Spring has arrived and before you know BBQ afternoons, outdoor potlucks and picnics will be our favorite weekend pastimes.Ever since I started this blog I always check out salad bars in cafes andRead More
Inspired by a few green leafy vegetable recipes that combine either with chick peas or with Chorizo, I decided to throw everything together and make a quick weekday pasta dish out of it.Read More
We had some garlic bread left from a BBQ on the weekend. I didn’t want to throw it away. I thought it would go down well with some soup. I didn’t make itRead More
Ribollita is a Tuscan peasant soup. It means “reboiled”. The original version is vegan. Tuscan peasants used to make a stew-like soup by reboiling minestrone leftovers from the day before.My soup is notRead More
These days that I almost non-stop cook (and food-photograph and food-blog) I always have some dried beans soaking somewhere, ready to be cooked and used in some salad and or dinner. I mustRead More
This salad is my version of the salade fermiere, sold at Paul Cafe, a French bakery chain with outlets in parts of Europe, America and the Middle East. I had it the otherRead More
This salad is my version of the salade fermiere, sold at Paul Cafe, a French bakery chain with outlets in parts of Europe, America and the Middle East. I had it the otherRead More
I love the fact that so many pasta sauces and toppings are done much faster than the pasta itself. This one is a quick and lovely pasta and seafood dish that works wellRead More
Savory tarts and quiches are perfect winter comfort foods. Now that winter (note: that is Dubai winter with around 20C) and some rain have finally arrived, I felt like making some tart. AfterRead More
You want a fast and tasty meal? Here it is: Thai Curry. I promise you the rice to serve it with will take longer to cook than this. In a Thai curry, youRead More
When I came across a recipe of green beans with bacon and hazelnuts some time ago, it was declared a side dish. Some grains and seeds would serve just right to makeRead More
This salad is what I had for dinner tonight. Only then remembered that this post including the pictures of the salad were sleeping in my computer for more than a month. No timeRead More
Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the German Wall. I must admit, I only have vague memories of that particular day. I was 14, and lived in a smallRead More
This chicken ragout is one of my comfort foods that I cook when I want to feel like home back in Germany. It’s called fricassee in Germany and it’s a dish that IRead More
I’d like to share another of our favorite dinner dishes: a one-skillet dish with Italian potato dumplings, grilled chicken and green beans with some natural flavoring through sun-dried tomatoes and toasted pine nuts. Read More
My lunch has to get me going until 7 or 8pm. Therefore, I recently got into the habit of always having some cooked beans in the fridge. They make a perfect base forRead More
This millet bake has been one of our long-time favorites, although there are many down-sides to it: It is not a quick meal, and you’ll have a lot of dishes to wash afterwards. Read More
In the course of my learning-how-to-cook experience I came up with this most versatile tomato sauce that can be used as a base for many dishes: either thinned out and spiced upRead More
Today is the 3 October, the anniversary of the German reunification in 1990! I dare to say that most of the things in my life would not have happened without this historic event.Read More
My local supermarket has got a little bookshop right behind their checkouts. The other day I was paging through some random cookbook and saw this recipe of spaghetti with cauliflower and chilli: aRead More