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 […]
My grandfather loved it because it was reliably followed by a cake or by sweet yeast dumplings with a divine salty crust. My mother continued the tradition and we all loved it. I am the one who changed it for just potato soup accompanied by baguette, some olives, a bit of pizza or what else the kitchen offers. The quick and easy way! Potato cucumber soup 4 tbs olive oil 4-5 spring onions, chopped about […]
Sunday’s cocktail comes on a bad-weather-Monday! However, are you ready for a summer series of fresh sours and punches? Being the White Lady still a true classic, my next drinks will come along much more creative with fruit, cucumbers and herbs muddled in the syrup and the spirits. Ah? Do I see that some of you are raising the eyebrows? Don’t worry, Paul Carr, an English composer and big aficionado of cocktail mixing, once taught […]
In the end it’s all about pigments. Their origin , their amount, their very special character… As for wall painting I’m addicted to the colours of Farrow&Ball. They are so subtle, so elegant…. Yes, I know, I know: it’s a personal and an emotional thing. However I’m happy that we now have a stockist in Dresden. Time to think about a makeover for my guest room, west-oriented, with a big red-leaved tree in front. So I […]
Eighty-year-old Grandma arrived to celebrate Easter with us. Knowing she loves the bittersweet taste of Campari and and its beneficial effects on the digestive system, we decided to mix a Negroni to welcome her. I admit we felt a bit worried the high content of alcohol could harm her (dizziness, sudden tachycardia, sleeplessness…). Instead she enjoyed it a lot, slept perfectly well and asked for repetition tonight… The original Negroni was invented in Florence, in […]