One evening while eating at the restaurant our friend ordered a dish with Borlotti beans. While eating he said something like “we just don’t eat enough Borlotti beans, they are so nice” . This made me realize that I actually never cooked Borlotti beans myself.…
Huh, it has been quiet around here … First there was too much work and then a long and lovely holiday with lot’s of gardening and not so much cooking going on – well we did cook a lot but we stuck to tried and…
The june edition of our Monday classes looked like it would be a difficult one. Shortly before the summer holidays. The weeks days packed with school theaters and such. We were all to busy to look at cookbooks. With a garden full of berries I…
Thanks to smitten kitchen for this discovery! You’ll need: 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast 1/2 cup warm water 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 large egg 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons fennel seeds 1 kg yellow…
We have 3 different types of cucumbers in the garden this year. Nostrano, cute small green ones and our all time favorite round pick-nique cucumbers. Nothing better to come home after a day in the garden and make a lovely cazpacio with the days harvest.…
Here in the middle of Europe we are currently in the middle of lovely heat wave. Temperatures over 30° make it impossible to work, lunch break spent swimming down the river, evenings spent at the pool, nights sleeping with no cover at all. We love…
Monday classes returns, as Umi is back from her two month stay in Japan! So our first session back in May was dedicated to the Japanese kitchen. Since some of us don’t like raw fish too much, we went for veggie dishes. Umi had the…
I have been asked what to take for the perfect picnic by a Swiss newspaper this week. I don’t do proper picnic that often, but when we eat in the garden that is sort of a picnic. In the the beginning we had pretty elaborate…
This recipe is new favorite at our house. Dead simple, made with ingredients we always stock in our cupboard: spaghetti, tinned mackerel, garlic, onions, fennel seeds and olive oil. Brilliant just like this. If you feel like it it’s nice to add some greens. Broad…
If you go to Istanbul or Turkey in general this is the thing you have to eat and bring home! We been told to buy it at Keseklers shop outside the spicemarket. They are supposed to do the best. Don’t buy the little square ones…
