our first year’s radish seeds have been more an accident than anything else. we simply missed to harvest some of the radishes on time. so we decided to wait what would happen to the radishes. Continue reading
if you ever had courgettes in your garden or on your balcony you know what i mean saying that courgettes are the gardeners best friend. particularly if you have more than one plant, you will always have at least one courgette at a time. and if you are a lucky one, you will have so many courgettes that you will be happy to give some of them to your best friends. Continue reading
this mint ice cream is very creamy and has a delicate mint flavor. i am not a friend of very minty sweets like all the chocolate and mint stuff, but this ice cream perfectly fits my liking. Continue reading
onions are easy to grow and good to store. and in addition, they are great supporters to fight pests of neighboring vegetables, such as strawberries, carrots and lettuces. Continue reading
i just recognized that i did not post one single courgette recipe this season, even though courgette is a really fast growing friend of the gardner. first courgettes will arrive in early summer and you can harvest until autumn. while most of the other vegetables will swamp you one time in the year and will disappear afterwords until next year. Continue reading
i simply love this salad! since years it is an evergreen on my plate and it is very easy. seasonal and regional tomatoes are the guarantee to pamper your plate! Continue reading
there are dishes you may get addicted to. this one is my personal obsession this season. this means we had it quite often in the last months. eating seasonal in a foodies kitchen often means, that most ingredients change quite rapidly. they grow once a year and you will cook some of your old favorites and something new with them and than they disappear again. aioli with fish we had so often that even my family was surprised. Continue reading
first of all i want to highlight that the greek kitchen has much more to offer than i initially expected! when we travelled together to greece the first time, we rented a windmill house close to the sea and decided to cook only greek dishes. and i was surprised that greek kitchen is much more than tzatziki and dolmades, which, by the way, i also love. Continue reading
i am always very excited when i realize that almost everything on my plate is homegrown and a la minute from farm to table like this greek farmers salad is. when i bite into the crunchy cucumber and tasted the fruity sweetness of the tomatoes i thought that if you have high quality ingredients the recipe can even be very simple, it will be one of the best dishes you ever had! Continue reading
the main reason to grow broad beans for me is, that you usually can’t buy them in supermarkets or greengrocers. but over time i read so many recipes with broad beans that i really wanted to try them out. Continue reading