Archive for the ‘In the kitchen’ Category

Thumbprint Cookies

Thumbprint cookies – besides Grandma’s traditional spritz cookies the best Christmas cookies ever. That’s what our children say and that’s why they’re almost the first cookies we do for Christmas. The recipe is quite easy and they’re even better if the currant jelly derives from Grandma’s storage rack. The ingredients are lightly changed because fortunately […]

Hazelnut Cookies

They look like the first Christmas cookies but weren’t meant to be. I simply wanted to use the remaining egg yolk of my meringue pastry. The original recipe found on “Rezeptwiese.de” proposes  to cover the cookies with icing sugar. For half of my cookies I chose a chocolate top which we liked very much too. […]

Potato Soup

Yesterday we had the decoration. Today you’ll get the recipe for my potato soup. It’s worthwhile to cook the double quantity and freeze half of the soup before adding sausages or anything else. Even unfreezed delicious.

Super Tuber II

Potatoes in curd cheese pastry with poppy seeds and tangerines – unusual but really delicious. Thanks to the mashed potatoes the pastry is very mellow. The filling of poppy seeds and the sweet tangerines give it  a very fruity note. I’m not sure whether I’m willing to cook some extra potatoes for a cake but […]

Super Tuber

There’s nothing special with these potatoes. They just succeeded being mentioned because I had to cook them already today for my tomorrow’s post. The main ingredient of many recipes in a German food magazine called “Gugelhupf” is actually our beloved potato. I was specially attracted by a picture of a cup cake filled with poppy […]