The Amalfi lemon… I never met any lemon as juicy, as soft, with delicate acidity… and so much flavor in the zest. Only one single Amalfi lemon will suffice for a cake – trust me. … and I decided to combine this extraordinary lemon flavor with fresh blueberries. I started with a long rectangular tarte baking tin with loose bottom which I oiled carefully. Later in the oven I put a sheet of baking parchment…
Once again: as I mentioned before… I’ve got a very special book about pasta: Vincenzo Buonassisi’s pasta cookbook (published in the 70s – no loner available in this print!) with lots of pasta recipes. It’s a cookbook without any photos & the recipes are short – reduced to essentials. Nevertheless it’s a treasury of ideas how to prepare pasta adding vegetables, meat, fish and seafood… I found a recipe for a simple pasta omelette… thought…
It’s time for another simple home-made cake. I started with my square baking tin, to be filled with dough – I wanted a fluffy, juicy cake to be cut into square pieces to accompany my espresso sessions. Nothing too fancy and too tricky to prepare… In my fridge I found an organic orange… I thought about brushing orange syrup all over the cake when leaving the oven to enhance the juiciness… so it became an…
This is the end … A savoy mess starts big – w/ a big big savoy cabbage – & finally becomes a soft, juicy mess of savoy, cream, meat balls, bacon & onions … In Germany we call this mess just „Durcheinander“ – (hotchpotch). The basis may be a savoy cabbage, however, it may also be a white cabbage or Brussels sprouts or … whatever vegetables are available – typically during autumn & winter. You…
Another change: I started with the basic fluffy & moist batter for another square cake. Instead of apples or morello cherries I worked with pears. The pears were on top & a 2nd layer of slices was inside covered with batter. Pears are fine with chocolate – so I added some cocoa to the batter. Well, it worked fine … I got a delicious chocolate flavor – and the pears were soft, but didn’t melt…
I’ve changed some ingredients, but the result … I started with a very soft apple cake: now there are morellos replacing the apples. Also the cream was substituted in order to create a lemon flavor. There was an unexpected result: the morellos sank to the bottom because of the soft cake batter … So I created a cake with a solid layer of fruit on the bottom slightly covered by batter. … and I turned…
I started with some fluffy cake and slices of apples inside and on top … My next step was to change the square baking tin for a muffin tin, however, stay with the basic batter mix. For the apples: instead of apples slices I cut the apples into small pieces … In short: it was too much batter for the muffin tin, so I reduced the ingredients roughly by about 15% … and there were…
I like vegetables roasted on a baking tray in my oven with just some herbs and olive oil. However, when I realized that there wasn’t enough stuff in my fridge for a standard oven session I decided to throw together all the rests in a casserole and to add some canned Italian tomatoes as well as some meatballs. The mix went into the oven and … a delicious dinner dish was ready rather soon. A…
On the spur of the moment I decided to create a plum galette – after having watched all the plum cakes appearing in the food blog universe last week. It’s a simple affair: you’ll need not more than an hour to prepare this juicy delicacy. If still warm it’s absolutely soft and crumbly calling for some whipped cream or vanilla ice cream … Next day after a night in the fridge the galette is crispy…
This summer the temperatures go sky-high: time for a light and moisture cake with fresh raspberries and a hint of lemon. Because of the raspberries that almost melted away the cake is very moist. My icing of sugar mixed with lemon juice and raspberries which led to a nice pink color also almost melted away … and made the cake even more moist. (Maybe I’ve overdone in raspberries – feel free to reduce by about…
I bought a new baking tin. I laid my hands on a 20 x 20 cm form because there are mainly the 2 of us … Any larger baking tin is not convenient. (Even when having a dinner event this baking tin will produce enough cake for a dessert for 4 or even 6 people.) I’m not a hoarder concerning baking tins or any other cooking/baking equipment or any kitchen equipment in general. My kitchen…
What happened? I opened my fridge & learnt that there were some leftovers … vegetables to be correct. Carrots & spring onions. Also in my pantry there were some potatoes … & in my freezer I had some frozen peas. In each case it wasn’t so much … not enough for whatever … So I decided to make a real big batch of mixed vegetables! Next morning when shopping I bought a big kohlrabi &…
It is a cheesecake, however, not the American style w/ cream cheese or the fluffy style w/ lots of whipped cream or the no-bake style w/ crackers – it’s a German cheesecake baked in the oven & based on low-fat curd cheese aka quark. In addition, it’s a cheesecake w/o cake i. e. there is only the filling! During the last weeks I noticed in the food blog universe some approaches to German cheesecake w/o…
My better half & I had friends invited for dinner – & it was about 30° C & more. What to do? BBQ – well, yes, but somebody (i. e. my better half) would have to be on the deck, managing the BBQ for some hours while the sun would burn merciless. (Our terrace is south/south-west bound!) We skipped this approach & opted for a French evening w/ a French salad, French bread, a French…
It’s an olive oil cake w/ orange flavor – the basic recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks. The recipe defines cake for 2 rather small round cake pans – I used a larger springform. I made some rough calculation & decided that the area covered by 2 small cake pans or by a larger springform – like mine – was almost the same. So there were no changes necessary due to the dimension of…