Category Hacks ‘n Things

Cream Herring Dish

German Traditional and Vegan Herring – Fantastic Fake Fish

There is this traditional (northern) German dish. It’s a dish with steaming hot salt potatoes (peeled or not) served with a cold ‘herring salad’ or ‘cream herring’. It used to be a ‘poor people’s’ dish, but those times are long since gone and all sorts of poor people’s food has become quite popular, also because […]

My Magic Monster – After 9 months of Kenwood Cooking Chef

Kenwood Cooking Chef – A Magic Monster I didn’t have a kitchen machine/food processor/mixer for years, but have wanted one for a long time. No room, no justification for the expense as a student etc. However, last year, after having handed in my PhD I thought I deserve a REAL treat. Like one, that will […]

Kasseler Bread

Kasseler ‘Grey Bread’ – One of Fifty shades of German bread

Very delicious this one. And the first yeast-bread I somewhat mastered! It is soooooooo good!!! I started making this without a mixer, so it is possible, the ‘Krume’ as it is called in German – the stuff inside the crust, will not turn out as flexible and homogenous if you make it by hand, but […]

Painful things – How to never have a Food Moth problem

Pantry moths, food moths, Indian meal moth, whichever name they go by in your place – you don’t want them. At all. Ever. We recently had an infestation and that kept me super busy for more than 4 weeks. There was nothing I could do about it, since my housemates just never had them and […]

Trial III Red Velvet Cake Baked Cut I

Experimental Food – My Red Velvet Cake Quest IV

IT IS RED!!! Ah – well – reddish at least!!! YAY!! It works. It is a little more subtle in colour than expected, but it works. YAY for trying out and getting a result!!! This is part IV of the quest and as always, the ‘final’ recipe will come when the trial phase is over. […]

Trial III Red Velvet Cake Pre-Bake

Experimental Food – My Red Velvet Cake Quest III

*nomnomnom all the experimental cupcakes have been eaten. Back to the baking board and making a new batch of trial cupcakes. This time I focus on the Raw Cacao, on the question whether I have mixed up the cupcakes, whether beetroot smells funny and is redder than the cacao…

Shroomy Sticks – Crunchy Mushroom Baguette

I’m currently ‘en route’, so a little hampered in my blogging. However ‘look what I prepared earlier’ *hehe I’m sort-o’-kidding, but I took the pictures after baking this delicous lunch a little while ago and thought I’d share this as a quick addition to my blog, since I’ll be some time until I get back […]

Skewer Knife Block

Kitchen Hacks – Skewer Knife Block

The World Wide Brain Exchange i.e. Internet had this little jewel for me. Tired of storing knives in an ever overflowing compartment of the divider in the kitchen drawer, risking my fingers to get cut in the process, I searched for a cheap and adaptable idea to store the knives which had not yet a […]

Experimental Food – My Red Velvet Cake Quest II

A cake. I wanted to make a whole cake. With the wonderfully sounding ‘Ermine’ icing/frosting/filling. So I did. And it was better than the cupcakes before and that was mostly due to a change in ingredients! This is part II of the quest and again, the ‘final’ recipe will come, once I am happy with […]

Microwave Cleaning

Kitchen Hacks – Microwave Cleaning made easier

Microwaves get dirty. No matter how careful you are with putting a lid on, but at some stage it was placed on badly, you forgot, it moved off or for some other reason you’d like to clean your microwave. Trying to get off the caked-on stuff is not necessarily an easy feat. Unless, however, you […]