Happy on a sunday afternoon: lemon poppyseed muffins and whipped cream with raspberries
It’s saturday evening. One more sleep till sunday. I love sundays. Sundays feel free to me. I’m a freelancer so I can choose when to work and when to rest. Still, it’s not about that. Sundays are a blind spot. They open a space that I can just fill with whatever pleases me. There is … Read more
Food therapy: orange-flavoured pumpkin soup with cilantro pesto
My friend Olive, living in Los Angeles but coming from Korea, is a big foodie just like myself. When we met for brunch lately she became excited about the food and exclaimed: “This is food therapy!” I loved hearing that, not only because the brunch took place at our house but because that’s a phrase … Read more
Happy food for 2012
A happy new year to all of you, my dear friends and fellow foodlovers! How was your year 2011? What did you love, what did you learn, what did you eat? My year 2011 was full of movement and excitement. I stayed in a foreign country with lots and lots of sunshine. I studied yoga … Read more
Recipe for a fulfilled life
Today is the last day of a wonderful and important time in my life – Thomas’ and my year in LA. How can I celebrate life better than with my beautiful friends at a nice place with wonderful food? That’s what Thomas and I did tonight. When we met at the restaurant with Oliver and … Read more
Feed your inner hippie: self-made Granola
The recipe I want to share with you today is a variation of a Granola that is served at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. This is a year-round Japanese Buddhist monastery deep in the wilderness close to Big Sur/California, one of my most beloved places in the world. It was founded in the 1960s and … Read more
Passionate Baking: Millet-Chocolate-Shortbread (vegan)
Lately I’m not so much into cooking, but baking is the big thing for me. I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me where my passion for baking comes from. I remember the moment very vividly. For all my life I loved cakes, tarts, cookies and all kinds of flour- and sugar based food. The … Read more
Shockingly easy sunday brunch: Carrot-zucchini-bread
You think being lazy on a sunday morning and standing in the kitchen, making your own bread is not a perfect match, right? Because making your own bread from scratch is time-consuming and complicated? No offense, but you’re wrong. Please forgive me the lame joke, but in fact baking bread is just a piece of … Read more
An Italian holiday: arugula polenta with oven tomatoes
An evening in rural Italy, close to Bologna. Sitting on a terrace, overseeing the soft silhouette of hills around you. A dog and a cat lying beside the dinner table, lazy and happy about the fresh evening breeze after a sunny and piping hot day. A red wine in your hand you watch the sun … Read more
The day I found bananas hanging on a tree and took it as a sign for making ice cream
This morning I went outside the house, turned my head toward the sun like the flowers do, blinked three times and saw some bananas hanging on a tree. They were ripe and yellow and just perfect. I thought this might be a sign. For what? you ask. For the fact that the day has come … Read more
Summer in cubes
Summer in France. The landscape is colourful and blossoming all over. Berries, flowers, herbs. Red, pink, orange, green, green, green, purple, yellow. I wanna take the summer and suck it all in. I wander through the garden and pick some flowers, berries and herbs, put it into ice cube forms and pour over some water. … Read more
