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…
The end of the school year means a lot of thank yous – to my colleagues in the department as well as to the countless colleagues all over the school who have helped me (and my students!) to get through the year in one piece. Unfortunately, writing cards does not come naturally to me. I usually…
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…
As part of our preparation for the final we had some Black Forest Gateau today. These were quite fashionable in England for a time in the 70s, whereas in Germany they have been popular for ages. They are named after the black forest, a mountain range in the south west of Germany, which has given…
As the World Cup is coming to an end, I would like to present you with the perfect dish to round off my tour of all the participating nations: grilled plantains. Brazil is famous for its rodízios, the ‘all-you-can-eat-type restaurants where waiters come round to the tables with skewers full of meat. To pay homage…
This risotto is probably the most simple of all risotto dishes in that it has such a limited number of ingredients: apart from chicken stock, parmesan, an onion and risotto rice, the standard ingredients of any risotto, it only calls for saffron and – if you can get hold of it, some bone marrow. But…
After last night’s rather comprehensive victory, the second semi-final tonight will decide which team is going to teach Germany a lesson or two about winning a match. Argentina will need some support, and I think a slice or two of this cake might just do the trick. Torta Rogel, or Alfajor Rogel, is a uniquely decadent concoction…
These little fake chicken drumsticks are a popular snack or side dish in Brazil, and they’re the perfect fingerfood for any party. They’re easy enough to make as long as you don’t mind deep-fat frying … Coxinhas mean chicken legs in Brazilian Portuguese, and the dumplings are filled with shredded chicken breast, wrapped in a dough…
This Russian salad – or Salade Olivier, comes with a lot of history: first invented in the 1860s in Moscow by a chef named Lucien Olivier, who guarded the recipe jealously. His sous-chef – apparently – stole the recipe and opened up his own restaurant to sell his version – needless to say, it simply wasn’t the…
I had this rice first at the home of a school friend, whose family had fled to Germany in the wake of the cultural revolution. I loved the flavours and textures of it: the crispy bottom – the tadiq – gives the dish a hint of caramel, which goes beautifully with middle eastern dishes of all sorts. Hoping to…
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