chards & patisson
Month: August 2011
sandwich party in 3 steps
1. Wait for a sunny day, drag a big table onto the grass and assemble chairs around it. Lay the table. Flowers and tablecloth optional but highly recommended. 2. Prepare the following: Fresh bread, I used italian rosemary bread, olive bread and simple ciabatta Hummus (1 can of chickpeas + 3tbs olive oil + juice of half a lemon + chopped onion +salt + pepper + spices – INTO THE BLENDER as above) Tomato and […]
plums ‘n’ booze
My friend’s plum tree was having a good year, in fact so good that Michaela found it impossible to eat all the plums herself. I transformed the basket of plums into this delicious, melting-in-your-mouth cream. Michaela’s original recipe contains 10 tbs of rum, I just used 4 tbs and still didn’t feel too sure if driving is still ok. Have a try yourselves with as many tbs of rum you think you can handle! 500g plums […]
Lipa (lime) from Lipniky
We didn’t wait for the first signs of a flu to sip a cup of linden blossom tea, this summer’s harvest. It is a gift from friends from Lipniky, a tiny slovakian village, which precisely got its name from an enormous old linden tree. And talking about linden blossoms: did you ever smell a linden tree in full blossom? It’s intense, dizzying, luring, evoking jasmine and tuberose….. Lucky the one who can sleep the siesta […]
contemporary art – slaughter house five
The exhibtion “Slaughterhouse Five” is inspired by and named after a book by Kurt Vonnegut. The story is set in the area of the Ostrale. The site used to be a natural resort, in the 20th century it became Dresden’s main slaughterhouse. Today the former fattening stables, slaughterhouse, heylofts, fatmelting house, cold storage house, abbatoir refuse processing halls – all this has been transformed into exhibiting space. The atmosphere at the Ostrale gave me goosebumps. It’s […]
on some days….
On some days I wake up really early without apparent reason. Nobody’s ringing the doorbell, no early duties and the rain isn’t about to flood into the cellar (this summer I want to express my special thanks to the pump). Today was one of those days, so I used the peaceful morning to pick some apples from my apple tree to make some delicious jelly for breakfast. How to make simple apple (any fruit) jelly: […]
sweet fruit pizza
Always looking for tasty recipes without animal products I invented the sweet fruit pizza. The dough is basically a pizza dough, with the addition of 4 tablespoons of sugar. I also exchanged the water in the original recipe with vanilla soy milk. Eventually all you have to do is spread out the dough on a baking tray and cover it with seasonal fruits. In the last few months I have read plenty about the positive […]
have a magical weekend
#11 Bellini
Recently strolling through the delikatessen of Karstadt, a Dresden department store, we found the perfect tool to prepare an “instant Bellini”: a small bottle containing pureed white peaches for longdrinks. The season of whites peaches is short, so it seemed to be worth a try. (In case it wouldn’t have met my high expectations – there are always dessert creations calling for an extra ingredient.) To mix the original Bellini, invented more than half a […]