Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Plum season has started. As soon as I spotted plums in my trusted food store and recipes for any kind of plum cake affairs started appearing on Instagram I defined that it’s time to create something w/ plums. I admit that I’m not a fan of eating plums fresh from the garden. They seems somewhat dry and sour … Plums are definitely predestined to get baked or cooked. Only…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I bought a new baking tin. Of course I already own some baking tins … you’ve met them whenever I’m baking (springforms & loaf tins, a Bundt cake pan, tart forms …), but nevertheless you always stumble across a new product. Since several months I’m intrigued by simple flat cakes – rectangular shaped – which can be cut into nice small pieces. A baking tray is too big &…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. Back from our holiday trip to the wild coast of the Netherlands … It’s time for some cake. A summer cake. I made this cake before we started towards the ocean. It was a little sweet something only for my better half & me when having our after dinner espresso. (Or for me at breakfast accompanying my bowl filled w/ fruit.) Of course there was some sort of inspiration:…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Sometimes I’m old-fashioned. I’ve got a notebook – a notebook w/ pages made of paper, a cardboard cover … where I gather recipes, most of them are ripped out pages from any magazines fixed w/ sticky tape. Honestly, most of them rest there until my notebook is exhausted & I decide to straighten up (i. e. next step is trash). Well – in our digital world my last notebook…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I’m still in my rhubarb mania although slowly the rhubarb season comes to an end. Nevertheless I noted that this year there is especially fine rhubarb in the market – lots of it. On the other hand I’m also still in my loaf cake mania: so I thought about combining both passions. Concerning loaf cakes I came across some recipes using yoghurt … so I tried a version w/…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Naked cakes are in. Why? Quite easy: you only need to create some layers of cake & a delicious filling. Just distribute the filling over the cake layer, take the next cake layer & repeat. You don’t need to care for a final icing all around the cake or even elaborate decorations by using a piping bag – which is mostly the crucial point (at least in my view!).…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Voilà – our dinner! We had magnificent green asparagus w/ fresh potatoes & Italian ham … topped w/ some dollops of home-made hollandaise sauce. Of course it isn’t difficult nor stressful to prepare asparagus & potatoes as well as to arrange some boiled ham on a plate. The crucial challenge is the hollandaise sauce. For the record:There is always the option to buy a ready-to-use hollandaise sauce. I admit…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – adverstising. Rhubarb appeared – finally – in the market resp. in the fruit & vegetable corner of my trusted food store. Since some years I’m a rhubarb fan. (I admit that I wasn’t fond of rhubarb when I was a child, a teenager etc. – old habits die hard: so it took me some years to appreciate rhubarb.) I like the fresh young stems – especially the slim ones of…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. What do we get?There is a crumbly pastry worthy for any tart. There is a creamy ricotta filling w/ hints of chocolate & orange. (I thought about adding orange to the title, but then I realized that it would be too long …) There are minced pistachios for a slightly crunchy finish. I got the idea for this cake from Skye McAlpine’s 1st cookbook A Table in Venice. It’s…
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 – 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. 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. To make this cake I only used 2 bowls. Honestly, I hate dishwashing … especially when there is any china or bowls or pots or whatever which doesn’t fit in our dishwasher. (We only work w/ a slim 45 cm dishwasher.) So I always try to minimize the number of any equipment when cooking or baking. For this simple cake I was fine w/ only 2 bowls. The…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I’m somehow obsessed w/ sandwiches. Nothing changed so far. Maybe it’s a by-product of Corona Times. Working in home office, no canteen, no lunch meetings in cafés or so … all is homebound, all meals are at home. So what to cook each day? A sandwich seems a fine idea. If you use a substantial bread, thick & big slices, adding substantial ingredients … & it’s an easy…
Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. I’m always looking for easy & fast dishes … also dishes which can be prepared w/o using too many pots & pans & other kitchen equipment which need to be cleaned excessively later. So I admired the easy way of galettes for rather a long time – & now I decided to give it a try. For my 1st approach I chose a very simple galette w/ few…