You know those plums I went on about in my last post the ‘Zwetschgen’, damson plums or Italian Prune plums (which I have since found out is another name for them)…well, here’s another receipe featuring them but this time in form of a jam, or fruit butter as they would say in the States. Pflaumenmus, […]
An Austrian friend of mine recently told me how the forests where he is from in Austria are full of wild blueberries this summer. It had been raining a lot which brought them out en force – he said there are so many that you get blue feet just by walking through the forest! I […]
Apricots… if you ask me, so much better than peaches! I mean, I enjoy the taste of peaches but the skin just freaks me out. I know that apricots have a skin not too dissimilar but for some reason they feel totally different to me and my tongue. And they’re prettier than peaches too. Their super bright […]
When I was in NY I brought you the cheat’s way of making cinnamon swirls (see here). Right now, I am in Berlin and I am bringing you a receipe for cheat’s redcurrant swirls. This kind of fruity and slightly sour swirl suits Berlin a lot more than NY’s cinnamon swirls, especially right now, in the height […]
June is a strawberry month in England. You get tasty strawberries in all the shops but sometimes I drive out to a farm to pick them myself. Strawberry picking always reminds me of the summer holidays when my cousin, sisters and I used to do this with our grandmother. The farm I go to here […]
The Sweetest Brunch 