I have a very fraught relationship with Mexican food, I have to admit. I am left completely cold by the uniform tortilla-with-meat-and-random-stuff stuff that you get in Mexican-themed restaurants. Seriously, nothing can be improved by adding a few complimentary nacho chips. Over the last months and years, however, I have come to accept that there…
Christmas Eve is a busy affair in Germany, between singing carols, opening presents and attending church late at night, these is not much time left for dinner. For this reason, most families have a simple but nevertheless substantial supper, with potato salad and sausages being the most popular option. Traditionally the Christmas tree is put up…
St Martin’s, or Martinmas, is particularly popular with German children: in kindergardens, infant schools and at home we make paper lanterns to use for the processions that take place on the evening of November 11. This is followed by a family dinner revolving around a roast goose, which is the point where adults start enjoying it, too. Although I…
Have you ever wondered how to fit several kinds of meat into one single dish? What a bottle of wine could do to a stew? Or how to cook pig’s trotters? If yes, this traditional Alsatian stew will come as a true revelation to you, a shining light that will guide you through the cold winter…
Dumplings are part of most countries’ cuisines, and I have been making my own fair share of German, Eastern European and South American versions. What I had never attempted before were Chinese dumplings: with their intricate shapes and complex flavours, they seemed way out of my league. But this all changed – thanks to this…
It says a lot about my lack of au-fait-ness that I have completely missed the craze for pulled meat – until now, that is. Having had pulled beef as part of a Colombian dish during the world cup, I was amazed at how tender and tasty these strands of – ultimately – overcooked meat could be.…
With autumn approaching, we are all yearning for some comfort food: warm as well as warming, full of strong flavours and hearty goodness. In other words: calories. This dish is as comforting as it gets, in fact sauerkraut is so popular in Germany that ‘Krauts’ became the derogatory term for German soldiers in World War I.…
Spätzle are to the cuisine of my region what rice is to Indian food or chips to Britain: there is hardly a dish that cannot be served, enhanced or transformed with a generous helping of these delicate little noodles. It’s the first dish we made when I got together with other students from my region at…
With the heatwave in full swing, our little garden is brimming with wildlife and flowers: bees and bumblebees are fighting over the lavender and butterflies play tag along the path. The sunshine has ripened our first tomatoes, and like the baby carrots and peas, the first handfuls are eaten straight from the bush. The rest will…
Following the World Cup Finals I was getting a bit homesick … and homesickness is best expressed in food. Where I come from, Stuttgart in the south west of Germany, you don’t judge people by their looks or by their personality, you judge them by what they eat. And although we love to try out…
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