unbelievable, it’s christmas time again. to be honest, i am still in a very autumnal mood with pumpkin, pears and apples, but if i like it or not we have the first sunday of advent. and as i try the whole year to cook and bake with ingredients we grow in the garden i will try to do some christmas sweets with fruits, herbs and maybe vegetables as well which you can still harvest or you canned during the year. Continue reading
tomatoes will be degreening surprisingly long until late autumn. but i guess now is the time when the season for tomatoes is definitely over. but what to do with all the remaining green tomatoes which did not turn red over summer or the past weeks? Continue reading
tomato jam combined with some cracker and goats cheese fit perfectly as a starter or snack in between the meals. and in contrast to a chutney, the tomato is more mild and harmonious. and if you still have some tomatoes left which aren´t that perfect anymore, they will do a great job. Continue reading
two years of blogging! happy birthday foodiesgarden and thank you all for reading! many things happened in the past year. i started writing the recipes not only in english but also in german. foodiesgarden participated in some blog-events and -awards and was quite successful which makes me really proud and happy. Continue reading
this feuilletée is very delicious, extremely quick and an excellent hearty alternative to all the sweet pastry you can do with pears. Continue reading
wild mushroom ragout is my absolute favorite among all the mushroom dishes. i think it was also the very first dish i cooked with my best friend when i visited her with a huge amount of mushrooms i collected with my parents. and i think we had it also with knoedel this first time years ago. Continue reading
to be honest, i don´t like the cold seasons. and the only thing, despite skiing, that makes me happy about the cycle of the seasons is the return of long missed seasonal food. apart from that it could be summer throughout the entire year. but now it is time for mussel again, we will have pumpkins, kale, roast meet, ragouts and wild mushrooms after one long year of waiting. Continue reading
the best apple strudel i ever had, is the apple strudel of the man´s mom. and as she is viennese, i think her apple strudel could not be more original. i tried to reproduce everything exactly as i remember. but the greatest challenge of such traditional family recipes is that they never have been written down, everything is a bit vague and estimated. Continue reading
this is a very fine and easy to prepare autumnal desert. the recipe again is from my favorite french cookbook la cuisine des brasseries. i don´t know if i already told you that there has been not a single recipe which i cooked from this book that was not superb? Continue reading
not every year fennel works as great as it did this year. and to tell you the truth, i have no idea why. sometimes the seeds don´t sprout. sometimes they sprout, but the fennel remains really tiny. ok, this is maybe because our climate does not provide the fennel with ideal conditions every year. and sometimes you miss the right point to harvest and the fennel turns into seeds again. but as you can see, this year we have been lucky! Continue reading