25 minute coffee cake

Ingredients:


1. 200 g plain flour
2. 150 g white sugar
3. 125 g plain yoghurt
4. 1 egg

5. 2 tsp. baking powder
6. 1 packet or 2 tsp of vanilla sugar or some vanilla essence
7. 100 g thin sliced almonds
8. 1 Tablespoon of vanilla sugar or sugar with cinnamon
9. 1 small cup of cream



Mix  ingredients 1 - 6 well to get a smooth batter. Put it in a round buttered baking pan. Mix ingridients 7 and 8 in a little bowl and spread over the batter. Now bake for 25 minutes at 165 deg. celsius.
After the time has passed proof with a little wooden stick if it is ready.
Then take the pan out of the oven and while the cake ist still warm pour the cup of unwhipped cream over the cake. When the delicious cake is cold, take it ouf of the baking pan. 

  

Rainbow in Black Forest

My homemade tomato-sauce

Ingredients:


4 kg tomatoes (dark red)
6 big onions
garlic as much as you like (4 -6 cloves)
4 Tsp. olive oil
fresh rosemary
2 Tsp. Pizza or pasta herbs
1 Tsp. of sugar
1 Tsp. of balsamic vinegar
200 gram of tomato puree
salt and pepper  (I take about 4 Tsp. of salt and 2 Tsp. of pepper)
(depends on your taste) 


Put tomatoes for 1 minute in boiling water and take skin off. Cut onions and garlic and fry for 2 minutes in the hot olive oil. Add sugar and fry another 2 minutes Then add the tomato puree and fry at low heat another 3 minutes . Please cut all the peeled tomatoes in little cubes and add to the onion, garlic mix in the cooking pot. It is neccessary to take a very big pot!!. Now you put in herbs, fresh rosemary, pasta herbs and salt and pepper. After 1 hour cooking at low heat add the balsamic vinegar and hot chilli powder or fresh chilli if you like. 
Please cook again for another 2-3 hours while stirring frequently. 

After the cooking time it will smell great. Fill the hot tomato sauce into jars und put on lid straight away and let them get cold upside down. 

You can also puree the sauce, if you do not like the little pieces in it.

You can keep the jars 2-3 months in a cool dark place. 

Salmon and hake with roast potatoes

Recipe:


Salmon and hake
olive oil
garlic
rosemary
fresh ginger
flour
lemon
fleur du sel (sea salt) and fresh grounded pepper


Put fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper on the fish and leave for 5 minutes. Then turn the pieces in flour and fry gently in olive oil  for about 5 minutes. Now take the fish out of the pan and place it in an oven proof dish. Cover with the cut ginger slices and the rosemary and the garlic as well as a few drops of olive oil and put in oven for 10 minutes at a medium temperature. Now the fish should be ready to serve with a fresh salad and roast potaoes. 

I make a dip to go with the fish: Mayonaise, joghurt, chive, parsley, salt and pepper.

"Süsses Laible" - sweet breakfast bread

Recipe:

500 g plain flour

70 g sugar

250 ml warm milk

40 g fresh yeast (1 packet of dry yeast)

1 tsp salt

125 g unsalted butter

3 eggs

Stir together the milk, yeast and sugar. Let it stand in a warm place until bubbly (10 minutes).

 Meanwhile heat butter in a little pan carefully and let it cool down again. 

Mix together flour, yeast dough, melted butter, salt and 2 eggs. 

Now you knead the dough for about 10 minutes on a floured surface or with your kitchen machine.

Now let it rise in a warm place until it is double the size.

Knead the dough once more with little flour and put into the shape you want it to be.

Transfer the dough on to your buttered baking pan and leave for another 30 minutes.

Cover the sweet bread with stirred egg or milk to get a nice light brown colour. 

Now you can bake it at a medium temperature for about 45 - 50 minutes. 

Blumenkohlsalat - Cauliflower salad

Recipe:

1 small cauliflower
1 bunch of radish
chive
1 lemon
mustard
salt pepper 
sunflower oil 


Cut the raw cauliflower pieces in thin slices. Slice as well the radish. Add the small cut chive. 
Mix a sauce of lemon juice, mustard (french), oil, salt and pepper and mix with the cauliflower and radish. 

Cauliflower salad

Nudelsalat - Pasta salad

Recipe:


500 g of cooked pasta (please take enough salt to boil)
200 g of ham
200 g of cheese (cheddar or suisse gruyere)
2 hard boiled eggs
2 apples
1/2 cucumber   better 5 gurkins
2 spring onions (if you like)
1 cup mayonaise
vinegar
1 cup of petit pois (little peas)
Salt, pepper, fresh! herbs (chive, parsley or basilic) (optional)
1 tsp of curry


Cut all ingredients in fine cubes and add it with mayonaise, vinegar and spices to the cold  pasta. Leave it in
 fridge for about 1 hour. Taste it and if it is to dry add little more vinegar or little milk. More spice, you decide how you like it!

GERMAN GEWÜRZKUCHEN

Ingredients:


4 eggs
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 cup oil
1 cup mineralwater
2 tsp. baking powder
3 Tbs.. dark chocolate powder  (tablespoons)
1 Tbs cinnamon powder
1 /2 tsp. ground ginger


 Mix eggs and sugar and whisk for 10 minutes.Now add the flour, the baking powder, the cup of oil (sunflower), the chocolate, cinnamon and ginger as well as the cup of mineralwater (sparkling).
Mix well and bake in your baking pan for appr. 45 - 50  minutes. The temperature you will have to choose, here it is not the same.

Sprinkle icing sugar on top.

Gewürzkuchen

My home town Schiltach in Black Forest

Have a look at these lovely photos of my home town

HERBS AND SPICES

Let me tell you how I love my food. I always use fresh herbs if possible. Especially  rosemary, parsley, chive, basil, thyme and garlic for all my sauces, I fry  my fish with rosemary and fresh pieces of ginger as well as my meat.
Give it a try!
Do not hesitate to ask questions. Buy if you can a little tin of Fleur du sel. It is such a lovely salt to use for dips, sauces ....

Salmon with tagliatelle in a light leek sauce

Ingredients: (serves 4 people)

4 pieces of salmon (defrosted or fresh)
500 gram Tagliatelle or Spaghetti
2 pieces of leek 
1 -2 cups of cream (single) or creme fraiche
2 cups of chicken broth or vegetable broth
lemon juice, salt, pepper, little flour
2 Tbs. butter, sunflower or olive oil


Cook the tagliatelle in water with 2 teaspoons of salt until they are done. 
Now cut leek in very tiny pieces and fry for 2 minutes in butter. Add the chicken broth and 1 Tbs. of flour, which you have mixed with little water. Make sure there are no lumps in it. Keep stiring. Now poor the cream into the boiling sauce, keep on low heat, while mixing it. (If you want more sauce just take more of the ingredients)!
Meanwhile you fry the spiced salmon (lemonjuice, salt, pepper) in the oil, each side for about 3 minutes.
Please do not turn the heat to high, but the fish should get a light brown colour.  

Mix the tagliatelle with your leek-sauce und serve with the salmon on top. 

Tagliatelle in leek sauce and fried salmon

A Traditional Sunday Meal "Gulasch"

May 01, 2011

German Gulasch

It is not very warm today, so I decided to make a tradional old German meal. "Gulasch", made of beef and pork in a lovely gravy with different spices like ginger, garlic, cinnamon,orange peel, fleur du sel and more..... 

Recipes will follow soon.........

A friend gave me the idea to create a blog. I started it today. It is just after midnight now and I am very tired.
But I am very happy I  managed to do it or at least started it.


I will have to translate all the recipes and I will post them soon. So if anybody would like it before, just leave a comment. Many of my Flylady friends do have the recipes already.

Would you like to spend your holiday in Black Forest?

My holiday flat.

Have a look at the photos.

My Christmas Baking 2010

Coconut bisquits

"Spritzgebäck"

Different German meals

Maccaroni with thunafish tomato sauce

Ingredients for 4

Pasta:

500 gram maccaroni

salted water (please take enough salt)

Sauce:

2 tins of thuna fish in olive oil (in water does not taste so nice)

500 gram tomatoes

1 big onion

1 clove of garlic

olive oil

1 little dried chili (if you like it hot)

1 small cup of fresh unsweetened cream

fresh parsley

Cook the maccaroni as you always do.

 Fry the thin sliced onion in olive oil for about 2 minutes. Then add the tunafish with the olive oil of the tin. Fry again for a few minutes and add the tomatos (small cubes, if you want peel them before you cut them). Stir it.  Add salt and pepper till it tastes the way you like it. I added  chilli pepper. Now you add the cream, stir for about 2 minutes and then you add the small cutted parsley of fresh basilic.

Now you serve the sauce on top of the pasta.

 

Potato Roesti with creamy mushroom sauce

Potato Roesti

Rösti from boiled potatoes

Ingredients (for 4 people)

800 g potatoes, cooked in their skins the day before

1 tsp salt

50 g butter

Preparation

Peel the potatoes, then either grate them on a coarse grater or quarter them and slice them thinly. Sprinkle salt between the layers. Put the frying pan to heat without the fat in it then add 1/3 of the butter (moving it round so that it comes right up to the rim of the pan). Add the potatoes, spread them out and press them down slightly.

Fry for about 10 minutes over low heat. Now press them into a compact pancake shape and add a further 1/3 of the butter all round the edge of the pan.

Cover with a plate and fry for another 10 minutes over a low heat until the underside has formed a golden crust. Turn the Rösti over by tipping it onto the plate that has been used as a lid and sliding it back into the pan.

Add the remaining 1/3 of the butter and leave to fry for another 10 minutes. Serve the finished Rösti on the plate that was used as a lid.

 

Salad of cold beef

Sweet Pasta

German Cakes

Hazelnutcake

Ingredients:

7 eggs

125 gram non rising flour

250 gram hazel nut (ground)

550 gram icing sugar (fine)

3 Tsp. hot water

Juice of 1 lemon

Preparation:

Take the egg yolks and mix well  with the hot water .Then you add 250 gram icing sugar. Mix until you have a creamy batter.

Now you whisk  the white of the eggs till stiff. Then add 50 gram icing sugar. Put this on top of the creamy egg batter and add 250 gram ground hazelnuts and 125 gram of non rising flour. Mix very very gently and then put in a buttered baking pan and bake at 175 deg. celsius for 45 minutes.

After baking put on a big plate and cover with icing sugar (250 gram icing sugar  and juice of one lemon). If it is to runny take more icing sugar.

 

Cheesecake

Linzertorte

Applecake

125 g butter (unsalted), 3 eggs, 125 g sugar, 200 g plain flour , 2 tsp. baking powder, juice of 1 whole lemon, 5-6 apples

Mix butter very well, add sugar and eggs, beat until smooth. Then add the flower with the baking powder and the lemon juice. Butter your baking pan und put the batter in the pan. Add the peeled apple pieces (cut them on top) and bake appr. 50 minutes at 170 ./ 170 Grad, German oven)

When the cake is nearly cold, sprinkle icing sugar on top.

Winter 2010/2011

Spring Decoration

April 2011
I decided to decorate the entrance of our house, so that visitors feel welcome.

The way we serve breakfast in our house