It was time to clear the fridge a little yesterday so I decided to treat myself with some yummy Chow Mein, using up what I didn’t want to spoil. It’s an easy but first of all very versatile dish, consisting of egg noodles, vegetables or proteins of your choice and a seasoning sauce (stolen, but as far as I know original). So, no fuzz and here’s how:
DIY Tabletop Grill
I don’t have much opportunity to move around and do “real” work these days, so I chose something that I could do standing at one place and with not much strength and mobility required.
I made a new approach to the Tabletop-Indoor-Grill-Thingy I tried last summer (which worked great), but this time I wanted it to be a little more versatile.
Homemade Bratwurst with Sauerkraut
Self made ingredients taste best, it’s a fact… I had my homemade bratwurst with some homemade sauerkraut again these days and it was delicious. To me, this is a simple, down-to-earth, traditional german dinner. Sometimes it’s the little things 🙂
⇒ see the Bratwurst recipe here
⇒ see the Sauerkraut recipe here
Very Slow Roasted Beef Leg
I have so got to work on my presentation… A time-consuming, yet effortless and very rewarding dish:
Easy Oven Flatbread
… with olive oil, salt and rosemary. Easy and convenient. Oh, and also yummy.
You’ll need:
500 g all-purpose flour
1 pkg. active dry yeast
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. sugar
2 tbsp. olive oil
300 ml lukewarm water
Topping: Olive oil, coarse salt, rosemary
Baking Bread in the Pizza Oven
So it was the first spring-like day after several weeks of hard winter today. Moderate temperatures and a lot of sunshine. Beautiful! We fired up the pizza oven and found that it also doubles very well for baking bread.
Personal Udon Reloaded
These are the Udon Noodles I had for lunch yesterday. Thrown together from what I found in the pantry and deemed suitable – but at least with a decent originally japanese broth (at least as far as I know).
Can any japanese Person from my valued readership perhaps provide me with a japanese word for „thrown together“ or „rag-tag“ or „random“ or similar, so I have a name to call them in the future? 🙂
Pike Perch with Green Beans and Potato Gratin
As I’m still not able to move around a lot and freely, I’m cooking a lot these days and I’m growing a serious set of love handles from it… For the first time, I appreciate the benefits of the small northern germany kitchen: Almost everthing I need is within an arm’s reach and I don’t have to stress the broken knee too much.
After rummaging around in the freezer, I found some pike perch fillets and so here’s yesterday’s dinner: