Date delicious! Datemania! Date away! Date divine! The making of: To prepare them in your own kitchen you need: dates marzipan the peel of an orange, zested dark chocolate, melted Maldon Sea Salt a bain-marie to melt the chocolate 2 forks to dip the dates
My international family of favourite green bean recipes (German with tomatoes, onions and vinaigrette, Spanish with fried garlic and almonds) welcomes a new brother in their midst: Asian gingered beans with hijiki. This recipe is full of flavour and makes use of the beautiful hijiki algae, and fancy yet very easy to prepare. dry and soaked hijiki gingered beans with hijiki (inspired by Alicia Silverstone) 1/2 cup dried hijiki 1 tablespoon tamari 2 tablespoons […]
Michael Simonsen, of Simonsen Freianlagen, the landscape designer and family friend, has a beautiful garden, that we were very eager to visit. Whenever we asked, “can we come see your garden this weekend?” He said “No no noooo, it needs a little more time to show the whole variety of flowers! Half of them didn’t blossom yet!” or “Just a little more patience, I am still waiting for the sunflowers!” Finally, on a sunny day […]
Every now and then the overnight tomatoes make their appearance on various food blogs I follow. They have many fancy names like night blushed tomatoes or moon dried tomatoes, but I think the flavour speaks for itself. When I talked with my local vegetable shopkeeper about the many possibilities to enjoy the little heirloom tomatoes I remembered the overnight method and promised to share it with him. It’s super easy and the result is […]