Bastelesel

03 Aug 2014

A wonderful novel written by Jojo Moyes. It’s best for a lazy moment on your balcony or at the beach.
You need to be very optimistic if your daughter’s only chance for a qualified education at a private school consists in attending a maths competition. That’s just how it is for Jess and her highly skilled daughter Tanzie. They’re living in a small house together with Nicky, Jess’ adopted son and Norman the enormously stolid dog. The kid’s Dad is gone leaving them without any money but Jess tries to survive doing several small jobs like cleaning or serving in a pub. Naturally money is always short and following Murphy’s law they live through a never ending series of disasters. One night then Jess meets Ed Nicholls a successful software engineer. In his job he’s facing major difficulties after one single blindfold activity and worst case given he’ll even have go to jail for it. During their attempt to bring Tanzie to the maths competition Jess and Ed come closer and everything could be quite easy if Ed hadn’t been that drunk when meeting Jess at her second job in a pub.
A bit wacky characters in small town and a story that doesn’t seem to be too devious. A lovely reading for sommer making you feel happy even for little amenities.

26 Jul 2014

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Pumpernickel bites

Pumpernickel – a typical German dark bread made of whole grains and coarsed meal of rye. The grains have to be soaked overnight to become bakable. It’s usually baked without any ferment and therefor has to stay in a steam-filled oven 16 to 20 hours. A laborious procedure for your oven. I hence prefer these little bites of pumpernickel. You can garnish them in hundred different ways. I never had any leftovers whenever they were part of a buffet. Today I’ll show you some layered with cream cheese, perfect for summer.

Pumpernickel bites

2014-07-26 19:56:39

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Prep Time

20 min

Cook Time

15 min

Total Time

35 min

Prep Time

20 min

Cook Time

15 min

Total Time

35 min

Ingredients

7oz cream cheese
7oz crème fraîche
1 tbsp milk
2 spring onions
1 red pepper
salt, freshly ground black pepper
25 pumpernickel bites

Instructions

Wash pepper, cut in quarters and take off the seeds. Clean spring onions, trim the roots away and cut small rings.
Place pepper quarters on a baking sheet and give into the 390°F preheated oven for 12-15 minutes until the skin is blistering.Remove from oven and peel off skin when they're completely cool. Cut them into little dice afterwards.
Mix cream cheese, milk and half of the onions and blend until creamy. Season with salt and black pepper.
Give cream into a piping bag with a large nozzle and decorate on pumpernickel bites.
Place the bites on a plate and sprinkle with remaining onions.

Notes

If you don't want to blister the peppers yourself you can easily take pickled red peppers.

Bastelesel http://www.bastelesel.de/

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