The garden is in full blossom. Mint, calendula, chamomile, melissa … What I really like is these days is boiling a kettle of hot water over the fire in the garden and make some fresh infusion. Sometime I mix everything together, sometimes I just make…
My son and I, we do a lot of baking. He’s a fuzzy eater and I hope helping in the kitchen will open his mind and his taste buds. These little chocolate cakes are cute and easy to make. He loved everything about them, so…
Last winter I decided that I want to make my own macarons. This may sound stupid since we have sprüngli in Bern and zürich and now we even have Ladurée in zürich. But the idea to be able to make my own little colorful macarons…
Deb came up with this pizza just when I was about to get bored of my garden grown asparagus. Raw asparagus on a pizza? Sounded exciting to my ears. I changed the recipe a bit and added blanched fave ( broad beans ), because I…
Can you actually imaging to puree fresh asparagus? This delicious vegetable is way to precious to treat this way, no? Well I actually did. We have asparagus in our garden and at the moment I almost don’t know what to do with them. I gave…
It’s hard to say which is my favorite time of the year vegetable wise. But spring is just so exciting. Suddenly all this lovely bright green veggies start to turn up again. What you don’t get on the market here are the typically spring veggies…
This mornings work are these Chocolate- lemon Madelaines also from Pierre Hermé’s cookbook “Chocolate Desserts”. An other nice tea cookie, easy to make, all the need is time ( most precious good I know ). Gives you 12 Madelaines. 70 gr all-pirpose flour 3.5 tbs…
I have a queue of things I want to do that lasts to Afrika. On the list is lot’s of weeding but also planting as important things as soybeans, imagine picking your own edamame in your garden! Then comes lot’s of cooking and baking I…
An other veggie day today. Again adapted from jamies italian cookbook. A stew of fave beans, peas, spinach, leek and artichokes. Cook you artichokes, preferably small violet ones, take off the outer leaves cut into half’s and take out thin white “hair”. Blanch your fave…
In Sardinia again, she is not eating fish, I’m not eating meat it seems this is unintended vegetarian holiday. At least till the weather is good enough to start the grill. In summer we don’t get much nice veggies here but it’s spring now we…
