Curd cheese with wood garlic

Five days already without cake and any baking activities in my kitchen. It’s hard but the nice weather makes me forget about it and in addition I’m rescued by the fresh herbs in our garden already growing now. That’s why today I had some curd cheese with wood garlic, parsley and chives served with potatoes in the skin.
I often use wood garlic because I like the softer taste then the one of garlic and my stomach gets along with it much better.
Wood garlic can be gathered in the woods but you should be careful when doing it. It can easily be confounded with lilies of the valley or meadow saffron, both poisonous. A careful look at the leaves will help to distinguish these plants. Only garlic leaves are having stipes.

Curd cheese with wood garlic
Serves 2
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Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
25 min
Total Time
40 min
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
25 min
Total Time
40 min
Ingredients
  1. 8.8oz curd cheese
  2. 3.5oz crème fraîche
  3. 3 tbsp milk
  4. 4-6 leaves of wood garlic
  5. 4-6 stems of parsley
  6. chives, pepper, salt
  7. 4 midsize potatoes
Instructions
  1. Boil potatoes with their skin in salty water until done.
  2. Mix curd cheese with crème fraîche and milk. Wash and chop wood garlic and parsley. Snip chives with scissors and add all herbs to curd cheese with pepper and salt.
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  • Bärlauchquark/Curd chees with wood garlic/Fromage blanc à l’ail des ours

 

Buckwheat Pancakes

Lent – for many of us a good reason to think about their own impairments. I’m always getting weak with desserts and lovely cakes. That’s why I tend to resist to them as far as possible. Unfortunately I forgot the fact that I will spend less time in my kitchen and accordingly have less baking recipes to post. Well, I’ll create more savory and less sweet recipes and in addition write about the success or failure of my fasting efforts. The first fasting day nevertheless I used my frying pan to make some buckwheat pancakes with a feta cheese filling. The original recipe from lecker.de is to be eaten with whole-grain bread. I had to replace basil by fresh Italian parsley already growing in our garden. I wanted a complete meal and therefore chose a pancake with it.

Buckwheat Pancake
Serves 2
Savoury and really satiable.
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Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
12 min
Total Time
32 min
Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
12 min
Total Time
32 min
Ingredients
  1. Pancakes -
  2. 7oz buckwheat flour
  3. 1 dash of salt
  4. 2 eggs
  5. milk
  6. Filling -
  7. 2 spring onions
  8. 1 big or 2-3 small tomatoes
  9. 1 bunch of Italian parsley
  10. 3.5oz feta cheese
  11. 2 tbsp plain yogurt
  12. pepper, salt
Instructions
  1. Seperate the eggs and whisk egg whites in a seperate bowl. Blend buckwheat flour with egg yolk, salt and milk until becoming creamy.
  2. For the filling wash parsley, onions and tomatoes. Dice onions and tomatoes and hash parsley. Scrunch feta cheese with a fork and add yogurt. Fold in diced vegetables and season with salt and pepper.
  3. Bake pancakes in a some cooking oil and scatter the cheese filling afterwards.
Bastelesel https://www.bastelesel.de/
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  • Buchweizenpfannkuchen/Buckwheat Pancake/Crêpes au blé noir

HELAU / ALAAF / HIPP HIPP MECK MECK

Karneval2014Carnival in North Rhine-Westfalia – it’s all over on Ash Wednesday.

Enjoy it and celebrate with the crazy people around.

 

 

Gift Purse

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Looking for a nice wrapping of a gift certificate or an invitation? Well, then this little purses will be quite right for you. They’re not expensive at all and you can make them even if you don’t have any cardstock or designed paper at home. Simply take one of the magazines you have available and cut out a page matching with the occasion. Take care that your motive is to be seen on the upper part of the original page and lying inside when making the first fold. Turn your page so that top is at the bottom and then fold from left side to right side. Next step is to fold up the bottom part leaving a border of 1″ – 2.5″. This border is the future flap of your purse. Nun cut right side diagonally from bottom to top. It doesn’t matter where exactly you’re cutting except if your gift voucher or invitation has a special size. After cutting re-open all folds again having motive on the backside. At the upper part you can fix a handle made of a thin paper stripe or gift wrapping ribbon. Then fold flap down and ready is your little purse.
You can decorate your purses with further accessories or make them with cardstock. Further proposals to be seen with the pictures.

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  • Geschenktasche/Gift Purse/Sac à main en papier

Easy-Peasy Napkin

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A table setting without neatly folded napkins? Impossible, at least for myself. I can hardly resist any napkin with a nice pattern but very often have to find out that most of the foldings don’t show it correctly or even make it disappear. That’s why I love this standing version that can be folded with large and small napkins.
Remove them from their package and fold them over a solid ruler with a rather sharp edge or over the edge of your table. Leave the ruler on your table or place it on your knees. Then push it together along the edge with both hands and press front and back a little. After removing it from your ruler the crinkles will open a bit but the napkin will stay curved and stand upright.
You can see the complete pattern and it will leave enough space for a piece of cutlery, a name tag or a small give-away like on my springtime table.

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  • Easy-Peasy Serviette/Easy-Peasy Napkin/Serviette Easy-Peasy