Happy New Year! Frohes neues Jahr! Here is a great recipe adapted from “Veganes fürs Fest” by Heike Kügler-Anger that satisfies dairy cravings for panna cotta and is ideal if you want to make something special for vegan guests. It has a delicate scent of almond from Amaretto and bitter almond essence. Of course, you … Continue reading
This recipe is from http://www.chefkoch.de and it’s easy to memorize. What’s brilliant about this recipe is that you just mix up the following ingredients: 450g white flour 450g lukewarm water 2 packets of dried yeast 2 tsp salt 1 pinch of sugar Leave this very wet mixture to stand for about 5 hours at room … Continue reading
Last month I was invited to a get-together and asked to help the mother of the host prepare the food for the buffet. She lives in a little wooden house at the back of a garden centre and you have to follow a winding stone path, ducking under low tree branches to find her. The … Continue reading
Due to a busy school schedule the first day of my vegan pledge (1st November) found me totally disorganised. I made the potato pakoras (recipe on this site) and a rather good carrot cake from this site: http://www.grouprecipes.com/44964/best-vegan-carrot-cake.html I didn’t have any whole nuts so I just reduced the amount of sugar from 1 1/4 … Continue reading
One of the biggest worries I have regarding my month of veganism is that I need to find food that I can take to work with me so that I don’t starve until I get home. Luck would have it that a recipe from Frugal Feeding’s blog reached me today (take a peek under http://frugalfeeding.com) … Continue reading
This recipe is from the recipe sheet that came with my Römertopf bread pan. I’m not too sure about the original amount of salt (1 tbsp) because on the website it says 1 tsp of salt, so I went for the smaller amount. It’s my first attempt at baking a loaf of bread without yeast … Continue reading
The day before yesterday I started my first sourdough starter and since it hasn’t mutated yet into a green, furry monster and smells rather good, here’s the recipe from the back of the packet of sourdough starter that I bought: 150g store-bought liquid sourdour (I used this: http://www.schoenenberger.com/47/0/64/39/172/produktdetail.html) 300g quite coarsely ground rye grain 250ml water … Continue reading
After my successful bread and roll making sessions two weeks ago, I started researching on how to make my bread even better. Last year I tried the no-knead bread developed by Jim Lahey which you’ll find here: (http://www.sullivanstreetbakery.com/recipes). This was delicious but I want to use less white flour in my kitchen. What makes Jim’s … Continue reading
I got bitten by the bread baking virus two weeks ago. One of my teaching colleagues Andreas, a master baker, kindly allowed me to sit in, or rather stand in, on one of his baking lessons. There were three female students there from a notoriously difficult challenging class which was making rolls and pastries for … Continue reading
Well, it’s rhubarb time again here. Since my step-son loves anything rhubarb, I’d thought I’d brighten up the breakfast table with some rhubarb jam. Since he also loves mango, this recipe was double delicious. The recipe is from the German Thermomix recipe forum http://www.rezeptwelt.de. Use your google translator if you don’t speak German to flick … Continue reading
Scribblings from a chaotic kitchen 
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