Chocolate Hedgehogs
A treat from my childhood The story you may skip but shouldn’t and even if you did, you’d still have to scroll down to get to the recipe so you might as well just go…
Category: Lucullan Delights
Autumn Kitchen: Pumpkin Waffles
It‘s November, the month of ghastly weather and to q.e.d. that: Yesterday, Oct 31st was an unusually golden, sunny, warm autumn day. Today, November 1st it’s all wind and rain, a friendly reminder what the…
Buon APEtito!
Buon Giorno! Mi chiamo Julia e sono tedesca. Habito a Friburgo e non parlo italiano which is why that’s it with the Italian and back to English. Even though it is such a beautiful language…
Petit Déjeuner chez nous
Quarantine = Baking Time. But then any time is baking time and I‘m only self-isolating not quarantining and that was a bad rhyme anyway, a so-called unreiner Reim, and we don‘t want no unrein, dirty,…
Ick bin ein Amerikaner.
Despite my great proclamations of being unproductive – and I really am with anything related to actually getting my shit together, I promise – it seems lockdown finally unleashed the baker cat inside of me…
Real Men Don‘t Eat Quiche
….is that title of a satirical, very, very masculine cookbook by Bruce Feirstein. And this is a recipe! So everyone with a fragile masculinity should probably stop reading and start on more testosteroic activities –…
Wednesday is full of blue blueberries
And therefore -because it is Wednesday and I am feeling blue- I had another late night baking session. It was semi-scheduled because today is not only Wednesday, it is also my Dad’s birthday (or would…
Smells like Tea Spirit
That lovely featured image up there was once the famous result of a (serious and scientificially substantiated) Buzzfeed quiz, approved by Winston Churchill and recommended by The Doctor. Later on, I got “as British as…
Cinnamoinmoin
It’s October 31st, and my good friend and colleague Anne’s birthday – the only reason to celebrate. Not Halloween because one does not celebrate Halloween because it’s rubbish – and yes, contradictory to what I…
Pasta alla Nonna
Pasta is the best. Period. There’s absolutely no arguing about it. Fuck low carb. Fuck zoodles. Zoodles. I mean come on. I love zucchini. But I want them WITH my pasta not AS my pasta….
