“Creativity needs time” is a repost from Jelly Beans of all Flavours, a blog I love to follow because it offers a daily kaleidoscope of inspiring readings and pictures. It invites you to be daring, to live your dreams and to never forget about the beauty of our world.
We often have breakdowns of electricity for some hours when there is a heavy thunderstorm. We are cut off the drinking water whenever the old communal water pipe is leaking for the hundredth time. But never before we had both at the same time. Weird feeling…
Paella sounds like mastery. An elaborate spanish national dish with many ingredients you normally don’t store in your pantry. No place for spontaneity. This might be right in theory, but….. if you keep in mind (and in your pantry) two or three essentials which are responsible for the typical paella flavour you’ll be surprised by the result. Even without shopping before at the best delikatessen in town. I’ll tell you the secret: if you […]
Finally the nights have become warm enough to inaugurate the Barbecue season. No better holiday feeling than heating the charcoal, mixing the sauces and preparing the lots of meat we normally abstain from. And of course, our guests had to be introduced into the pleasures of a well-prepared Leapfrog.
Since strawberries are in full season now (we can pick them ourselves in endless strawberry fields nearby), I have been looking for some more exciting recipes than the familiar cakes, creams and yoghurts. Here is the result of my research: The STRAWBERRY SORBET comes from David Lebovitz’ book The perfect Scoop, the best ice cream book I ever owned. Every so often I prepared it, it disappeared in the twinkling of an eye. Believe me, it’s […]
The peppermint plantation in my garden is ripe and ready to find its way into the cocktail glasses… For 2 glasses of irresistible-dazzling-turqoise Leapfrog take 6 mint leaves 4 parts Gin 1 1/2 parts lemon juice 1 part Blue Curacao 1/2 part sugar syrup 2 dashes Angostura Bitter In a mixing glass, muddle the mint leaves with the sugar syrup, then add the rest of the ingredients. Shake with ice cubes and strain into a […]
Granita de Caffé 1l espresso or very strongly brewed coffee 300g sugar Mix the warm espresso with the sugar until the sugar is dissolved. When cooled down, place the mixture in the freezer. Once it begins to freeze around the edges, take a fork and stir the mixture, breaking up the frozen parts from the edges into smaller chunks and raking them toward the centre. Return the dish to the freezer and repeat the […]
When I heard that British hatters had ordered thousands and thousands of artificial flowers from the Sebnitz manufactory, I decided that it was high time to pay a visit to this tiny village at the Czech border. 50 km from Dresden, the perfect destination for a weekend trip. Already on the staircase, where I took the photograph above, I got some slight doubts about the lifelike appearance of these works of art. Moving along to the […]
One of my most loved cookbooks at the moment is Breakfast, Lunch, Tea from Rose Bakery in Paris. Rose Bakery offers a modern, simple and healthy cuisine, using first quality, organic ingredients from regional suppliers. Just what I’m trying to do here in my everyday kitchen for my family and friends. One of Rose’s recipes I tried out lately is the pistachio cake. I was looking for a nut cake, because I had some leftover […]
Our new favourite from now! As I’m convinced that the malevolent Ehec germ lives neither in spanish cucumbers nor in our regional vegetables, I fancied trying a cocktail with fresh cucumbers. The Intro To Awesome Punch has been created by Jane Danger, head bartender at Cienfuegos, a spin-off from the owners of Death and Co., a cocktailbar located in the East Village of Manhattan. The Punch mixes best while listening to this music How to […]