Today I cut some branches of my walnut tree. I felt bad for the bucketful of green walnuts that should go to waste, so I began a small search for a simple way to make use of the semi-ripe nuts. David Lebovitz in his blog “Sweet life in Paris” made the convincing suggestion: Liqueur de noix! In 2 months I will know whether this spontaneous experiment was a success.
A clafouti is a great summer cake. It has no crumbly, greasy “floor”, but is juicy and moist and fruity and still doesn’t fall apart. Julie, originally from France, to be precise la Bretagne, makes the best clafouti I have ever tried. Of course I had to get the recipe and her permission to pass it on to my dear readers! Julie’s clafouti 150g flour 4 eggs 80-100g sugar 80g melted butter 1/2l lukewarm milk […]
… quick photo, before the last bit of delicious gazpacho disappeared in my mouth. Not only the southern part of the Península cools itself down with chilled gazpacho during the summer months, I loved to savour it under the hot sun of the Alta Meseta, in Salamanca, where I spent my student days. It’s easy to prepare if you’ve got a mortar, a blender and plenty of field grown, sun riped vegetables: tomato + cucumber […]
Ok, the colours are not a 100% natural, but doesn’t it look sooo cool? It reminds me of the luxury of a hotel breakfast on the warm side of the globe, drinks by the pool and big fat hot summer…. Take 1/4 watermelon, cut in small cubes a handful of ice cubes 1tbs freshly squeezed lemon juice sugar to taste depending on the ripeness of the melon ( I prefer it without sugar; it’s […]
design and photo by Vik The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best […]
In her vegan cookbook “The kind diet” Alicia Silverstone shares a great pizza recipe we often prepare in our own kitchen: Radicchio Pizza with Truffle Oil. Actually I don’t like either of the components (radicchio is just so bitter and truffle oil so strong and predominant), but in this very composition it’s genious. For the original recipe you need: 1 large head radicchio olive oil salt, pepper white truffle infused oil, to taste 1 pizza […]
On sunny days I try to do it like the plants and soak up all the light. I hope the green has the same uplifting effect on you as on me. Have a lovely weekend of Pentecost!
I totally love to pass by Sylke John’s flowershop “Blumenschnecke”. I met Sylke a long time ago when she still worked in another flower shop. Now she has not only a loving husband but also a sweet little daughter, two super cute kittens and her own flowershop at the family’s B&B. And happily she brought along all her creativity and sense for colours and surprises. The little snailshells inspired her for the flowershop’s name. I […]
using the days to work in my personal paradise..
