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COOKIES…
Yesterday was the day! Our annual bake-athon. As last year, and the year before, and the year before that year, we met our friends for a whole day of christmas cookie baking. It does get more challenging every year, on … Continue reading
Posted in culinary bits and pieces, Family
Tagged baking, Children, christmas cookies
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pumpkin delight
Do you know the feeling that certain types of food and certain dishes are deeply connected to a special chapter of your life? The cake your mother always made for your birthday. The favorite food as a student. Food you … Continue reading
101 (or so) ways of drinking coffee
Every time when my parents visit us (or when we visit my parents) I am surprised about how much coffee, and yet how different the ways are how we like our coffee best. I do come from a family of … Continue reading
Picasso pigs
6 o’clock in the morning….I have now been awake for almost two hours for no specific reason and I finally decided that I can as well get up and do some work as long as everyone else is still asleep. … Continue reading
Posted in culinary bits and pieces, the little one
Tagged baking, Children, kitchen, pigs
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holiday snapshot number three: picking strawberries
One day before we left Zurich I cleared our first strawberry bed as the season was more or less over. At the Baltic Sea, the season had just started. So? Trip to the nearest organic strawberry field. Result? More than … Continue reading
Posted in culinary bits and pieces, Germany, Travel
Tagged Baltic Sea, Erdbeerhof, holiday, Kiel, Schillerhof, strawberries, summer, Wisch
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one perfect sunday
It has been one of these days again. One of these early summer weekend-days with blue sky and sunshine, where everything just flows and where you wallow from one relaxed moment to another. It started with a coffee brought to … Continue reading
Posted in culinary bits and pieces, Family, the little one
Tagged bread, food, garden, Mothers Day, Muttertag, Sunday
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cake delivery service for mamas
If you are very motivated in the morning, and if you have the right ingredients, and if you have a toddler that loves baking, then you should bake a cake! And if, in the afternoon, the sun comes out after … Continue reading
Posted in culinary bits and pieces, Miscellaneous, the little one
Tagged cake delivery service, mama
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Paneer Tikka Masala update
Here is, as requested by les Baerts, a quick update regarding the paneer Karsten made during the weekend. Yesterday, he used it to prepare a Paneer Tikka Masala. It was, as usual, a typical Karsten dish: total chaos in the … Continue reading
It’s flocculating! How cool is that?
This month, we are enjoying various new recipes that I want to try out. Our cooking has developed quite a bit since we know each other. During our studies, we of course ate at the student restaurant which was, after … Continue reading
a perfect christmas present
In a bit more than a week it’s already Christmas Eve…can you believe it? How come that time just seems to fly a bit faster every year? But hey, at least we are almost done with our christmas gifts, and … Continue reading
Posted in culinary bits and pieces, Germany, Serious thoughts, Switzerland
Tagged christmas present, cook book, integration, refugees, xenophobia
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familial entropy 