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 icing. Pastry chefs that make elaborate cakes most commonly use it and it is also great for making edible decorations. [...]
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 street from my office, during lunch, flicking through magazines and books. I always felt kind of bad buying new books [...]
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 recipes as possible and I will share all the good ones with you. So be prepared… I like this one [...]
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 something to accompany that. So I thought: Pita Bread with Cucumber Yoghurt would be nice. And it was nice. Very [...]
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. We would grab a Galao, which is a Latte the Portuguese way, and a Pasteis de Nata. They are yummy [...]
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, red onions, ginger and chilli and Dumb Goat, rosemary tomato base, goat cheese and crisp bacon. When we moved to [...]
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 and you can swap the vegetables with the ones you have at hand. I’ve slightly changed the recipe, as I [...]
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 caster sugar zest from 1 lemon, finely grated 2 Tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp vanilla extract 280g plain flour 3 [...]
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 often as possible… So here is another simple and fresh dinner – great after a busy day at work. Spaghetti [...]
On Saturday night we drove around the bay to have dinner with our dear friends. As usual the answer to ‘can I bring something’ was ‘No, not at all. Relax, don’t worry’… Mmh, but arriving with nothing is not very kind and nobody would dismiss some home made dessert I assumed. The first thing that [...]
