Author: zera

Culinary travels to istanbul

I spent a prolonged weekend in Istanbul ( luckily before the unrest thats happening now ). It was my first time there so I didn’t really know what to expect food wise. My first very positive encounter with turkish food came after my first 5…

Fish Pie

I just realised that I never posted my Fish Pie here – how could this happen? It’s the dish I have probably cooked most. It’s a simple dish but it never fails to impress our guests and it’s probably our favourite dish too. We just…

Monday classes february

This book was lying around for ages. I bought it before we went to vietnam – for a long time after we came back we wanted nothing but european food so I almost forgot about it. It’s a really nice book that is also fun…

Sourdough

It was on a cold and sunny day when I stumbled over Chad Robertson and his Tartine bread. After I saw his brilliant video on vimeo I had the urge to quit my job and do nothing but baking and cooking. I was always interested…

Monday classes

I don’t know about you, but our bookshelf is overflowing with cookbooks (ok to be fair it’s primarily overflowing with Records). Anyway, there’s a certain amount of guilt involved when I buy a new cookbook because I know there’s books and books with uncooked recipes…

Chocolate Yeast Kranz

We ordered Ottolenghis and sami tamimis new Book “Jerusalem” for my mother in law. When it arrived I was tempted to keep it for myself but instead I had at quick try before wrapping it up. The Chocolate Yeast Kranz just looked to tempting. It…

Belgrade Market

It’s become some sort of tradition with us to spend new year in Belgrade. We come here since 10 years now . It’s been tremendously interesting to see this city change over the past years. From the dark bombed city to the city it is…