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pizza w/ courgette

Time for pizza – home-made pizza. Out of the moment I decided on pizza for lunch for the 2 of us relying on whatever I had in my pantry resp. fridge. I hadn’t any pizza pastry coming out of a pizza pastry mix or any prepared pizza out of a chiller cabinet – so I decided to make my own pizza pastry. (If so I always ask Meike Peter’s latest cookbook where I found a…

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tomato mess, cheese, arugula … pizza!

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   Am I an avid pizza baker? Honestly, not really … I like pizza, but there is a brilliant pizzeria not far from our home where you may order pizza by phone,  just pop around & grab it. Nevertheless sometimes I’m in the mood for a homemade pizza … When starting w/ homemade pizza there are 2 points to clarify: what type of pizza crust to use? what topping…

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vhm loaf

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   To disclose the vhm shortcut: v is vegetables, h is herbs & m is meat. We are preparing a classic meat loaf w/ lots of vegetables & lots of fresh Mediterranean herbs: a meat loaf you may enjoy hot, warm or cold as well.     I got my inspiration from this cookbook* out of the foodblogger’s universe which combines traditional German cooking w/ Mediterranean flavors…    …

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straight tomato cannelloni

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   We are back! My better half & I went to Rome for something like a very, very long weekend – lasting almost 2 weeks. Details about our Rome adventures will appear soon – watch this space! Italy: it’s pasta & pasta & pasta – not to mention antipasto, pizza, cheeses, desserts… All these goodies are not only cooked & baked in Italy there’s also home cooking of Italian…

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lasagna filled w/ vegetables

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   A crispy piece of lasagna: it’s comfort food from the best! If you like your lasagna less crispy just take it our of the oven some minutes earlier… The mozzarella will be really chewy, however, all is done inside the lasagna!     Although we need quite a lot of ingredients it’s a surprisingly easy & fast pasta dish. Let’s start w/ the vegetables…

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