This potato salad makes a delicious accompaniment to grilled steaks and sausages. It is also my favourite side to schnitzel or Frikadellen (German hamburger) My mother-in-law’s potato salad is incredibly tasty! It is tangy and sweet with a creamy and crunchy texture. The main ingredients are tender potatoes mixed with cooked onions, apple vinegar and…
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MINT PESTO
Fresh Spearmint is available in Lebanon all year round. We use it extensively in salads and mix it with meat and vegetarian kibbeh. A handful of mint leaves adds a delicate sweet and minty flavour to any dish, or to any labneh or shawarma sandwich. Like all mint varieties spearmint grows abundantly and spreads aggressively…
COLOURING EASTER EGGS
Celebrating all the festivities around Easter has always been important to me. Traditions and customs are the only constant in an ever-changing world. They are cemented in our minds to be passed on to next generations. Without them we feel lost. One tradition I cherish is dyeing eggs on Good Friday. Besides Easter baking that…
EASY TO MAKE PIZZA
I still vaguely remember the first time my mother made her first homemade pizza. She didn’t look up a recipe in a book, “nor surfed the Internet”. As always, she relied on her intuition and creativity, and she was brilliant at improvising in her kitchen. The dough shouldn’t have caused any problems in the land…
TENDER BEEF ROLLS
I am sharing with you my mother-in-law’s recipe of German beef rolls. I promise it will become a favourite dish for special dinners with family and friends. In Germany those tender bundles of beef wrapped around vegetables and bacon are mostly reserved for Sunday lunches and often served on festive days. The right cut of…
BÛCHE DE NOËL (FRENCH YULE LOG)
Christmas season is a festive time full of traditions in Germany. It is a time for baking cookies, decorations, ornaments, and fairy-tale like Christmas markets. It is the time of the year where you are continuously enchanted by the sweet smell of mulled wine, hot chocolate and exotic spices. You won’t be missing any magic…
GERMAN VANILLA CRESCENT COOKIES
Christmas in Germany is unthinkable without these vanilla crescent cookies. Their buttery crumble infused with vanilla appeals to all tastebuds around the world, and especially at Christmas! Known as “Vanille Kipferl” in Germany and Austria, these crescent-shaped cookies are flavoured with vanilla and made of butter and finely ground nuts. Traditionally they should be eggless…
CHOCOLATE CHRISTMAS COOKIES
As I mentioned in earlier posts about Christmas baking in Germany, cookie baking is a kind of national sport in German homes. The more you bake the merrier is the Advent season, and the happier is your family! These scrumptious chocolate cookies have all the ingredients for a melt-in-the mouth tasting experience. Flavoured with cinnamon,…
COCONUT BUTTER COOKIES
Baking cookies for Christmas is a German affair. A tradition passed on from generations to the next, baking a wide assortment of delectable cookies is each family’s pride. Recipes are shared and passed on from generations to the next. With no German ancestry myself except for my husband’s family, I was fascinated by my mother-in-law’s…
FRENCH SABLÉ COOKIES
The classic among all cookies, sablé is a melt in the mouth affair with apricot jam tucked in between two crumbly, buttery cookies. Everybody loves sablé. These scrumptious cookies are baked all year round and not only at Christmas. They are a life saviour anytime I need an easy dessert for a dinner party. The…
