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:
Another Clay Pot (“Römertopf”) Dish – and a Conclusion
Another simple dish from the clay pot, aka “Römertopf“, and, after some experience with it now, some conclusions for my part. But first the recipe:
Farcyde’s Favourite Salad Dressing
I came up with this dressing a long time ago and it’s been an evergreen in my kitchen ever since. Simple and delicious – the magic lies in the tyrolian pumpkin seed oil (“steirisches Kernöl”).
Roasted Cauliflower Soup
I’m not so much of a mobile person at the moment due to my recent kneecap-incident that I’m currrently recovering from. But you can always make soup! We had a lot of snowfall the last days and a warm and hearty soup is a winter evening’s delight: Here’s my roasted cauliflower soup:
Visitor’s Top 5 Recipes 2020
I’m always glad for hits on my recipes – gives me a feeling that some people out there do indeed benefit a little from this website. Here’s what you all clicked most in 2020. Thanks!
Learning Never Stops
Wired Patella
Learning new things is a lifetime undertaking. So what have I, personally, learned in the last days?
Well, a “patella“, commonly known as kneecap, is an elaborate, delicate and enormously important component of the human body. Not only does it produce funny movements when it’s tendon is hit with a reflex hammer, it also enables you to perform some fundamental tasks, like flexing and straightening your knee (see a good demonstration here). Cool little gadget, right?
However – and I cannot stress this enough – it is NOT intended to make acquaintance with a driveway pavement at fall velocity and with the kinetic energy of around 100 kg of body weight as additional thrust. In this case, although scrupulously designed and crafted only from premium-quality materials, it will most likely just shatter.
Not funny, not pleasing, surgically challenging and certainly not a a short timer. What have you learned these days 🙂 ?
