May 28th, 2010
What is your favourite ingredient for baking muffins?
Do you prefer fruits, vegetables or something else?
We would appreciate if you would post your favourite ingredient in our comment section.
| Makes 8 to 12 servings.
Today we had about 15° to 17°C (60° F) and an overcast sky. The ideal conditions to bake something for the teatime.
In our household we have the habit to have a teatime (with cocoa, tea or coffee and any cake / cookies) at about 4 a.m. when it is possible after we get home.
We normally stand up early in the morning. To have some caffeine / theobromine in the afternoon gives us some energy for the rest of the day.
Although the strawberry season started, we decided to use some frozen raspberries that were left over from garnishing ice cream.
Ingredients:
50g butter
1 egg
100 g flour
35 g sugar
2 teasp. vanilla sugar
1/2 teasp. baking powder
250 g raspberries, frozen |
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| Fact of the Week about Germany:
The maypole tradition in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany:
A popular tradition in our part of Germany, the Rhineland, goes back to 13th century (affirm some sources). In the night between of 30th of April and 1th of May young men place a fresh cut down birch tree in front of the house of their beloved.
On the 1th of June, one month later, the men clean up the tree and their beloved rewards their effort with an invitation to a dinner or a crate of beer.
The maypole tradition is celebrated in different variations throughout Germany.
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Preparation:
- Pour the flour in a bowl, add all the other ingredients and mix them to a fine dough. Put the dough in the fridge.
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Tags: Baking Powder, Butter, Eggs, Flour, Raspberries, Sugar, Vanilla Sugar
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May 23rd, 2010
How do you celebrate a BBQ with your friends or your family?
Do you start with an appetizer or light salad?
We would appreciate if you would post your favourite BBQ habits as a comment.
Makes 8 to 12 servings.
Yesterday we had about 20° to 25°C
(77° F) and a clear blue sky.
The ideal conditions to have a BBQ with friends. In a lot of german households there ecxist special reicpes that are preferentially only prepared for BBQs or birthday parties.
Ingredients:
1 iceberg lettuce
100 g cooked ham
255 g kidney beans, canned
175 g tangerines, canned
150-200 g gouda cheese
500 ml salad cream, low fat 4,8%
340 g pineapple, canned
285 g canned corn
50 g nachos
200 g leek |
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| Fact of the Week about Germany:
Ice Saints in Germany:
A popular belief in Germany that goes back to medieval times is that you can be more or less certain that after the days of the Ice Saints there will be no more frosty weather. So you can start to seed not frost-resistant plants.
May 11th : Day of Mamertus
May 12th : Day of Pankratius
May 13th : Day of Servatius
May 14th : Day of Bonifatius
May 15th : Day of Sophie
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Preparation:
- Wash the lettuce. Cut lettuce, cooked ham, pineapple, and gouda cheese in pieces of about 2cm² (2cm³) the leek in little rings.
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Tags: Canned Corn, Cooked Ham, Gouda, Iceberg Lettuce, Kidney Beans, Leek, Marinated Tangerines, Nachos, Pineapple, Salad Cream
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May 15th, 2010
You have boiled asparagus and don’t know what to do with the boiling water?
We had our first white asparagus of the season on thursday. In our household about 1 kg asparagus is boiled in 2,5 liter water that is druged with some sugar, butter and salt. This time we wanted to keep the aromatic boiling water as an ingredient and decided to make asparagus soup with it.
Makes 5 to 6 servings.
Ingredients:
2,5 l water from boiling asparagus
5 tbsp. butter
5 tbsp. flour
250 ml milk
1 white bun or bread
a half spring onion |
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Foreword:
Do you like white asparagus?
This year the asparagus season started in North Rhine-Westphalia on April 22th, 2010.
So we are quite late with our first asparagus but anyway not too late to get verry good asparagus for about 3 € per kilogramm on the daily
market in Bonn.
| Fact Of The Week About Germany:
Asparagus Season in Germany:
The Asparagus Season in Germany begins every year dependent on the weather conditions round about the second half of april and is officially over on 24th of june.
Germany’s most known growing areas for asparagus are in
Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg,
Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate. |
Preparation :
- Melt the butter in a big pot on medium heat.
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Tags: Asparagus, Buns, Butter, Flour, Milk, Spring Onions
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May 9th, 2010
Do you favor to have a sweet or a hearty breakfast?
We were at odds with each other about this question but the rice pudding with the cinnamon and sugar, sweet and fruity flavour that we had today was delicious..
Makes 5 to 6 servings.
Ingredients:
125 g dry rice
500 ml milk
25 g sugar
10 g cinnamon
2 tbsp.
vanilla sugar
6 half peaches, canned |
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Foreword:
As we stood up today (sunday) we didn’t wanted to go to the bakery to get
some rolls. This time we decided to prepare a light energizer for an active day.
So we took a look into our storage cupboard and prepared rice pudding with
canned peaches.
Fact Of The Week About Germany:
Opening Hours in Germany
Shops in Germany usually by law aren’t open
on sundays and official holidays with some exceptions like:
- shopping centers or supermarkets on extraordinary events,
- shops at airports and railway stations,
- gas stations,
- some emergency drugstores,
- restaurants,
- bars and discos,
- or some bakeries or bazars for different goods.
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Preparation:
- Warm up the milk in a pot carefully (keep an eye on it!) until it boils.
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Tags: Cinnamon, Milk, Peaches, Sugar
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April 23rd, 2010
Makes 5 to 6 servings.
Ingredients:
500 g rhubarb
100 g margarine (optional butter)
125 g sugar
2 tbsp. baking powder
125 g custard powder vanilla
300 ml milk
100 g powdered sugar
3 eggs |
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Preparation:
- Seperate the eggs.
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Tags: Baking Powder, Custard Powder, Eggs, Margarine, Milk, Powdered Sugar, Rhubarb, Sugar
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April 16th, 2010
Makes 5 to 6 servings.
| Ingredients:
500 g flour
42 g yeast
200 ml milk
75 g sugar
lemon zest of one midsize lemon
100 g margarine (optional butter)
1 teasp. salt
1 egg white
1 egg yolk
1 tblsp. milk
25 g coarse sugar
25 g chopped almonds
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Preparation:
- Pour flour and sugar in a big mixing bowl. Heat up the milk in a cup in the microwave until it is handwarm Then dissolve the yeast in the
milk.
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Tags: Almonds, Coarse Sugar, Flour, Lemon Zests, Margarine, Milk, Yeast
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