There hasn’t been a recipe from Ireland yet, so let’s change that. Dublin Coddle is a traditional Irish dish made with root vegetables, bacon, and sausages, slowly cooked (“to coddle” means “to simmer gently”) in broth or water. It’s a…
Bavarian Sausage Salad and Pickled Alpine Cheese
We live in Bavaria, and here, the Biergarten is a big deal. We’ve written about how and when this tradition developed in our article on beer radish. There’s a whole range of traditional foods that are either served in beer…
Bangers and mash
British cuisine has not always had the best reputation, but we are not stereotyping here. Nowadays, however, we see no reason for such an assumption and there are a whole range of classic British dishes that we think are very…
Pasta alla Zozzona
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…
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…
Pasta Salsiccia e Birra
Today we are serving a quick-to-prepare, extremely tasty and unusual pasta – “salsiccia e birra”, i.e. with Italian raw sausage and beer (as part of the dish, but it also makes a great accompaniment). We start by cutting some pancetta…
