Mahlzeit - Food without Borders

I still had puff pastry in the fridge, that needed to get a purpose. The original plan was to do  Beef Wellington. Then I didn't have the patience to work through all the steps. Back-up recipe: Pigs Ears. This time without the chocolate covering. The ingredients are very simple: 1 sheet puff pastry (store bought), sugar and cinnamon.  I mix the sugar with the cinnamon and then put it in a sugar shaker. It makes it for an easy distribution. Unroll the sheet of puff pasty. I do that on a silicon matt, that has measurements on the side. This comes up really handy when folding. The bottom left corner lines up with the 0 marker on the matt. The sheet is 15" high. The first fold of  both ends needs to meet roughly at 7.5". Add some of the sugar and cinnamon mixture on the entire sheet and then fold. Add more sugar and cinnamon on the folded puff pastry. Then fold both sides again, so they meet at the existing 7.5" line again. I did run out of the sugar cinnamon mixture.  I...

This is really easy to make and there is actually not a lot of room for screwing things up. The recipe consists of puff pastry sheets, sugar and cinnamon. And that is it. The trick is the folding. This is very nicely explained here .  Also it helps to put the folded pastry into the freezer for 30 minutes. It makes cutting a lot more easy. So far so good.  This looks promising: What I ended up with: The cookies did not expand as much as I have hoped. They were supposed to be at least double in size. Looking at the package: ok expiration date was about 6 months go. That explains that they didn't no expand as much. However taste wise, they were great.  I also got to have a few more tries on the chocolate covering. Well one lives and learns. -Mahlzeit-

This is a recipe from my favorite food blogger Ree Drummond. I really followed the instructions as outlined in the order outlined. And???   It looked so promising during the baking process.  After 50 min, the cake actually did raise past the spring form.  After I took it out of the oven, it started to disintegrate. The consistency was like  mush. So back in the oven for 20 minutes on 350F. The height did recover some. The consistency has not improved. Ok, same thing again another 20 min into the oven at 350F.... Again, some height was recovered. The mush did not improve. I called  it quits after that. This recipe needs some help. I don't think, that only 3 tbsp of flower can stand up to that much cheese, eggs, and heavy creme. I have to look at a German cheese cake recipe and see what is used there to  get a less mushy consistency. Taste wise, there is nothing that needs improvements. Together with the  blueberries, lemon juice and some sugar it was gr...

When I grew up I loved going to the bakery and get myself a chocolate Americaner. Here in America they are known as half and half cookies. They taste different then what I grew up with. I couldn't find the recipe I used a few years ago, that is asking for Ammonium carbonate . I didn't have much time to look around either, so I opted to use: Mini Americaner . The translation: 100g soft butter at room temperature 100g sugar 1 pack vanilla sugar 1 knife tip of salt 2 eggs 250g all purpose flower 45g corn starch 1 pack of baking powder ( or 1 tsp ) 1-2 tbsp milk. 1 tsp of baking powder Mix the vanilla sugar with the white sugar and salt in a bowl. In a different bowl mix the corn starch with the flower. In a stand mixer add the butter 1 egg and half of the sugar and mix on medium. After 3 minutes start to add 4 tbsp of flower (1 at the time) and mix for another 3-4 minutes. Clean the beater every now and then, so what gets stuck on the beater falls back into the dough. Stop the mix...

This is what I set out to make : Burned Cheese Cake When shopping for the ingredients I ended up getting half'n half and not heavy cream. And I didn't even notice. After having everything mixed together, this still looked like water. In a spring form, this if going to run away. Ok, I need to fix it. 1.5 cups of flower and 1.5 tsp of backing power mixed up and into the mixture it went. After tasting the dough I added 1.5 tsp of lemon extract to it. Now taste wise it works for me. Now that thing just needs to bake correctly. For the baking form I decided to switch horses as well and went with a bunt cake form. My biggest mistake was, I did not grease it. Big mistake, very big mistake. Into the preheated oven of 400F it went and the timer is on 50 min. Earlier this morning I removed a bag of frosted raspberries from the freezer, added 2 tbsp of white sugar to it and let it sit on the counter to defrost. This does not need any lemon, it is tarty enough. After 50 minutes, the cake r...

 I call it apple pound cake. It is not really a pound cake.  250g butter (8.8 oz) 250g sugar (8.8 oz) 1 pack vanilla sugar 4 eggs 500g all purpose flower (17.63 oz) (not shown in picture) 2 tsp backing powder 1/8l milk (0.52 cups) 1 oz rum (optional, not shown in picture) 1Apple Mix sugar with the vanilla sugar. In mixing bowl add the butter and mix on low speed. Add 1 egg and 1/4 of the sugar, when it is good mixed add the next egg and another 1/4 part of the sugar. Repeat and till it is a smooth  Then add flower , mix, a bit of milk and mix until half of the  flower is taken. Add the baking powder to the flower and stir. Then keep adding flower and milk, at last add that rum. Griese a sping form, add the dough and distribute evenly in the form. Cut the apple in slices and put then on top of the cake. Bake for 1h at 350F. When done, garnish with powder sugar -Mahlzeit-

  With a new bread being baked every week, some becomes stale. I dry some of it, so I can put them into a blender and make my own bread crumbs. This time I decided to go for a savory bread pudding. I had 1/2 loaf left, cut it into cubes about 1/2" in dimension 1 small onion chopped 3 tsb canola oil 1 cup of sliced mushrooms 1 slice of bacon cut into small pieces 4 eggs 1.5 cups of milk In a pan render the bacon, add the onions and let them get translucent. Then add the mushrooms. Once they get soft, turn the heat off and let it cool down. Then add the bread cubes and steer them, so they are mixed well. Grease a baking form, add the bread/mushroom mixture. Preheat the oven to 350. In a blender, mix the eggs and milk, add a bit of salt and pepper and a hint of paprika. Pour the mixture over the bread in the baking form and let it soak until the oven is ready. Steer ones or twice. Bake for 45 minutes. -Mahlzeit-