Most people love spaghetti and other pasta dishes. But there always seems to be more sauce than pasta when the meal is done. So the sauce gets jarred, Ziplocked, or poured into Tupperware and shuffled…
Recipes
Working With Sugarpaste Icing
Sugarpaste icing is edible sugar dough that is used to cover cakes from small birthday ones to large three tiered wedding cakes. It is made of sugar and glucose and can also be called fondant…
Pasta with Prawns, Lemon, Chilli and Spinach
Recently, I realised that my public library has cookbooks and food magazines. I still don’t get how I could miss that for months, but ever since I’ve been heading over there, it’s just across the…
Berry Pancakes
Yes, yes, yes – Pancakes again. I put myself in for a challenge: find the best pancakes in the world. You can imagine how much Stefan loves me for that. So I try as many…
Pita Bread
After a long day at work, I wasn’t in the mood of cooking and standing in the kitchen for too long. So we had Chickpea Salad with Feta and Rocket. But I wanted to make…
Pasteis de Nata
Back in Germany we had a nice tradition for Saturday mornings. We would get up early to go grocery shopping and on our way to the supermarket, we would stop at our favourite Portuguese cafe….
Goat Cheese and Prosciutto Pizza
There is this lovely restaurant in Hamburg, Ottensen – the neighbourhood we used to live in. It’s called Eisenstein and has the most amazing Pizza. I always struggled to choose between Fire & Flame, prawns,…
Chicken, Cauliflower and Bean Curry
I really like spicy curries with a lot of fresh vegetables. When I came across the recipe for a Cashew Curry on the beautiful 101 cookbooks site, I made it immediately. It’s simple, it’s yum…
Lemon Yoghurt Cake
Didn’t I tell you that I am into healthy things? And that I don’t bake very often because we can’t eat all the stuff? Forget about that for a minute. Ingredients 2 large eggs 200g…
Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes, Ricotta and Spinach
Stefan doesn’t like pasta very much. If he would have to choose between rice and pasta he would always go for rice. But I’ll try to sneak some spaghetti and co into our dinner as…