My today’s lunch has been inspired by a recipe from the French/Italian blog Un déjeuner de soleil. By chance I had all the required ingredients in my pantry so I could follow exactly Edda’s indications.
With a tiny personal modification: I added a teaspoon Sambal Oelek and a pinch of lemon myrtle. A bit more spicy and very delicious!
Next to Lutherkirche in Dresden’s Neustadt, very close to Bautzener Straße and Albertplatz, there is ZAFFARAN, an amazing condiment shop and café. From squid’s ink to tonga beans, from Japanese yuzu to Persian blue salt, there’s no condimental wish to remain unfulfilled.
My friend Nancy treated me with a heavenly smelling lemon verbena. Can’t wait to use it!
Don’t miss to pass by, tea and cake have been divine, too!
For now I’m living in a continuous “this-very-important-decision-has-to-be-taken-now-or-never” mode, and believe me: it’s sooo exhausting.
I really thought I was well prepared and I had planned thoroughly. It’s incredible how on the way things are developing and changing.
I found this recipe here and it reminded me strongly of some pieces of kale I lately had topped my pizza with. Even though I had blanched the kale before, the leaves turned brown with tendency to black, burnt , paperlike, ashy… and only very few of them got really nice and crispy. Definitely not an award-winning pizza topping.
BUT IF YOU
“preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Line the baking tray with parchment paper.
Remove the leaves from thick stems and tear into bite sized pieces. Wash and thoroughly dry kale.
Drizzle kale with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt. Bake for 10-15 minutes until the edges are brown
but not burnt”
YOU WILL GET some really delicious kale crisps!
The moment you put the first piece in your mouth it feels super crispy, salty, much lighter and thinner than a potato crisp, yumm….. then it becomes chewy (must be the healthy fibres), and if eventually you have eaten more than two or three of them, you may want to skip dinner. Promised!
After the opulent Christmas cooking I’m craving “clean” and simple food again. You know what I mean: a few ingredients like vegetable, fruit and herbs can make such a quick and delicious (and healthy) meal. I put “healthy” in parentheses because in the past, the h-word was the most reliable motivation killer for my children to like my cooking. Healthy equaled “muesli” and uncool; in consequence: not desirable at all.
Once I learned to avoid the word in question things got immediately better. From then on only the taste decided!
After all, it’s funny that the position of the family’s health maniac has been seized by my sweet 20 year old daughter in the meantime. And – I must confess- better than I’d have ever been capable!
May 2012 be pink and fascinating!
Lately a friend took me to Gaustritz, a small village in the south of Dresden, where we met Karin von Mohl who sells all kind of antiques, fabrics, old silver cutlery, lamps, mirrors, chairs. And for the hungry shopper: homemade jams.
Karin von Mohl calls herself a natural”finder”. “I never look deliberately for restorable beauties, they just come to me”.
In her charming old barnyard she collects, restores and paints. I’m so glad to have come to know her. It’s the perfect address for country house antiques and it’s very inspiring to know, that she also takes personal restoration requests.
| Photography by Fuchi Pucho |
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