Chicken Casserole with Sage

Rinse chicken breast fillets, dry with kitchen roll. Cut a pocket in the fillets with a sharp kitchen knife. Fill with chopped ham and Gouda cheese. Salt, season with pepper and fry briefly on both sides in hot olive oil. Toast bread, remove peel from garlic cloves and cut into slices. Grease an ovenproof dish. … Read more

Linz Stars

For the Linzer stars, mix sugar, vanilla sugar, egg, butter, baking powder, flour, ground hazelnuts and spices with a hand mixer with dough hook. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and let rest in refrigerator for half an hour. Then roll out dough on a floured work surface about 3 mm thin and cut out the … Read more

Berbere – Spice Paste

Take out the seeds from the cardamom pods, together with the cloves, cumin, new spice and fenugreek seeds, roast in a frying pan for about 1 minute, cool and grind finely. Blend the peppers, onions, garlic and ginger to a paste using a hand mixer. Mix the finely ground spices into the paste and add … Read more

Marinated Mustard Cheese with Spicy Vegetable Salad

Cut senna cheese into slices the thickness of the back of a knife and spread on plates. Sprinkle with chopped thyme, drizzle with apple cider vinegar and walnut oil. Peel asparagus and carrots. Clean green onion and pea pods. Blanch vegetables briefly in salted water – strain and garnish while still warm with salt cayenne … Read more

Rumford Soup

Recipe from around 1800, “for inexpensive and nutritious food for the poor population” (according to a handwritten recipe). Soak yellow shelled peas for a couple of hours and then put in water with bundle of herbs, onion and salt and make leisurely for 1 1/2 hours. Pearl barley in soup do likewise leisurely, but 3 … Read more

Sauce Alla Bucaniere

Cut squid into 2-3 cm thick rings. Steam garlic cloves in oil. Add mussels, crabs and squid and sauté for 10 min. at low temperature. Add anchovy fillets (properly drained, maybe even watered a little bit, as they are very salty), tomatoes, pepper and salt to the seafood and sauté for another 10 min. Season … Read more

Pizza Dough

For the pizza dough, coarsely chop the yeast and put it in a small bowl with the granulated sugar. Wait a few minutes until the yeast has melted. Then add some of the lukewarm water and whisk. Put the flour in a large bowl (preferably a yeast bowl with a lid) and stir about 3 … Read more

Basis for a Spread (Basic Recipe)

The base for the spread mix all the ingredients until creamy and process into a spread.Add chopped basil to the basil spread.Mix the ingredients for the paprika-cucumber spread and mix with the spread base.For the egg spread, chop the eggs and add to the spread base. Season to taste with herbs and salt.

Elderflower Sparkling Wine

In an earthenware or glass jug, mix the juice of one lemon, fruit vinegar, water, sugar and honey. Cut the thick stems of the flower umbels into small pieces and immerse the flowers in the liquid. Cover the saucepan with a dishcloth and put it in a warm place, preferably in the sun. Depending on … Read more

Black Forest Cherry Pie

For the Black Forest cherry cake, mix the dark sponge mixture sugar, egg yolks, water and vanilla sugar. Then beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff and fold in. Stir in flour, baking powder and cocoa and finally the melted butter. Pour into a greased and crumbled pan and bake at … Read more