Archive for the ‘In the kitchen’ Category

Marinated potato salad

For our last barbecue I was asked to make a potato salad, one of the Germans’ favorites. There’s still home-grown rocket and radish available. That’s why I chose this recipe from a Dr. Oetker’s book with potato and pasta salads. Thanks to marinating the potatoes over night you may prepare this salad the previous day. […]

Sorbet

All you need for this lovely summer feeling is two ingredients. Two ingredients to get a soft and creamy sorbet without any additional sugar. I took one banana and about 250g of fresh strawberries to prepare two small sundaes. Wash strawberries, take off their green and cut large ones in halves. Cut banana in half […]

Lemon dream

First technical problems, then I nice trip to the North of our country and I simply forgo to translate the instructions for the lovely lemon cake. Only make this kind of sponge to get three different layers. The first one like a custard, the second one a bit softer and on top a fluffy, lightly […]

Pretzel-recycling

They’re an attraction for nearly all of our parties – large fresh pretzels. Sometimes however there are some of them left over but they’re not really tasty the next day. I found a recipe for frozen pretzels and changed it a little bit to make my two days old pretzels palatable again. Filling: (for 4 […]

Next adversary

Our next adversary’s the Polish team and actually we do have a large offer of strawberries available. That’s why today I’ll propose a snack in red and white with this lovely fruit. They’re filled with herbal cream cheese smoothed with a bit of cream. Pepper richly and fill in a small piping bag. Take off […]