Envy. Or the easiest Broccoli Soup ever!

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One of my great pleasures is watching cooking shows. Good ones, of course, e.g. with Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater, Gordon Ramsey, Hugh Fernley-Wittingstall, Jamie Oliver, you name it. But that is exactly the problem. Did you notice that I mentioned no German chef?

Unlike other countries in Germany we suffer from an acute shortage of intriguing TV-cooking shows, at least of some to my taste. Continue reading

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Overnight Crumpets á la River Cottage

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Recipe source: River cottage Handbook No.3: Bread by H. Fernley-Wittingstall

I love a hearty breakfast and crumpets are an all time favorite of mine (not only for breakfast!). I don´t know how much recipes I had tried before I found the River cottage Handbook No.3: Bread. I liked the bread recipes a lot and so I gave Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall´s crumpets a go.

Usually I wake up as hungry as a hunter and want to eat immediately. Hence until that day, I made crumpets only for special occasions or when it happened for some strange reason that I would Continue reading

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