Pancakes with Bacon and Honey

Slightly sweet, oh so fluffy pancake bites paired with the aromatic depth of honey and salty bacon pieces…-

Pancakes with Bacon and Honey adapted from the Jamie magazine

For six small ones you need:

• 1 egg
• 250 ml milk
• a hint of salt
• 2 tsp sugar
• 20 gr melted butter
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• the amount of flour that fits into a 250 ml cup
• few slices of bacon
• runny honey
• powder sugar

In a small bowl mingle egg, milk, salt, sugar and butter. Now quickly add baking powder and flour and mix until you have a smooth batter.

Fry small amounts of batter to little pancakes in a buttered pan. Also fry the bacon slices.

Arrange the pancakes on a small plate, place the bacon and spread some powder sugar. Drizzle some honey, too!

Maybe you want to add some berries-

Fish in Foil

A simple pleasure-

Fish in Foil

You need:

• 2 small courgettes, sliced
• 1 eggplant, sliced
• 1 yellow pepper, sliced
• 1 orange pepper, sliced
• a few cherry tomatoes
• a lug of garlic and red pepper infused olive oil
• sea salt
• black pepper
• dried Italian herbs, I used the ones from Schuhbeck
• 6 plaice filets
• a few sprigs of thyme

Season the vegetables with infused olive oil, sea salt, black pepper and dried herbs and place them on a big piece of aluminium foil you have covered a baking tray with.

Season the plaice filets with sea salt and black pepper and arrange them on top of the vegetables.

Spread sprigs of thyme all over the fish and use the foil to wrap everything up.

Place the baking tray in the oven and leave it there for about half an hour at 200 degrees.

A kind of Sushi for Dinner

Merci Chocolate Brownie Biscotti

There is something about working in the medical field during christmas time:

You get an incredibly high amount of chocolate from thankful patients- mostly Merci chocolate.

And even if you honestly appreciate every sweet gift you get, it could be that you are not that much into this kind of chocolate.

Like me.

So in early new year you start to think about what to do with all of it besides giving it to someone who likes it more.

I thought about baking with it. And this is what I got.

I got Merci Chocolate Brownie Biscotti.

And these I like very much. Because they are chewy and crispy.

Merci Chocolate Brownie Biscotti

adapted from the Chocolate Biscotti recipe out of Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy

You need:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup slightly sweet, strong cocoa powder
• 2 tsp instant espresso
• 1 heaped tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 8 Tbsp melted butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
• about 1 cup of roughly chopped mixed merci chocolate

In a bowl mix flour, cocoa powder, instant espresso, baking powder and salt. Add butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar and mingle well until you get a smooth dough.

Now fold in the chopped chocolate and finally spread the dough into a flat loaf you place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 30 minutes at 150 degrees.

Then take the tray out of the oven and let the loaf rest for 15 minutes while leaving the oven on.

Now cut the loaf crosswise into slices and bake them for another 20 minutes until they are crispy on the outside and a little chewy inside.

A View to share

The First Day of a New Year

I started the first day of the year with a coffee and pieces of a gingerbread house for breakfast and now I am packing a few things for two days of wellness at Lake Thun with my loved one.

I am nothing but thankful and happy.

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I wish you all a wonderful year!

Thank you for reading my little humble blog.

 

Is it already over?

I can not believe that Christmas is already over.

I enjoyed these cozy, warm and peaceful days so much.

And I enjoyed this wonderful kind of Swedish Christmas Eve dinner we shared with the family at ours:

• prawns with sour cream and dill on pumpernickel

• beetroot gravadlax with a honey mustard dip
• swedish meatballs in creamy sauce
• potato gratin with anchovies and a zwieback topping

• berry tart with sweet cream and meringue pieces

We also had wine, water, hot sweet and spicy apple juice with or without calvados and of course coffee.

And finally a piece of the traditional christmas cake we made in early November. It tastes like pure Christmas.

That is why I enjoy another piece right now.

I hope all of you had a wonderful time, too!

Beetroot Gravadlax

Salmon filet…

…rock salt…

…brown sugar…

…horseradish…

…beetroot and a dash of schnaps…

…dill and lemon zest.

Wrap it all up and let it rest in the fridge for two days.

You will get this:

And also happiness.

For the recipe: http://www.jamieoliver.com/magazine/recipes-view.php?title=gorgeous-beetroot-gravadlax

Christmas Cookies

Poppy Seed & Marzipan Muffins and Muffins with Candied Fruits

Are you in a pre christmas hurry?

Do you feel like there is not enough time left?

Just stop for a few minutes and make some muffins.

There is always some time for muffins.

There is always time to breathe in deeply and to smile about yourself and your self made stress.

There is always time for a muffin.

Poppy Seed & Marzipan Muffins and Muffins with Candied Fruits

You need:

• 250 gr flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• a dash of salt
• a sachet of vanilla sugar
• 100 gr sugar
• 5 Tbsp melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 200 ml milk
• some marzipan, diced
• some poppy seeds
• some mixed candied fruits

In a bowl mix flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla sugar, sugar, butter, eggs and milk until smooth.

Pour half of the dough into a second bowl.

Put marzipan and poppy seeds in the first bowl and mingle well, do the same with the candied fruits and the second bowl.

Pour both batters into paper molds you have lined a muffin tray with and place it in the oven for about twenty minutes at 200 degrees.