savoury delights

a short trip with hokkaido

It’s autumn now & it’s pumpkin time. So I started working with my favorite pumpkin – the Hokkaido pumpkin. I like this pumpkin very much because of its size which fits for 2-4 servings, its delicate flavor and the easy way of preparation because you don’t need any peeling – all will get soft at the end. This is a basic recipe – so it’s a very short post. I started with cleaning the pumpkin…

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savoury delights

happy hour salmon in southern france

Happy hour is on the agenda … what about some homemade salmon paté? We are still in Southern France, in Carcassonne … Also in France there is a happy hour & sometimes we enjoy a leisurely happy hour in front of our current home, sitting in the spring sun & having a glass of wine. I found this easy approach to salmon paté in Rachel Allen’s cookbook, worked then with the ingredients available at the…

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savoury delights with rice

rice … burnt

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…

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