This is an old and very simple dish. Pollo alla cacciatora literally means ‘chicken huntress style’ though it is also known in a male version (pollo cacciatore). A similar dish can also be found in France, for example. In days…
Yoğurtlu Makarna
Yoğurtlu Makarna literally translates as ‘noodles with yoghurt’. Makarna is borrowed from the Italian word maccheroni. This Turkish dish combines hot noodles with cool garlic yoghurt and chilli butter. Other ingredients include ground beef or Turkish garlic sausage (sucuk) and…
Laos Khao Soi
Khao Soi is the name of a dish that is prepared in many different ways in northern Thailand and Laos. We have described the Thai version, specifically from Chiang Mai, here. We recently travelled to Laos, where we also took…
Chocolate Nemesis
Since the late 1980s, London’s Hammersmith has been home to the now iconic River Café, which has also been awarded a Michelin star since 1997. Founded by Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, the restaurant cooks with great ease according to…
Beijing Beef
Under the tag “China” we have already presented a number of dishes from this vast country with its many different cuisines. However, there is also a huge diaspora in which Chinese dishes or their culinary influences are developing in other…
Choux pastry – the basics, explained
Fasnet – the Swabian-Alemannic carnival – has just ended. A time between the end of winter and the beginning of Lent, historically shaped not only by jesters and masks, but also by rich, fatty cooking: whatever butter, lard, and eggs…
Yakiudon
When you think of udon noodles, you often think of broth, but yakiudon is the opposite: fried and hearty from the pan. And that’s exactly why it’s so popular in Japan: as a quick meal or an improvised dinner made…
Patty melt
There aren’t many reasons to voluntarily engage with the United States these days, given its bitter present. But perhaps that’s all the more reason to engage with its past. With gritted teeth, we hereby present our preparation of a patty…
Arroz de Camarão
Arroz de Camarão simply means rice with prawns. The dish is not dry like paella, but rather creamy, sometimes almost soupy, with a deep umami base and the sweetness of prawns and tomatoes. There are similar rice dishes in Spain…
Mie Goreng
Mie Goreng means ‘fried noodles’ in Indonesian (mie = noodles, goreng = fried). Just as Nasi Goreng (recipe with explanation of special ingredients here) means ‘fried rice’. The origins of Mie Goreng probably lie in the fried noodle dishes of…
