Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. During the last weeks … months I was working on pizza. I love pizza. Either I eat pizza at my favorite Italian restaurant or I order pizza & pick it up from the restaurant. Or I make my own pizza at home. (I admit that there is another option: buying frozen pizza, but honestly – no frozen pizza can keep up w/ pizza from restaurant … & definitely not…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. This is just another apple cake, but it’s a very soft & fluffy & crumbly & juicy apple cake prepared in a loaf tin. The top is crispy when leaving the oven & will stay so for at least 24 h. Afterwards … it gets soft. No worries – the cake is still delicious. I think that the cake is independent from weather. When I did the baking it…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. To start with:I found the basic recipe in Clotilde Dusoulier’s cookbook as an example for food of African origin that made its way into Paris when roaming recipes & cookbooks. In my freezer some fish fillets lounged around … & I didn’t want them the simple way i. e. to coat them w/ breadcrumbs before frying. (Nevertheless it’s a delicious way to serve fish fillets!) So I found this…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. Let’s start w/ the obvious! Today is one of these grey days – last week we had lots of them w/ lots of rain. Now it’s getting really cold. During the coming days it’ll be below zero day & night, however, almost no snow. (This – the lack of snow – may be horrible if you crave for a walk in crisp white snow surrounded by snow filled trees…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. It all started with … watching Brigderton starting my annual kitchen-decluttering process for 2021. My better half & I didn’t watch Bridgerton during Xmas just after the launch, but only beginning of January. So I hope, although the Bridgerton hype seems to have flattened, that there are enough people out there who like to read some thoughts about the series. During my 1st steps towards my kitchen-decluttering for 2021…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. Hello … I’m back from an almost 5-weeks-break resp. time-out resp. downtime or whatever-you-may-call-it. Mid of December I decided spontaneously to have a long break over the years to relax, to think about my blogging, to plan the next year … & of course manage Xmas stress. (It didn’t matter that we are living in Corona times – Xmas & family challenges didn’t slow down. Only New Year’s Eve…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. This season I decided to bake my 1st panettone. My inspiration came from Meike Peters’ 365 giving me a basic recipe to start with. Of course I made some changes – mainly, I didn’t work w/ grated orange zest & chocolate, but w/ vanilla extract & a mix of raisins & candied orange & lemon peel. For the record: It is a panettone based on yeast dough.…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. We are still approaching Xmas, however, no Xmas cookies or more Xmas cakes on my blog so far. Instead I opted for shepherd’s pie – not only a shepherd’s pie for next dinner, but a supply for up to 3 dinners. What I mean: I prepared all the ingredients for a shepherd’s pie, filled 3 containers up to the rim, baked the mess & put it all in…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. We are still approaching Xmas – the ultimate time of the year for baking! It happened that I suddenly on an afternoon thought about baking … some cake? So I checked my kitchen, the pantry, the fridge … Fortunately I’ve always got some supplies on flour, sugar, eggs & all the trimmings of baking like baking powder, vanilla extract etc. Aside from that … Some days ago I…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Xmas is finally coming – mightily. I always try to ignore the early – very early, far too early – signs of Xmas starting to appear about mid of September. It’s mainly in your trusted food store & other shops where suddenly there are shelves filled w/ Xmas cookies, gingerbread, Xmas chocolate, chocolate Santas, Advent calendars … I never can deal w/ this when it’s about 25° C…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. You remember? I started w/ a big Hokkaido pumpkin which I baked in the oven – just adding some olive oil & salt & pepper. Afterwards I had a bowl filled w/ smooth pumpkin bits which could be mashed easily by help of a fork. My plan was … creating a sweet yeast braid w/ pumpkin mash mixed into the dough. Of course it didn’t work out as…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. The heat wave: it’s merciless, intensifying, suffocating … After almost 2 weeks of heat I wasn’t in the mood for cooking or baking. Most of the time we has some light, fresh salad w/ fresh baguette, cold cuts, cheeses … When coming across these delicious red currants I suddenly had an inspiration: what about some really simple and fresh ice cream, homemade of course, topped w/ red currants.…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. This morning I was shopping. Food shopping. When Corona times started my better half & I decided to reduce food shopping to once a week & one-stop-shopping whenever possible. Rigorously. Until now nothing changed so far except that we since some weeks have returned to a spontaneous shopping on Saturdays for the weekend … sometimes. (Also our trusted & precious café cum bakery reopened … for fresh bread…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I admit I rarely have a container w/ ice cream sitting in my freezer. For the record: There is the exception that I just bought a container of exquisite vanilla ice cream for my espresso mania i. e. to create espresso affogato whenever I think I need a little reward … This is btw independent of season, however, it’s no permanent condition. So sometimes – especially during…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. How did it start? Last January on a Sunday morning before breakfast I looked for some jam. All I found was a single small jar filled w/ strawberry jam. My better half & I had run out of homemade jam – so early in the year. What to do? For the next weeks & months I bought jam in my trusted food store & I made plans for…