Paella sounds like mastery. An elaborate spanish national dish with many ingredients you normally don’t store in your pantry. No place for spontaneity. This might be right in theory, but….. if you keep in mind (and in your pantry) two or three essentials which are responsible for the typical paella flavour you’ll be surprised by the result. Even without shopping before at the best delikatessen in town. I’ll tell you the secret: if you […]
Finally the nights have become warm enough to inaugurate the Barbecue season. No better holiday feeling than heating the charcoal, mixing the sauces and preparing the lots of meat we normally abstain from. And of course, our guests had to be introduced into the pleasures of a well-prepared Leapfrog.
Last weekend I bought a whole armfull of fresh herb pots and so turned my windowsill into a summerly smelling little mediterranean garden. Italian parsley, chives, chervil, lemon balm, marjoram, thyme and rosemary… Best preconditions to prepare a simple and aromatic dish like the carrots with marjoram! You just need carrots, a 1st class sea salt, a 1st class olive oil and some sprigs from the marjoram pot. Spread the sliced carrots on a tin […]