~~ In times of need: eat Chips

I am back from a wonderful trip through Italia and France...a CULINARY trip! UMMMH!
For sure, I brought a thousands of photographies...unfortunately, I didn`t brought the time to arrange them :)

So, until I can post some of the mouthwatering stuff I saw in the southern europe, I share all the other wonderful stuff with you, which has been created in my beautiful kitchen in Hamburg the last months....



In may, where we had this shit damn (!!!) EHEC virus in Germany (and especially in Hamburg, where I live), we really had a problem about "What do we eat?" ... no fresh things...no salad, fruits and so on...no vegetables... it was horrible!
And I really suffered from the abrupt stop of cooking...
So I had a look in my pantry and did everything I could with the rests.

Like you can see, lucky Fabia found some potatoes, and so I could experiment with my first homemade fresh chips! It was a crispy and crunchy and wonderful experience.

Holiday-Pecan-Plum-Muffins to save my honour!

It`s one month ago that I have been on the summer party of my current company Deadalic...
I don`t know what we talked about, but it was fated that I promised one guy to bake Muffins for him when he starts to work at Daedalic.


Well, he arrived 1st of August..and I didn`t have Muffins.
I FORGOT!




Blame and shame! ... I can`t accept that...
I have really not much time at that moment, our hopliday trip starts saturday morning and I have so much to do until then. But Muffins are something nice and quick and lovely, so I decided to bake some Pecan-Plum Muffins...
No decoration today, `cause time is short, but ...well... if you could smell them....no decoration necessary :)

Have a wonderful august!

Already printed.

Seen in Schwäbisch Hall :)

Big Russel - highclass imbiss

I never really thought about taking foodpics as job.
But as luck would have it, there was the first chance two months ago.
An Ex-gourmetchef quitted his starwinning kitchen and opened a diner - french fries, sausages and so on - but in highest quality.

GREAT FUN for me, so I made some cool conepts and he decided to take this one you can see here.
OMG, I have been in a cold sweat, but I really liked to be under that pressure one time, too, because I really arranged the french fries a thousands of times, until they laid perfectly for my eyes.

By the way: The Imbiss is called "Big Russel" (I could design the Logo,too), and it is located in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.
You can find it HERE.

I made them an offer they couldn`t refuse...Torta di More!

Last week, I had so much fun in the kitchen at my free day, that I decided to bake a "Torta di More" (with a lots of berries, not only "more" as you can see) for my new collegues at work (well, the condition for getting a piece of the cake was, that the "eater" allows me to take a photo from him or her with it)...

Great fun, like you can see, and delicious, because it was not that heavy stuff.

WOKfood - Quick and yummyumm!

because I am workingnoe 3 days in a company (called "Daedalic") as animator for beautiful PC Games, i have to re-think my cooking plan: I need quick recipes I can cook in the evening.
Great fun,another point of view on food.... and the best: cooking every evening, what is very relaxing for me. Leisure time!

Today, it`s asian food - Peas (freshly pealed for sure, from the market!) with ground meat and rice...

Varied Vegetables.

Summer seems this year not yet really summer, but yesterday, we had a lovely sunny sundayevening.
So I put a table in our beautiful garden and we had a greek and a french recipe:

Filled pepper with pistachio-mint-rice  (the greek one)  and a
Fresh salad with caramelized walnuts and Roquefort! (the french one)

It was wonderful - and we decided once more, that meatless meals can fill up, too!

Madeleines for everybody!

Today: Baking for my new team I am gonna work with (from Wednesday on)!
I am lookin` forward to and help them lookin` forward to me, too - :o)

MADELEINES!

Homecomer-Muffins

When my boyfriend is on tour for a few days or more -and his refrigerator very empty - I know exactly what will happen when he comes back: He will fill it with a lot of "went-just-to-town-and-bought-some-to-go-food"...

If I find then some time and leisure for another solution, I prepare something. Always with a pinch or a spoon full of love, because I am glad he returns home!

This time also with some lemon (he loves it). and some pignolias (he loves it). And muffins (he loves it).
Et voilà:
Pignola-Lemon-Muffins !
Including sun, for sure!

Besttr "Muffins-to-stay" than "Something-to-go" - hrhrhr!

Ravioli al Fabi

Wow, that isn`t as complicated as I thought!...Well, you need a pasta machine... ( I heard the italian "mamas" flatten it still with a rolling pin, but that is more sports than cooking!)
But if you have that machine - and a beautiful soft and handsome pasta dough.... then it works so easy!

And it tastes a thousand times better than the dried supermarket pasta out of the package from some big-loveless-concerns!

Spargel - the easy way.

Seit dem 21. Juni ist die Spargelsaison für dieses Jahr zu Ende - the same procedure as every year!
Ich hab natürlich nicht verpasst, Unmengen davon zu essen und vorallem: Mir selbst welchen zu machen.
Nyummnyumm!!!

Das klingt immer so pseudoedel und so aufwändig...aber echt! Spargel ist null kompliziert!
Schälen, ins heisse Wasser, feddich.
Kartoffeln und etwas Butter dazu, wenn man hat, n bißchen Petersilie, und man kann schon losschmausen.

Irgendwie...kann kochen so einfach sein!!

Italy`s yellow coast on my table

Double fresh, directly out of the oven!
And it is not sour at all!...I really wondered about that. Amalfi Lemons, filled with Mozzarella, basil and anchovy filets.
I get kind of a longing for Italy, even if I really don´t know that country at all (I´ve gotta change that!)

After I read the recipe, I googles the Amalfi Coast to get a little geographic knowledge. In the same time, I realized that in summertime, people there really drown in these lemons.
I really really have to go there and have to help those poor Amalfi people :)

I served it with Crostini. Topped by chopped tomatoes and olives and some good olive oil.
You shouldn`t drink something else than water - you kill or choke the wonderful taste!


(Recipe from "Genial italienisch" ,Jamie Oliver << awesome awesome book !)

Rhubarbe with Vanillasauce

Summertime

For dinner (when Timo is not there, because he will squinch up his face  in disgust)  I had warm RHUBARBECOMPOTE with cooled VANILLASAUCE <3 - better Timo is not her. Than I don`t have to share it!

LYLs

Hellohhh everybody! WELCOME!
This blog is brandnew...but many of the pictures are taken the last year. So I will post bit by bit my LYLs - my LastYearLeckerlis (LastYearYummees)...and remember at the same time so many wonderful moments.

Me @ Jamie`s

OH YEAH!
I found my homemade fresh and tasty Chips (well, actually the photograph of it) on the Jamie´s Home Cooking Website (after I sent it there,for sure!) - I never thought that they would announce it, ... but I am SO HAPPY about that! <3

Have a look at the Website!:
JAMIES HOME COOKING SKILLS
(because it is like Gusteau said it: Everybody can cook!)