here comes another unorthodox dish to get variance for your menu during the glut of lettuces. because i can´t eat any lettuce in a salad any more i tried to fry the garden lettuce which is by the way a great vegetarian alternative to viennese schnitzel. Continue reading
last summer we had so much chard in our garden that i ran out of ideas what to do with it. so during winter i collected every chard recipe that crossed my way and this is one of them. Continue reading
i am a great admirer of the french bistro kitchen. it is either very easy and quick to cook or to prepare in advance and to arrange in the twinkling of an eye. so if there are any french readers, please correct me if i am wrong. this salad is representative of the first category, very easy and quick to cook. and of course, it is unbelievably delicious. Continue reading
it is time to harvest potatoes. i find it not easy to know when they are ready, as you can´t see the fruits your looking for. so you have to look at the plants. Continue reading
since i had an excellent potato salad in vienna i am looking for the perfect austrian style potato salad. i tried many many different recipes but until today i didn’t find the right one. so if you have one recipe that fits to viennes schnitzel, please let me know! Continue reading
of course you can propagate lettuces out of seeds. but you have to be a very experienced gardener to be successful. you have to sow in rows as thin as you can because you have to thin out the young plants afterwords. but that´s not all. Continue reading
it is incredibly good to have a really fresh garden lettuce from your own field or a really good farmer. it is more crunchy than you ever thought a lettuce could be and it tastes more intensive than all the ones from the supermarket. my mom is still crazy about the garden lettuce my grandmother had in her garden. so i am very happy to have a lucky hand with them as well.
this salad is an upper austrian classic and as simple and quick as an old farmers recipe should be. Continue reading
at the end, minestrone is nothing else than a walk through the garden picking every ripe vegetable and cook them all at once. the great thing about these kind of soups is that you are not bound to the ingredients of the recipe as you can take everything you like or you simply take what you have at home or in your garden. Continue reading
this one is the perfect drink for a warm summer evening! it is fresh due to the cucumber and tastes very light because of the lemonade. and i really like to bite into the grated cucumber, it crunches so nicely. Continue reading
here comes the first big harvest of the main season and it makes me always very happy to see how all the things work and to know, this is just the beginning! we sowed the chard and beans in spring and planted courgette, cucumber and lettuce in late spring.
as the time to harvest all the great things approach, i am full of ideas what to cook. Continue reading