Month: August 2015

summer, oh summer + black sesame ice cream

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Sweets

  black sesame ice cream 250ml milk 100g sugar pinch of salt 250ml cream 2 sachets nanfang black sesame powder 6 egg yolks Warm the milk, sugar and and salt in a sauce pan.Pour the cream into a large bowl and whisk in the black sesame powder. Set a mesh strainer on top. In a separate bowl whisk together the egg yolks. Slowly pour the warm mixture into the egg yolks, whisking constantly, then scape the […]

crostini topped with sauce gribiche, fava beans and goat cheese

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Dinner / Lunch / Snacks

raspberry + goat cheese crostini fresh goat cheese raspberries pink pepper (crushed), chives, oregano fava beans crostini fresh goat cheese green fava beans, blanched mint leaves crushed black pepper sea salt lemon scented olive oil (I recommend  Carlo Guarini‘s L’Agrumato) Spread the crostini with the fresh goat cheese and top with the remaining ingredients. crostini with sauce gribiche The original Sauce Gribiche is mayonnaise-like and very rich. It requests no less than 250ml of peanut oil. Absolutely […]

trout barbecue

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Dinner / Lunch

Isn’t it the most delightful thing in the world sitting together with friends on  a hot summer evening, trouts being grilled on the campfire, an ice cold wine at reach (we had a Riesling from Alsace) and listening to some music? Kriebels Mixtape Sound of Monte – Carlo’s Symphony #52  

cherry jam and The Bloody Chamber

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Jams + Preserves / Uncategorized

  These pictures of a little batch of cherry jam look like a massacre happened in my kitchen. I am not usually macabre, but the title “The Bloody Chamber” was too fitting to not use it (and it gives artistic purpose to the blotchy mess)! “The Bloody Chamber” also happens to be a brilliant book by Angela Carter, so I decided to post a list of summer book recommendations along with the recipe. Millenium Trilogy Stieg Larsson The Secret History […]