by Ullrich
I like wrapping, rolling, packaging food – it brings love and elegance to your table. Here, beetroot leaves make a perfect coating for fish fillets topped with mushroom duxelles. Just excellent!
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, Lunch, nature, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Food photography, Kochen, Manger, Recettes, Recipe, Rezepte
by Ullrich
I owe this recipe to an excellent Turkish restaurant that I used to visit when I was living in Berlin many years ago. The place, called “Merhaba” (meaning something like “Hi, there!”), makes the Mediterranean cuisine shine. What I always found very intriguing was how the chefs there were elegantly adding acidity to their dishes by using (cold) yoghurt. Acidity, in fact, is one key element of tasteful cooking. Without any, your dishes will have a tendency to come across […]
Categories: chefs, Dinner, good food, hero butchers, signature dish, skills, World • Tags: Bouffe, Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Foodie, Kochen, Manger, Recipe, Rezepte
by Ullrich
On the markets of Paris, chanterelles are sold under the name girolles and both are quite different kinds of mushroom. The latter are firm and fleshy with thick stems, almost golden and snow-white on the inside, the former are softer, skinny guys, more on the brownish side and clearly less classy. A nice pan of girolles counts among the great pleasures of this late summer/early fall season. I used a chunk of the excellent pancetta I drove home from Italy to spice up […]
Categories: France, good food, nature, Paris, skills • Tags: Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Food photography, Foodies, Kochen, Manger, Recettes, recipes
by Ullrich
For your next party: Prepare a “Parfait de foies de volaille” that will bring about the “Ah’s” and “Oh’s” of your peers and plenty of demands for the recipe! All you need is a food blender.
Categories: Apéro, good food, signature dish, skills, Snack • Tags: Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Foodie, Kochen, Recette, Recipe, Rezepte
by Ullrich
Baking the French way is an operation quite similar to heart surgery. But once you have prepared your own “tarte aux framboises”, a raspberry tart(e), you’ll feel quite proud, and rightfully so!
Categories: chefs, Dessert, France, good food, images, skills • Tags: Backen, Baking, Dessert, Food, pastry chef, Pâtisserie, Recettes, recipes, Rezepte
by Ullrich
Cooking may be fun most of the time – but when you really go for it, it turns into hard labour. That is certainly true for the classic French dish called tourte, a bourgeois marvel of culinary decadence which basically combines two elaborate dishes into one.
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, images, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, French food, recipes
by Ullrich
A home-made terrine makes the pride of each amateur chef. A poor man’s feast in former times, it has turned into an almost ceremonial dish nowadays. Here are some basic rules for how to do it at home.
Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, good food, hero butchers, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, recipes
