Archive for the ‘In the kitchen’ Category

Blueberry cake

What’s best for summer? Fresh berries! Add them to a fluffy batter and they will make a lovely summer cake to be enjoyed as a dessert or for tea time. Ingredients: 250ml whipping cream, 2 cups sugar, 3 cup flour, 4 eggs, 1 bag baking powder, 300 – 350g blueberries, some powdered sugar Grease baking […]

Iced cucumber soup

For more than two weeks we’re having around 30°C and everybody feels quite exhausted and no need to do a lot of cooking. On the occasion of our last vacation to the Spreewald (Spree forest) in the south of Berlin we tasted one of the specialities made with cucumber. It’s a light soup that doesn’t […]

Easy bread

Oh, how I love it to remove a fresh bread from the oven and most of the time I’m cooking all kinds of bread that need a lot of preparation and time for rising. But it’s even better if, coming home from work, you just decide to cook a loaf of bread for dinner and […]

Tortellini-skewers

These mini tortellini skewers are a lovely starter or a wonderful snack for a buffet. The pesto sour cream dip is done in a minute and served in a seperate bowl.  Take small, dried tortellini and cook according to package directions. All kinds of fillings are possible, we took some with a “pizza filling”. For […]

Healthy and yet delicious

One of the few things I like about autumn is those mellow persimmons. Preferably I’m savouring them in my yoghurt but every now and then I’m trying a new recipe. Today it’s a lettuce composition with sliced persimmon and pomegranate seeds. Ingredients: 1 persimmon, 2 hands full  of  lettuce per individual (lamb’s, frisée, crisphead lettuce, […]