maybe it is because of using an old type of vegetable which, in addition, is regional and seasonal, but it really reminds me of what you get served in all the recently opened “back to traditional recipies-restaurants” of the past years. and yes, it makes me lucky when i cook something for what i voluntarily would pay for in a restaurant. Continue reading
may i introduce, teltow turnips. for all of you who never ever heard about them, they are a speciality of the german region brandenburg, in particular of the city teltow. yes you are right, turnips grow everythere, but these kind of turnips grow particularly well in this region because of the sandy-clayey soil. during the times of socialism they almost passed out of mind because they have not been adapted to the mass methods of the cooperative farming. Continue reading
self made jam on a fresh morning roll guarentees a lucky start for the day, as far as a morning can be lucky. the fruity sweetness will make it definitely better. and a self made jam will always be much more fruity than the highest quality you can get in a store. Continue reading
it is time to harvest cherries! and it is the first year ever that we can harvest cherries. the last years we missed the cherries not because of the trees have been to young or to old to produce fruits or because of frosts during blossom, no, we missed it because the birds has been faster than us. Continue reading
as i love finding food out in the nature, i also like eating those parts of vegetables people normally would throw away. if you are a gardener and know about the relation between the part of vegetables you finally eat and the huge amount of stuff you throw on the compost, you know what i mean. Continue reading
the high season for radish is definitively over by the beginning of the summer. but what i want to share with you is my last weeks favorite lunch idea: Continue reading
it is a beauty! i love poppy as long as i can remember. Continue reading
first of all, these kind of lettuce are the easiest and modest ways of having some own greens. all you have to do is to sow them in rows in early spring and wait. no thinning out or other special care is necessary and it will work in the smallest window box. Continue reading
this dish is, i guess, a very austrian one. i am not sure if i am right but at least i read about it the first time in an austrian cook book. elder is a plant that grows almost everywhere just like weed, even if you don´t like it. if you have some elder at an unwanted place, you can cut it down, you can root it out and plant it to another place and … it will grow again. that´s why you don´t even need a garden to bake hollerkuechle, because you will find elder almost everywhere. Continue reading
i discovered the recipe for this tarte on fleur du poirier and immediately fell in love! i think, i already told you that in general i don´t like rhubarb, but this rhubarb tarte tatin sweeped me off my feed. Continue reading