may the taste be with you
Flammkuchen (Alemannic “Flammekueche”, French “tarte flambée”) originates from the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine as well as the outer south-west of Germany. A particularly thinly rolled out pastry base is spread with crème fraîche, topped with raw onions and…
Who doesn’t love lasagne? And who hasn’t made one. There are two reasons why we are nonetheless describing this dish: Our favourite way to prepare it is the one from the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna and we have already shown…
Cilbir (roughly pronounced chilbr) is a centuries-old dish that can be enjoyed everywhere in Turkey today. It is very easy to prepare, offers incredible flavour complexity and leaves Eggs Benedict behind for us. It is ideal to enjoy Çılbır for…
Zozzona means “dirty” pasta and is the name of this dish, which originates from Lazio, the region around the city of Rome. In a sumptuous way, it combines the classic Roman pasta dishes Madame Chilipepper has created a very instructive…
Oyakodon is a very popular donburi dish in Japan, which is a meal for which rice is filled into a bowl and then covered with other ingredients. For this you need dashi, the basic broth of Japanese cuisine. There are…
Indian Chapati or Roti (meaning “flat” in Urdu and Hindi respectively) are flatbreads made from Atta, a wholemeal wheat flour. They are the simplest form of Indian bread. The word paratha is made up of “parat” and “atta” and means…
With a few regional exceptions, Rösti is a grammatically feminine word, pronounced “Rööshti”, with a long “ö” and an “sh”. Rösti is a national dish of Switzerland and despite of or because of its simplicity delicious. It can be a…
This is a fairly unknown dish internationally, even here in Germany. In Belgium, however, “Witloof met hesp en kaas” or “Endives au jambon gratinées” (i.e. chicory with ham and cheese) is extremely popular and widespread. Our reader Linda Rose from…
Braising is one of the simplest and most reliable techniques for cooking meat to perfection. It just takes a lot of time. It also utilises cuts that would not be very enjoyable without this technique and are therefore not used…
“Zwiebelkuchen” is an ab-so-lu-te delicacy and yet only widespread in a limited region. In Germany – but not everywhere – onion tart is usually made with yeast dough and sometimes with shortcrust pastry, mainly with the year’s grape must or…
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