This guy has too much free time at his hands… 🙂 I made a cheese press, because I was offered an eBook on cheesemaking – for free! Well, I like cheese in almost all of its forms, so I’ll try that out. Here’s how it was made and how it’s supposed to work.
Spelt Flour Bread
Today I’ve got something completely new, at least for my standards. I made bread from spelt flour for the first time – and I was surprised about how much I actually like it. Now, spelt has a little bit of a reputation of being in the eco- or treehugger corner (at least here where I live) but at the end of the days it’s just plain normal flour to work with.
Vegetable Chow Mein
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:
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
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:
