Hot Chocolate (Mexican Style)

I hope you’re all having a nice holiday season so far! It’s about two weeks until Christmas and I’m getting into the mood. In Germany, we celebrate the “Adventszeit” in the run up to Christmas with an “Adventskranz”, a wreath with four candles that get lit up in the four Sundays in the run up […]

Breakfast Pop-Overs

  When I was in the US recently I came across a pop-over pan in William-Sonoma, which is one of my favourite kitchen shops to browse for inspiration and getting the occasional treats.  I didn’t know what pop-overs were but when I looked up the receipe for them I realized they are pretty much what […]

Plum Coconut Traybake (aka Oma’s Pflaumenmus-Kokos Kuchen)

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, […]

Blueberry and Creme Fraiche Waffles

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 […]

Poached Apricots on Greek Yoghurt

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 […]