The Maultasche is probably the most classic dish in Swabian cuisine, next to spaetzle of course, for which you can find a recipe here. “Schwäbische Maultasche” is even a protected designation of origin in the EU. The name “Maultasche” is…
Mung Dal Tadka
First a little produce information: Lentils and beans are plant seeds that grow in a pod. They thus belong to the family of legumes, which also include peas, chickpeas, lupins and in fact peanuts. There is a bit of language…
Vegetarian Spring Rolls
In many Asian countries such as China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines and Japan, a wide variety of fillings are rolled into sheets of dough and sometimes deep-fried. The deep-fried Chinese version is the world-famous spring roll, which is…
East German Solyanka
The name and the dish originate from Russia. There, solyanka is a traditional home-style soup, prepared in variations featuring meat, fish or mushrooms. It is made using a meat or fish stock as a base and derives its characteristic tang…
Cestini di arance con crema
Today we serve an Italian dessert classic that can be prepared easily the previous day to round off a menu. Typically Italian, with few ingredients that are beautifully presented. A little forgotten, but unjustly so. Above all, you need very…
Arroz cremoso de verduras
In Spain, they love rice and grow a very excellent variety: Arroz Bomba. This is a round grain rice of the Japonica variety with short, pearl-shaped grains. Bomba rice can soak up a lot of liquid, and if you cook…
Gaeng Massaman Gai
Gaeng Massaman Gai (แกงมัสมั่นไก่) is a Thai curry based on Massaman curry paste that you can buy or make yourself. Bought is perfectly fine and saves a lot of time, but homemade tastes much better. “Gai” means chicken, so today…
Massaman Curry Paste
Curry is not a fixed term and curry is not just curry. In Indian cuisine, spices are dry roasted or roasted in clarified butter, and their combinations lend fascinating complexities of flavours to dishes. In North African or Turkish cuisine,…
Lentils and Spaetzle
Lentils and spaetzle, or more precisely: lentils with spaetzle and Vienna sausages, are a Swabian national dish. After we have explained how to prepare the best spaetzle by hand, and also cheese spaetzle, there is simply no getting around this…
Best rhubarb cake
The best rhubarb cake is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside, sweet and sour in a match made in heaven. Rhubarb is a special plant, originally coming from China. In the early Middle Ages it reached Europe…
