Simple Poppy Seed Cake with Pears

If you want to use fresh pears for the simple poppy seed cake, first process the pears. Peel, quarter, core and rub with lemon juice to prevent them from turning brown. Mix all ingredients, starting from the top, in order. Add the oil to the batter just a tablespoon at a time, stirring constantly. Mix … Read more

Beef Shank Steaks with Saffron Onions

peeled onion quarters or sechseln Heat butter in a frying pan. Sauté the onions in it. Mix white wine with Pastis/Pernod, add and let it boil. Stir saffron with a little hot cooking liquid and add. Season the onions with salt and pepper. Add orange peel, thyme, plucked. Cover the lid and cook on medium … Read more

Coconut Gugelhupf

Separate the eggs for the coconut sponge cake. Beat the butter until thick and creamy. Add 250 g sugar and vanilla sugar and gradually fold in the yolks. Add the flour sifted with baking powder alternately with the milk, stirring constantly. Beat the egg whites with a little sugar until stiff and fold into the … Read more

Brittle Crêpes on Mandarin Salad with White Chocolate…

White chocolate parfait: (Ingredients for about 10 servings) Bring liqueur to a boil so that the alcohol evaporates (If you are making the parfait for kids, for adults, of course, this is not necessary. You can just as easily replace the alcohol with boiled down orange juice). Gently melt cooking chocolate in a water bath, … Read more

Chinese Almond Curd

Boil the skim milk, whipping cream and tap water with the almond kernels. Add salt and sugar and cook in a closed saucepan at a moderate temperature for 20 minutes, stirring a few times. Soak the gelatin in tap water. Pass the almond-whipped cream mixture through a fine sieve or alternatively a straining cloth and … Read more

Lasagna with Fresh Mushrooms

Cut mushrooms into thin slices. Finely dice onion and crush garlic. Clean arugula and cut into coarse pieces. Heat a little oil, add garlic and onion and sauté. Add mushrooms and sauté as well. Cut tomatoes into small pieces, add, cook open for about 15 minutes, season with salt, pepper and oregano, mix in arugula. … Read more

Pork Satay

For the sauce, spread the peanuts on a baking sheet and toast under a hot broiler, turning once or twice to the other side, until golden brown. Cool and then grind in a hand mixer or food processor. Alternatively, the peanuts can be very finely chopped. Place the ground peanuts in a small saucepan with … Read more

Pear and Mushroom Salad

For the pear and mushroom salad, remove the skin from the pears, quarter them, remove the core and cut the flesh into small cubes. Rinse the mushrooms, peel if necessary, remove woody parts and dirt and cut into fine slices. Immediately mix with the juice of one lemon so that the mushrooms do not turn … Read more

Spicy American Corn Soup

Clean the leek, rinse, cut into rings and sauté in butter until translucent. Sprinkle with flour, sweat briefly and extinguish with clear soup. Add the hominy to the leek form and cook with the lid closed. Remove the seeds from the chili pepper and cut into cubes. Cut tomatoes into six parts and remove seeds. … Read more

Fried Mackerel with Avocado and Grapefruit

For the fried mackerel with avocado and grapefruit, first cut off the peel including the white layer from the grapefruit with a serrated knife. Then run the knife between the flesh and the membrane to extract the segments. Put them in a large bowl. Now prepare the dressing. To do this, squeeze the juice out … Read more