Ingredients (2 servings): – 250g Tagliatelle – 200ml 33% cream – 200g Gorgonzola – 250g cherry tomatoes Method: 1 Boil Tagliatelle in salted water Al Dente and drain the water 2 Cut Gorgonzola in 2cm cubes 3 Pour 33% cream in the skillet and add gorgonzola cubes 4 Cook at medium heat gorgonzola in cream until it is melted 5 Add Tagliatelle and halved cherry tomatoes to gorgonzola sauce and cook for another minute 6 Serve and enjoy your day ! 🙂
Filling ingredients: – 400g new potatoes (weight unpeeled) – 150g Feta cheese – 1/2 tsp black pepper
Serving/baking ingredients: – 1 tbsp olive oil for brushing the flatbreads before baking – chopped tomatoes for serving Method: 1 Dough 1.1 Crush yeast into warm (30-35C) water, add 1 tbsp sugar: mix well until sugar an yeast are dissolved and leave the mixture for 15 minutes 1.2 Add flour and salt: knead the dough and leave it under cloth for 30 minutes (make the filling meanwhile) 2 Filling 2.1 Peel potatoes and boil until ready: drain extra water 2.2 Combine potatoes with feta and black pepper: mash until smooth 3 Flatbread 3.1 Preheat the oven to 200C 3.2 Separate the dough into 4 equal parts: roll out each part into 16-20cm round 3.3 Put 1-2tbsp filling in the middle of each round 3.4 Lift up ends of each round to the centre and seal them tight with the fingers. Then gently flatten into 15cm round. 3.5 Brush each flatbread both sides with olive oil and put on the baking paper 3.6 Bake for 15-20 minutes at 200C until golden and serve warm! 4 Enjoy with a cup of coffee and a good company 😉
No one’s serious at seventeen When lindens line the promenade.
Arthur Rimbaud
Ingredients (4 servings): – 300g chicken breasts – 2 eggs – 3 cucumbers – 70g walnuts – 14 prunes – 2 tbsp mayonnaise – 1/2 tsp salt Method: 1 Boil chicken breasts until ready and chop 2 Boil eggs until ready and chop 3 Wash and chop cucumbers, prunes and walnuts 4 Combine chicken, eggs, cucumbers, prunes, walnuts and season with salt & mayonnaise: serve !
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Batter ingredients: – 360ml milk – 130g flour – 3-4 tbsp sugar – 4 eggs – 1 pinch of salt – 50g butter for frying
Applesauce ingredients: – 4 apples – 100ml water – 2 tbsp lemon juice – 1/2 tsp cinnamon – 8g Vanilla sugar – 1 tbsp sugar Method: 1 Applesauce: 1.1 Wash, peel and cut apples 1.2 Put into the skillet 4 apples, 100ml water, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 8g vanilla sugar, 1tbsp sugar: boil until apples are soft ~10 minutes 1.3 Mash the apples with a blender until smooth 2 Kaiserschmarrn 2.1 Whisk 4 egg whites with a pinch of salt for 4-5 minutes 2.2 Combine 130g flour, 3 tbsp sugar, 4 yolks, 360ml milk and mix until smooth 2.3 Combine egg whites with the rest of dough and carefully mix 2.4 Preheat the skillet with 50g butter 2.5 Pour the batter on the skillet and cook for 7-8 minutes at medium heat 2.6 Carefully flip the batter – do not worry, it will not be perfect anyway 🙂 2.7 Separate flipped part into 2x3cm pieces with forks and cook for another 3-4 minutes 2.8 Serve Kaiserschmarrn with powdered sugar and applesauce !
Serving ingredients: – fresh parsley Method: 1 Mustard sauce: combine sauce ingredients and mix 2 Asparagus with salmon 2.1 Wash and peel white asparagus 2.2 Boil asparagus in the pan with salmon for 14 minutes in salted water 3 Serve boiled asparagus and salmon with mustard sauce and chopped fresh parsley !
Filling ingredients: – 1 cup dried tomatoes – 250g mozzarella – 1/2 medium zucchini – 50g rucola – 50g pine nuts – 50g grated Grana Padano – 2 tbsps olive oil – salt & pepper if dried tomatoes are unsalted
Serving/baking ingredients: – 1 tbsp olive oil for brushing the flatbreads before baking – fresh dill for serving Method: 1 Dough 1.1 Crush yeast into warm (30-35C) water, add 1 tbsp sugar: mix well until sugar an yeast are dissolved and leave the mixture for 15 minutes 1.2 Add flour and salt: knead the dough and leave it under cloth for 30 minutes (make the filling meanwhile) 2 Filling 2.1 Make tomato pesto: mash in the blender dried tomatoes, pine nuts, olive oil, parmesan (add salt and pepper if dried tomatoes are not spiced) 2.2 Wash and slice 1/2 zucchini 2.3 Wash rucola and let it dry 2.4 Slice mozarella 3 Flatbread 3.1 Preheat the oven to 210C 3.2 Separate the dough into 4 equal parts: roll out each part into 16-20cm round 3.3 Put in the middle of each round: tomato pesto, zucchini, mozzarella, rucola 3.4 Lift up ends of each round to the centre and seal them tight with the fingers. Then gently flatten into 15cm round. 3.5 Brush each flatbread two sides with olive oil and put on the baking paper 3.6 Bake for 15-20 minutes at 200C until golden: let them cool down and serve with a fresh dill 4 Enjoy with a cup of coffee and a good company 😉
Ingredients (2 servings): – 120g boiled basmati rice – 400-600g unpeeled green peas – 10-12 medium button mushrooms – 1 tbsp olive oil – 1-2 tbsp balsamic vinegar – salt and pepper – dill for serving
Method: 1 Boil basmati rice until ready and drain water 2 Peel and wash green peas 3 Peel and wash (remove dirt with a paper towel) button mushrooms , then slice them 4 Wash and chop dill 5 Preheat the skillet with 1 tbsp olive oil and add sliced mushrooms and green peas: cook for 10 minutes, constantly stirring 6 Add to vegetables: boiled rice, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper: cook for another 5 minutes 7 Serve with chopped dill and enjoy!
Filling ingredients: – 200g sour cream – 1 small red onion – 1 small zucchini – 200g smoked salmon – chopped dill for serving Directions: 1 Preheat the oven to 220C 2 Mix dough ingredients and knead the dough for 5 minutes 3 Roll out the dough into an oval 3-4mm height 4 Put the dough on the baking paper and bake at 220C for 8 min without a filling 5 Meanwhile chop onion, slice zucchini into rounds and slice salmon into stripes 6 Remove the baking tray from the oven, spread the sour cream over the dough, then add chopped onion, zucchini and salmon slices 7 Bake Tarte Flambée for another 10 minutes at 220C 8 Serve with chopped dill! 🙂
I don’t feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.
Franz Kafka
Ingredients (2 servings): – 250g spaghetti – 10-12 button mushrooms – 1/2 bunch of parsley – 50g grated Grana Padano – 1tbsp olive oil – 1tsp salt Method: 1 Mushrooms 1.1 Remove dirt from mushrooms with a wet paper towel, then slice the mushrooms finely 1.2 Wash and chop parsley 1.3 Fry champignons for 3-4 minutes in olive oil, then add parsley and fry for another 3-4 minutes constantly stirring 2 Spaghetti 2.1 Boil spaghetti al dente in salted water, drain water 2.2 Combine spaghetti with mushrooms & parsley & grated Grana Padano: mix well 2.3 Serve and enjoy quick and delicious lunch !
“I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit. “No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it along the way.”
A.A. Milne
Dough ingredients: – 450g all purpose flour – 200ml 33% cream – 20g fresh yeast – 2 eggs and 1 egg white – 60g sugar – 8g Vanilla sugar – 1 dash of salt – 4g lemon zest – 250g raisins
Beautifying ingredients: – 1 egg yolk – 1 tbsp milk – 20g almond petals Method: 1 Dough 1.1 Pre-heat the 33% cream to 30-34C in a saucepan 1.2 Add to warm 33% cream: crushed fresh yeast and 2 tbsp sugar. Whisk until smooth and let it stay for 15 minutes covered with the cloth 1.3 Add to cream & yeast: 2 eggs and 1 egg white, sugar and Vanilla sugar, salt, lemon zest: whisk until smooth 1.4 Gradually add flour and raisins: knead a dough. Let dough stay in a warm place covered with a cloth for 30 minutes to let it raise 🙂 2 Braided bread 2.1 Separate raised dough into 5 equal parts, then form a 40cm long sausages out of each piece 2.2 Join all the sausages at top firmly with fingers, then braid them taking the left most and putting in the middle, then right most and putting it in the middle: repeat until you braid all the length through 🙂
2.3 Join the sausages in the end firmly. 2.4 Whisk an egg yolk with 1 tbsp milk and brush well the bread-to-be 2.5 Sprinkle the bread-to-be with almond petals 2.6 Let the bread raise for another 15 minutes (no cover now) and meanwhile pre-heat the oven to 180C 2.7 Bake the bread for 25 minutes on the baking paper at 180C 3 Let the bread cool down and serve with butter. Enjoy and Happy Easter!
The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Ingredients (14-18 bunnies): – 110g all-purpose flour – 50g butter – 40-50g sugar – 50g chopped almond – 1 small egg – several chocolate buttons for baking Method: 1 Pre-heat the oven to 190C 2 Chop almond to 0.2-0.5cm pieces (I used pre-chopped 1cm x 0.3cm almond stripes from the shop) – do not chop too finely to make super-crusty cookies 😉 3 Mix flour, sugar and grated butter until smooth 4 Add an egg and chopped almonds: mix well 5 Roll out the dough to 0.5cm width, cut the cookies with a bunny cookie cutter, put the cookies on the baking paper. Put chocolate buttons – bunnies eyes 6 Bake the cookies for 15 min at 190C 7 Serve with a cup of black coffee and have a wonderful and sunny weekend !
