I just bought the new cookbook from Nigel Slater and adore it. All about vegetables in the kitchen and in the garden. The perfect book for a cook with his own vegetable patch like myself. It’s the first cookbook I read like a book. I…
Last saturday we had our annual coeur de sel xmas dinner. The men were djing the night before and were still fighting their hangovers. The woman had a nice bottle of wine with their racelette while looking after the kids and therefore were tired to.…
I’m about to discover the beetroot. Thanks to nigel slaters new cook book “tender” . So far I was almost clueless what to do with a beetroot. I like them raw. I occasionally mad a raw beetroot salad with sesame. I tried soup once but…
Profiteroles are amongst my favorite desserts. I always order them in the restaurant if they are on the menu, but there are huge differences in the preparation and not all of them are equally nice. What you want is dark bitter chocolate over cold and…
An other new discover are these little fellows. All you need is good a biceps muscle. I didn’t expect it to be so hard to squeeze the pastry out of the icing bag. But after the first try I was already tired. This is an…
I found an other cookie I really like, chocolate orange cookies. They are easy to make and already the dough is delicious ( important to me because I lick to pinch 😉 ). I’m not to much into all these christmas cookies that smell of…
Yesterday we started making cookies, rather late I realized, last year we started a whole month earlier. Must be the weather, it was way to warm to get into christmas mood. As always we started with a kids cookie, hoping that while they are busy…
This is one of our basics. Fast and delicious, perfect for one of the way to many working days when supper has to be quick. It turns out different every time depending on what is around. There are a few basics though: Brown rice Salmon…
Certainly one of my favorite desserts, warm apples a hint of caramel and double cream…. yummy. But somehow I never mange to make it. Often I make the dough but then I am busy cooking dinner and have not time to cook the apples and…
We’re into soup these days. Broccoli soup, minestrone, barley soup … Today it was onion soup. One day after the Bernese “Zibele Märit” it seemed like the right thing to cook. 1 kg organic onions 1 Tbs butter 6 gloves garlic 1 laurel leaf a…
