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.....