We love simple pasta dishes – especially the ones made in a casserole dish ;) You can find those dishes in pretty much every international cuisine. Of course, not always prepared the same way ;) In Greece, for example, they have this absolutely awesome Greek Pasta Bake aka. Pastitsio which not only looks great but also tastes excellent. It might look like a lot of work, but honestly, it’s not that complicated ;)
Not everyone has a lot of time for baking. I bake and take pictures of my bakes for a living but I can also appreciate when I only have to spend a short time in the kitchen to get something sweet. These Easy Peasy Almond Croissants are definitely something you can whip up in no time. If you got some softened butter already you only need 5 minutes to get the croissants into the oven. Then you have to wait for the oven to finish and you got yourself a delicious snack. So easy!
In summer, the supply of delicious and tasty tomatoes is always at its best. If you grow your own tomatoes, it may happen that there is a time when everything is ripe at the same time, and you got more tomatoes than you could snack on your own. This is the time when recipes like this one here for Tartlets with Cream Cheese & Tomatoes come in handy. With a recipe like that, you can quickly get rid of quite a few tomatoes and create something delicious at the same time. A snack for your summer party, a picnic, or maybe something for your lunch box at work. These small tartlets are great when warm but also taste great when eaten cold ;)
My family was never very adventurous when it comes to salad. Back in the day we basically switched from plain lettuce to tomato salad, and tomato salad… then back to lettuce, and so on. Quite monotonous, right? There is so much more you can do and enjoy. Today I am much more experimental and throw pretty much everything into a bowl and call it a salad ;P This Vegan Vermicelli Rice Noodle Salad is not really an experiment, because I basically recreated a salad I had in a restaurant… but you get what I mean, right? ;)
When you talk about »Buchteln« here in Berlin, you often get strange looks. It’s just not a common name for this type of bake here – it’s more frequently used in the south of Germany. In English, you would probably call these Apple Pie Buchteln something like Apple Pie Sweet Rolls with Streusels, I assume. Whatever you want to call them – these fluffy rolls are super delicious and quite easy to prepare (if you like to work with yeast dough) ;)
Cakes are great, but if you have to spend several hours in the kitchen to prepare them, they are not as great as they could be ;P I don’t mind working a bit longer in the kitchen on a weekend, but during the week… you have to be able to get everything done much faster ;P Fortunately, there are some simple and quick cakes, like this Speedy Damson Plum Cake (with Yogurt-Oil-Dough) that can be done on a weeknight after work. Quick and easy – that’s what we all want, right? Well… and delicious I suppose ;P
I love my job, but in between I love to bake and try new things in the kitchen. A lot of my friends and colleagues encourage me to bake - for a very simple reason: they get the leftovers - and it seems they like it most of the time ;)
