Gombaleves is one of those everyday dishes that are hardly known abroad, even though they are a staple of Hungarian cuisine. Unlike goulash or paprikás, this mushroom soup is not a signature dish, but a genuine family meal – vegetarian,…
French lentil salad
This is one of our favourite salads; it also makes an excellent lunch – light and nutritious. What’s more, it’s ideal for a picnic or for taking with you, as it keeps well for a long time. Everyone can adapt…
Laotian Dill Curry – Susi Kai
Whilst travelling through Laos – a country we highly recommend visiting – we came across curries known as ‘Susi’ about 100 km south of the Chinese border. We didn’t see them anywhere else in the country, though that may simply…
Easy-to-grill vegan burger
Anyone wanting to make good vegan burger patties from scratch faces three challenges: flavour, texture and binding. The latter, in particular, is a problem if you want to avoid using eggs. Other binding agents, such as oatmeal, affect the bite,…
Marinara Sauce
We’ve already explained how to make a delicious tomato sauce – ideally enough to keep in stock: It does take quite a while, though. The so-called ‘marinara’ is quicker to make; it originates from Naples, or southern Italy, and is…
Tomato sandwich with furikake
This blog was originally created to pass on our knowledge and recipes to our NextGens. At least for the time being, they’re students, and ideas for sandwiches go down very well with them. In this short post, we’d like to…
Krautfleckerl
There’s hardly any other dish that costs so little yet delivers so much as Krautfleckerl. A head of cabbage, onions, pasta, sugar and spices – that’s it. No meat, no expensive ingredients, no special kitchen equipment required. And yet, the…
French fries
Chips or French fries have a lot in common with omelette: they’re known everywhere, simple yet delicious, and seriously tough to get right. As the very best chips are deep-fried – not hot-air fried – many people are put off…
Sriracha
Anyone buying a bottle of Sriracha today is most likely purchasing a product from one of the three largest manufacturers: Sriraja Panich and Flying Goose from Thailand, and Huy Fong Foods from California. The original – the sauce that gave…
Curtido
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America and the only one situated entirely on the Pacific coast, with no access to the Caribbean. The people there are passionate about eating pupusas – thick, hand-shaped maize tortillas made from…
