Guest Post: Recipe without a word: Sausages and lentils

Because it's winter and in winter one eats nice warm dishes, I am sharing this recipe from my mother :)

 Bon Appétit!

Recipe without words: Apple pie - Guest post from G. in France

 

Hamburger without word: guest post by G. from France

Mousse au chocolat crumble with  apple sauce

Guest Post: A. from France

Starting a small series of posts from my brother A. (almost 14yo). He has been working on some short films with my other brother E. (8yo) : The Adventures of the Golden Playmobil!

That sounds promising, doesn't it? ;) Well, both boys like to invent a short story (apparently E. is in charge of the scenario) and act it with their playmobils while taking pictures. A LOT of pictures! Then A. does the technical part of putting them all together to form a film and he adds some background music.

Here is what he says about this first video:

Stonehenge

In this video, we see a man with a magic stick, and there's next to him a lot of wood.

He lifts his stick and the wood begins to move. 

And the wood creates a building, and the man enters in it.

The music is "Frankreich", by Black Föss.

 

I hope you will all appreciate the big effort he made to write this small paragraph in English. And now let's watch the video!

 

 

How did you like it? Will you want to see more of those videos? Are the boys to be encouraged? :)

Cooking&Baking Challenge - Session 7: Quarkkäulchen (Guest Post)

I am happy to share the recipe sent by a new participant to the Challenge, thanks a lot Elke!

 

Sächsische Quarkkäulchen

 

This is a very traditional dish served in the eastern part of Germany, in the federal state of saxony. I tried to translate it but without a lot of success ;) Quark is the german word for curd cheese and käulchen is the form of the dish - at least that's what I think.

But anyway...let's get started.

You need:

500g curd cheese

600-700g potatoes

2 Eggs

appr. 200g flour

raisins - if you like them....we don't, so we didn't use them

For the dough you need to boil potatoes with their skin on the day BEFORE you want to serve the Quarkkäulchen. So cook the potatoes and peel their skin of while they are still hot - when they are cold, it doesn't work. Then mash them how you would to mashed potatoes and leave them in the fridge waiting for what will come the next day.

On the next day add the other ingredients...curd cheese, eggs and flour and prepare a dough.

 And now comes THE secret for good Quarkkäulchen. The amount of flour you have add is an approximate value. It has to be enough to become a dough but not too much because then the Käulchen will be like leather and not very nice.

Then heat some oil in a pan and put the dough in. The easiest way is to get the dough with a spoon, put it in the oil and then flatten it using the same spoon. It's a bit sticky, but the taste it's worth the pain. ;)

Turn the Quarkkäulchen around so that the whole thing will be really nice and brown outside. 

Use all the dough and then serve it with apple sauce and/or sugar.

 

Our four year old loved them so much he ate 5 or 6 of them all by himself. Another funny thing is to try to see different shapes in the Quarkkäulchen - so it's also a fun meal for the kids.

ENJOY :)

Cooking&Baking Challenge - Session 5: Ghyslaine

Pain d'épices

 Ingrédients:

500 gr de farine
1 sachet de levure chimique
180 gr de sucre en poudre
1 bonne cuillère à café de cannelle
1 bonne cuillère à café de gingembre en poudre
1 cuillère à café d'arôme liquide de vanille
400 ml de lait tiède
200 gr de miel

Mélanger le tout

Verser dans un moule à cake beurré avec du beurre demi-sel
Placer au four à 170°C pendant 1h