on flavor. It was perfect. Then I tried a second recipe… Now I am your fan 🙂 Since me and my husband started to eat healthy, we had to start to cook for ourselves as well. You have a lot of recipes that fit our no-sugar diet. And what’s important – easy to cook, realistic ingredients, and crazy delicious!
Thank you very much, Karina, for your work. You are amazing cook, and beautiful woman (I saw your pictures).
Just so you know: when I am thinking what to cook today, my first move is to open your site. And most of the times I will cook something from there.
Goid job, Marina!
Thank you 🙂
Wow…………. thanks Karina, not only are you gorgeous……………your almost as good a cook as me. l0l
Karina…. Nothing better than inspirational human stories that one can contemplate over delicious food. Thank you for both. I only started to love cooking late in life (60 yo guy) yet it offers great joy. Cooking is a terrific way to show love to friends and those you care about. Unfortunately, the waistline grew with my skills. So whilst looking for low carb healthy recipes stumbled serendipitously across your blog. My first effort sucked (see my comment with chicken carbonara – totally my fault). Otherwise, I am a new loyal follower.
Warm regards,
Buck.
God bless you great recipes my husband picked your honey chicken recipe.
WOW – The Banana Bread is phantastic!
Dear Karina,
we had some Bananas left and I didn’t know what to do. Then I found your website and the Banana Bread is phantastic. I put just 100g chocolate drops into the dough and made a dark chocolate coating with dark.
The Banana Bread didn’t survive 24 hours ;-). I will bake it more often!
Thank you very much for the recipe.
Best regards from Munich, Germany,
Nasim
Haha Nasim that’s success right there! You’re very welcome!
Hi Karina,
I follow your lovely cooking, It is very exciting and delicious prescriptions.
Thanks and God bless you
I use your site a lot and really love trying new recipes! Do you also have an app for the iPhone?
Thanks for making me a better cook!
Tim
Not yet Tim! Waiting for the right offer and easy to use design to get one up and running!
You are an inspiration Karina! Seeing all have been thru in life and seeing where you are now is nothing short of incredible. You’r an amazing chef too… I’ve tried at least a dozen of your recipes and none has ever disappointed. Keep up all the good work and I’m look forward to seeing what comes out of your kitchen next!
Thanks Jay!
Hello Karina,
I made your ‘Worlds Best Fudgiest Brownies’ a week ago, using 70% dark pieces from a local Ecuadorian chocolatier. Good lord, this was so delicious that I’m surprised it’s still legal! Thank you for sharing your expertise with us all…your Youtube videos are easy to follow and exceptionally drool-worthy.
– Sparks
Hello Karina,
My birthday is next week but we’re celebrating with Friends on Saturday. With around 30+ hungry friends…
So, I thought about making fajitas and began my search for a good recipe. The ones I have found and tried before taste like cinnamon, and the chicken is too bland for my taste. I needed to cook a lot, and fast for that matter. So I thought about grilling the chicken.
I searched and searched, and suddenly I found: ” Best Chicken Fajitas”. And I thought: …”after the recipes I already read, this deserves a chance as well.” So I went through it.
Last night I made my test (before the big preparation), with 2 huge chicken breasts. I did not make them on a cast iron pan (I don’t have one larger than 12″, I could have used this pan, but I wanted to try the same process I would use for the larger amount), so I made them on the grill, but following your directions, until the chicken was 95% done (just a tad pink)… almost done. Then I came inside the kitchen and ready up the vegetables (I like them crunchy and not all soft), cut the chicken in strips, and then incorporated everything together.
Let me tell you (and all)… this recipe is Restaurant Quality, or even better: Grandma/Mom Quality.
The only things I added/changed was Granulated Bouillon (same quantity as salt), and instead of hot pepper flakes I used some sweet chipotle (no salt) ground condiment.
Excellent recipe and perfect presentation… THANK YOU!!!
Happy Birthday Juan!