Category Archives: In the kitchen

Santa’s Elves lend a Helping Hand to a Friend

Posted on Monday, 5 November 2012 by

A couple of weeks ago, an invitation arrived from my friend Colette, who owns and runs a bakery, known as Cakes and Desserts; she is famous for the beautiful pastries, desserts and cakes she lovingly makes by hand. You may … Continue reading →

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How to Bake Streifenkekse or Black-and-White Christmas Cookies: A Slideshow

Posted on Monday, 2 January 2012 by

When hubby was a laaitie (i.e. a young boy), one of his favourite types of Christmas cookies were something he called Streifenkekse (loosely translated from the German, this means something like ‘striped cookies’). They are also known as Schwarz-Weiß Gebäck … Continue reading →

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A Slideshow of our Knusperhäuschen

Posted on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 by

A couple of weeks ago (Who would like to buy a Knusperhäuschen?), I told you about my creative friend Colette of Cakes and Desserts who, in the run-up to the Christmas season, and in keeping with the German tradition, has been … Continue reading →

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Bread, glorious bread!

Posted on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 by

During our retreat at Bodhi Khaya (which I wrote about in my previous post), two items in particular stood out for us: Nina’s buttermilk rusks and her freshly baked bread. The large bowl of rusks in the tea-room was magically … Continue reading →

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How to bake a perfectly simple chocolate chunk loaf cake

Posted on Friday, 11 June 2010 by

This is a recipe for a really simple, straightforward, no-muss no-fuss, chocolate cake with some chunks of dark chocolate tossed into the mix. The amounts used aren’t prescriptive, as I used Granny’s old method of “Backen nach Schnauze”. This basically … Continue reading →

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Báirin Breac at Samhain

Posted on Saturday, 31 October 2009 by

It is the festival of Samhain this weekend: “At Samhain (which corresponds to modern Halloween), time lost all meaning and the past, present, and future were one. The dead, and the denizens of the Other World, walked among the living. … Continue reading →

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Happiness is… Recipe for a Lemon Cake

Posted on Sunday, 8 June 2008 by

Our lemon tree recently gave me a big, ripe, cheerful yellow lemon. Considering that the poor tree seems to be suffering from a severe form of mould or fungus on its leaves (probably because of the wet winter), I regard … Continue reading →

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A winter recipe: Butternut and Sweet Potato Soup

Posted on Sunday, 8 June 2008 by

What with food prices increasing steadily, I’ve made butternut and sweet potato soup a few times this winter. I’d made this kind of soup before, experimenting with the ingredients, but this time the recipe seemed to be just perfect. So … Continue reading →

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