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We love self made pickled and salty stuff be it herb pesto of all kind like parsley pesto or wild garlic pesto, or chutneys and sauces like the hot bell pepper sauce. It is more probable that we fill a glas jar with something home made salty and hearty than with self made jam or marmalade. My personal culinary highlight of homemade food 2013 is to be found in this corner of the recipe book. I love to marinate goat cheese, I do this several times during summer. I like to combine what comes to my mind, if there is goat cheese or feta in the fridge and some oil I can start, I like to add herbs, olives, chilli, pepper, capers, shalotts, spring onions or normal onion, add some vinegar or leave it out. I like to match and mix, leave it a few days in the fridge and at many occasions is a little gift, a companion to a BBQ at friends, at parties or to say thank you. Even after years friends and family like to get one of my marinated cheeses and very often it is eaten straight away. For this recipe I took no goat cheese, yet a diary product that is even more often put in your shopping basket: Quark, or for italian-lovers Ricotta. A thousand times better than cream cheese with its many supplements I like to use pure quark. Be it to make quark dumplings, quick quark puff pastry or herb spread. If there is quark in the fridge I can easily mix it up to a full meal, nice snack or delicious dessert. Gorgeous plain and totally natural, only containing what needs to contain: pure quark.
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Of course October is THE time for all kind of pretzel, pretzels: the big lye soft pretzel together with your weisswurst (Bavarian sausage) or the small salted pretzels – we were in the mood for small sweet pretzel without salt. Yes, I know caramel without salt, fleur de sel, sea sold – how old-fashioned and European is that. Well give it a try and if you like to do so you can still add some salt.
With these sweet pretzel dish you have a great token for your own little Oktoberfest or a snack at the end of your five-course Bavarian dinner. These soft caramel pretzels are perfect together with ice cream and make a nice dessert.
The preparations are rather easy you need a pretzel cutter, puff pastry and caramels or toffee.
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The recipe for elderflower cupcakes is a marvellous spring dessert for a sweet desert or cake for tea. If there is spring and the endless rain does not wash away all the delicious blossom pollen. 2013 this gets a little difficult to find elder bushes which are not yet withered. This autumn we will definitely get plenty of elderberry. If you were able to grab some elderflowers you can get straight to our popular recipe for elderflower cordial. If you were not that lucky: you can buy ready made syrup and cordial as well all year long and add the wonderful smell of these blossoms to cupcake and muffins.
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Zucchini or courgette cake might be known as wonderful moist cake. We used this recipe from our family cookbook and adapted it for delicious moist muffins with zucchini. To be honest when adding vegetables to sweet muffins, they don't turn out to be a nutritious meal, yet they are healthier and less heavy and rich than typical desserts. On the other hand you need not to worry, that they taste "healthy", similar to the carrot cake, usually the veggy ingredient won't be noticed, but the green dots of the zucchini skin. And if you have strict carnivores and members of the anti-vegetable gangs in your family, you can peel the green skin of, and they will never know – unless you tell them.
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In our Alpine Lifestyle Chalet-style recipes section we have on most popular recipe, which is: Kasnockn. First of all this dish is known in many Alpine regions, sometimes with different names like Kaesspaetzle, Kaesenockerl, Kaesknoepfle or Kasspatzn, and second the dish is delicious, third recipes with melted cheese and cheese crust are highly popular. That is why we provide a new recipe which hast both melted cheese and cheesy crust. Maybe you have seen the legendary Austrian dish Kaspressknoedel on a menu of a a ski hut or Alpine chalet, or even tasted it. They are typically eaten with salad or in a soup. They are easy to cook and will be the perfect dish for an Apres-Ski-holiday invitation for friends or an Instagram or flickr presentation of your vacation in the Alps.
The name of the dish Kaspressknödel means translated squeezed cheese dumpling, as this Knoedel variation is not round. The are fried or roasted Semmelknoedel (bread dumplings) with cheese.
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We have mentioned it before: we love muffins and cupcakes. This love for muffins is something newer, that is for sure. Some decades ago we made all varieties tray-baked cakes and took them to parties with family and gatherings with friends. But now we love the reasonable number of 12 muffins. They are quickly prepared, quickly baked, easily packed and the perfect amount for medium-sized families and handful of guests.
Besides the practical size there is another plus: you make simple muffins and with a whipped egg white frosting, like we have it on our quark-mandarin-muffins, or a fine butter cream topping, recommended for these chocolate muffins, you can magical turn these simple little cakes into something special and elegant: delicious cupcakes. Little effort, countless possibilities - we love this flexibility. And, one should not forget: they are incredibly yummy. This spongy chocolate muffin recipe even convinced our not-at-all-sweet-tooth, and when nobody is looking he might have a second muffin.
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Autumn is the time of pumpkin and squash, and it is time for hearty side dishes: barley. In Austria especially pearl barley is served and we will include it as tasteful side in our autumn recipe. Our autumn dish has as a family dish, a special something to it – a pumpkin bus. The beginning of autumn that is usually the time for a last family getaway, if it is still dry, with the camping bus, otherwise we choose a more climatic independent holiday apartment. The pumpkin bus is a hint for a soon to come outing – and furthermore it should persuade those who are not so into veggies, to give squash a try.
In Austria there is one typical way to serve minced meat: faschierte Laibchen. Besides minced meat you add dry bread cubes, egg, salt, pepper and marjoram – delicious. Especially amongst our younger family members, the crunchy meat balls of this recipe are the preferred way of having fried minced meat. The recipe of the meat balls is a variation of Spanish albondigas, without egg and without bread crumbs. If I like to serve something new to the beloved herd, maybe even something healthy, it is a good way to do it with these special meat balls, than it will get a big chance of acceptance.
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Finger food is perfect party food: the one hand holding a glass, the other hand free to grab a delicacy. Be it garden party, a festive event for your family, a nice board games evening, an exquisite wedding buffet or for a Halloween party. Our finger food for edible fork and spoon uses the cleverness of the cutters fork and spoon. They are small enough to be ideal finger food and are good to grab. By the way: this type of finger food makes a great Amuse bouche, or starter to a fab menu – this will make the guests happy and allows hos and hostess to have a little chat with their guests before the first course will be served.
When planing the food for a party we like to serve well approved recipes and we love to try out something new. Sometimes it is the variation of well known classics that does the trick. The variation is usually in the way we decorate and arrange the food.
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Recipe for small cakes with cheesecake and fruits. The perfect summer recipe is our quark cakes with fruits from freshly picked apricots, to peaches or any other pome fruit. This recipe goes very well together with cherries and sour cherries. As cherries are available throughout the year in practical jars, your can make these little cakes in warm spring, golden fall or even in winter.
The small cakes are nice and fluffy, as the batter is rather soggy before baking, muffin liners are not useful. We bake this recipe in small paper baking cups (see link below). These small cakes are easy to transport, if you take them to friends for coffee or as desert at your picnic or to refresh you when mountaineering. You can as well freeze these little cuties and take them out as a gift when needed. You can bake this recipe using a normal cake baking tin. Depending on the amount of fruits you use you will need 8-10 paper baking cups
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To be honest there are many pastry recipes and recipe variation. Regarding biscuits we stick to "back to basics" and like to use our standardizes recipe and like to go wild concerning decoration, serving and presentation. Why? Because with easy and simple recipes more people can participate when making them. Especially when baking with children one likes it trouble-free and unsophisticated and with enough possibilities for creativity and fun for all.
No matter if you bake Christmas cookies, shortbread for tea, biscuits for picnic, cookies to decorate your cupcakes or "summer-is-far-to-cold-momentarily" biscuits.
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Traditional Austria cuisine contains several sweet dishes, cakes and tarts. These are usually referred to as Mehlspeisen (a 1 to 1 translation would be flour food, not very poetic), and included are sweet main courses, deserts, cakes for coffee or sweet snacks and for sweet-toothed breakfast. To eat a whole cake or devour a freshly baked Guglhupf you need a middle-sized extended family. Therefore we tend to bake smaller cakes, tartelettes, cupcakes and muffins. Muffins are very practical as they can be perfectly gifted, to the woman next door who is living on her own, to colleagues and friends at school.
This muffin recipe for mandarin quark muffins is a perfect recipe for betwenn the seasons, as you used caned mandarins which are available throughout the year. It is an ideal cake for hot days in spring, as quark and mandarins are refreshing. You can of course exchange the mandarins using fruits of the season, and make raspberry-quark muffins or red currant-quark-cupcakes.
Continue reading Comments (0) 12.07.2012. 12:07
A recipe for a fresh and vegan bread spread, quickly to make and the ingredients are easily available in super markets and organic grocery stores. The bread spread is suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans, as well as for those with allergies and sensibilities against wheat and egg.
This yummy spread will be liked by meta lovers as well. You can eat the spread on bread, use it as a dip for veggy sticks or serve it to grilled food and barbecue.
Our vegan vegetable spread is based on white beans, zucchin and fresh chives.
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Our recommendation for the perfect football party food: footballer crackers. Footballers cut out of fluffy, flaky quark-dough finely herbed and seasoned, accompanied by a delicious dip.
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If you savour your summer dish in front of an Alpine Chalet looking at the wonderful mountains surrounding you, or having it for picnic in a park, on a sun-warmed wooden dock at a lake or under the shadow giving branches of a chestnut tree in a beer garden.
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Fresh spread with dill
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Fresh herbs for cooking is a pure delight: put some parsley on top of the potatoes, use some chives for the salad dressing, top the vegetable soup with cress and basil to the tomatoes. As the herb garden is not always at hand during the year and maybe sometimes not growing as much as you would love to, you can help yourself with herbs in oil. This is a method to increase storage life for herbs and you can create a great dish with these herbs: Pesto.
Continue reading Comments (0) 07.02.2012. 21:11
Dragons are popular amongst kids and teens for quite a while, sure, in the last years several books and even films have put some extra fuel into the hype like Eragon, Dragon Rider, Dragonsdale, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and of course movies like "How to Train Your Dragon" with the little hero Hiccup. Of course there are several dragon classics like the funny dragon Elliot from the Disney movie Pete's Dragon, or the tiny Grisou, or Fuchur from the neverending story and Tabaluga.
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In the 70ies my mum used to cook Cevapcici with Ajvar. In the butcheries readily seasoned Cevapcici could be bought - lying next to Shaslik skewers. Ajvar was taking home from holidays. Classic Ajvar as you may know it from vacations in Slovenia is made with lots of red bell peppers, some aubergine, chili and garlic and you boil and stir slowly for a very long time. I did change this sauce and made a very quick vegetable sauce featuring red bell pepper which you can combine with meatballs, minced meat patties or frikadeller. The quickly prepared bell pepper sauce is a great alternative to tomato sauces or ketchup.
Continue reading Comments (0) 11.10.2011. 14:31
When wild garlic is growing, snow flakes and snow drops are gone, and as soon as there is no more snow to see and the sun is shining, then we are ready to pick it. We love these first wild herbs and we use wild garlic in many dishes be it wild garlic spreads, wild garlic pesto or directly to spice up normal dishes, like the delicious wild garlic Spaetzle. Spätzle are also called Nocken, Spatzl, Spatzen, and are a form of dumpling, some small as your finger tip, and some big as fingers like in this recipe.
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