Strawberries are back in the shops, and although I know it is far too early, it is still tempting to buy a punnet, especially if they are on offer. They are rarely ripe enough to be eaten on the spot, but they’ll make a delicious topping for a tarte like the one Linda brought along…
When I stumbled over Selina’s poppyseed-filled dumplings on her delicious blog Krümelkreationen the other day, I knew I had to give them a go: lightly sweetened yeast dumplings, filled with ground poppy seeds and drowned in custard … my idea of paradise. You might have noticed that I have a soft spot for Austrian food,…
This week’s task has been to visit the German embassy in order to get a new passport. And going to the embassy fills me with equal amounts of anticipation and dread. The dread is easily explained by the number of forms I have to fill in, the need for documents I mislaid but now need to…
A few weeks ago I finally got round to making my first pretzels, a staple of Swabian bread baskets, the race was on to produce proper breakfast rolls. Now, I won’t lie, we don’t have rolls every morning for breakfast. But we could have, if we wanted to: every other street has an independent baker who…
Pretzels and bagels, it seems, are quite closely related: both are given a particular and highly symbolic shape, and they are also boiled prior to baking. But when I came across Irina’s beautiful post about obwarzanki, the twisted breads sold in Krakow during Lent, I knew I was onto something promising … Obwarzanki are a…
Pretzels clearly are the puffer fish of baking – not only can you get killed making them, thanks to the use of lye or caustic soda, but even eating them is not without hazards, as George W Bush’s near-death experience with a pretzel has shown. But don’t fear – these ones are not only completely harmless but…
Pancake or Shrove Tuesday calls for something decadent. In Germany, we celebrate carnival today, a nod towards pre-Christian tradition of chasing away winter. Similar to the Mardi Gras, or ‘Fat Tuesday’ in the States, we eat lots of different types of doughnuts today, some jam-filled, others more like those cute beignets Angie served up for…
I have no idea what the difference is between flapjacks and granola bars – I have a hunch that the former are English and more oaty, whereas the latter are American, full of nuts and fruit, and ultimately prettier. You tell me. Nevertheless, when I asked my colleagues what I could make them to celebrate the end…
When we were kids, German children could be easily classified into two types: spaghetti bolognese kids and schnitzel kids, depending on which dish they would go for in a restaurant. Not that the menus didn’t offer anything else: usually given titles from popular fairy tales such as ‘Cinderella’s plate’ or ‘Pinocchio’, you could always choose fish fingers,…
I have been dying to give these a try – and they were well worth it! If you don’t have a tortilla press it’s a tad time consuming, so bear that in mind (It took me a good hour to roll them all out … never mind cooking them!). Once cooked you can keep them…
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