In our Asian supermarket, we were able to buy “holy basil”, which is usually difficult to find internationally. Italian basil and Thai basil are much easier to obtain. You have to cook pad ka prao with it. Without “holy basil”,…
Biftekia
Biftekia are classic Greek home cooking and are rarely missing from Greek restaurant menus. In today’s version, delicious oven potatoes are cooked in the oven along with the Biftekia. They go very well with homemade Tzatziki. We use young, very…
Königsberger Klopse
The city of Königsberg was located in a country called Prussia. Today it is called Kaliningrad. Fitting to the bizarre and also gruesome history from which today’s Germany emerged, “Königsberger Klopse” are nevertheless one of the most famous dishes of…
Braised beef with onions and mushrooms in cream sauce
Weekend with the family in the countryside – clearly a case for Bavarian cuisine. Zwiebelrostbraten is a typical southern German dish that can be prepared with briefly roasted beef or braised. The braised version is especially good if, like us,…
Carbonade Flamande
For us, carbonade flamande is the Flemish answer to boeuf bourguignon and we cannot claim to prefer one dish to the other. The central element of the dish is dark beer, whose bitterness is balanced with the sweetness of raw…
Ragù Classico
In Bologna, this beautiful city with its delicious food, they don’t serve “bolognese”, but ragù. This sauce is not eaten there with spaghetti either, because it is too thick for such fine pasta and therefore does not go together harmoniously.…
Beef Goulash
Goulash is a dish from Hungary, although it is not called that there. There it is called pörkölt (or paprikás, if sour cream is added). In the rest of the world, it is known as goulash. In Hungary, however, “gulyás”…
Onion Blue Cheese Smash Burger with Brioche Buns
Let’s start with a confession: we are not big fans of burgers. The NextGens, however, see this quite differently, which is why today we are presenting a version of a burger that also we think is great. The basic concept…
Sulu Köfte
Ekşili Ve Terbiyeli Sulu Köfte – a really wonderful dish that can be enjoyed with or without rice. What we like very much about it is the slightly acidic, bright sauce. This is quite different from the sauce made with…
Consommé Double
Understanding how to make stocks and sauces is part of the essential knowledge of cooking. When you boil any ingredients in water, flavours from those ingredients get into the water. This is the reason for this. If you do this…
